Plan for Sable Lake

Outlining some of the items we want to complete in pursuit of an enhanced offline reality

This project is born out of a personal desire to improve our life away from the digital screen. Our hope is that such desire is to be found among you and many other people. Below are some of the ideas we are pursuing at the moment to explore different ways we can improve:

1. Articles
   There are many ideas that we want to share, and many more that are available online. We want to consolidate as many of those in a series of articles covering tips and discussions. We will cover both the practical side that can include actionable tips, and the theoretical one where we can explore what it means to live offline. We will also augment a lot of our content with graphics and motion.

2. Print

   1. Books
      E-books have many advantages, but one of the main ones is that they are easy to carry around. Our assumption is if we can get old school books to have that attribute, or as much of it as we possibly can, then maybe we wouldn’t be so hesitant of taking one from the shelf on the way out. We will start selling a reprint of a valued and important work.

   2. Magazine

      This would include print articles and other types of work that we will share online, in addition to other print exclusive content.

3. Paper products

   We have some ideas about what we could explore here with some of our experience in design, but we will have to prioritize them and share more information as we figure this out.

So where does this leave us? Well, our online channels such as this newsletter will serve as the vehicle through which we will ideate and share our progress. Online, we want to have a repository for “all things offline”. Offline, we want to bring some of our creations to gently enhance what we consider an offline reality.
We are aware of the existing dichotomy: a lot of our online work will be about how to go offline. This should be ok, because that is the default way we communicate with most people nowadays, and that is how we hope to reach people in as different places.