Cosmik December Lab Notes: 'Tis the season for sharing your best finds, and other Semble updates

Curate your picks of 2025, spreading attention karma with new Semble notifications, and some cool indie Semble integrations

Or see our Bluesky post for more details.

We added basic notifications, to help spread good attention sharing karma ✨

When someone collects a card via your card, you will now receive a notification:

Part of these notifications is tracking where someone saved a card from, so we've updating our lexicons to include a provenance section with a via field which is a strong ref to the original card record. Here's an example of what this looks like:

{
  "type": "URL",
  "$type": "network.cosmik.card",
  "content": {
    "url": "<https://lab.leaflet.pub/3m7py65pswk2e>",
    "$type": "network.cosmik.card#urlContent",
    "metadata": {
      "type": "link",
      "$type": "network.cosmik.card#urlMetadata",
      "title": "Atmospheric @-mentions! - Leaflet Lab Notes",
      "imageUrl": "<https://leaflet.pub/lish/did%253Aplc%253Abtxrwcaeyodrap5mnjw2fvmz/3lppk75kw7k26/3m7py65pswk2e/opengraph-image?6815eb61f733905a>",
      "description": "Lab Notes 017: mention Bluesky accounts, Leaflet publications, specific posts and more to come — an interface for links across the atmosphere",
      "retrievedAt": "2025-12-12T03:02:17.305Z"
    }
  },
  "createdAt": "2025-12-12T03:02:17.305Z",
  "provenance": {
    "via": {
      "cid": "bafyreigyya3ofkpxtpqhqtqlcny3vyvcaqfpfnzn4pikk6elt2ckvx5qcq",
      "uri": "at://did:plc:rtf3bjc3w2yn4syxtm4r7jt2/network.cosmik.card/3m7q5sjs2gs2d"
    },
    "$type": "network.cosmik.defs#provenance"
  }
}

If you include this field, the author of the referring card will get a notification that you saved their card. We’ll update the Semble PDS Client to include this field soon.

Some of you have asked for this - when you add a new card you will now see your recent collections in the “Add to collections” section:

• @laurenshof.online created the latest ATmosphere Report with a curated collection of interesting atproto articles from November. What's cool about this is that the curated links are now on-protocol as a Semble collection, with a custom page that lets you view them alongside ATmosphere mentions, on Semble, Leaflet and Bluesky. Check it out at https://traverse.connectedplaces.online/!

• @ronentk.me vibe-coded a proof-of-concept Notion → Semble integration using our PDS client! We’re very excited by the idea of Semble as a protocolized social layer for personal knowledge tools, and AI code assistants make these bespoke indie integrations so much easier.

Or see our Bluesky post for more details.

We added basic notifications, to help spread good attention sharing karma ✨

When someone collects a card via your card, you will now receive a notification:

Part of these notifications is tracking where someone saved a card from, so we've updating our lexicons to include a provenance section with a via field which is a strong ref to the original card record. Here's an example of what this looks like:

{
  "type": "URL",
  "$type": "network.cosmik.card",
  "content": {
    "url": "<https://lab.leaflet.pub/3m7py65pswk2e>",
    "$type": "network.cosmik.card#urlContent",
    "metadata": {
      "type": "link",
      "$type": "network.cosmik.card#urlMetadata",
      "title": "Atmospheric @-mentions! - Leaflet Lab Notes",
      "imageUrl": "<https://leaflet.pub/lish/did%253Aplc%253Abtxrwcaeyodrap5mnjw2fvmz/3lppk75kw7k26/3m7py65pswk2e/opengraph-image?6815eb61f733905a>",
      "description": "Lab Notes 017: mention Bluesky accounts, Leaflet publications, specific posts and more to come — an interface for links across the atmosphere",
      "retrievedAt": "2025-12-12T03:02:17.305Z"
    }
  },
  "createdAt": "2025-12-12T03:02:17.305Z",
  "provenance": {
    "via": {
      "cid": "bafyreigyya3ofkpxtpqhqtqlcny3vyvcaqfpfnzn4pikk6elt2ckvx5qcq",
      "uri": "at://did:plc:rtf3bjc3w2yn4syxtm4r7jt2/network.cosmik.card/3m7q5sjs2gs2d"
    },
    "$type": "network.cosmik.defs#provenance"
  }
}

If you include this field, the author of the referring card will get a notification that you saved their card. We’ll update the Semble PDS Client to include this field soon.

Some of you have asked for this - when you add a new card you will now see your recent collections in the “Add to collections” section:

• @laurenshof.online created the latest ATmosphere Report with a curated collection of interesting atproto articles from November. What's cool about this is that the curated links are now on-protocol as a Semble collection, with a custom page that lets you view them alongside ATmosphere mentions, on Semble, Leaflet and Bluesky. Check it out at https://traverse.connectedplaces.online/!

• @ronentk.me vibe-coded a proof-of-concept Notion → Semble integration using our PDS client! We’re very excited by the idea of Semble as a protocolized social layer for personal knowledge tools, and AI code assistants make these bespoke indie integrations so much easier.