Sublime Learnings

Things I learned as I began using Sublime

It seems like Sublime should be smart enough to suggest a collection if a collection is relevant.

I am finding the Sublime UX not much fun to use. Buttons seem to be in the wrong place, particularly the ADD or WRITE functions, which belong at the top of a page, not the bottom. I’d rather WRITE be at the top of the list of things to ADD (and shouldn’t that be something like NOTE instead of WRITE?).

I’m not sure I like being able to add notes to my … notes?

An observation about note-taking in Sublime:

The default for a note should be “Mark Private.” Instead, it’s public, apparently to support the growth of their magical “Sublime network” of related ideas surfaced from the vaults of other users.
I should have to “opt-in” to public sharing.
Question: is there a control to throw that says, “Make my notes

First Sublime

The first time I tried to save something to Sublime failed. That’s not a great start.

I downloaded the browser extension, called up a YouTube video, and clicked the save button on my browser bar. I could see where Sublime saw what video I was watching, and I entered a note in the provided field. But clicking save did nothing at all, and

Of course, all of Sublime is online; nothing is local. And the content lives on someone else’s server. Privacy folks are not going to want this. Data ownership advocates aren’t going to like it easier.

Which raises the question: can I take my notes with me when I leave?