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Marginalia
Notes, essays, and marginalia
A real diagram, not a decoration

Commonplace

Every essay and note on this site that links to another one, mapped. The size of a dot is how many other posts cite it — real inbound links, not a popularity score.

A diagram of which essays on this site actually link to which others. What the word marginalia actually covers — 3 incoming The commonplace book, before it was a metaphor — 2 incoming Rereading is not reading again — 1 incoming A book I clearly did not read at eleven — 1 incoming Three ways of marking up the same paragraph — 1 incoming Walking produces sentences, not just steps — 1 incoming What a secondhand shop’s previous owner leaves behind — 0 incoming I have tried every note-taking system and none of them stuck — 2 incoming The specific kind of loss in translation — 0 incoming A library is furniture before it is a collection — 0 incoming A page of quotations I keep coming back to, without a theme — 1 incoming Why keep this as a blog instead of somewhere else — 0 incoming The middle of any piece of writing is supposed to feel like failure — 0 incoming A year I mostly didn’t write here — 0 incoming ‘Attention is a resource’ is a useful lie — 0 incoming A short history of complaining in the margins — 0 incoming I finally measured how fast I actually read — 0 incoming
17 essays, 12 citations between them.

Hover a dot to trace what it connects to. Every line is a real link pulled out of the post text — nothing here is guessed or recommended by an algorithm.

Most cited
3 in

What the word marginalia actually covers

2 in

The commonplace book, before it was a metaphor

2 in

I have tried every note-taking system and none of them stuck

1 in

Rereading is not reading again

1 in

A book I clearly did not read at eleven

1 in

Three ways of marking up the same paragraph

1 in

Walking produces sentences, not just steps

1 in

A page of quotations I keep coming back to, without a theme