Life Affirming Software
“Life affirming” isn’t a term I think I’ve ever used for an app, but it fits here. I can feel my attitude toward content shifting from that of “consumer” to that of “curator.” Due to the implicit focus on output that this app cultivates when you save something (what am I going to do with this? What other content should it live beside and how will I discover it?), Sublime invites you to attend to the content you consume and to take an active role in it. Everything you save is a building block in your evolving foundation of taste and interest.
What makes this incredibly rewarding is a new kind of feedback loop. Sublime incentivizes me to intake higher quality material so that I can find others’ related high quality material in return - Sublime’s AI-powered Related Ideas engine is remarkable at tying thoughts together. This then creates a loop where likeminded people can find my content.
And when someone adds your contribution to their collection, you get a different, healthier kind of dopamine hit. Rather than a one-sided feeling of congratulations that I said something clever, or I took a nice vacation, I instead get the satisfaction of knowing that I have become an active participant in someone else’s life. The words, or pictures, or links that I’ve selected as important have proven to be useful to someone else. It’s the internet embodiment of “tending to one’s own garden,” but with a quiet social element that makes your garden more purposeful.
What makes this incredibly rewarding is a new kind of feedback loop. Sublime incentivizes me to intake higher quality material so that I can find others’ related high quality material in return - Sublime’s AI-powered Related Ideas engine is remarkable at tying thoughts together. This then creates a loop where likeminded people can find my content.
And when someone adds your contribution to their collection, you get a different, healthier kind of dopamine hit. Rather than a one-sided feeling of congratulations that I said something clever, or I took a nice vacation, I instead get the satisfaction of knowing that I have become an active participant in someone else’s life. The words, or pictures, or links that I’ve selected as important have proven to be useful to someone else. It’s the internet embodiment of “tending to one’s own garden,” but with a quiet social element that makes your garden more purposeful.
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Highly recommend
Sublime is a fresh take on bookmarking that feels like Pinterest and Raindrop met and had a baby. Then that baby grew up and met another app called Notion, then those two apps had a baby of their own. In all seriousness, it's super easy to save stuff from around the web, and the card-based system makes browsing your ideas actually fun. While it might not have all the bells and whistles of hardcore PKM tools, it's perfect for folks who want a simple, visual way to collect and explore ideas.
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Where has this been my whole life?!?
Sublime is the most magical online space & community you will ever discover for archiving interesting & inspiring things you find on the internet, saving read-it-laters, and stumbling upon others’ collections of the same. The team behind it is brilliant, responsive, and delightful to interact with. Once you get the lay of the land, the platform is extremely intuitive and satisfying to use.
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A calm place to discover and remember
Sublime isn’t a social media app per se, but it is turning into my default for when I have some free time and want to browse, read, and discover. Instead of the hectic content on social media, Sublime feels like a curated community where the content recommendations feel like they’re made for me. I can store what I discover elsewhere, share it with whoever I want, and get recommendations on similar content. Great app with tons of promise.
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Makes the internet fun again
Solves the problem of saving/remembering the good stuff of the internet and also curates and surfaces more of the good stuff. All around good stuff - can't recommend this app more
Loving sublime, feel like I can breathe again
Sublime is different. And I love it. Sublime is Intentional, calm, exciting. Like many of us who have tried all the tools, Sublime strikes this amazing balance of helping you organize, save, discover, and re-engage with our online selves. The app and team does an amazing job balancing content curation with a dose of community, in a beautiful way. Love what the team has built already and cant' wait to see what they have in store.
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the best collaborative second brain tool
I was struggling to find an app that lets me easily capture and search highlights and Sublime is the best execution I’ve seen and I’ve tried every tool under the sun
Restored faith in (tech) companies and community
I’ve used a couple other knowledge management apps in past years, but sublime is by far the best (also in many ways, and very much related: the simplest). In addition, the team, ethos and execution of the whole project are so good as to be almost unbelievable. This is what apps should be, and how they should be made.
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Reminds me of the StumbleUpon early days of the internet
I’ve tried sooooo many different tools for saving the stuff I find around the internet (highlights, articles, whatever) and they’re always bulky and take forever to learn…enter Sublime, a totally different experience thats simple and easy and genuinely actually sorta fun?? I love being on there and discovering all the cool stuff other people are saving too.
And since there’s no social stuff like likes or comments it feels like I can actually exist on there and not perform? Tbh at first it was sort of weird for my brain to not have likes and comments bc I was like ‘wait where is the social proof’ lol but that went away after a couple days and now I find it to be a place I can go to recharge or with a specific idea / thought / question I have — I’ll just ask the question in the search and scroll through the ideas Sublime brings up that relate to it — it’s helped me with a bunch of creative projects for both my own work and my work at an agency
Ok wow this review got really long so I’ll stop now but I just wanna say thank you to the devs for making Sublime — it’s the first thing online that’s made me feel the way I did with StumbleUpon and early Tumblr days, so thank you.
And since there’s no social stuff like likes or comments it feels like I can actually exist on there and not perform? Tbh at first it was sort of weird for my brain to not have likes and comments bc I was like ‘wait where is the social proof’ lol but that went away after a couple days and now I find it to be a place I can go to recharge or with a specific idea / thought / question I have — I’ll just ask the question in the search and scroll through the ideas Sublime brings up that relate to it — it’s helped me with a bunch of creative projects for both my own work and my work at an agency
Ok wow this review got really long so I’ll stop now but I just wanna say thank you to the devs for making Sublime — it’s the first thing online that’s made me feel the way I did with StumbleUpon and early Tumblr days, so thank you.
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I just started using it and itms brilliant
I saw a tweet from the founder that said so much about the minds behind Sublime and why it’s so amazing.
I had tried every PKM tool before but the habit never stuck and this finally stuck
I had tried every PKM tool before but the habit never stuck and this finally stuck
