![]() And it’s become a fun way to share the best of what I’ve read, either on social media or directly with family and friends. In a short space of time, Readwise has become an essential part of my writing “stack”. Reviewing the highlights is one of my favourite moments in the day. Readwise has quickly become one of my favourite apps. Or you can export quotes from within Readwise as plain text, which can be opened in a message, email, or any other shortcut you have set up. The app will even export quotes formatted for Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. It’s also easy to share quotes from Readwise. I’ve done this to match my current writing interests for this blog: artistry, focus, and well-being. If you were doing a specific piece of writing, say a Longford essay or book, then it would be easy to adjust the references Readwise draws from to reflect only the topics you’re writing about. Being reminded of important ideas puts everything else I see and read in context. It takes only a few minutes but does a remarkable job of guiding my thinking throughout the day. ![]() My feed is set to the default of five highlights per day. Instead of navigating a random set of other people’s thoughts, you digest a sampling of ideas you know are relevant to your interests. Using Readwise is like surfing a perfectly curated feed of ideas you’ve already decided matter. ![]() Not only does this pull in highlights as you add them, it also automatically updates in Notion to reflect changes when you edit your existing highlights in Readwise. When you first connect Readwise to Notion, a database page is connected that pulls in your highlights. ![]() And it’s easy to adjust how often each book appears in your review feed.Įxporting from Readwise to notes apps like Notion, EverNote or Roam is easy, too. You can fine-tune how many highlights you review each day, from 1 to 15, and how new or old the highlights are. You can adjust the number of emails you receive and when they are sent. Your Readwise feed is customisable in a number of ways. Readwise offers you a set of random highlights, together with the source and author, and you have a number of options to tag, like, keep, or discard the highlight. Once Readwise has captured highlights, you’ll be given the chance to review them either by visiting the app, email, or both. There’s also the option to add a browser extension to Chrome or use third-party web clipping apps. You can roll up Twitter threads and import them. Importantly, Readwise also makes it easy to add highlights from books by using your iPhone camera to scan text. Then you can sync from other sources, like Pocket, Instapaper, Medium, and iBooks. Your highlights are automatically pulled from your Kindle account. Capturing highlights and quotes is only the first stage in the process of any kind of research. Readwise is built on a three-stage workflow, described as Capture, Review, and Integrate. Readwise is simply a more robust and portable digital version of that. The simplest way to do this is just write out a quote that inspires you and stick it on your wall, like a DIY motivational poster. The things we get from our reading – let’s call them ideas for the sake of simplicity – become useful when they interact with ideas from other things we’ve read, conversations we’ve had, and our experiences.Ī system that holds onto these ideas is a useful tool for clarifying our thinking and decision-making. Whether it’s the thrill of a good story well told or the satisfaction of gaining a fresh perspective on life, the joy is discovering something new. It’s also incomplete, because it doesn’t include highlights from physical books or sources other than the Kindle. ![]() Juxtaposing ideas from one book with similar (or contradictory) ideas from another isn’t made easy. But that’s not exactly useful for anything other than writing a review or summary of the book. What Readwise Replacedīefore using Readwise, I pulled highlights from my Kindle using the Bookcision applet. Readwise allows you to pull highlights from a variety of reading sources together into a digital stream which you can edit, manage, reorganise and tag to suit your personal interests. You create an account online and access it via your browser or an iOS app. Readwise is a piece of cloud-based software. Rather than recycle familiar quotes, I always imagined a more vibrant personal library of ideas, expressed in concise ways, through fascinating quotes drawn from my own reading and research. It’s been a dream of mine for years to recreate that sort of collection from my own reading. The quotes, arranged by topic, were funnier, smarter, and more biting than the typical inspiration-lite quotes you find online now. It had a mostly white cover, with a green and black geometric ʼ60s pattern, and it was part of a library of Reader’s Digest reference books. As a kid, I would often borrow a book of quotations from my parents’ bookshelves. ![]()
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