A SUBLIME INTERNET

Keep your read it later, to-do lists, and task management tools separate

Sublime is purpose built to help you capture all of the scraps of knowledge you encounter on a daily basis – quotes, articles, thoughts, videos, tweets, highlights, images – so you can draw on them later and connect them in interesting ways.

It was not designed to be your to-do... See more

We’ve designed Sublime to make adding, remixing and connecting at the insight level possible.

On Sublime, every link, highlight, image, article, or thought you add is a card. Every card you collect becomes a node that can be connected to an infinite number of collections.

Having cards – as opposed to notes inside notebooks – makes it easier to freel... See more

Collections can be created for:

Questions like: “What does it mean to be human?”

Lists like: “Beautiful personal sites” or “Ways to be sentimental without looking at your phone”

Personal projects like: “Essay on boutique search engines”

Concepts like: “The early days of ambitious projects”

Topics like: “Future of work” or“Parenting”

Collections change the organizing function from trying to describe broad topics to tracking the potential use, context, function or world that a card should live in.

In a traditional tagging system, the question is: in which topic should I store this card? On Sublime, the question is: in which context will I want to stumble upon it again?

You can’t just collect information. To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you also need a purpose. It can be achieving mastery of a domain, collecting raw material for a project, curating something for someone as an act of generosity, or collecting inspiration for an essay you’ve been wanting to write.

Creativity is just connecting things

In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to peek over the fences of other disciplines, connect countless dots, and combine and recombine them to build new ideas.

Sublime is designed to help you connect ideas. That means every card you collect becomes a node that can be conne... See more

Our goal is to make building a library of everything you want to come back to simpler, more communal, more soulful. This necessitates a degree of simplicity, and also means that we may not be the tool for people with complex knowledge management needs.

Think with the door open

Most social networks are the equivalent of opening the door to your home and shouting at your neighbors.

Private note-taking and single-player productivity tools are the equivalent of shutting your door.

Seeking knowledge instead of news, and tending to our own idea gardens will lead to a more fulfilling, more peaceful, and more joyful life.