Sublime

Think of the way you organize your library as an artistic endeavor, not just a utilitarian one.

Some note-taking software will now show you a subset of your notes at regular intervals to help you jog your memory; a third-party plug-in for this is now available for Roam. To my mind, though, this needs a first-party solution: Roam should show me old concepts, ideas, and even people and places when I open it each day, and encourage me to do more... See more

You basically just dump anything that is interesting to you and watch how it intelligently intertwines with everyone else’s.

A lot of the work in building Sublime has been, what do I want from the web? And personally, I want to follow my curiosity wherever it leads . Without sifting through mountains of clickbait and SEO and content designed to feed an algorithm, I want to mindfully collect the pieces of the internet that resonate with me. And I want to do this in a spac... See more

What we are trying to do influences what becomes salient to us. If you are looking for a friend in a crowd, faces become salient to you, faces that would have otherwise passed you by.

If you are making videos, you will notice patterns in the videos you watch. If you’re not, you can watch a thousand videos and have them pass through your head cleanly... See more

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves.

–Laura Esquivel

I I really think that creativity is going to become a lot more important and surprise and personality and originality like

that's the premium that will'll be placed on that is going to like change dramatically in the coming years and so whatever mindset that I carried around like quantity is is so not going to serve me that that I am I I find that a

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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?