Sublime

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

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?

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

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

think of your ideas as people / your children. I want my ideas to go hang out with other ideas, I don't want them hanging out in a room full of schedules and todo lists

To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.

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.