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Centralized System
Readwise allows users to consolidate highlights and notes from various reading platforms, such as Kindle, Instapaper, and Pocket, into one place.
Ease of Use
The platform is user-friendly, making it easy to import, organize, and review highlights.
Spaced Repetition
Readwise uses spaced repetition algorithms to help users retain and recall information over time by regularly revisiting highlights.
Customizable Export Options
Users can export their highlights and notes to other services like Evernote, Notion, or plain text files, allowing for flexible usage of the stored data.
Search Functionality
Readwise offers robust search capabilities, making it simple to find specific highlights or notes across your library.
I imported my kindle highlights, as many others. Now I daily review some highlights (thanks to a dashboard, I am motivated). And where I didn't create highlights, as I only listened to the audiobooks, I get the highlights from others. It also allows to create beautiful quotes. It adds the book cover and matches quote and background with colours found on the book title! Really nice!
The only highlights that Readwise retrieves semi-automatically are from the books I buy from Kindle, by going into the Readwise app and clicking a button. If I upload them to Kindle or need highlights from the Apple Books app, I have to open the book, go to my highlights, select them all, and then email them to a Readwise email address. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
Readwise also has this feature. I get a daily email with a random assortment of highlights that have been pulled in from multiple sources (Reader, Notion, Kindle, etc.) The product benefit in their case is that it's kind of like Zapier, but for notes. https://readwise.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Go to readwise.io and create an account if you don't already have one. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago
Sign up for a Readwise account if you haven't already readwise.io. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago
Sign Up for Readwise: If you haven’t already, head over to Readwise and create an account. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago
Readwise. I recently subscribed to it to centralize the notes I take in e-books and blog posts. It's still too early to know if I'll renew the subscription in 2025. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago
I'm between apps at the moment! I would have used Notion except it wasn't possible to use the app on an e-ink screen. I need an app I can compose a synopsis on at the same time as export Kindle highlights to using https://readwise.io/, which narrows the options. I'm looking at Logseq at the moment. Source: almost 2 years ago
Very much agree that Pocket has gotten worse as I've used it over the years. It's so bad I've mostly moved to the much better Readwise (https://readwise.io/). I'd be fully over if they actually supported a decent export (see below). It's sad because I'm probably in the 99th percentile of Pocket users in terms of usage and am happily paying them for Premium. I can't remember a significant improvement to Pocket in 2... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
I tend to read highlight and annotate using a Kindle, and subscribe to https://readwise.io/ to transfer my notes to the web. I would like to have the workflow to be able to write up summaries of books, if only for my own reference. At the moment reading my notes is like reading a book in itself. Source: almost 2 years ago
Some of the things I am doing include highlighting using a Kindle, and with a subscription to https://readwise.io/ downloading those highlights to my laptop. It's possible to automatically orgnanise them into chapters and sections. Source: almost 2 years ago
If it syncs with whatever notes app you're using Readwise might suit your needs. Source: almost 2 years ago
> Any decent alternatives to Pocket? I've been reasonably happy so far with Readwise. https://readwise.io/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
I read and highlight and annotate Kindle e-books on an Onyx Boox Nova Air C. I also have a https://readwise.io/ subscription which sends me emails of randomly selected highlights from the e-books I have been reading and also enables me to create flash cards for learning. I favourite highlights that have meaning to me, and make mini collections using tags of subjects that have meaning to me. I can put the Onyx... Source: almost 2 years ago
If you mark up and save the PDF with any reader, e.g. Adobe - Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Download | Free PDF viewer for Windows, Mac OS, Android then upload the PDF to Readwise you can export the notes to almost anywhere. It is a subscription based service though. Source: almost 2 years ago
We could do with a bug fix for this (40) "Automatically add spaces" buggy? : Onyx_Boox (reddit.com) Also it would be good if handwriting to text conversion (via the keyboard) instead of only doing one line of handwriting at a time could convert multiple lines. I would also like to be able to convert multiple pages of handwritten notes to text and for converted text to flow as paragraphs instead of individual... Source: almost 2 years ago
I highlight and take the highlights out onto my laptop using https://readwise.io/ It's also possible to view the highlights in a chapter / section outline. Source: almost 2 years ago
It's possible with a subscription to Readwise, or at least I can vouch for with the Kindle. Readwise will also group your notes into chapters and subheadings. It I think is possible to do the same for free with an Obsidian Kindle plugin (there may be other similar plugins as well). Source: almost 2 years ago
I have a https://readwise.io/ subscription that enables me to view Kindle highlights on my laptop and click on them to be taken to the highlight page in the book using the Kindle desktop app. Not sure if you can do the same with Kobo. You may be able to do the same for free with the Obsidian Kindle plugin. Source: almost 2 years ago
Have had an Oasis for about 3 years, much good reading and enjoyment. Have recently migrated to the Kindle app on an Onyx Boox for the note taking ability. A Kindle is great for reading for enjoyment, but for reading for learning being able to make notes and with handwriting or dictation (I hope!) will be better. I am able to download highlights and annotations from my Kindle to my laptop with a subscription to... Source: almost 2 years ago
You could probably do most of this with a subscription to Readwise - not sure what you would use for the notes app though. A good question. Source: about 2 years ago
So far I’ve found these: Readwise Reader (the best known), Matter and Upnext. Anyone can compare them? Any more I haven’t mentioned? Also which one do you think is more likely to keep evolving? Source: about 2 years ago
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