Sublime

What is Sublime?

Sublime is a beautifully simple tool that helps knowledge-driven creative professionals collect and connect ideas.

Unlike traditional single-player personal knowledge management tools, Sublime is a living breathing network—every idea you save reveals paths to a hundred more—not just from your library, but from an entire community of curious minds.

Key Features

Never lose a valuable idea again.

• Capture links, highlights, articles, screenshots, videos, and images with one click

• Works across web, browser extension, and iOS

• Everything you collect lives in one beautiful home

Save one thing, discover one hundred more (everyone’s favorite)

• Save one idea and instantly discover hand-curated, related ideas other people found fascinating

• Surface related ideas as you’re writing in Google Docs so you’re never uninspired

Human-centered search

• Find anything by half-remembered details, context, or associations

• Natural language search understands what you mean, not just what you type

• Extend your search across your own library or the entire Sublime network of hand-curated knowledge

Create with what you save

• Sublime Canvas Make sense of everything you’ve collected with Sublime Canvas, the infinite whiteboard for exploring and connecting ideas

• Share with AI Turn your personal knowledge library into context for uniquely meaningful AI interactions

Effortlessly build a public library

• Effortlessly build a public archive of your mind

• Choose what to keep private and what to share

• Discover like-minded people and ideas through your curated knowledge

Sublime in our customer’s words

See our wall of love -> here

Evernote meets Pinterest meet Notion—but simpler and sublime

A studio for my mind

A calm place to think, organize, and get inspired

A tasteful take on Pinterest for knowledge

A second brain with a soul

The digital, collaborative commonplace book of my dreams

Like a nicotine patch for quitting the infinite scroll

A private knowledge tool and a public digital garden, all in one

Sublime is the easiest way to highlight and capture anything interesting you come across and watch it grow into a living library of connected ideas

A place where you go for all the things you can do, but stay for all the things you can be

A place where my compulsion to archive will amount to something

A tool for thought for people who hate tools for thought

The anti-productivity productivity tool

The Internet, but you can hear yourself think

The ultimate inspiration-as-a-service tool

Who is Sublime for (and not for)?

If…

• You spend a lot of time consuming content but struggle to curate, recall, revisit, organize, and use that knowledge effectively

• You’ve tried every PKM tool out there—Obsidian, Notion, and others… but everything is too complicated and nothing seems to stick

• You don’t know what a PKM tool is but are still yearning for a simple way to capture and recall anything interesting you come across

• You are sick of the bottomless pit of advice on how to do more things faster and find yourself looking for a different narrative, one that puts creativity above productivity

• You are hungry for a place on the Internet that feels less mall, more library. Less conference, more neighborhood cafe chance encounter

…then Sublime is for you.

What makes Sublime different?

Simpler

Most knowledge tools feel like an airplane cockpit. Sublime feels like a yoga studio.

Relational

Most tools organize. Sublime connects.

Communal

Most knowledge management tools are single-player. Sublime is a living, breathing network where ideas can be shared, discovered, and built upon together—without sacrificing your private thinking space.

Designed to turn collected knowledge into tangible outputs

The goal isn't to collect more information but to transform what you consume into creative work that matters to you—whether that's writing, designing, researching, or building.

Compare Sublime to other tools -> here

How much does it cost?

• Free –> explore, save, and get inspired

• Premium –> $75/year

• Premium+ –> $100/year

• Lifetime –> $400 one-time

See details -> here

Founders letter

Dear reader,

I started Sublime because I am obsessed with ideas but I didn’t see myself in the “personal knowledge management” space.

For years, I patched up tools like Notion, Evernote, Obsidian, and Apple Notes.

None of them hit the mark.

I know. I know. The world doesn’t need another “bookmarking” or “note-taking” tool.

But I wanted a particular one.

I wanted something beautiful and easy to use.

Something that didn’t require watching a 90 minute tutorial to figure out.

Something that would let me capture anything from anywhere, and show it in a way that makes sense.

Something that was equal parts personal and communal.

Something to help me connect ideas—not just collect them.

Most productivity tools fool you into thinking you have to master a system to make great work.

I was tired of seeing faster and cheaper as a selling point. I genuinely did not want another tool to improve my “productivity.”

I wanted, in a McLuhan-esque,  medium is the message sort of way, a tool that says:

Life can be meaningful.
Beautiful.
Profound.
Exciting.
Sublime.
When you slow down.
Cultivate a place to dream.
To capture what moves you.
Think things through.
And make something wonderful.

We can’t promise we’ll change the world—we make software—but we promise we’ll help you discover and make sense of the ideas that enchant yours.

A sublime Internet awaits you.

xx
Sari

Principles

1. The Productivity Era is Dead. Long Live Creativity.

As AI commoditizes speed and output, true value will come from work that is original, meaningful, and authentic. The goal can't be making more stuff—it has to be making something wonderful.

How Sublime embodies this:
While productivity tools focus on task completion and efficiency, Sublime creates an environment that feels like an artist's studio rather than a factory floor. Our card-based system encourages unexpected connections between ideas, our collections provide meaningful containers for creative work, and our "inspiration as a service" approach surfaces related concepts just when you need them.

• The End of Productivity

• How I Build My Personal Knowledge Library

2. To free your attention, set an intention.

In a world where endless feeds fragment our focus, the destruction of our attention compromises our ability to make sustained progress on anything worthwhile. The barrier is no longer access to information—it's cultivating the intention to use it meaningfully.

How Sublime embodies this:
Sublime inverts the internet's consumption model. Instead of opening an app to see whatever an algorithm wants you to see, you set an intention and discover ideas related to that purpose. Our collections aren't about obsessive tagging; they're about organizing information around how you'll use it. This transforms passive scrolling into active creation, turning the internet into a tool that molds around your intentions rather than hijacking your attention.

3. What matters most in the age of AI is taste.

AI is powerful but taste-blind. It can make anything but it has no idea what's actually worth making. But AI + your taste? That's the game-changer. The future isn't about whether AI will replace creativity—it's about how your cultivated taste and perspective can guide AI to create something truly original.

How Sublime embodies this:
Sublime transforms your curated knowledge into context for AI, allowing it to see through your eyes. While a generic prompt yields generic output, Sublime helps you feed AI the references, quotes, and ideas that inspire you. This creates a powerful combination: AI's capabilities guided by your unique perspective. We're not replacing your creativity—we're amplifying it by giving your taste the ultimate canvas.

Further reading: https://sublimeinternet.substack.com/p/what-matters-in-the-age-of-ai-is

4. The Internet needs connection without performance

Most social networks demand performance, while private tools promote isolation. True creativity thrives in the balance: a space where ideas can be shared without the pressure of likes, comments, or instant validation.

How Sublime embodies this:
Sublime creates a third space on the internet—neither the performance stage of social media nor the closed doors of traditional note-taking. It's like discretely leaving your door open, inviting opportunities for serendipity and connection. You can share knowledge and build on others' ideas – with no likes, no comments, no pressure.

How people use Sublime

Sublime has become the personal knowledge management tool of choice for the Internet's most interesting thinkers, creatives, builders, writers, researchers, designers, and founders.

Our YouTube series, How I Sublime, gives you a window into how real people integrate Sublime into their creative and intellectual lives. Here's one example: