Best Bible Note-Taking System: Jonathan Edwards's Miscellanies
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That Journal is no longer available - do you recommend another hardbound journal for this system? I am new in my faith (saved and baptized on 4/29/24) and want to start my bible studies using the best methods and this seems like the best method so far. I also took your advice on what translation to utilize from your one video and have the journaling NKJV and ESV. Thank you for all your help Pastor! God Bless!
Thanks for sharing, I'm a minister from Hong Kong, a place deep in political trouble right now, but I still want to set my eyes on the Bible and also teach people how to read the Bible, what you are sharing is really good.
Peace be with you brother.
May God bless your work, keep you safe, and open the hearts of your people to hear God's word!
May God bless you brother.
Love love love this! I recently threw out a bunch of notes because I knew there were too many to organize! Having ADHD does not help!
This Edwards Miscellanies system looks kind of like building your own personalized concordance. Thanks for posting this video.
One thing that works great with a table of contents is to put the table of contents on the last page working backwards, and the notes starting in the front. That way, you never run short on ToC space.
〈〈CatRandy〉〉 wut?
@@davegarciaofficial If you put the Table of Contents in the front, you have to guess how many pages you'll need, if you put the Table of Contents in the back, you'll never have too many or too few pages reserved for it.
Wish I did this!
Brilliant Wisdom!
Oops CatRandy I gave your excellent idea a thumbs down in error.
I was inspired by this video a while ago and created a new bible study system for my class of 9-13 year olds based on it. We're referring to it as the "moos" and its been received amazingly well. Thanks for the vid
Funnily enough, I've developed exactly this system myself over the years through trial and error (but with the index at the back as someone explains below) and it's SO helpful. BUT I didn't think of putting the reference into my Bible! BRILLIANT idea!! Now just have to go through several years of notes to do so!! ;) THANK YOU for this video.
This reminds me a lot of the Zettelkasten system of note taking. I've been using a version of this to organize a lot of my Bible notes to turn into a commentary for myself. If you want your notes to be searchable digitally, you can use software like Obsidian (a Markdown note editor) to easily transcribe your notes and the links between ideas. It works great for surfing around and gathering ideas on a topic. This is a great idea. The idea of writing the miscellany number in the margin of the Bible is particularly genius. Thanks for the video!
Your points are great! Thank you for the suggestions!
This system is great! Have you heard of the Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks? Their A4+ Master notebooks are perfect for this. Hardcover bound and already numbered pages, with a good index on the front.
Thank you for your recommendation!
Can you share any helpful tips on how you started?
What is a blank Bible?
this is exactly what I have been needing. I got my wide margin but have been putting off writing in it until I got a good note taking system and this is perfect. This is going to make my life much easier.
Mike wallace praise God for His timing!
Sweet! thanks for the note Mike.
Mike Wallace I was about to say the same thing. I purchased an NIV wide margin genuine leather for like $25. I also ordered some pens. And I have a bunch of journals that are empty and I don't know what to do with them. So I've been hesitant about writing in my Bible because I didn't know where to go with it. This is going to be a good way of doing this note taking. Lots going to happen.
Me too!! As I am writing this my area in UK is in lockdown again so I am using this as a chance to really concentrate on my Bible and study it closely.
This is the best video. This note systems is hands down the best I have ever seen and I can't wait to buy a nice journal and use this system and pass it down to my daughter and for her to do like wise for her children. God bless you pastor and your family.
Great! Thanks for the kind words.
Matthew Everhard wow thank you This Really Is Good thanks I have a a Cambridge KJV Concord Wide margin in black Goatskin git it a few days ago and About to revive My Micron 005 Pens with the Mr Pens Highlighter. This might help me out in the future.
I think this is the solution to how I want a notebook and bible for each pastor I follow. I can actually have one bible with a colored misc index for each pastors sermon so I can see “X” pastor referenced this verse in “Y” sermon, and so did “A” pastor in “B” sermon. Thanks for sharing!
FYI for anyone who may see this. If you like KJV, Bearing Precious Seeds has a bible where the margins are all the way around the text, similar to the Cambridge, for about $50+tax.
I read a lot of Dostoevsky this year, The Brothers Karamazov is what started my journey towards Christ
I have been meaning to read this for a while now. Need to step up my reading game.
I have forbidden myself from reading Russian literature in translation until I can read in Russian.
THIS IS AWESOME!!!! I get so frustrated not being able to find notes I made during my study times! Thank you for sharing! This just popped up in my recommended list. SUPER EXCITED to start!
Thanks for sharing this wonderful method. I have tried Bible journaling with detailed notes in the margin and tipped in papers, verses marked in color and outlined and just don't like the clutter of it. I tried putting all my notes in a notebook, but I have a very real problem with perfectionism and get upset when I get to the end of a page and make a handwriting mistake. So, I put mine in a binder. I type up my notes after a sermon or Bible study and put them in a binder. I have just started the process so I can fit everything in one binder. I have it divided into sections like, sermons from church, CZcams sermons/studies, my reflections on verses and testimony, my favorite verses, etc. It just helps me to remember what I have studied by taking notes and then processing those notes. Thanks again.
Started one to day. It is an awesome system. Had a Notebook for years called "Spiritual Epiphanies" where I noted insights etc. Never thought of mapping it to the related bible passages like this : )
“Geek out,” lol. Huge Bible, journal, book nerd here! Thanks for sharing a great note taking system.
Excellent. Much more organized than my system. Thanks for taking the time to share...
Thank you so much for this video! I’m here at the recommendation of Elyssa Nalani. I can’t believe I went to a Christian college for three years and got 80% through seminary without anyone ever sharing this awesome system with me.
I can't believe I never knew about Edward's note taking! I have been sharing this with friends since I learned about it a few days ago and using it with my study over Psalms. I also look forward to reading The Miscellanies Companion. Thank you Pastor and God bless.
What an awesome system! I just grabbed a blank journal and am setting it up. I am totally excited to use this for the rest of my life. Thank you for this video. Blessings.
Thanks Sheilah! Great compliment. Appreciate that :-)
Matthew! This is a brilliant system! Thank you for sharing. Definitely going to follow suit.
Thank u
I hv been looking into a system to praise and study and even hold myself accountable to prayer request and daily worship- this will work best I hv seen yet 🤗
This is kind of off topic, but I always thought it would be cool to have a Bible Wiki where you can store your notes and choose which notes you want to make public. And the public Wiki would have notes from people all over the world (in theory). Granted you would get all kinds of wild stuff in the public Wiki, but it could be edifying also to read other's notes.
Bob Gunner There’s this software called Logos that has that function. Price pretty steep though, but worth it
Thank you Pastor Matt. You are always so inspiring and have great ideas for us.
Welcome Nancy! You are the best! thanks for following!
I’m not a Pastor, but I love reading and studying the Bible. I have a number of wide margin and notetaker Bibles, and I’ve been trying to figure out a way to better organize my note taking. These tips are definitely a blessing, and thank you for sharing. God bless.
Actually you are an on duty pastor all the time. Bless u.
Ty for your work. The respect you have for your mentor is admirable.
This is an immensely helpful system! I am using it in my private devotional life, and it's been fantastic for keeping track of how my thoughts, ideas, and reactions to the Bible develop.
Thank you for showing this format...
SO USEFUL!
I have decided to make mine through MS Word so that I can add diagrams charts and pictures and hyperlinks ect.
but I also keep the Table of Contents List at the back of my note taking Bible
💡 this would be a great way to give access to all siblings or children anytime they want to see the misc notes
Thank you for sharing this system. I appreciated the thoughtful progression of the demonstration. I did not know this system and I will consider using it. New subscriber.
Oh wow I’m always writing scriptures on pieces of paper and saving them but not knowing what to do. This is great
I purchased several composition books, all different colors, which I use for my notes. This is very helpful because I can start the numbering system by preceding it with the letter appropriate to the color of my notes books, such as R003 for Red #003, etc. In a separate video you referenced a link to the Bible you use in Amazon's Store. Upon going there, I realized that it was too costly for me to purchase at this time. However, I have an excellent Study Bible that was 1/4 the price, and though I wish I had the luxury of wide margins, perhaps this numbering system will help me with my note taking. Thank you for opening the useful suggestions. I'm looking forward to incorporating them with a couple of my own to make them work for me. God bless you and thank you for sharing.
Matt thank you!
This is a very practical note tacking system.
Solid. I think I'm going to do this with my Schuyler Journal. Now I just need a new wide margin. My Cambridge is pretty much filled up!
This is my first time watching one of your videos. This idea is great. Now I need to go through previous notes and start coordinating them between my Bible and journal. Thanks so much for sharing this.
It's a superb system -- orderly & flexible enough to grow with one's study depth. Thanks so much for sharing!
Yes, luv this manner of tracking. As a minister who studies often this is a truly helpful system!
Thank you! This was wonderful. I've always bounced between frustration coming from no organization and frustration coming from overbearing organization. This looks simple, and I can do it easily. Also, i can use simple inexpensive journals and expand it whenever necessary. Thanks Matthew
Thank you for sharing this wonderful concept. I have already prepared myself to begin this bible note system. God bless you.
Dude you are so RAD for doing this... GAME CHANGER
something like four 27 gallon totes will store 50 three-ring binders with loose leaf paper; these binders can be for books of the bible; and 1 binder can do Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, were smaller epistles can be grouped into one binder; Thus if I am taking notes on Monday on Nehemiah, then on Saturday I can remove those pages from my note taking binder and go insert them into the proper folder in the proper tote. So I have one binder for "new notes made this week" and at the end of the week I can sort them into the proper binder; Also digitally I have 66 subfolders if my notes are taken digitally.
Many thanks for sharing this ultimate note taking system. I'm a brit and never heard of it. I think it's genius and I will follow it. Keep up the good work. God bless.
In the back of my bible I have note paper and I started with a table of contents and then quickly filled the pages. What I found is my study improves with time and now I need to make changes so what I do now is I use Microsoft word and do the exact same thing. I can make changes as I go and learn. It allows me the ability to insert information and keep the writing legible. When I am satisfied with it I will print it and put it in my bible so I can share with people as the Lord leads.
Thanks for sharing this. I have started doing something very similar on my own and never knew Edwards would have thought of that with the Miscellanies itemization. That is just great. My stuff is everywhere and sometimes hard to find. I will work on compile using the same logic he did.
I love Edwards! I already keep a commonplace book for my thoughts, etc. this is brilliant for Bible study. Thank you.
I started using 3-ring binder and hole punching more pages to add right where I need them. No more guessing how many pages I need per topic. A disc system also works (like the Happy Planners use).
THANK YOU....for taking the time to share (very effectively) your pursuit.
I take this as an answered prayer!
I've been doing quite a bit of searching for the right "systems".
Just bought an ESV journaling bible (because I'm so bad at penmenship) the lines really help me.....
Have been doing some research on journaling....want it more to be about God's speaking vs my "feelings" etc....
I have a new category...the best of the SOAPs...(a longditudenal look at what God has been saying via Scripture Observation Application Prayer)
Thank you for the abundant provision of teaching/reference...much appreciated...
I like the numeric...plus topical keyword
Praise God. Thanks for the comment John! Great to hear that.
Thank you, nice system. I use many files like Google Docs in four categories/folders of Christ, Doctrine, Practice and Misc. Then a separate folder for Notes on each book of the Bible.
Wow this is so good. I have 4 or 5 notebooks full of stuff over the course of years. Everyday I write what I read that day, and if there are any questions, thoughts, connections, etc I'll write about those. But many pages are just multiple dates and what section of scripture I read that day. I rarely go back to them though and sometimes I wonder, why do I do this?
It does help me remember things to write them down, so that's part of it... but I don't often go back to reference something that I've already thought through or questioned, and then answered in my notes.
Table of contents, numbering your pages, and especially the putting your M# in the margins of your bible... such a good idea. I'll be doing this from now on. Wish I would have known this 5 years ago when you uploaded this video. Just now finding it lol
I really love this system that you’ve outlined here. I have made a note in my notes app to be proactive about doing this. After I became a Christian as a teenager, my relationship with my Grandmother grew closer because of her faith in the Lord. When she died, I received a book and a bible with all her notes in it. It is a treasure to go back and see her thoughts. As a pastor now, I have always wanted to do the same for my family: my son, daughters, and their children as well. Question: I find that my initial thoughts always need many revisions. Are there preliminary notes that you write before they go into the journal as an official miscellany? Or do you just roll with it?
That's crazy. What a cool thing for your grandma to leave you with! I hadn't even thought of the value of a system like this until you mentioned it.
Elyssa’s video recommended your video!! Love your method also!!
This really is a very good method.
The advantage is that you can also mark several different Bibles with the numbers and thus also use Bibles that do not have a writing margin.
Thanks for the good tip.😃👍👍
Here in Germany, the selection of high-quality Bibles is much smaller. And here they often cost twice as much as in the usa....
Greetings from Germany
Where have you been all my life?! Lol! Seriously, this is such a great idea and I intend to implement it into my bible studies immediately. Thank you so much for this video. God bless you!
This was super helpful, thank you so much! I'm definitely going to be playing around with this concept for myself :)
It's inspiring to see the dedication you have and the appreciation of all the people in these comments.
This is so helpful. I bullet journal and this very similar with applying it to Bible study. Thank you!
Great "geek out" video new friend Pastor Matthew! Had I mastered Cousin Jonathan's microscopic note taking I might have used it to create sinner cheat sheets and graduated from the University of Georgia with way better than a B minus average. But I was a Marketing major, not a Divinity major. Sadly, marketing people are often rewarded for dishonesty. Jonathan's grandfather Solomon Stoddard also cherished hard to find paper and wrote microscopic notes and sermons. Blessings!
I know this is an unpopular opinion but due to eyesight and other factors, I am more of a digital Bible and notebook note keeper. I can see how this way of organizing notes could easily work digitally as well. Thank you for sharing!
I agree 100%! Logos 8 and Notability are the way forward for me. As for leaving a memento/book for my kids, you can just print the pages and make a book for each one of them.
Awesome, straightforward system that is easily expandable. Thank you for sharing this!
This is an amazing system!
Thank you so much for sharing the genius of Johnathan Edwards.
I love this method of note-taking. I use a journal for notes and sermons and my reg Thomas Nelson KJV Bible . Thank you for sharing and God Bless You and your family❣️
This is an interesting system but why not use a binder with tabs where you can add more pages instead of a bounded notebook?
I like to use generally expensive stationary (mainly because I personally like it not to show of, spending a lot of money on a norte book isn't generally viewed as cool). Some notebooks are used to keep track of things within binding instead of loose paper (you could say the same is possible with a binder but it does not hold up as well as a notebook. I like to take notes online make them final and transfer them to paper for on the go of archival use
This is GENIUS!
... and yet so simple. Basically an old school method for modern day hyperlinks. I love it!
I was making a grocery list and starting wondering how I could take better notes, then better notes for bible study. And I searched it up and I found your video. NOTE 6:50
The Holy Spirt works in amazing ways! I also have a Wide margin KJV! Looks just like yours black and same design! God is so Good. Praise our Lord Jesus Christ!🙏🏼
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing this with us. One idea to consider would be to incorporate a Bullet Journaling table of contents method. This means that you don’t have to pre-write the table of contents’ pages. Rather, Whenever you start writing on a page, you put that entry into the ToC (title and page), and when you decide to continue a Miscellanie later on, that page(s) is not added to the ToC because you’ve got the cross-reference written on the page of the previous page where it was continued from. The Bullet Journal ToC would include every future page number added to the one ToC line entry, but you don’t have to with Edward’s cross-reference idea.
Love this. Would be a great source for developing out one’s theology for apologetics, evangelism, etc.
Just came across this, I have a huge amount of faith but no assigned religion per say and was struggling to find a system to help in my progress and I believe I have found it x thank you for sharing my friend 🙏🏴 xx
It’s like Bullet Journaling for Bible study... great idea.
Thank you so much. I have tried multiple different ways to take notes, none that I liked. This is so much better than trying to glue pages into my Bible.
Thanks Ptr Matt this gave me a good idea in my future note taking specially when I am reading a theological book, not it gave me the idea how to cross-reference it to my Bible.
I think using electronic notes or journal will work as well... The important part is Miscellany. Very useful. So I think I'm gonna do that.
I just need a new Bible.😊...
Thank you brother !! God bless...will start my Bible study immediately following this system
Great video. I have experimented with different systems, but I think I will adopt this one. Thank you.
Thank you. What a brilliant system!
That's a crazy in depth system! It seems very organized though while still providing lots of details. Very interesting.
Personally, I'm more of a digital person. What I like about this, is how easily it could be done in a digital way with my note taking app.
Thanks for sharing.
Chris Bradley I thought the same thing. Then you can always insert more. What app do you use?
@@mmmbarrett I've become a huuuge fan of Notion. I use it for quite a lot now days. It's free, but I use it so much that I pay $5 for unlimited everything with all the features.
Great video - I needed your explanation of Edwards system. Thanks.
Thanks for this!. I gave up on colour-coded methods, since any Scripture phrase may treat several themes/subjects. I adopted your {Edward's} method last week. I would recommend it for any serious student of the Scriptures.
Color coding in my bible totally stresses me out! lol
Rainbowing it is to much for me.
I'm just a bit confused....
1. A miscellany is a group or collection of ideas? Big ideas? Big themes? Topics?
2. How does one know how many they will have? Just depends?
3. When one runs out of paper for M001, do you make M009 into M001 or, thus M001 has many entries throughout the book, or does M009 become the topic too, so 001, 009 are both on Joy?
I'm geeking out with my question. :)
Like bullet journaling spreads and collections but for Bible Study?
@@thinktank8286 I use this the system for notes that are too long for the margins of my Bible. The qualifier is that they have to be able to be meaningfully titled for indexing. I have notes on subjects and themes, but also hymns, poetry, diagrams and lists that adorn the text being studied. You never know how many you will have. When you run out of paper for M001, M009 stays M009, but leave a note at the bottom of M001 saying that you are continuing on M009, and perhaps call M009 "continuation of M001" in the index.
Excellent note taking and Bible reference system. I will apply your advice.
This system is awesome !! Thank you for sharing
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is probably one of the greatest sermons of all time! I am definitely interested in this. I currently have my regular physical Bible for daily reading that doesn't have any markings in it because every time I read through the Holy Spirit gives me something new; I have a note-taking physical Bible with lines next to verses that I got on Amazon and will be transferring all my notes into from services and Bible studies. During reading or listening to audio/video sermons or even in just my day-to-day activities, any insights or thoughts I'm given I immediately put into a note-taking app on my phone and then I spend time transferring them and meditating later. The Spirit has given me things at 3 AM before and I immediately got up and wrote it in my app! I post lots of verses and thoughts online and in [often intense] discussions or arguments, so I use the Tecarta Bible app on my phone. It allows for adding notes, cross-references and highlighting of verses individually, in addition to a built-in search and concordance function that allows for even parts of words to be searched, plus a separate note-taking section built into the app, which I rarely use. I can easily copy verses into my regular note-taking app for either meditation and thought development, which is also easily searchable, then I have a finalized comment I can easily post online or send in a group message the men at my church participate in that doesn't require editing, especially because I'm dyslexic I'll go back and re-read it and modify it a half-dozen times, adding verses and cross-references or other insights and thoughs before I use it for anything. In the end, I always end up writing it out physically to retain it, apart from the fact that in the church we don't use electronic devices at all. I preached my first sermon a few weeks ago and this whole process allowed for a natural flow and extensive verses without being obnoxious, the true foundation coming only by being blessed by the Holy Spirit. The Old Paths! Praise God!
I just started doing this. I did 3 today, because I felt that they needed to be written down. I'm just using cheap notebooks. I have 1 labeled index, and have it marked A, B, C, and so on, with the number of the pages in the notebook. I have a Thomson chain reference Bible, that I've already highlighted, and wrote notes in. So I'm going to use this Bible to take notes.
This is amazing. Until now I knew I needed a better way to organize my notes so I could know how to find them later.
Good to see my reform brother.❤️
Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank youbfor this important study tip! Although the leather hardbound is nice, it is rather expensive. My wife found a similar notebook for about $5 which works out fine. I started using them years ago after reading about them in a Biography about Jonathan Edwards by Iain Murray. It is such a helpful way of keping track of notes, sermons, and general musings. Highly recommend.
Where'd she pick up the book? I'm gonna try this out and buy one, but idk if I'll find one for five bucks... That's a pretty good price.
Just found your channel. Sounds like John Edwards created the original Bullet Journal. ;) (In case anyone doesn't know what a bullet journal is. Ryder Carroll invented the bullet journal method of planning a few years ago. I use it and love it.)
I love the simplicity of this system. I've been researching various methods online and was turned off by all the color coding and arts and crafts-type decorating that most women seem to prefer. That's just too busy and too distracting for me. Thank you for sharing this. :)
Thank you for making this video! My scripture note taking system is similar to this one minus the cross reference note in the bible, which is the key to making this system useful. It shouldn't be too difficult to go back and add them.
This is awesome, thank you. I use Google Keep quite a bit and I really love where I might see an article in a magazine somewhere and I can take a picture of it and can grab the text or of it to use in an outline or other notes. The labeling makes it easy to break stuff up to find it easier and it works across my phone, Mac, PC, etc. Good bless you...
So, really, it makes sense to use this system to be as a footnote/journaling system for a collection of Bibles, where the margin number just points to the journal. A wide-margin Bible isn’t absolutely necessary. I like that, since I write too big for even the wide-margin Bibles, and I tend to write too much for the margins. Thanks!
Great video thanks for uploading! Always looking for new notetaking ideas. Thanks
Thank you so much. I am slow coming to technology but have just put system into OneNote and now I can reference my notes on the go and so very quickly! E.g. Bible studies, or at this Covid moment Zoom bible study.
Matthew, you mentioned that you have other videos dealing with Miscellanies. I can’t seem to find which videos you are refering to. I look forward to watching them. I am a pastor of close to 30 years and would love to add this to my note taking.
Thanks Pastor Matt I love your channel.
Awesome and practical! Thanks for sharing the fruit of your experience!
I have been searching for a note taking system that would make my lightbulb go off...PRAISE GOD THANK YOU
Thanks for sharing. It’s been a blessing to use this personally
Great system! Thank you for sharing. I think it would work well with my ESV Study Bible. It would make that edition to be not only replete with its own commentary but also practical by including my own thoughts and meditations on the Word of God.
Holy moly. This sets you up to automatically turn your notes into a commentary.
Thanks for sharing this - a brilliant system.^^
I just started re-watching this on July 16th, and noticed your M001 was dated July 16th as well. Fun little coincidence! Still trying to figure this Miscellanies method out. Thanks and God bless!