making sublime
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making sublime
Taking notes, I’ve come to realize, is a form of collecting. I’ve never been interested in collecting physical things, but when it comes to beautiful literary quotes, I have thousands of notebook entries.
Jillian Hess • Alfred Kinsey's Notes on Americans' Sex-Lives
The idea of having this giant graph where all your data is hyperlinked is cute, but in practice, it’s completely unnecessary. Things live in separate apps just fine. How often, truly, do you find yourself wanting to link a task in your todo list app to a file in Dropbox?
Fernando Borretti • Unbundling Tools for Thought
the things that make you go “whoa” should not live alongside your to-do list or your kids health insurance info
There are a bunch of metaphors that you can use to think about your own blog.
It's a public invitation for a conversation. It's a digital garden that you can use to make sense / sense make. It's a note to your future self to see who / where you were at a certain point in time.
Dave Kimtwitter.comi like this framing - there are a bunch of metaphors to think about why you would have a sublime library, which makes it hard to boil it down to any one reason.
consists almost entirely of individuals pursuing their own interests, refining those interests, and letting those interests lead to more interests through connections with others
Charles Broskoski • Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
With so many search engines now providing answers to questions, I’m thinking about how Sublime fits into this scene, and here’s what I came up with:
Not all questions seek answers; some seek journeys.
Typing a question on Sublime and turning on smart search feels like the beginning of a journey, not the end.
I wonder if there’s a counter-positioning
... See more(1) Don't Let Good Ideas Get Away - by David Epstein Don't Let Good Ideas Get Away
David Epsteindavidepstein.substack.comWhen I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular I’ll remember everything better; everything
... See moreJames Somers • JamesSomers – More people should write
I feel this way about collections. When I have a collection I have a mental bucket.