We love the metaphor of "trails" to describe Sublime. A trail is something you can create for yourself – making your personal internet more alive and useful. But it's also something you leave behind for others – giving them jumping off points to research, wander, and create their own trails.

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

You want serendipitous encounters with other wholesome thinkers and tinkerers on the Internet without the pressure to accumulate likes or build an audience.

Why?

Because when you curate, you notice.

You pay attention.

You search, you question, you explore.

You read books differently.

You listen differently in conversations.

You live more curiously.

You pay attention to what you pay attention to.

You uncover connections you couldn’t see before.

You become a scientist, not of the natural world but of whatever wor... 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”

To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.

You want a simple way to curate content for specific projects or ideas you’re working on — privately, openly, or with specific collaborators.

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.

Knowledge is the essential human project. And news is not knowledge.

Spending years of our life plugged into an endless stream of newsfeeds and watching staged posts from other people’s lives makes us anxious in the short term, and keeps us from living the lives we want to live in the long term.