Sublime Internet 4+

“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.

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.

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.