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Posted by satis
May 26, 2025 at 02:24 PM
I’ve been using the free version. (50 cards, 3 private collections, limitations to related-cards and integrations.) The app will improve over time, but what will be really exciting is if it takes off enough for the network effects from people sharing note info. Its success depends on how well and fast you can use the service, and usefulness is dependent on network effects, which aren’t there yet. (Early Twitter and BlueSky weren’t useful until suddenly they were.) And 50 cards for the free version can’t really build up enough data points for the service to really shine either. But the potential is there.
With all the file types (images, highlights, text, pdfs, social media links/posts, podcast links and embedded audio/podcasts) and the use of canvases which can be reused/remixed, it’s a bridge between a collection of information, a Miro/Pinterest, a personal shebox like Devonthing, a website, and a bit of a social network. And it’s married it to apparently powerful natural language search that looks at and inside images.
It’s like a mix, and upgrade, of Tumblr and Pinterest, which I find potentially exciting. I’m a big Pinterest user, a site which isn’t as used in the US as elsewhere, and has huge network effects from its 500 million users: as my collection of dozens of boards has grown (and the number of Likes of other peoples’ pins has increased) Pinterest has been able to learn to better recommend similar or interesting new pins based on my (mostly private) pins. I have narrow-focused boards dedicated to topics like pinhole photography, scan art, grid typologies, photograms, Italian product design, Cephalopoda, typefaces, 1950s illustrations, and home furnishings: the site’s use of machine learning has allowed it to suggest really fantastic options from other users that are spot on for my interests, and many are items or links I would not normally have encountered. And when I’m shown a public pin it shows who created it, and if I click over to them I can subscribe to interesting boards/board feeds by that user or even *to* that user, which informs my feed of new pins to look at (or not).
And that’s where Sublime has the potential to go. Take the ability to create Miro/Pinterest-style boards of Cards of virtually any data type, share the Cards and/or the Boards/Canvases, see a flow of related published items (which you can add to your own folders/Canvases), do natural language searches to find related items, and build knowedge nests that can be exported.
That’s the potential at any rate.
Posted by Lucine
May 27, 2025 at 09:50 PM
It seems like just another of those apps where people share their information for free (or even pay for them like here), then that information gets leveraged to generate profits for the tech company, and in this case specifically train AI, which they can then leverage for profits in the best case and far worse in the worse cases. The world would be so much better if people kept their thoughts to themselves in face of malicious actors.
Posted by satis
May 28, 2025 at 01:33 AM
This is a service whose data is by default private, but offers people the *ability* to share data and have it remixed and shared. Don’t want to share data? You don’t have to. Denying the value and popularity of all Miro- and blogging services (not to mention social media) with one grand wave as being the product of (gasp) capitalists seems off-base.
Posted by satis
May 28, 2025 at 01:46 AM
Michael Dean, an architect-turned-writer, was recently awarded an O’Shaughnessy Fellowship Grant to develop Essay Architecture. He found 2nd brain apps weren’t working for him so he started using Sublime, and shared some of his work in it
He’s also one of the people Sublime put on their YouTube channel and discusses how it helps his writing and sharing process.
https://www.youtube.com/@sublimeapp