Sublime

Why should we bother capturing information? • Work is getting faster paced, so there's almost no time to do research. • You already consume stuff, why not make just a little bit of effort once to set up capture systems? After setting up, they don't need much upkeep.

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

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 world y... 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

I was talking to a friend about why we decided to invite only paying believers to the Sublime private beta. My answer is that charging early for a product creates high expectations, and in aspiring to meet those expectations, we are held accountable to deliver a product you love and trust. My answer is that growing Sublime the right way is more imp... See more

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?

By replacing a “like” with an active “connect” button, we free information from the file cabinet metaphor and allow you to arrange cards in an infinite variety of contexts.