Sublime

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

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.

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

–Laura Esquivel

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?

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.