Readwise Reader

We shipped a CLI for Slax Reader, our read-later app. The interesting bit isn't the CLI itself — it's that your reading library is now a first-class tool that AI agents can call. Bookmark, list, and pipe-into-prompt are all scriptable. Repo: https://github.com/slax-lab/slax-reader-cli (MIT). Install and usage below. --- ## Why a CLI Most AI agents have nowhere to put things. Ask Claude Code to "save this article for later" — it can't. ChatGPT can summarize a URL but can't write the link anywhere you'll find tomorrow. A browser agent scanning your timeline has no persistent store. Every conversation is fenced inside the tool it happened in. The CLI fills that gap. Slax Reader becomes a persistent reading store that any agent — Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, Cursor, Windsurf — can read from and write to. Concretely: - Browser agent scanning your X timeline → `reader-cli add` saves the links. - Claude Code drafting a piece → calls `reader-cli list --filter inbox` to pull today's saves as source material. - Your weekend script pulls `reader-cli list --filter archive --json` from the last 30 days and feeds it into your own pipeline. The library stops being a passive bookmark pile. It becomes a corpus your agents can work with. --- ## What you can do with it ### 1. Filter, don't summarize Most "AI reads long articles for you" tools default to summarization. We think filtering is more useful. Tell Claude Code: *"Take the long piece I saved this morning, give me the 3 most counterintuitive points and 1 point I'd probably disagree with."* Under the hood the agent runs `reader-cli list --filter inbox --json`, picks the right bookmark, then `reader-cli get <id> --markdown` to pull the content. You never see the UUID. You don't need the article condensed. You need to know whether it's worth your time, and which 5 minutes inside it matter. ### 2. Batch save by rule `reader-cli add` takes URLs, but the interesting workflow is letting an agent do the picking: - "Scan the HN front page, save any post over 200 points in archive mode (full snapshot)." - "Watch my X timeline. Save links posted by the 8 accounts I save from most often." - "Scan this Substack publication's last 30 posts. Save anything with 'agent' in the title." This is scraping. The difference is you describe the rule in plain English instead of writing the scraper. ### 3. The RSS workflow, inverted Traditional reader workflow: 1. Subscribe to N feeds. 2. RSS reader pulls everything. 3. You scan headlines. 4. You save things to read later. 5. You actually read them. Step 3 — "scan the headlines yourself" — is the part that should belong to AI now. Inverted: 1. Agent subscribes to feeds. 2. Agent scans, sends you a digest. 3. You point at the 3 worth reading. 4. Agent saves them to Reader. A concrete example I run: - **Open-source LLM release tracking.** Agent scans HuggingFace trending, the release pages for Anthropic / Mistral / Meta / Qwen / DeepSeek, r/LocalLLaMA, and arxiv-sanity. Saves any new model card or benchmark worth reading, tagged `models`. Weekly digest. After setting this up I dropped most of my RSS subscriptions. Not because they're bad — because the scanning step shouldn't be mine anymore. ### 4. Querying past-you Every writer reinvents wheels. You read something last month that explained an idea clearly. You can't find it now. Before starting a piece, ask Claude Code: *"In my Slax Reader archive, find everything about agent design patterns from the last 90 days."* The agent calls `reader-cli list --filter archive --json`, filters in its context, and returns a research brief from past-you. No re-reading the whole archive yourself. **Advanced:** any time you read something that contradicts a view you currently hold, save it with `#self-challenge`. Once a quarter, read them back. That's your opinions evolving, made queryable. --- ## A few things about the product For the skeptical: - **Open source, self-hostable.** Slax Reader itself is Apache 2.0 (github.com/slax-lab/slax-reader). The CLI is MIT. Export anytime. - **Our cash flow is stable and we're committed to running this long-term.** Pocket was discontinued by Mozilla in 2025 and left a lot of people with read-later abandonment trauma. We won't put you through that. - **Permanent backup is free.** Bookmarks + full-text cache, free forever. Readwise, Instapaper Premium, Matter, and former Pocket all charge for this. We don't. - **Full-text search and highlights are free.** Same reasoning. - **We continuously invest in platform-specific parsers.** X, Threads, and Substack are well-supported. On the Chinese side we have dedicated parsers for WeChat Official Accounts, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, and Zhihu. - **iOS, Android, web, browser extension.** --- ## Install ```bash # One step: installs the CLI and the AI agent skill npx @slax-lab/reader-cli@latest install # Authenticate (paste API key from reader.slax.com → Settings → API Keys) reader-cli login # Use it reader-cli add https://example.com --tags "models,ai" --archive reader-cli list --filter inbox reader-cli get <bookmark-id> --markdown ``` Or just point your agent at the install guide and let it do the whole thing: > *"Help me install and set up Slax Reader CLI: https://github.com/slax-lab/slax-reader-cli/blob/main/docs/ai-agent-installation-guide.md"* --- ## Links - Repo & docs: https://github.com/slax-lab/slax-reader-cli - Sign up: https://reader.slax.com > Sign-up via my referral gets you a few months of Pro: https://r.slax.com/luca-reader. None of the workflows above require Pro — permanent backup, full-text search, and the CLI all work on free.

Hey everyone, Quick context: I save **a lot** of tweets. Threads about pricing, design inspiration, AI papers, founder advice. You know the drill. Problem is, I never open my bookmarks folder again. Ever. It's just a dump. I tried everything to fix it: * Notion exports (too manual) * Read-it-later apps (don't sync with X) * A spreadsheet (lol) Nothing stuck. So I built the thing I actually wanted. It's called **Bulkmark (**[bulkmark.io](https://bulkmark.io)**)**. # What it does **1. One-click sync + auto-tagging** Connect your X account. Bulkmark pulls in every bookmark you've ever saved and auto-tags them by topic (AI, design, startups, productivity, whatever). **2. Chat with your bookmarks** You can literally ask: *"What did I save about pricing strategy?"* and get an answer with the original tweets cited. Feels like having a second brain that actually works. **3. Curated lists you can share** Group your best bookmarks into public lists. A reading playlist, a launch checklist, your favorite threads from a specific founder. Share the link. **4. Friday digest in your inbox** Every Friday, you get a clean email with the best of what you saved that week. No app to open. No feed to scroll. Just the good stuff. # Stack (for the curious) * TanStack Start + Convex * Claude for the tagging + chat * [Polar.sh](http://Polar.sh) for payments * Resend for the digest emails * Hosted on Cloudflare # Pricing Progressive pricing tiers. 7-day free trial. I went paid-only from day one because I don't want to deal with the unit economics of a free tier when the X API calls actually cost (a lot) money. # What I'm looking for Honest feedback. Specifically: * **Would this actually fit your workflow, or is it solving a problem you don't have?** * What integrations would make this a no-brainer for you? (LinkedIn saves? Reddit saves? Readwise sync?) * Is the price right, or off? Happy to answer anything. If you spot a bug, ping me directly and I'll fix it the same day. Thanks for reading 🙏

Hey everyone, Quick context: I save **a lot** of tweets. Threads about pricing, design inspiration, AI papers, founder advice. You know the drill. Problem is, I never open my bookmarks folder again. Ever. It's just a dump. I tried everything to fix it: * Notion exports (too manual) * Read-it-later apps (don't sync with X) * A spreadsheet (lol) Nothing stuck. So I built the thing I actually wanted. It's called **Bulkmark**. # What it does **1. One-click sync + auto-tagging** Connect your X account. Bulkmark pulls in every bookmark you've ever saved and auto-tags them by topic (AI, design, startups, productivity, whatever). **2. Chat with your bookmarks** You can literally ask: *"What did I save about pricing strategy?"* and get an answer with the original tweets cited. Feels like having a second brain that actually works. **3. Curated lists you can share** Group your best bookmarks into public lists. A reading playlist, a launch checklist, your favorite threads from a specific founder. Share the link. **4. Friday digest in your inbox** Every Friday, you get a clean email with the best of what you saved that week. No app to open. No feed to scroll. Just the good stuff. # What I'm looking for Honest feedback. Specifically: * **Would this actually fit your workflow, or is it solving a problem you don't have?** * What integrations would make this a no-brainer for you? (LinkedIn saves? Reddit saves? Readwise sync?) * Is the price right, or off? Happy to answer anything. If you spot a bug, ping me directly and I'll fix it the same day. Thanks for reading 🙏

Hey r/readwise, first time posting here. I build [justRead.app](http://justRead.app), an iOS reader that points directly at a Calibre library and reads EPUBs in place (with two-way sync, so reading progress flows back to Calibre too). Just shipped 2.6 with **Readwise integration** because keeping highlights trapped inside one app felt not enough. The flow:   1. Get your Readwise API key   2. Paste it into Readwise settings in justRead   3. Sync all highlights at once, or while reading, sync just the current book   4. Done. Highlights show up in Readwise The app already exports highlights to PDF and Markdown, but Readwise is where a lot of readers actually keep them useful long-term, so it earned a first-class slot. Short video below shows the full loop: pasting the key → syncing → highlights live on the Readwise web app. Happy to answer questions, and very open to feedback from folks who run Readwise daily, when you test it, what would make the sync feel better?

Hello reddit folks, back again with a new update (video included). For anyone new: [justRead.app](http://justRead.app) is the iOS reader I've been building that points straight at a Calibre library and reads EPUBs in place. Or you can use two-way Calibre sync (meaning not only reading data from calibre, but also saving back... your reading progress, for example). This update, 2.6 is all about **Readwise sync**: 1. Get Readwise API key 2. Insert it into Readwise settings 3. Sync all highlights (or, while reading a book, just the highlight from a specific book) 4. Done, all highlights are in Readwise I am posting here again, because most of you read across desktop Calibre and mobile, and Readwise is how a lot of folks keep their highlights useful long-term. And I do not want to keep those highlights just inside the app. There is already export to \*.pdf and \*.md format, but Readwise is an option many people use, so it was added. The video shows a simple example of settings the API key, syncing to Readwise and showing it on Readwise webpage. https://reddit.com/link/1thgir1/video/kvqdzskrz12h1/player

Hi All, I do most of my reading using Readwise and its associated Reader app. I am looking for an eink tablet with Android support that will let me use the apps. Is the eNote 2 compatible with the apps, and has anyone actually used it? Are there any issues I need to be aware of, as the webpage warns that not all apps may be supported? I am not looking at the colour version at this stage, because I already have the TCL Nxtpaper when I want to read graphic-based notes. Thanks

Firstly, I am user zero. I built this for myself. I built the app around my reading habits. There is no app like it out there and the fact that I am so excited about the opportunities out there I can move so fast. I am trying to build a new morning reading habit and now, almost every morning, instead of looking at my phone, I open my reMarkable tablet and I read the issue that was freshly sent to me automatically by [Folio](https://myfolio.so) based on the feeds I subscribed to, the newsletters that are auto forwarded to my Folio email and the articles that I manually saved. I eliminated a lot of stress and fear of missing out from the fact that all the important newsletters that I care about are now saved there and I have them in a ready to read format. After using Folio myself in the past two and a half months I realised there are some advantages. Naming a few: \- all articles and newsletters are formatted the same way no more different fonts, colors, sizes that would create reading fatigue. Now all that matters is the content. \- when reading articles via Folio there are no ads that disturb your reading flow. \- you don’t miss any newsletter that you automatically forward to your unique Folio email. \- since Folio email works like a normal email I even subscribed with that to some new newsletters where I wanted to stay anonymous \- we’re tracking unsubscribe urls for all emails that you receive and we added an easy Unsubscribe menu option for you to bust the control you have on your newsletters I am aware the app is not perfect but I need your help to build the features that matters. What I have on my list: 1. Chrome extension that would allow users to add to Folio articles behind paywalls. 2. Multiple issue styles including serif fonts for better readability. 3. In app reading progress so the app could also be used as a save and read later app (Pocket, Instapaper, Readwise) like 4. In app reading for Issues 5. Discover feature that suggests trending reading content based on your topic preferences. What else would you like to see?

ive been kind of obsessed with optimizing my daily app usage for a while now. not in a "i wake up at 4am and cold plunge" way, more like i kept noticing i was spending hours on my phone using the same 5 mainstream apps with literally nothing to show for it. so i slowly rebuilt my entire stack with apps most people havent heard of heres exactly what i use and when **6:45 AM -** [**CuriousCats**](https://curiouscats.ai/) **(news)** this replaced google news, twitter, and the 3 newsletters i used to subscribe to. i open it and read my personalized morning briefing. usually takes about 5-7 minutes. it gives me bullet points on stuff i care about, i can go deep on anything that matters, and then it tells me my briefing is done. no infinite scroll. i also follow the iran situation specifically from multiple countries perspectives which no other news app ive tried does properly **7:15 AM -** [**Reflection**](https://www.reflection.app/) **(journaling)** this one flies completely under the radar. its a journaling app that asks you one question a day and then over time shows you patterns in your mood, energy, and thinking. no blank page pressure. just answer the prompt in 2 minutes and move on. after a few months the insights it surfaces about yourself are kind of wild **7:30 AM -** [**Morgen**](https://morgen.so/) **(calendar + tasks)** this replaced google calendar AND todoist for me. it merges all my calendars into one view and lets me time block tasks directly onto the calendar. drag a task into a slot and its scheduled. sounds simple but no other calendar app does this smoothly. the unified view across personal and work calendars alone is worth it **8:00 AM -** [**Shortwave**](https://www.shortwave.com/) **(email) +** [**Endel**](https://endel.io/) **(focus)** shortwave is an AI email client that bundles, summarises, and prioritises your inbox automatically. i spend maybe 10 minutes on email now instead of 40. then i turn on endel which generates real time AI soundscapes that adapt to your heart rate and time of day. its not a playlist. the sound literally changes based on how your body is doing. grimes and james blake are investors. replaced every spotify focus playlist i had **1:00 PM -** [**Readwise Reader**](https://readwise.io/read) **(saved articles)** throughout the morning i save long articles and threads i want to read properly later. readwise reader is the best read-it-later app ive used. highlights sync, you can annotate, and it handles newsletters pdfs and articles all in one place. this is my post lunch wind down reading slot **6:00 PM -** [**Strava**](https://www.strava.com/) **(running)** 3-4 times a week. nothing fancy here **8:30 PM -** [**Capacities**](https://capacities.io/) **(notes / second brain)** this is the one that surprised me most. its like notion but built around objects instead of pages. so a person is an object, a meeting is an object, a project is an object, and they all link together automatically. i do a 10 minute brain dump here every evening. after a few weeks it starts connecting ideas across your notes in ways you didnt expect **10:00 PM** [**CuriousCats**](https://curiouscats.ai/) **again (audio)** i put on curious fm while wrapping up the day. its basically a personalized podcast that summarises what happened since the morning.

Hey everyone, Quick context: I save **a lot** of tweets. Threads about pricing, design inspiration, AI papers, founder advice. You know the drill. Problem is, I never open my bookmarks folder again. Ever. It's just a dump. I tried everything to fix it: * Notion exports (too manual) * Read-it-later apps (don't sync with X) * A spreadsheet (lol) Nothing stuck. So I built the thing I actually wanted. It's called **Bulkmark**. # What it does **1. One-click sync + auto-tagging** Connect your X account. Bulkmark pulls in every bookmark you've ever saved and auto-tags them by topic (AI, design, startups, productivity, whatever). **2. Chat with your bookmarks** You can literally ask: *"What did I save about pricing strategy?"* and get an answer with the original tweets cited. Feels like having a second brain that actually works. **3. Curated lists you can share** Group your best bookmarks into public lists. A reading playlist, a launch checklist, your favorite threads from a specific founder. Share the link. **4. Friday digest in your inbox** Every Friday, you get a clean email with the best of what you saved that week. No app to open. No feed to scroll. Just the good stuff. # Stack (for the curious) * TanStack Start + Convex * Claude for the tagging + chat * Polar.sh for payments * Resend for the digest emails * Hosted on Cloudflare # Pricing Progressive pricing tiers. 7-day free trial. I went paid-only from day one because I don't want to deal with the unit economics of a free tier when the X API calls actually cost (a lot) money. # What I'm looking for Honest feedback. Specifically: * **Would this actually fit your workflow, or is it solving a problem you don't have?** * What integrations would make this a no-brainer for you? (LinkedIn saves? Reddit saves? Readwise sync?) * Is the price right, or off? Happy to answer anything. If you spot a bug, ping me directly and I'll fix it the same day. Link in the comments to avoid the auto-mod filter. Thanks for reading 🙏

Hey everyone, Quick context: I save **a lot** of tweets. Threads about pricing, design inspiration, AI papers, founder advice. You know the drill. Problem is, I never open my bookmarks folder again. Ever. It's just a dump. I tried everything to fix it: * Notion exports (too manual) * Read-it-later apps (don't sync with X) * A spreadsheet (lol) Nothing stuck. So I built the thing I actually wanted. It's called **Bulkmark**. # What it does **1. One-click sync + auto-tagging** Connect your X account. Bulkmark pulls in every bookmark you've ever saved and auto-tags them by topic (AI, design, startups, productivity, whatever). **2. Chat with your bookmarks** You can literally ask: *"What did I save about pricing strategy?"* and get an answer with the original tweets cited. Feels like having a second brain that actually works. **3. Curated lists you can share** Group your best bookmarks into public lists. A reading playlist, a launch checklist, your favorite threads from a specific founder. Share the link. **4. Friday digest in your inbox** Every Friday, you get a clean email with the best of what you saved that week. No app to open. No feed to scroll. Just the good stuff. # Stack (for the curious) * TanStack Start + Convex * Claude for the tagging + chat * Polar.sh for payments * Resend for the digest emails * Hosted on Cloudflare # Pricing Progressive pricing tiers. 7-day free trial. I went paid-only from day one because I don't want to deal with the unit economics of a free tier when X API calls actually cost (too much) money. # What I'm looking for Honest feedback. Specifically: * **Would this actually fit your workflow, or is it solving a problem you don't have?** * What integrations would make this a no-brainer for you? (LinkedIn saves? Reddit saves? Readwise sync?) * Is the price right, or off? Happy to answer anything. If you spot a bug, ping me directly and I'll fix it the same day. Link in the comments to avoid the auto-mod filter. Thanks for reading 🙏

Hello dev of [justRead.app](http://justRead.app) here. I am focusing mainly on EPUB format, to make the reading as plausable on iphones as possible. If you are a Calibre user, Calibre sync is built in (Title, authors, info, series, series index, tags). Two way, so you can sync your reading progress, for example, into Calibre. You can watch the development [in here](https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=284). Version 2.6 was just sent to AppStore for review, with Readwise integration.

I went through the exact same “I know I heard this somewhere” loop with SaaS podcasts and YC talks, so this hits a real nerve. I ended up keeping a messy mix of Readwise highlights, Apple Notes, and YouTube “chapters,” and it still sucks when I’m hunting for that one 2‑minute bit on sales comp or early pricing. The angle that’s helped me most is asking really narrow, situational questions like “first 10 customers when you don’t have a network,” “when did you fire your first AE,” or “what metric made you realize you’d actually hit PMF,” then saving the best clips into a tiny personal playbook I can revisit before big decisions. On the “finding live demand” side, I’ve tried GummySearch and a couple of homegrown scripts, and ended up on Pulse for Reddit after trying those plus manual site:reddit searches because it kept surfacing threads where people were asking the same questions I’d just clipped from talks, which made it way easier to test if the advice actually maps to real buyer intent right now.

Lately I have been thinking a lot about information. How we all deal with it every day. It is really hard to manage it in a way that's useful. For example during a week I might save a post from Reddit bookmark an article take a screenshot write a note save a YouTube video keep a link from a newsletter listen to a podcast idea or see something useful in a chat or message. When I see it it feels important so I save it somewhere for later.. After a few days or weeks a lot of it becomes hard to find again. Sometimes I do not remember where I saved it. Times I remember the idea, but not the exact words to search for. Sometimes I have the topic spread across different places like my notes app, browser bookmarks, screenshots, saved posts, documents or even messages to myself. It starts to feel like the information's there but it is not really usable when I need it. I am curious how other people handle this in life especially with so many sources of information now: Reddit, X/Twitter, YouTube, newsletters, podcasts, articles, work chats, personal notes, screenshots, bookmarks and AI chats. Do you try to keep everything in one system or do you accept that different types of information live in places? For example do you use tools like Notion, Obsidian, Apple Notes, Google Keep, Readwise, browser bookmarks, folders, tags, spreadsheets, a physical notebook or something different? I am mainly interested in understanding information and how people deal with it. Where do you usually save information when you find it? Do you actually go back. Review information later or does it mostly get forgotten? What part feels most annoying: capturing information organizing information remembering information exists or finding information again? Do tags, folders, backlinks or search help you with information or do they become another thing to maintain? How do you deal with information that's useful but not immediately actionable? Have you found a system that still works after months not just for the first few days? Do you ever feel like you are collecting more information than you can realistically use? I am not looking for a system or a use this one app answer. I am more interested, in how people manage information day to day including messy or imperfect systems. I would especially like to hear from people who save a lot of things with intentions but later struggle to reuse information when they actually need it.

[https://github.com/krusty93/relego](https://github.com/krusty93/relego) Relego è un'alternativa self-hosted e gratuita a Readwise. Per chi non lo conoscesse, ReadWise è un servizio che importa le tue sottolineature (Kindle, libri, articoli) e te le rimanda periodicamente via email o notifica, per aiutarti a ricordare quello che hai letto usando la tecnica della spaced repetition. Il servizio costa circa 8€/mese. Relego fa la stessa cosa, ma è self-hosted, gratuito e senza abbonamenti. Legge il file `My Clippings.txt` (dal Kindle collegato via USB o da una copia in locale), seleziona un sottoinsieme di highlights e te li manda quotidinamente o settimanalmente al Kindle stesso via Send-to-Kindle. Al momento funziona, ma supporta solo gli highlights del Kindle, e negli ultimi giorni ho cercato di migliorare sia la documentazione che la UX, perché ho notato diversi gap. Inoltre, sono in programma altre integrazioni, anche con ReadWise stesso. È ancora in fase iniziale, i contributi (di ogni tipo) sono benvenuti!

This has been a feature request for two years, and according to the request system, it's the third most asked for feature. If merging books is too difficult, perhaps consider adding a feature to the Readwise iPhone camera app that lets you add a highlight from a physical book to a recently used book with Kindle highlights. It's crazy this doesn't exist. https://preview.redd.it/0d1enmuhcs1h1.png?width=1854&format=png&auto=webp&s=492fa42a67918e896567cdd1816bf681a775e944

Meco has been doing this for years with real traction. Readwise Reader, Matter, Folio, Mailbrew, Newsletterss, and Mailscribe are all in the same space with various angles. The category is crowded with funded teams and clear leaders. That doesn't mean don't build, but the wedge has to be something specific those tools aren't doing well. Maybe a particular type of newsletter reader for finance, or research-heavy users who want highlighting, or non-English newsletters that current tools handle poorly. The "simpler reading view" pitch is what every tool in this space already says, which means you'd be competing on execution and brand against teams that started years ago. The question worth answering before you build more is what a current Meco or Matter user would actually switch to you for. If you can answer that clearly, you have something. If the honest answer is "mine will be cleaner," the market won't reward that enough to make a business. Who's the person you imagined using this and what are they using now?

Ok so I finally deleted Deepstash after realizing I was just collecting ideas instead of actually learning anything. Like I'd save 20 cards and revisit… none of them. Also reading tiny text blocks on my phone while walking or commuting is just not it. I wanted something similar vibe but more audio so I can actually learn during my commute or while doing random stuff. Here's what I tried: * Blinkist: Probably the closest mainstream option. Audio is solid and easy to follow. But everything is the same format and length, and after a while it all starts sounding identical. Also still feels kinda surface level. * Headway: Very similar to Blinkist but more "motivational." Shorter content, easier to finish. But it leans even more into quick inspiration vs actual understanding. I got bored of it pretty fast. * Befreed: This is what I'm using right now. It's more audio-first and flexible. You can turn articles, PDFs, Youtube videos into short podcast-style lessons instead of reading. I like that you can control the length and number of episodes so it fits into small time slots. Voices are actually good too. It also builds a learning plan and pulls from books, research, expert talks so you don't always have to search. I tried turning a bunch of long psychology articles into a few short episodes I could finish on a walk. Not perfect though, sometimes I wish discovery was better. * Readwise: Good for resurfacing highlights. If you already read a lot, it helps. But it doesn't really solve the "I don't want to read right now" problem. * Snipd: Cool idea, lets you save and summarize podcast highlights. Useful if you already listen to podcasts. But you still have to find the podcasts yourself. So yeah I'm kinda stuck between too shallow vs too time consuming. I just want something that gives me interesting ideas in short chunks, ideally audio, that I can actually finish during my commute and remember later. Anyone here found the best Deepstash alternative app that actually sticks? Especially something that works well in audio format and not just another thing to scroll. **TL;DR:** Deleted Deepstash because I was hoarding ideas and never actually learning them, and reading tiny cards on my phone while commuting is genuinely painful. Blinkist is the obvious swap but gets samey and shallow fast. Headway is Blinkist but more motivational-poster energy. Befreed is my current main, you feed it anything and it spits out actual podcast-style episodes you can finish on a walk, adjustable length and genuinely good voices. Readwise is great for retention if you already read a lot. Snipd is solid but only works if you're already a podcast person. Still stuck between too shallow and too long. Looking for something audio-first, commute-sized, and actually sticky. Drop recs.

One of my favorite Sunday moments is reading Wisereads - the curated reading recommendations are often insightful and relevant. However, they do not necessarily relate to what **I** have been reading lately, nor they connect highlights and point out gaps in my point of view. To address that, thanks to Readwise's MCP server, I was able to create a Claude skill that pulls recent highlights, points out commonalities, and recommends further readings to cover potential blind spots. The output is a newsletter-style article that is added to your Reader library. The full skill is below in case someone else finds it relevant or useful. I'd also love feedback or suggestions of similar workflows for reflection based on recent reads. --- name: readwise-digest description: > Generates a weekly editorial knowledge digest from Readwise highlights and publishes it to Readwise Reader. Use this skill whenever the user wants to analyze their recent highlights, surface knowledge gaps, find missing connections across their reading, or produce a weekly digest. Trigger on phrases like "weekly digest", "analyze my highlights", "what am I missing in my reading", "run my reading digest", "knowledge gaps from Readwise", or any request to reflect on or synthesize recent reading activity. Requires the Readwise MCP to be connected. Offer to schedule it weekly if the user doesn't ask first. --- # Weekly Knowledge Digest Pulls recent Readwise highlights, finds cross-source connections and knowledge gaps, locates real linked next reads, and publishes an editorial newsletter directly to Readwise Reader. **Requirements**: Readwise MCP connected · WebSearch available --- ## Workflow ### 1 · Pull highlights Call `readwise_list_highlights` with: - `highlighted_at_gt`: 7 days before today (ISO 8601) - `page_size`: 200 - `response_fields`: `["text", "note", "highlighted_at", "book_title", "book_author", "book_category", "tags"]` Stop early and tell the user if fewer than 5 highlights are returned — not enough material for a meaningful digest. ### 2 · Analyze Group highlights by source. Look for three things: - **Cross-source connections** — two unrelated sources circling the same underlying question without referencing each other - **Knowledge gaps** — an important question a source raises but doesn't answer - **Missing domains** — adjacent fields entirely absent from the week's reading that would reframe what's there Select 3–5 of the most intellectually interesting combinations. Cross-domain connections are more valuable than single-source observations. ### 3 · Find real next reads For each insight, use WebSearch to find one specific, linkable piece of content that directly addresses the gap. Prefer substantive journalism, research institutions, or practitioner writing over listicles. Verify the URL is real before including it. ### 4 · Write the newsletter **Voice**: Editorial and reader-agnostic — like a sharp editor who read everything and found where it connects. Never address the reader as "you/your"; use "the reading", "this week's highlights", "the argument" instead. Write in paragraphs, not lists. Each insight needs: - A punchy **declarative headline** (not a question, not a summary) - **2–3 short paragraphs** of editorial analysis that earn the headline - A **Gap callout** — 1–2 sentences naming the specific knowledge gap - A **Read this next** link with a one-sentence description of why it closes the gap ### 5 · Publish to Readwise Reader Call `reader_create_document` with: ``` title: "Weekly Knowledge Digest — [Month D, YYYY]" html: full newsletter HTML (see template below) url: "https://weekly-digest.internal/[YYYY-MM-DD]" category: "article" tags: ["weekly-digest", "knowledge-gaps"] published_date: today in ISO 8601 summary: one sentence covering the main themes this week ``` The document lands in the user's Reader inbox. Readwise push/email notifications handle delivery from there. --- ## HTML Template Reproduce this visual structure faithfully. Use a `<style>` block in `<head>`; inline styles are not required. **Palette & type** - Page background: `#f5f4f0` · Body text: `#1a1a1a` - Accent (gap border + label): `#c9a84c` - Source chip background: `#ece9e3` · Muted text: `#444`, `#888`, `#aaa` - Body font: Georgia, serif · Label/UI font: Helvetica Neue, sans-serif **Layout**: `max-width: 640px`, centered, `padding: 40px 20px 80px` **Header** - 3px solid top border (`#1a1a1a`) - `"WEEKLY KNOWLEDGE DIGEST"` — 10px uppercase, letter-spaced, `#888` - `h1`: *"What came up this week, and what it's missing"* — 28px, normal weight - Meta line: `[date] · [N] highlights across [N] sources` — 12px, `#888` - Intro paragraph separated by a 1px `#ddd` divider **Each insight block** - `"INSIGHT 0N"` — 10px uppercase, `#aaa` - `h2` headline — 21px, normal weight - Source chip — `#ece9e3` background, 10px uppercase, `border-radius: 2px` - 2–3 body paragraphs — 15px, `line-height: 1.75`, `color: #333` - Gap block — white background, `border-left: 3px solid #c9a84c`, `"GAP"` in gold small caps above the text - Read-next section — `"READ THIS NEXT"` label in small caps, linked title, one-line description in `#888` **Footer** - 1px `#ddd` top border - `"Generated from Readwise highlights · Week of [date range]"` - Sources covered listed inline --- ## Scheduling If the user wants this to run automatically, offer to create a weekly scheduled task with `mcp__scheduled-tasks__create_scheduled_task`: - `cronExpression`: `"0 9 * * 6"` (Saturdays at 9 AM local time) - Prompt: the full workflow above, self-contained

Hi everyone, Up until now, I used to read ebooks on my Kindle, highlight the interesting parts, and automatically sync everything to **Readwise**. Recently, I’ve switched over to audiobooks. I generate them from my Calibre library and listen to them via **Audiobookshelf**. However, I really miss the ability to easily highlight and save quotes while listening. I'm looking for a tool or app that allows me to highlight and save the actual *text* of the book while listening to the audio. I tried **Story Teller** a few months ago, but it didn't seem to do what I need. I found here that **Snipd** does exactly this for podcasts (using AI transcription to let you highlight text), but I need something similar for audiobooks. Does anyone know of an app, plugin, or workaround that can achieve this? Thanks in advance!

I work in enterprise sales, late 30s, on flights and in client lobbies more often than I'm at my own desk. A big part of the job is being conversant across whatever industries my prospects operate in, manufacturing one month, healthcare the next, fintech after that. So last year I tested the major "learning through summaries" services to see which one held up over time. Here's what worked and what didn't after a year of rotating through them. **Blinkist (\~6 months)** Picked it up on a 60% off Black Friday deal. The good: huge catalog, probably the widest of the three. Great for triaging which books are worth reading in full. Clean UI, well-produced audio. If you mostly want a quick overview before recommending a book to someone, it does that job well. The bad: too shallow for actual retention. Most blinks felt like a polished Wikipedia summary. Within a month I couldn't recall what I'd supposedly "learned." When I tried to reference something in a client meeting, my paraphrasing was always off because I didn't actually understand the underlying argument. Felt more like the illusion of learning than learning. **Shortform (\~3 months)** Switched after seeing it described as "Blinkist with actual depth." The good: that description is accurate. Genuinely well-constructed guides with real analysis, counterarguments, and cross-references between books. Intellectually it's the strongest of the three. If you're trying to do something rigorous, dissertation prep, deep research on a specific topic, training for a new field, it holds up. The bad: "deeper" also means it demands far more cognitive energy. Dense paragraphs, multiple concepts per page. At a certain point it felt close to just reading the actual book. I'd open it at the airport, push through five minutes, hit a wall, end up on LinkedIn instead. Depth on paper doesn't matter if the format creates too much friction to return. **BeFreed (\~4 months in)** BeFreed isn't technically for book summary, as they market themselves for personalized audio learning. Books are just one of the sources it pulls from. I'm including it here because I ended up using it for the same job I was trying to do with Blinkist and Shortform. The good: heavy customization (length, depth, narration style, voice), so you can match the format to your energy level on a given day. The structured learning paths are useful, you input your goal and current level and it pulls from books, papers, expert talks, and podcasts into one progression instead of giving you isolated summaries. For my use case (ramping on a new industry every few weeks), this is the strongest of the three because each lesson builds on the last. The bad: relatively new, so some UX flows are still being refined. Took a couple of sessions to figure out how to organize plans and navigate everything. Catalog is also smaller than Blinkist's, so if your use case is broad browsing across thousands of titles, that's a real limitation. **My takeaway:** There isn't a single best one, they're built for different use cases. * **Blinkist**: best if you want the widest catalog and just need a quick overview to decide whether to read the full book. * **Shortform**: best if you need depth and rigor, and have the energy to engage. * **BeFreed**: best if you want a structured ongoing learning path and audio that adapts to your energy level. For me, BeFreed stuck because it lowered the friction enough that I actually show up daily, and daily consistency is the only thing that compounds. But if I were prepping for a single deep project, I'd probably go back to Shortform. And if I just wanted to scan a wide library, Blinkist still wins. For me, it's not about finding the perfect one. It's committing to 20 minutes a day in whatever format keeps your brain coming back. The compounding over time is significant, sharper client conversations, hitting quota two years running, better dynamics with senior buyers. Curious what others have landed on. Anyone used Headway or Readwise long term? [](https://www.reddit.com/submit/?source_id=t3_1teqhy0&composer_entry=crosspost_prompt)

I work in enterprise sales, late 30s, on flights and in client lobbies more often than I'm at my own desk. A big part of the job is being conversant across whatever industries my prospects operate in, manufacturing one month, healthcare the next, fintech after that. So last year I tested the major "learning through summaries" services to see which one held up over time. Here's what worked and what didn't after a year of rotating through them. **Blinkist (\~6 months)** Picked it up on a 60% off Black Friday deal. The good: huge catalog, probably the widest of the three. Great for triaging which books are worth reading in full. Clean UI, well-produced audio. If you mostly want a quick overview before recommending a book to someone, it does that job well. The bad: too shallow for actual retention. Most blinks felt like a polished Wikipedia summary. Within a month I couldn't recall what I'd supposedly "learned." When I tried to reference something in a client meeting, my paraphrasing was always off because I didn't actually understand the underlying argument. Felt more like the illusion of learning than learning. **Shortform (\~3 months)** Switched after seeing it described as "Blinkist with actual depth." The good: that description is accurate. Genuinely well-constructed guides with real analysis, counterarguments, and cross-references between books. Intellectually it's the strongest of the three. If you're trying to do something rigorous, dissertation prep, deep research on a specific topic, training for a new field, it holds up. The bad: "deeper" also means it demands far more cognitive energy. Dense paragraphs, multiple concepts per page. At a certain point it felt close to just reading the actual book. I'd open it at the airport, push through five minutes, hit a wall, end up on LinkedIn instead. Depth on paper doesn't matter if the format creates too much friction to return. **BeFreed (\~4 months in)** BeFreed isn't technically for book summary, as they market themselves for personalized audio learning. Books are just one of the sources it pulls from. I'm including it here because I ended up using it for the same job I was trying to do with Blinkist and Shortform. The good: heavy customization (length, depth, narration style, voice), so you can match the format to your energy level on a given day. The structured learning paths are useful, you input your goal and current level and it pulls from books, papers, expert talks, and podcasts into one progression instead of giving you isolated summaries. For my use case (ramping on a new industry every few weeks), this is the strongest of the three because each lesson builds on the last. The bad: relatively new, so some UX flows are still being refined. Took a couple of sessions to figure out how to organize plans and navigate everything. Catalog is also smaller than Blinkist's, so if your use case is broad browsing across thousands of titles, that's a real limitation. **My takeaway:** There isn't a single best one, they're built for different use cases. * **Blinkist**: best if you want the widest catalog and just need a quick overview to decide whether to read the full book. * **Shortform**: best if you need depth and rigor, and have the energy to engage. * **BeFreed**: best if you want a structured ongoing learning path and audio that adapts to your energy level. For me, BeFreed stuck because it lowered the friction enough that I actually show up daily, and daily consistency is the only thing that compounds. But if I were prepping for a single deep project, I'd probably go back to Shortform. And if I just wanted to scan a wide library, Blinkist still wins. For me, it's not about finding the perfect one. It's committing to 20 minutes a day in whatever format keeps your brain coming back. The compounding over time is significant, sharper client conversations, hitting quota two years running, better dynamics with senior buyers. Curious what others have landed on. Anyone used Headway or Readwise long term?

https://preview.redd.it/mgt7rvmmjd1h1.png?width=601&format=png&auto=webp&s=f36db97998ef847a9908844eadd3787bdaec502e Been deep in Obsidian for about 2 years. Started as a casual note app, eventually became the central nervous system of how I learn, think, and remember things. First, the honest part: for the first 12 months I had a beautifully organized vault I never actually read. 800+ notes, every one tagged and linked, graph view that looked like a galaxy. Capturing felt productive but I wasn't getting any smarter. Classic second-brain failure mode. So I rebuilt the whole thing. Cut the vault by \~60%, killed half my tags, collapsed five folders into three, and added an absorb layer with tools outside Obsidian. The new system has three jobs: capture cleanly, organize in Obsidian (for retrieval, not for show), and absorb on a schedule. Here's the full breakdown. # The Three-Layer System Not every note has the same job. Some are raw captures I'll never re-read. Some are stable reference I revisit weekly. Some need to be actively absorbed before they're useful. So I split everything by what role it actually plays. # Layer 1 — Capture (raw inputs, write only) Everything new lands in Inbox/. No tagging, no linking, no filing. Just dump it. The point of capture is to NOT let stuff die in browser tabs, and adding friction at this stage kills the habit. Tools feeding the inbox: * **Readwise Reader** for articles, PDFs, tweets, YouTube. Highlights auto-sync to Obsidian as markdown via the Readwise plugin, with source URL and timestamp metadata. * **Snipd** for podcast moments. Clip → transcribe → exports as markdown into the Obsidian Inbox via the Snipd Obsidian export. * **Voice memos + Whisper** for shower thoughts. Voice memo file → Whisper transcribes → markdown into Inbox. Rule: never let a "saved for later" link die in a browser tab. If it doesn't enter the system, it doesn't exist. # Layer 2 — Organize (active reference, in Obsidian) This is where Obsidian shines. Stable, linked, retrievable. After cutting the vault, my structure is just three folders: Vault/ ├── Inbox/        # everything new, untouched ├── Notes/        # active, at least 1 backlink, in use └── Archive/      # cold storage, never deleted Status tags only, no topic tags: * \#seedling (raw thought, captured but not processed) * \#growing (in active use, getting linked into other notes) * \#evergreen (refined, referenced often, would survive a vault rebuild) Search handles topic. Links handle structure. Graph view IS the topic map. No PARA, no Zettelkasten, no Johnny Decimal. All of those collapsed within 3 months because "where does this note go" became its own decision tax. Plugins that genuinely earn their keep: * **Readwise Official** — auto-imports highlights, preserves backlinks * **Dataview** — turn your vault into a queryable database. My most-used dashboard: That surfaces every #seedling note older than 14 days that needs to be promoted to #growing or archived. Without this query the vault grows but never matures. * **Templater** — every new daily note auto-populates with date, mood, top 3, what I learned, links to current projects. Daily note template lives at Templates/Daily.md. * **Excalidraw** — for spatial ideas (system diagrams, mental models, decision trees) that don't fit in text * **Periodic Notes** — daily, weekly, monthly review notes on a schedule Promotion rule: an Inbox/ note moves to Notes/ only when it gets at least one backlink to an existing note. No backlink = it stays in inbox or goes to archive. This forces the question "how does this connect to what I already know?" before anything enters the active vault. # Layer 3 — Absorb  Obsidian organizes beautifully but it doesn't FORCE you to revisit. This is where most "second brain" setups die — including mine, for a year. Three rituals fixed it: * **Readwise Daily Review** — 5 min every morning, on my phone. Resurfaces 5 random highlights from across my entire library. Most of my "oh I forgot about that" moments come from here. * **BeFreed** — audio learning app. Paste any link (PDF, YouTube, article) or just prompt a topic, and it builds a personalized audio path from books, expert talks, and research. Customizable voice and length. I listen on commutes and walks. This is what finally got me consuming the stuff I'd been hoarding in Obsidian for months. * **Sunday process-inbox block** — 30 min every Sunday, hard-blocked on calendar. Two queries: Anything older than 7 days in Inbox/ gets either promoted to Notes/ (with at least one backlink) or sent to Archive/. Ruthless. No "I'll get to it later." Later = archive. Surfaces orphan #seedling notes (no incoming links anywhere). 90% of these get archived because if nothing in the vault references them, they're already dead weight. # The full data flow Inputs (articles, PDFs, podcasts, YT, voice)    ↓ Capture tools (Readwise Reader, Snipd, Whisper)    ↓ Obsidian Inbox/ (raw, untagged)    ↓ \[Sunday review, promotion requires backlink\] Obsidian Notes/ (#seedling → #growing → #evergreen)    ↓ \[Daily review, audio absorption\] Long-term retention    ↓ \[Stale/orphan\] Obsidian Archive/ (cold storage) # The bigger lesson Obsidian alone made me a better note-taker. Obsidian + a vault built for retrieval + a forced absorb ritual made me actually smarter. The vault is the spine. The absorb layer is the muscle. You need both. Curious what other heavy users have layered on top of Obsidian to force actual retention. Especially anyone who's solved the "I have 800 notes I'll never read" problem.

Your insights on these services are really valuable, especially for someone juggling multiple industries. I’ve found that Headway offers a nice balance of summaries with a bit more depth than Blinkist, making it easier to retain information. Readwise is fantastic for revisiting key concepts through spaced repetition, which can help reinforce learning over time. It sounds like you’ve found a good rhythm with BeFreed; the adaptability it offers seems crucial for maintaining consistency in your busy schedule.

I work in enterprise sales, late 30s, on flights and in client lobbies more often than I'm at my own desk. A big part of the job is being conversant across whatever industries my prospects operate in, manufacturing one month, healthcare the next, fintech after that. So last year I tested the major "learning through summaries" services to see which one held up over time. Here's what worked and what didn't after a year of rotating through them. **Blinkist (\~6 months)** Picked it up on a 60% off Black Friday deal. The good: huge catalog, probably the widest of the three. Great for triaging which books are worth reading in full. Clean UI, well-produced audio. If you mostly want a quick overview before recommending a book to someone, it does that job well. The bad: too shallow for actual retention. Most blinks felt like a polished Wikipedia summary. Within a month I couldn't recall what I'd supposedly "learned." When I tried to reference something in a client meeting, my paraphrasing was always off because I didn't actually understand the underlying argument. Felt more like the illusion of learning than learning. **Shortform (\~3 months)** Switched after seeing it described as "Blinkist with actual depth." The good: that description is accurate. Genuinely well-constructed guides with real analysis, counterarguments, and cross-references between books. Intellectually it's the strongest of the three. If you're trying to do something rigorous, dissertation prep, deep research on a specific topic, training for a new field, it holds up. The bad: "deeper" also means it demands far more cognitive energy. Dense paragraphs, multiple concepts per page. At a certain point it felt close to just reading the actual book. I'd open it at the airport, push through five minutes, hit a wall, end up on LinkedIn instead. Depth on paper doesn't matter if the format creates too much friction to return. **BeFreed (\~4 months in)** BeFreed isn't technically for book summary, as they market themselves for personalized audio learning. Books are just one of the sources it pulls from. I'm including it here because I ended up using it for the same job I was trying to do with Blinkist and Shortform. The good: heavy customization (length, depth, narration style, voice), so you can match the format to your energy level on a given day. The structured learning paths are useful, you input your goal and current level and it pulls from books, papers, expert talks, and podcasts into one progression instead of giving you isolated summaries. For my use case (ramping on a new industry every few weeks), this is the strongest of the three because each lesson builds on the last. The bad: relatively new, so some UX flows are still being refined. Took a couple of sessions to figure out how to organize plans and navigate everything. Catalog is also smaller than Blinkist's, so if your use case is broad browsing across thousands of titles, that's a real limitation. **My takeaway:** There isn't a single best one, they're built for different use cases. * **Blinkist**: best if you want the widest catalog and just need a quick overview to decide whether to read the full book. * **Shortform**: best if you need depth and rigor, and have the energy to engage. * **BeFreed**: best if you want a structured ongoing learning path and audio that adapts to your energy level. For me, BeFreed stuck because it lowered the friction enough that I actually show up daily, and daily consistency is the only thing that compounds. But if I were prepping for a single deep project, I'd probably go back to Shortform. And if I just wanted to scan a wide library, Blinkist still wins. For me, it's not about finding the perfect one. It's committing to 20 minutes a day in whatever format keeps your brain coming back. The compounding over time is significant, sharper client conversations, hitting quota two years running, better dynamics with senior buyers. Curious what others have landed on. Anyone used Headway or Readwise long term?

I used to think “genius” people just had some magical brain I didn’t. You know the type. Learns things insanely fast, barely studies, connects ideas immediately, somehow understands everything quicker than everyone else. But after reading more psychology/neuroscience books and paying attention to actually smart people around me, I realized most of them are not doing magic. They just built systems and habits around learning very early. A lot of “genius” is honestly just pattern recognition. If someone already understands psychology, history, economics, programming, philosophy, etc, learning NEW things becomes much easier because they can connect ideas together quickly. To beginners it looks like talent, but often it’s just “they already know A and B so C feels obvious.” Another huge one is attention span. Most people genuinely cannot focus deeply anymore. Trying to learn while checking notifications every 3 minutes is like trying to build muscle while sleeping 2 hours a night. Books like Atomic Habits and Deep Work honestly changed how I think about learning. One thing that helped me a lot personally was building a simple personal knowledge system: Collect → Organize → Absorb & Connect. **For collecting**, I use Readwise and browser extensions to save highlights, articles, tweets, videos, quotes, random thoughts, basically anything interesting I don’t want to lose. Before this, I would constantly consume useful information and then completely forget where I saw it 2 days later. **For organizing**, I use Obsidian to connect concepts, notes, books, ideas, and patterns across different topics. Once you start linking ideas together instead of just consuming isolated information, learning becomes much deeper and you start noticing connections everywhere. **For absorbing and connecting the dots**, I honestly really recommend BeFreed. It’s an audio first micro learning app that turns books, psychology, biographies, history, productivity, basically anything into really fun podcast style episodes. You can personalize learning plans based on your goals/interests/level, customize the podcast host’s voice/style, and adjust the depth. It made learning feel way more structured for me because I could learn while walking, cooking, commuting, etc instead of needing “perfect study time.” Another thing people underestimate: discipline beats raw intelligence long term. A lot of naturally gifted people never build real work habits because things come easy early on. Then eventually they hit something difficult and completely collapse. I genuinely think “genius” is usually curiosity + deep focus + strong foundations + years of accumulated knowledge. Not magic.

I work in enterprise sales, late 30s, on flights and in client lobbies more often than I'm at my own desk. A big part of the job is being conversant across whatever industries my prospects operate in, manufacturing one month, healthcare the next, fintech after that. So last year I tested the major "learning through summaries" apps to see which one held up over time. Here's what worked and what didn't after a year of rotating through them. **Blinkist (\~6 months)** Picked it up on a 60% off Black Friday deal. The good: huge catalog, probably the widest of the three. Great for triaging which books are worth reading in full. Clean UI, well-produced audio. If you mostly want a quick overview before recommending a book to someone, it does that job well. The bad: too shallow for actual retention. Most blinks felt like a polished Wikipedia summary. Within a month I couldn't recall what I'd supposedly "learned." When I tried to reference something in a client meeting, my paraphrasing was always off because I didn't actually understand the underlying argument. Felt more like the illusion of learning than learning. **Shortform (\~3 months)** Switched after seeing it described as "Blinkist with actual depth." The good: that description is accurate. Genuinely well-constructed guides with real analysis, counterarguments, and cross-references between books. Intellectually it's the strongest of the three. If you're trying to do something rigorous, dissertation prep, deep research on a specific topic, training for a new field, it holds up. The bad: "deeper" also means it demands far more cognitive energy. Dense paragraphs, multiple concepts per page. At a certain point it felt close to just reading the actual book. I'd open it at the airport, push through five minutes, hit a wall, end up on LinkedIn instead. Depth on paper doesn't matter if the format creates too much friction to return. **BeFreed (\~4 months in)** BeFreed isn't technically a book summary app, they market themselves as a personalized audio learning app. Books are just one of the sources it pulls from. I'm including it here because I ended up using it for the same job I was trying to do with Blinkist and Shortform. The good: heavy customization (length, depth, narration style, voice), so you can match the format to your energy level on a given day. The structured learning paths are useful, you input your goal and current level and it pulls from books, papers, expert talks, and podcasts into one progression instead of giving you isolated summaries. For my use case (ramping on a new industry every few weeks), this is the strongest of the three because each lesson builds on the last. The bad: relatively new, so some UX flows are still being refined. Took a couple of sessions to figure out how to organize plans and navigate everything. Catalog is also smaller than Blinkist's, so if your use case is broad browsing across thousands of titles, that's a real limitation. **My takeaway:** There isn't a single best one, they're built for different use cases. * **Blinkist**: best if you want the widest catalog and just need a quick overview to decide whether to read the full book. * **Shortform**: best if you need depth and rigor, and have the energy to engage. * **BeFreed**: best if you want a structured ongoing learning path and audio that adapts to your energy level. For me, BeFreed stuck because it lowered the friction enough that I actually show up daily, and daily consistency is the only thing that compounds. But if I were prepping for a single deep project, I'd probably go back to Shortform. And if I just wanted to scan a wide library, Blinkist still wins. The actual lever isn't finding the perfect app. It's committing to 20 minutes a day in whatever format keeps your brain coming back. The compounding over time is significant, sharper client conversations, hitting quota two years running, better dynamics with senior buyers. Curious what others have landed on. Anyone used Headway or Readwise long term?

I'm a solo entrepreneur, drinking from a firehose every day: articles, podcasts, frameworks, competitor research, customer interview notes. Without a system, my brain becomes the company's bottleneck. I know a lot of you are in the same boat. The thing nobody tells you when you start solo: the operators who grow vs the ones who plateau usually differ on one thing, whether they're systematically getting smarter every week. Great ideas genuinely change lives, but only if they land and stay. So the goal of this stack isn't productivity, it's compounding. Six months from now you're operating on a different level because your past self quietly invested in your present self. After 2 years of iterating, this is the stack I won't replace. Each tool does one job and they hand off cleanly: Readwise captures, Notion organizes, BeFreed makes you actually absorb. **My weekly pipeline:** * **Capture (every day) - Readwise Reader:** Save articles, PDFs, tweets, YouTube to Readwise. Podcast moments via Snipd. Shower thoughts via voice memos + Whisper. Everything funnels into one Notion inbox database. Rule that fixed my capture problem: if it doesn't enter the system within 30 seconds of finding it, it doesn't exist. Readwise auto-pipes highlights into Notion via the integration, so nothing has to be copy-pasted. * **Organize (every Sunday, 30 min) - Notion:** Process the inbox in a hard-blocked calendar slot. Three statuses: Seedling (raw), Growing (in active use), Evergreen (referenced often). Anything older than 7 days either gets at least one relation to an existing page and moves to active, or gets archived. The relation requirement is the key rule. A database view surfaces orphans and stale seedlings automatically so I'm not deciding from scratch every week. * **Absorb (daily, on commute) - BeFreed:** This is the compounding layer, and the reason I had 800+ saved notes I never read before. Now I drop the week's most interesting links or topics into BeFreed and listen on walks. It turns them into podcasts where you can adjust length, depth, voice, and style. Switched here from NotebookLM because BeFreed builds an actual learning plan against your goal, so each podcast stacks on the last instead of being random one offs. As a solo founder my goals shift fast and the plan adapts. The learning plan is honestly the feature I love most. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the input volume, you're not alone and it's not a discipline problem. Start with one layer (capture is the easiest), add the next when that one's a real habit. Even 10 minutes of daily absorbing compounds harder than any productivity hack I've tried. The version of you 6 months from now is built by the inputs you commit to today. End result as a solo operator: a vault that grows on its own, an inbox that doesn't bloat, and a daily ritual that turns "saved for later" into stuff I can actually use in customer calls, pitches, and product decisions. Curious what other founders are running.

I'm a solo entrepreneur, drinking from a firehose every day: articles, podcasts, frameworks, competitor research, customer interview notes. Without a system, my brain becomes the company's bottleneck. I know a lot of you are in the same boat. The thing nobody tells you when you start solo: the operators who grow vs the ones who plateau usually differ on one thing, whether they're systematically getting smarter every week. Great ideas genuinely change lives, but only if they land and stay. So the goal of this stack isn't productivity, it's compounding. Six months from now you're operating on a different level because your past self quietly invested in your present self. After 2 years of iterating, this is the stack I won't replace. Each tool does one job and they hand off cleanly: Readwise captures, Notion organizes, BeFreed makes you actually absorb. **My weekly pipeline:** * **Capture (every day) - Readwise Reader:** Save articles, PDFs, tweets, YouTube to Readwise. Podcast moments via Snipd. Shower thoughts via voice memos + Whisper. Everything funnels into one Notion inbox database. Rule that fixed my capture problem: if it doesn't enter the system within 30 seconds of finding it, it doesn't exist. Readwise auto-pipes highlights into Notion via the integration, so nothing has to be copy-pasted. * **Organize (every Sunday, 30 min) - Notion:** Process the inbox in a hard-blocked calendar slot. Three statuses: Seedling (raw), Growing (in active use), Evergreen (referenced often). Anything older than 7 days either gets at least one relation to an existing page and moves to active, or gets archived. The relation requirement is the key rule. A database view surfaces orphans and stale seedlings automatically so I'm not deciding from scratch every week. * **Absorb (daily, on commute) - BeFreed:** This is the compounding layer, and the reason I had 800+ saved notes I never read before. Now I drop the week's most interesting links or topics into BeFreed and listen on walks. It turns them into podcasts where you can adjust length, depth, voice, and style. Switched here from NotebookLM because BeFreed builds an actual learning plan against your goal, so each podcast stacks on the last instead of being random one offs. As a solo founder my goals shift fast and the plan adapts. The learning plan is honestly the feature I love most. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the input volume, you're not alone and it's not a discipline problem. Start with one layer (capture is the easiest), add the next when that one's a real habit. Even 10 minutes of daily absorbing compounds harder than any productivity hack I've tried. The version of you 6 months from now is built by the inputs you commit to today. End result as a solo operator: a vault that grows on its own, an inbox that doesn't bloat, and a daily ritual that turns "saved for later" into stuff I can actually use in customer calls, pitches, and product decisions. Curious what other founders are running.

I'm a solo entrepreneur, drinking from a firehose every day: articles, podcasts, frameworks, competitor research, customer interview notes. Without a system, my brain becomes the company's bottleneck. I know a lot of you are in the same boat. The thing nobody tells you when you start solo: the operators who grow vs the ones who plateau usually differ on one thing, whether they're systematically getting smarter every week. Great ideas genuinely change lives, but only if they land and stay. So the goal of this stack isn't productivity, it's compounding. Six months from now you're operating on a different level because your past self quietly invested in your present self. After 2 years of iterating, this is the stack I won't replace. Each tool does one job and they hand off cleanly: Readwise captures, Notion organizes, BeFreed makes you actually absorb. **My weekly pipeline:** * **Capture (every day) - Readwise Reader:** Save articles, PDFs, tweets, YouTube to Readwise. Podcast moments via Snipd. Shower thoughts via voice memos + Whisper. Everything funnels into one Notion inbox database. Rule that fixed my capture problem: if it doesn't enter the system within 30 seconds of finding it, it doesn't exist. Readwise auto-pipes highlights into Notion via the integration, so nothing has to be copy-pasted. * **Organize (every Sunday, 30 min) - Notion:** Process the inbox in a hard-blocked calendar slot. Three statuses: Seedling (raw), Growing (in active use), Evergreen (referenced often). Anything older than 7 days either gets at least one relation to an existing page and moves to active, or gets archived. The relation requirement is the key rule. A database view surfaces orphans and stale seedlings automatically so I'm not deciding from scratch every week. * **Absorb (daily, on commute) - BeFreed:** This is the compounding layer, and the reason I had 800+ saved notes I never read before. Now I drop the week's most interesting links or topics into BeFreed and listen on walks. It turns them into podcasts where you can adjust length, depth, voice, and style. Switched here from NotebookLM because BeFreed builds an actual learning plan against your goal, so each podcast stacks on the last instead of being random one offs. As a solo founder my goals shift fast and the plan adapts. The learning plan is honestly the feature I love most. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the input volume, you're not alone and it's not a discipline problem. Start with one layer (capture is the easiest), add the next when that one's a real habit. Even 10 minutes of daily absorbing compounds harder than any productivity hack I've tried. The version of you 6 months from now is built by the inputs you commit to today. End result as a solo operator: a vault that grows on its own, an inbox that doesn't bloat, and a daily ritual that turns "saved for later" into stuff I can actually use in customer calls, pitches, and product decisions. Curious what other founders are running.

Your system of capturing and organizing information with Notion, Readwise, and BeFreed is impressive, particularly in its ability to convert data into actionable insights. One thing that might further complement your vision is ensuring that your business tasks like CRM systems and client follow-ups are just as seamless. At Stealth Agents, we have over 10–15 years of expertise in managing these operational aspects, allowing you to truly focus on leveraging your "second brain" for growth.

This is actually pretty smart for people with reference hoarding problems like me. My bookmarks are basically a digital graveyard at this point. The local first part is what sells it honestly. I’ve tried stuff with Obsidian, Readwise, Fabric, even Runable for organizing research flows and creative references during projects, but most tools either overcomplicate capture or make retrieval annoying later. This feels way more practical.

Instapaper can be used for free, and Readwise can't. I imagine replacing the Pocket integration (also free to use) with an integration that required a monthly subscription would have been *incredibly* unpopular with users. No criticism of Readwise, of course, but it's obvious why it wouldn't be the number one choice for an integration. I'm sure it might be possible for them to add it as a secondary option, but once there's already one native read-it-later option available, it's probably not a high priority to add secondary ones.

I have the Boox Go Color 7. Overall, I really like it. I've had it for well over a year now and it still works great. I primarily use it when outdoors and reading on my phone is not possible. Went with the Boox because I wanted the ability to access Reader by Readwise on it, but also did not want to be locked into any specific platform. Biggest complaint is that it is fiddly to set up, and like just about all e-readers the general responsiveness is not as good as something like an iPhone or iPad (which is what I am used to). But I find reading on an e-ink device so much easier. We spend a lot of time at the pool in the summer months and it's just not possible to read on my iPhone when outdoors.

Haven't tried the Koreader/readwise plugin so can't make any comparison there, but I can say that Reader works great on my Boox. I have no issues with articles or PDFs loading, rendering, etc. And I really like the ability to customize display options on a per-article basis. Biggest issue is that it can sometimes be a bit slow to load, but that's more a function of Boox itself I think being slower than how it would load on the web or my iPhone. But overall it works well. No real complaints.

I can feel you! I personally didnt want to spend so much on a boox so ended up with a kobo libra and installing koreader and readwise plugin setup. But, I had my qualms with a boox because although its a android device, if the reader app were to work the same as it does on your regular mobile device, wont scrolling articles be a nightmare because of its poor rendering? (I have tried openeing reader on the kobo experimental browser and I just couldnt scroll any article without hurting my eyes.) On the koreader/readwise plugin, it converts all my articles to html format and makes it easy to scroll through horizontally just like a book, which works like a breeze.

If you're a Readwise user on Kobo, how are you currently bridging the gap? When Pocket shut down earlier this year, Kobo swapped the integration to Instapaper, which started rolling out via firmware in late August, why not Readwise Reader? I have a Kobo Libra Colour and have been a Readwise user for years. The Kobo highlights sync into Readwise already works well (one direction, Kobo to Readwise). What's missing is the other half: read-it-later articles, RSS, newsletters, PDFs from Reader showing up natively on the device. Kobo's CEO was on the Vergecast around the Pocket news and seemed generally open to read-it-later partnerships, which is presumably how the Instapaper deal happened. So the question is: what does it actually take? A few specific things I'd love to know: 1. Is there a public feature request thread or upvote mechanism that actually moves the needle here, or is this purely a business development conversation between the two companies? 2. For anyone who has talked to either team: what's the blocker? Technical effort on Kobo's side, exclusivity in the Instapaper deal, or just that the volume of requests hasn't crossed some threshold yet? 3. Is the Kobo team aware that a meaningful slice of their power-reader audience already pays for Readwise and would consider this a killer feature? Not trying to bash Instapaper. Readwise >>> any other read-it-later app out there. Just feels like Readwise Reader is the natural fit and the two-direction Reader to Readwise to Kobo loop would be incredible. If you're a Readwise user on Kobo, how are you currently bridging the gap?

When Pocket shut down earlier this year, Kobo swapped the integration to Instapaper, which started rolling out via firmware in late August, why not Readwise Reader? If you're a Readwise user on Kobo, how are you currently bridging the gap? I have a Kobo Libra Colour and have been a Readwise user for years. The Kobo highlights sync into Readwise already works well (one direction, Kobo to Readwise). What's missing is the other half: read-it-later articles, RSS, newsletters, PDFs from Reader showing up natively on the device. Kobo's CEO was on the Vergecast around the Pocket news and seemed generally open to read-it-later partnerships, which is presumably how the Instapaper deal happened. So the question is: what does it actually take? A few specific things I'd love to know: 1. Is there a public feature request thread or upvote mechanism that actually moves the needle here, or is this purely a business development conversation between the two companies? 2. For anyone who has talked to either team: what's the blocker? Technical effort on Kobo's side, exclusivity in the Instapaper deal, or just that the volume of requests hasn't crossed some threshold yet? 3. Is the Kobo team aware that a meaningful slice of their power-reader audience already pays for Readwise and would consider this a killer feature? Not trying to bash Instapaper. Readwise >>> any other read-it-later app out there. Just feels like Readwise Reader is the natural fit and the two-direction Reader to Readwise to Kobo loop would be incredible. If you're a Readwise user on Kobo, how are you currently bridging the gap?

I work in enterprise sales, in my 30s, on flights and in client lobbies more often than I'm at my own desk. A big part of the job is being conversant across whatever industries my prospects operate in, manufacturing one month, healthcare the next, fintech after that. So last year I tested the major "learning through summaries" apps to see which one held up over time. Here's what worked and what didn't after a year of rotating through them (this is based on personal experience): **Blinkist (\~6 months)** Picked it up on a 60% off Black Friday deal. The good: huge catalog, probably the widest of the three. Great for triaging which books are worth reading in full. Clean UI, well-produced audio. If you mostly want a quick overview before recommending a book to someone, it does that job well. The bad: too shallow for actual retention. Most blinks felt like a polished Wikipedia summary. Within a month I couldn't recall what I'd supposedly "learned." When I tried to reference something in a client meeting, my paraphrasing was always off because I didn't actually understand the underlying argument. Felt more like the illusion of learning than learning. **Shortform (\~3 months)** Switched after seeing it described as "Blinkist with actual depth." The good: that description is accurate. Genuinely well-constructed guides with real analysis, counterarguments, and cross-references between books. Intellectually it's the strongest of the three. If you're trying to do something rigorous, dissertation prep, deep research on a specific topic, training for a new field, it holds up. The bad: "deeper" also means it demands far more cognitive energy. Dense paragraphs, multiple concepts per page. At a certain point it felt close to just reading the actual book. I'd open it at the airport, push through five minutes, hit a wall, end up on LinkedIn instead. Depth on paper doesn't matter if the format creates too much friction to return. **BeFreed (\~4 months in)** BeFreed isn't technically a book summary app, they market themselves as a personalized audio learning app. Books are just one of the sources it pulls from. I'm including it here because I ended up using it for the same job I was trying to do with Blinkist and Shortform. The good: heavy customization (length, depth, narration style, voice), so you can match the format to your energy level on a given day. The structured learning paths are useful, you input your goal and current level and it pulls from books, papers, expert talks, and podcasts into one progression instead of giving you isolated summaries. For my use case (ramping on a new industry every few weeks), this is the strongest of the three because each lesson builds on the last. The bad: relatively new, so some UX flows are still being refined. Took a couple of sessions to figure out how to organize plans and navigate everything. Catalog is also smaller than Blinkist's, so if your use case is broad browsing across thousands of titles, that's a real limitation. **My takeaway:** There isn't a single best one, they're built for different use cases. * **Blinkist**: best if you want the widest catalog and just need a quick overview to decide whether to read the full book. * **Shortform**: best if you need depth and rigor, and have the energy to engage. * **BeFreed**: best if you want a structured ongoing learning path and audio that adapts to your energy level. For me, BeFreed stuck because it lowered the friction enough that I actually show up daily, and daily consistency is the only thing that compounds. But if I were prepping for a single deep project, I'd probably go back to Shortform. And if I just wanted to scan a wide library, Blinkist still wins. The actual lever isn't finding the perfect app. It's committing to 20 minutes a day in whatever format keeps your brain coming back. The compounding over time is significant, sharper client conversations, hitting quota two years running, better dynamics with senior buyers. Curious what others have landed on. Anyone used Headway or Readwise long term?

EDIT: With all due respect to those against the use of AI (and the downvoters) -- Enzyme has actually allowed me to be *more* inclusive of tangential creative connections. And if you have an Obsidian vault you've been building, you are sitting on a goldmine in so many ways. The major pain point Obsidian solved for me was that the capture of my thinking happened across different tools, NOT that I wasn't doing the thinking. I'd argue that I do *more* thinking now with AI via Enzyme than I did previously; sometimes, I'd just give up on writing or fleshing something out because there wasn't the right home for it to be connected. I capture from a lot of different sources, most of which are not chatbots, i.e. kindle, podcast highlights, etc. I really believe the AI community has a lot to learn from the PKM community -- keeping things organized needs a telos to grow. Just look at how the recent [A-MEM paper was inspired by Zettelkasten](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12110). Hey Obsidian community, Actually sorry, this isn't a new one. Enzyme has been around since 2023 and started its life as an AI context plugin that used Dataview to retrieve context around tags and link mentions. I have updates to share. Three years ago, I thought I would be more disciplined about using tags and links so that AI could use these as breadcrumbs I left for it. As I learned, it wasn't enough. So, Enzyme became something new - I rewrote it again, and again, and more than a dozen rewrites later, its core is now a local first Rust binary (just 30mb, including a whole embedding model) that strings together a context graph from loosely used tags, links, and folders. I left my job to work on it - my daily workflow was taking major strides towards staying present with entirely spread-out writing and Readwise marginalia, and I wanted to see it through. I left behind a patent for early work in how agents understand music taste, because there was so much work in how agents could understand taste in ideas. So what does it do? The best feature is that it makes AI highlight things in the graph view as it thinks. Just kidding. If you have a people/ folder that you wikilink to as your personal CRM, a created: "\[\[YYYY-MM-DD\]\] frontmatter date field, or a few tags that you spray and pray that eventually the ideas will come back to you when you search for them, or an inbox folder that you use for quick captures and gardening -- Enzyme augments that. It gets you one step closer to completing the picture from the loose threads. I'll spare you the technical detail (built on my years of NLP / ML research engineering) but it compiles a context graph from the questions the archive was already asking, and it leverages the structure that was already present. It's the AI's compass to quickly onboard to your ideas. Enzyme helps the AI better surface notes you forgot about - a highlight from something you saved, with a call transcript you imported. Doesn't Claude Code already find the structure, you ask? Enzyme is built to do it in a fraction of the time, a tenth of the tokens, highlighting (and citing) connections that'll make you go "whoa". In fact - I use it as a lens for Claude Code, so that it understands ideas as well as it understands code. The best way to see if it works for you is to give it a try. If you have a hundred notes, or even a few thousand, ask it "look through my ideas and tell me what I'm not seeing", or "catch me up where my thinking has been around the impact of technology on understanding". You can use your own API keys, a local model, or the one provided through Enzyme. I've got some cool research on the way - including a tiny 256mb fine-tuned model for building the context graph. Get it for your Obsidian: [https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/reason](https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/reason) Learn more: [https://www.enzyme.garden/](https://www.enzyme.garden/) I work on it every day - so come knocking on our Discord anytime: [https://discord.gg/nhvsqtKjQd](https://discord.gg/nhvsqtKjQd) And it goes without saying, but thank you to the Obsidian team for always keeping an ear to the ground on making a great product to make this possible.

Thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you: "**Fixed EPUB Chapter Headings** — Tadek fixed an EPUB bug where only the first chapter heading after import was recognized as a heading in Readwise and every subsequent one was treated as a regular highlight. Chapter and section structure now carries through to your highlights and exports the way it's supposed to." EPUB chapter headings were my biggest beef with Reader.

I got my Kindle 3 months ago and my Clippings.txt file has always done that as it tries to “track” all changes, I’ve never tried exporting it though as I use send to kindle. Can I ask why you choose to sideload instead of using send to kindle? The annotations export with send to kindle is much more sophisticated. I also thought that if you want to use a clippings.txt file you need to put it through one of those highlights and notes managers like readwise (or the many other free versions) so it can sort through and organise it for you

Acorny now supports automatic Instapaper highlight sync. You can connect Instapaper from: Extensions & Apps → Instapaper → Connect After that, your Instapaper highlights can sync into Acorny automatically, where you can review them later and export them as JSON, CSV, or Markdown. Why this matters: A lot of highlights get saved inside read-it-later apps but are rarely revisited later. Acorny is built around making those highlights easier to review, organize, and export without locking the data into one workflow. Current source support: \- Instapaper: automatic sync \- WeRead: one-time import via exported JSON \- Readwise API: one-time import \- Diigo API: one-time import \- Export files: one-time import Feedback is welcome, especially on: \- whether the connection flow is clear \- whether automatic sync behaves as expected \- which source should be supported next

I'm new to obsidian, old to Instapaper (> 5000 articles). I like the obsidian web clipper and wanted to see if I could easily import all my articles from Instapaper with a format very close to what the web clipper gives me so everything is the same. Turned out to be a multi-step challenge and I did not find the complete solution anywhere on the web, though maybe I didn't look in the right places. One well documented method is to pull Instapaper into readwise, and then sync from readwise. After exporting CSV from Instapaper, then importing to readwise, I did that and it worked for full articles. However, while there was meta information, it was not in Obsidian's YAML front matter format. Had to develop a jinja template for this and paste it in the YAML front matter subsection of the custom formatting section in readwise Obsidian Export settings. Took some fiddling to figure out the right jinja template to match obsidian web clipper format, but here it is if anyone else runs into this issue (with a couple additional fields - you can delete them if you don't want them): `title: "{{ full_title|replace('\\', '\\\\')|replace('"', '\\"')|trim }}"` `source: "{{url}}"` `author: {% if author %}{{ '\n' }} - "{{ author|replace('\\', '\\\\')|replace('"', '\\"')|trim }}"{% endif %}` `published: {{published_date}}` `created: {{date}}` `reading source: "{{ source|replace('\\', '\\\\')|replace('"', '\\"')|trim }}"` `description: "{{ summary|replace('\n', ' ')|replace('\\', '\\\\')|replace('"', '\\"')|trim }}"` `category: "{{category}}"` `tags: {% if document_tags -%}` `{% for tag in document_tags %}{{ '\n' }} - {{tag}} {% endfor %}` `{% endif -%}`

The cool part is once I treated it like a workflow, I stopped feeling guilty about not “using” every saved thing. I basically have two modes now: capture mode and study mode. Capture is brain-off, just grab anything that sparks something. Study is ruthless: limit myself to like 10 saves, force a one‑line “why this hits” and one possible variant I’d actually post. For what you’re building, I found little constraints help a ton: a daily cap per tag, a timer, or a “you already have 5 posts like this” nudge so I naturally move toward gaps instead of duplicates. I tried Save to Notion and Raindrop for this, then used Readwise and Pulse for Reddit mainly to surface new angles; Pulse for Reddit caught threads I was missing when I was hunting for launch narratives and objection phrasing.

Hey u/LeatherResident8479, we've started tracking this feature request to auto-detect right-to-left text [here](https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features/p/auto-detect-right-to-left-text). Feel free to upvote it, and we’ll be sure to keep you posted if and when we ship it. In the meantime, you can enable RTL mode on web via Cmd+K > “Change text direction to RTL.” On mobile, open the more actions menu (...) in reading view, tap the Aa (Appearance) button, then select “More style options” > “Right to left.” If you need any help, feel free to reach out to us anytime at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])!

Hey folks, happy Tuesday! Time to check out [the latest changelog](https://docs.readwise.io/changelog#may-8-2026) here on Reddit. The idea is to help keep y'all in the loop of what the Readwise developers are getting out into the world. Here's what we shipped last week: * 📖 **Fixed EPUB Chapter Headings** — Tadek fixed an EPUB bug where only the first chapter heading after import was recognized as a heading in Readwise and every subsequent one was treated as a regular highlight. Chapter and section structure now carries through to your highlights and exports the way it's supposed to. * 📨 **Fixed Superhuman Forwards into Gmail** — Tristan taught the Gmail parser how to read forwards that originated in Superhuman. If you forward a newsletter from Superhuman into Gmail and on to Reader, the original sender, subject, and body now come through cleanly instead of getting tangled in the Superhuman wrapper. * 📱 **Fixed Daily Review Buttons on iPad** — Ibai restored the missing Daily Review buttons that had gone walkabout on iPad. You can now choose the Discard, Master, Feedback, and Keep options on iPad again. * 🏷️ **Improved Latest-Highlights API** — Tadek tightened the `/latest` and `/api/latest-highlight/` endpoints so they no longer surface section-title highlights as if they were normal highlights, and will now filter out discarded highlights. Integrations that pull your most recent highlight will now return intentional highlights, without pulling headings or things you already got rid of. * 🪟 **Smoother Reader Sidebar** — Tristan smoothed out the appearance of Reader's left sidebar on initial page load, so the panel slides into place cleanly instead of popping in. * 🐦 **Improved Twitter Video Reliability** — Krzys shored up Twitter video playback in Reader. Videos should now load reliably on iOS and Safari, and initial playback should feel snappier. * ⌨️ **Fixed Desktop Dropdown Keyboard Nav** — Tristan shepherded a fix for the Reader desktop app's More Actions menu (`M` key). Items now show a clear highlight as you arrow through them, and stray arrow key presses no longer kick focus to unrelated parts of the page. * ⚡ **Zapier Export Tile** — Thanks to Rasul, you can now find the official Zapier integration directly on the [Readwise Export](https://readwise.io/export) page. The new tile links straight to [`zapier.com/apps/readwise/integrations`](http://zapier.com/apps/readwise/integrations), so it's easier to wire your highlights into the rest of your stack. * 🛜 **Parsing Updates** — Krzys improved how Reader handles posts from Substack publications hosted on custom domains. He also cleaned up several rough edges in how they display in-app: "Read More" cards on Notes posts are now clickable, action-button rows and "Read in app" get stripped instead of leaving empty boxes, forwarded-message preambles no longer italicize the body, inline color and font overrides are removed for consistent reading, and images with quirky computed heights are preserved instead of disappearing. If you'd like to get the Changelog in your inbox, check out our [WiseUp! newsletter](https://wiseup.readwise.io/about/), where the Readwise team shares answers to common questions, video tutorials and guides, highlights of our latest improvements, and a couple of lighthearted extras we think you’ll enjoy. And as always, feel free to let us know if you have any questions, tho realistically we're going to see an in-app bug report or question faster :>

I went through this same arc: loved what Superhuman and all the AI wrappers did for my brain, then realized I’d basically handed them a full export of my life. The “this is a recruiter / invoice / action item” tagging is the killer feature, but the default assumption that they get to keep a shadow copy of every email always felt wild to me. What worked for me was treating Gmail as just a dumb pipe and building a thin, local intelligence layer on top, like what you’re describing. I ended up running a small local model that only pulls headers + snippets by default, then deep‑reads the body on demand so I’m not slurping everything into RAM all day. For monitoring stuff outside email, I tried Glasp and Readwise first, then Pulse for Reddit stuck because it quietly caught high-signal threads I cared about without spamming me. Same idea: local or minimal data, tight filters, and only surfacing what I’d actually act on. Curious how you’re handling training/updates without ever centralizing user data.

I went down this rabbit hole prepping for exams and later for language learning, and I hit the exact same wall: every TTS app assumes “once and done” instead of “listen to this 50 times until it sticks.” What worked for me was thinking in terms of reps and sets, like a gym routine, not just a play button. I ended up needing: tiny segments I could loop, fast keyboard shortcuts, and saved “routines” (e.g., warmup vocab, then example sentences, then full paragraph). I’d position it as a study/memorization tool first, with TTS as the engine under the hood. Students and language learners feel the repetition pain the most and are used to paying for niche tools if it clearly helps grades or fluency. I tried LingQ and some generic TTS browser extensions, then messed around with Readwise Reader, and finally Pulse for Reddit helped me spot other people ranting about the same gap so I knew it wasn’t just me. If you nail looping, segmentation, and presets, voice quality can be “good enough” at first.

But the bottleneck for a solo founder isn't ingestion. You can read everything and still be the constraint. The real bottleneck is turning that flow into decisions that resurface to you at the right moment, not six months later when you happen to scroll past a Readwise highlight and think "damn, I should have acted on that. Knowing more and deciding better are two different problems. Most "second brain" setups solve the first one and quietly pretend they're solving the second. They aren't. The operators who actually scale aren't the ones with the cleanest Notion, they're the ones who have a system that pushes the right call to the surface when the context is still warm.

Hey everyone, I got tired of losing knowledge, tools and names from YouTube Shorts I watch, so I built a bot. \*\*How it works:\*\* 1. Send any YouTube Shorts URL to the Telegram bot 2. It transcribes audio via Whisper (local or OpenAI) 3. Analyzes video frames via Vision API 4. Extracts structured data: GitHub repos, tools mentioned, recipes, key concepts 5. Saves to Notion or Obsidian with auto-categorization \*\*Self-hosted highlights:\*\* \- Docker Compose, one-command deploy \- Modular LLM backend: Ollama (fully local) / OpenAI / Anthropic (your choice) \- Modular storage: Notion API or Obsidian vault via local sync \- No vendor lock-in, no subscription required for self-hosters \- All API keys stay on your server \*\*Why I built it:\*\* Every existing tool (Readwise, Glasp, Tactiq) either requires a browser extension, doesn't do structured extraction, or forces you to use their cloud. I wanted something that runs on my VPS and sends results to my existing PKM setup. GitHub: [https://github.com/Stnslv-k/shorts-saver-bot](https://github.com/Stnslv-k/shorts-saver-bot) Happy to answer questions. Also curious what shorts do you actually save knowledge from? (Dev tutorials? Cooking? Science?)

This is a solid stack, but the real bottleneck is always going to be the "Readwise to Notion" transition. I’ve found that just having the highlights in Notion isn't enough; you need a specific routine to actually process them, or it just becomes a digital graveyard. Real talk, the best way I’ve found to handle this is to have a "Processing" view in Notion where I have to write a one-sentence summary for every highlight before it gets archived into my main brain. It’s a bit of a grind at first, but it’s the only way to make sure the info actually sticks rather than just sitting there haha.

I'm going to share the system I've built over the past two years as someone with ADHD and bad memory who's obsessed with learning. Before 28 I had no system at all. Just scattered Apple Notes, half-finished books, hundreds of "watch later" videos. A graveyard. I'd consume a brilliant idea on Monday and forget it existed by Thursday. What changed everything was when ChatGPT launched. For the first time I had a thinking partner who could help me build the structure my ADHD brain genuinely cannot sustain alone. Two years of iteration later, this is the system that finally made my learning compound. Wanted to share it for any other ADHD learners stuck in the notes graveyard loop :)) **Important:** Each step builds on the last. Skipping one breaks the chain. **The System** **1) Save everything to one place, within 30 seconds** The biggest leak point for ADHD learners is the gap between "this is interesting" and "this is saved somewhere I'll find again." Close that gap or it's gone. Readwise Reader for articles, PDFs, tweets, YouTube. Snipd for podcast moments. Voice memos + Whisper for shower thoughts. One inbox, no decisions. **Rule**: if it's not in the system, it doesn't exist. No "I'll bookmark it for later." Later never comes. **2) Let AI do the organizing** I used to run Obsidian manually for almost 4 years and it was a mess. I'd spend 2 hours organizing instead of reading, then abandon it for weeks. Classic ADHD pattern. Organizing requires sustained focus and consistent decisions, and ADHD brains have neither reliably. Moved to Notion (database structure forces the relations my brain skips) and layered Claude on top. Connected them through OpenClaw, so Claude reads and writes directly into the vault. Now I just say "process the inbox, archive anything older than 7 days that's not linked to an active project," and it happens. Decision fatigue gone. **3) Use 3 statuses, not topic tags** Topic tagging is a trap. Every new note forces a decision: "what topic?" Hundreds of notes later, you've burned all your executive function on filing instead of thinking. ADHD brains are bad at hierarchical anything. Folders inside folders, taxonomies, neat categories. Every layer is another decision and we don't have the executive function to spare. Flat systems with links work way better because the structure emerges from connections instead of being forced upfront. I use 3 statuses only: Seedling (raw), Growing (in active use), Evergreen (referenced often). Search handles topic. Links handle structure. If you've abandoned PARA or Johnny Decimal, that's not a discipline failure. It's a system mismatch. **4) Turn captured knowledge into a focused learning system** Saving and organizing aren't the same as learning. Without an absorb layer you're just hoarding. Audio is my biggest ADHD hack honestly. Sitting at a desk to read just doesn't work, my brain finds 20 escape hatches within 5 minutes. But put the same content in my ears while I'm at the gym, walking, doing chores, or on commute, and I'm locked in. The body has something to do so the brain stops trying to escape. It's the opposite of what neurotypical advice tells you, but it's the only thing that works for me. I use BeFreed for this. It turns whatever I've saved, links, PDFs, or just a topic I'm curious about, into podcasts I listen to during those in between moments. Length, voice, depth, and style are all adjustable, which matters more for ADHD than people realize. Ugly low stimulation formats just don't get used. The part I love most is the personalized learning plan. I put in my goal, level, and time, and it pulls the best sources from books, expert talks, research papers, and podcasts (no need to upload anything). Each podcast stacks on the last instead of being random one offs, which is what finally keeps my scattered curiosity compounding into something coherent. **5) Review weekly, not daily** Daily rituals are an ADHD trap. They sound nice but you'll abandon them in two weeks. One 30-min Sunday block. Process anything in inbox older than 7 days. Promote what's been actively used. Archive what's gone stale. If you can't do it weekly, do it monthly. Better low-frequency you'll keep than daily you'll abandon. **Note**: this entire system runs on maybe 30 min/week of active maintenance. The rest happens passively while I listen on walks. The whole point is to build something an ADHD brain will actually sustain, not a system that requires neurotypical discipline you don't have.

I have been thinking about why some AI learning sessions feel genuinely useful while they are happening, but then disappear from memory a day or two later. For me, learning with AI has started to feel like two separate steps: **1. Exploration** This is the live back-and-forth phase. I use NotebookLM, Claude, or ChatGPT to understand a topic, ask follow-ups, challenge answers, request analogies, and slowly build a mental model. A good session is usually not one prompt. It is 30 minutes to 2 hours of messy discussion where the idea slowly starts to click. The new knowledge is like a seed starting to sprout, still very delicate. **2. Consolidation** This is the part I think most workflows are missing. After a good session, I usually do not need more information. I need to consolidate the exact thing I just learned. Or now that I have the sprout, I need to take care of it to turn it into a healthy plant. A generic summary of the topic on wiki or some textbook is not the same as a summary of my learning process (the AI chat). It does not know where I got stuck, which analogy worked, what misconception I had, or which part of the conversation actually moved the needle. The way I think about it is: a good AI learning session creates a tiny sprout of understanding. It is real, but fragile. And by the end of the session, I am usually too mentally drained to turn it into clean notes myself. So my current loop is: 1. Explore a topic through NotebookLM / Claude / ChatGPT 2. Keep asking follow-ups until it starts to click 3. Turn that exact conversation into something I can revisit 4. Review it later when my brain is fresher For step 2, I have been using a small MCP server I built called StewReads. At the end of a Claude or ChatGPT session, I can say “stew it,” and it turns the conversation into a short ebook and audiobook. The useful part is that it is based on the actual discussion I just had, not a generic overview of the topic. The ebook goes to my Kindle, and the audiobook lands in Apple Podcasts, so I can revisit it on a walk or commute the next day. I generally explore at night and consolidate on the train to work using audiobook. I guess the broader point is that AI should not just help us explore ideas in the moment. It should also help us preserve and consolidate the conversations where learning actually happened. Curious if anyone else is doing something similar. Are you turning AI chats into notes, review docs, audio, Obsidian pages, Readwise highlights, or anything else you actually revisit later? Does it not hurt when you can't find the chat in which you learnt something a week or two later? **Your best AI chats should not disappear into chat history!**

I'm a solo entrepreneur, drinking from a firehose every day: articles, podcasts, frameworks, competitor research, customer interview notes. Without a system, my brain becomes the company's bottleneck. I know a lot of you are in the same boat. The thing nobody tells you when you start solo: the operators who grow vs the ones who plateau usually differ on one thing, whether they're systematically getting smarter every week. Great ideas genuinely change lives, but only if they land and stay. So the goal of this stack isn't productivity, it's compounding. Six months from now you're operating on a different level because your past self quietly invested in your present self. After 2 years of iterating, this is the stack I won't replace. Each tool does one job and they hand off cleanly: Readwise captures, Notion organizes, BeFreed makes you actually absorb. **My weekly pipeline:** * **Capture (every day) - Readwise Reader:** Save articles, PDFs, tweets, YouTube to Readwise. Podcast moments via Snipd. Shower thoughts via voice memos + Whisper. Everything funnels into one Notion inbox database. Rule that fixed my capture problem: if it doesn't enter the system within 30 seconds of finding it, it doesn't exist. Readwise auto-pipes highlights into Notion via the integration, so nothing has to be copy-pasted. * **Organize (every Sunday, 30 min) - Notion:** Process the inbox in a hard-blocked calendar slot. Three statuses: Seedling (raw), Growing (in active use), Evergreen (referenced often). Anything older than 7 days either gets at least one relation to an existing page and moves to active, or gets archived. The relation requirement is the key rule. A database view surfaces orphans and stale seedlings automatically so I'm not deciding from scratch every week. * **Absorb (daily, on commute) - BeFreed:** This is the compounding layer, and the reason I had 800+ saved notes I never read before. Now I drop the week's most interesting links or topics into BeFreed and listen on walks. It turns them into podcasts where you can adjust length, depth, voice, and style. Switched here from NotebookLM because BeFreed builds an actual learning plan against your goal, so each podcast stacks on the last instead of being random one offs. As a solo founder my goals shift fast and the plan adapts. The learning plan is honestly the feature I love most. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the input volume, you're not alone and it's not a discipline problem. Start with one layer (capture is the easiest), add the next when that one's a real habit. Even 10 minutes of daily absorbing compounds harder than any productivity hack I've tried. The version of you 6 months from now is built by the inputs you commit to today. End result as a solo operator: a vault that grows on its own, an inbox that doesn't bloat, and a daily ritual that turns "saved for later" into stuff I can actually use in customer calls, pitches, and product decisions. Curious what other founders are running

I'm a solo entrepreneur, drinking from a firehose every day: articles, podcasts, frameworks, competitor research, customer interview notes. Without a system, my brain becomes the company's bottleneck. I know a lot of you are in the same boat. The thing nobody tells you when you start solo: the operators who grow vs the ones who plateau usually differ on one thing, whether they're systematically getting smarter every week. Great ideas genuinely change lives, but only if they land and stay. So the goal of this stack isn't productivity, it's compounding. Six months from now you're operating on a different level because your past self quietly invested in your present self. After 2 years of iterating, this is the stack I won't replace. Each tool does one job and they hand off cleanly: Readwise captures, Notion organizes, BeFreed makes you actually absorb. **My weekly pipeline:** * **Capture (every day) - Readwise Reader:** Save articles, PDFs, tweets, YouTube to Readwise. Podcast moments via Snipd. Shower thoughts via voice memos + Whisper. Everything funnels into one Notion inbox database. Rule that fixed my capture problem: if it doesn't enter the system within 30 seconds of finding it, it doesn't exist. Readwise auto-pipes highlights into Notion via the integration, so nothing has to be copy-pasted. * **Organize (every Sunday, 30 min) - Notion:** Process the inbox in a hard-blocked calendar slot. Three statuses: Seedling (raw), Growing (in active use), Evergreen (referenced often). Anything older than 7 days either gets at least one relation to an existing page and moves to active, or gets archived. The relation requirement is the key rule. A database view surfaces orphans and stale seedlings automatically so I'm not deciding from scratch every week. * **Absorb (daily, on commute) - BeFreed:** This is the compounding layer, and the reason I had 800+ saved notes I never read before. Now I drop the week's most interesting links or topics into BeFreed and listen on walks. It turns them into podcasts where you can adjust length, depth, voice, and style. Switched here from NotebookLM because BeFreed builds an actual learning plan against your goal, so each podcast stacks on the last instead of being random one offs. As a solo founder my goals shift fast and the plan adapts. The learning plan is honestly the feature I love most. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the input volume, you're not alone and it's not a discipline problem. Start with one layer (capture is the easiest), add the next when that one's a real habit. Even 10 minutes of daily absorbing compounds harder than any productivity hack I've tried. The version of you 6 months from now is built by the inputs you commit to today. End result as a solo operator: a vault that grows on its own, an inbox that doesn't bloat, and a daily ritual that turns "saved for later" into stuff I can actually use in customer calls, pitches, and product decisions. Curious what other founders are running.

I'm a solo entrepreneur, drinking from a firehose every day: articles, podcasts, frameworks, competitor research, customer interview notes. Without a system, my brain becomes the company's bottleneck. I know a lot of you are in the same boat. The thing nobody tells you when you start solo: the operators who grow vs the ones who plateau usually differ on one thing, whether they're systematically getting smarter every week. Great ideas genuinely change lives, but only if they land and stay. So the goal of this stack isn't productivity, it's compounding. Six months from now you're operating on a different level because your past self quietly invested in your present self. After 2 years of iterating, this is the stack I won't replace. Each tool does one job and they hand off cleanly: Readwise captures, Notion organizes, BeFreed makes you actually absorb. **My weekly pipeline:** * **Capture (every day) - Readwise Reader:** Save articles, PDFs, tweets, YouTube to Readwise. Podcast moments via Snipd. Shower thoughts via voice memos + Whisper. Everything funnels into one Notion inbox database. Rule that fixed my capture problem: if it doesn't enter the system within 30 seconds of finding it, it doesn't exist. Readwise auto-pipes highlights into Notion via the integration, so nothing has to be copy-pasted. * **Organize (every Sunday, 30 min) - Notion:** Process the inbox in a hard-blocked calendar slot. Three statuses: Seedling (raw), Growing (in active use), Evergreen (referenced often). Anything older than 7 days either gets at least one relation to an existing page and moves to active, or gets archived. The relation requirement is the key rule. A database view surfaces orphans and stale seedlings automatically so I'm not deciding from scratch every week. * **Absorb (daily, on commute) - BeFreed:** This is the compounding layer, and the reason I had 800+ saved notes I never read before. Now I drop the week's most interesting links or topics into BeFreed and listen on walks. It turns them into podcasts where you can adjust length, depth, voice, and style. Switched here from NotebookLM because BeFreed builds an actual learning plan against your goal, so each podcast stacks on the last instead of being random one offs. As a solo founder my goals shift fast and the plan adapts. The learning plan is honestly the feature I love most. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the input volume, you're not alone and it's not a discipline problem. Start with one layer (capture is the easiest), add the next when that one's a real habit. Even 10 minutes of daily absorbing compounds harder than any productivity hack I've tried. The version of you 6 months from now is built by the inputs you commit to today. End result as a solo operator: a vault that grows on its own, an inbox that doesn't bloat, and a daily ritual that turns "saved for later" into stuff I can actually use in customer calls, pitches, and product decisions. Curious what other founders are running.

I went through the same thing but with Reddit and newsletters instead of X. What helped me was treating it less like “save everything” and more like a mini research project each week. I’d batch-review what I clipped on Sunday, delete the weak stuff, and rewrite the best ones into my own words with a short “why this worked” note. That made it way easier to reuse later instead of just hoarding. I’d love a quick “study mode” in HookVault: pick a tag, then it walks me post by post asking “keep, rewrite, archive?” so I’m forced to compress the pattern, not just stare at screenshots. I bounced between Save to Notion and Readwise for this, and ended up on Pulse for Reddit after trying those for thread discovery because it caught Reddit examples I was missing when I was researching hooks for launches.

Hey everyone — Acorny now supports importing highlights from WeRead. This is a one-time import flow, not automatic sync. How it works: 1. Open the Acorny browser extension. 2. In the WeRead Export section, click Open WeRead Export. 3. Click Start Export. 4. After export completes, download weread-export.json. 5. Open Acorny on the web. 6. Go to Import Highlights. 7. Drag the weread-export.json file into the upload area. Why this matters: A lot of reading highlights stay locked inside reading apps and are rarely revisited later. With this import flow, WeRead highlights can be moved into Acorny, reviewed later, and exported as part of your own workflow. Notes: \- This is currently a one-time import flow. \- Instapaper supports automatic sync. \- Readwise API, Diigo API, and export files are supported as one-time imports. \- The WeRead export runs locally in the browser. Acorny does not access WeRead servers or store WeRead credentials. I’d love feedback from WeRead users: \- Is the export/import flow clear enough? \- Did the imported highlights look correct? \- What source should Acorny support next?

I wrestled with that too when I built a “power user” tool. The gap I found wasn’t “can they articulate at all?” but “can they do it fast enough, at the level they need, without flattening the nuance?” I’d try watching a few users live: how long from finished map to something they’d send to a boss/client? For me, that screens real pain better than surveys. I went through this with research workflows; we tried Miro, Obsidian, then ended up on things like Readwise and Pulse for Reddit to catch and reshape raw messy input into usable narratives without extra thinking time.

In my case I separate my apps for actions and archive... for bookmarks, I use raindrop for archive when I want to save a link that find interesting but not that useful right now. For actually reading later, I use wallabag but reader from readwise its better but paid, here I just save articles and whenever I have some free time I read them. Clarify than you'll need to form the habit to check that saved articles... that is the difficult part

Heyo! We have our global chat feature on web in internal testing right now, will be rolling out to all users in the coming few weeks 😄 It has full hybrid search (and many more operations, many of which I've never seen in any reading app) across every word of every document in your Library. It's been a long time coming, because we wanted to get it really right! In the mean time until that ships, you can also chat across your full library using our [MCP server](https://readwise.io/mcp)!

While [Reader on Kobo](https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features/p/reader-on-kobo) would be an ideal (for me) way to handle it, one other option/workaround would be a way to have Reader and Instapaper sync on a regular basis -- so like if I add an article to Later in Reader, it shows up in Instapaper's equivalent space; when I archive something there, the same happens to the article in Readwise. This or some alternative that doesn't involve either getting rid of a device that otherwise works perfectly well with Reader (or getting rid of Reader, either!) would be welcomed (by me, at least)

Highlighting and defining is [available with Ghostreader](https://docs.readwise.io/reader/guides/ghostreader/overview#how-to-invoke-ghostreader). As for a personal glossary, are you imagining just like a view that has all of your vocabulary words? Feel free to add your upvote for a [native vocabulary review](https://readwise.canny.io/readwise/p/native-vocabulary-review) and we'll notify you of any progress we make here. In the meantime, you could create a vocabulary review using themed reviews by tagging the highlights you make using the Ghostreader option mentioned above.

Feel free to [add your upvote](https://readwise.canny.io/readwise/p/add-additional-daily-review-configurations-updates) and link this Reddit post in the comments for product team to review. We'll keep you updated with any progress we make. In the meantime, you can use tags to [create a themed review](https://docs.readwise.io/readwise/guides/themed-reviews) for only the highlights you want to review. All of the highlights will still get exported to Apple Notes and you'll have a review that only contains the highlights you want to see.

Hi shebent, in no particular order, how it came to my mind: 1. use any font you like, downloaded from the internet, easily 2. total customization while reading (true zero margins to the edge, line height, scroll, directions, size, alignments, spacings, simply anything, not just few presets) with per book settings as an option 3. proper cloud sync between multiple devices (progress, highlights, bookmarks, etc.) 4. proper iphone and ipad (not scaled from iphone) version 5. library sorting by author, date, title, series, folder, recently added, recently read, proress, rating, number of pages 6. library custom filters as you like (meaning... books with more that 1000 pages, that are sci/fi and I gave them more than 4 stars) 7. library custom collections (like recommended by NYT, etc.) 8. two way calibre sync (meaning sending data back to calibre: stars, read time, finished time, want to read, whatever you want) 9. two kind of statistics, where one kind is 'margins app integrated', so if you like margins, you have it inside justread 10. you can export highlights to pdf and markdown, readwise integration on the way (see roadmap in the app) 11. eye health reminders 12. customizable selection , when text selected (copy, highlight, translate, lookup, search) 13. one touch bookmark while reading (no need to go inside some menu) 14. customization of what to show while reading (title, author, series, index, progress, etc.) and where you want to place it 15. integrated roadmap, so you can vote for features or add new ones and the development goes by what users want 16. color presets (any color you like) with option to automatically set those colors (meaning set black-white when night and white-black when day) 17. reading stats for a specific book with charts 18. ability to rename title, author, series and series index 19. import and use of series and series index, and tags, from calibre 20. multiple reads (meaning multiple finish times) 21. and that all in swift and swiftui, so you have everything you would expect from a proper ios app: accessibility features, animations, haptics, desktop widgets, lock screen widgets, siri integration, long touch on icon events, etc. 22. translated into 16 languages 23. aside that everything all other apps have: toc, bookmarks, grid and list in library, reading goals, search in library and in book, etc. Surely I forgot few things, but if there's a free app that does all of this on iOS, I'd genuinely like to know which one, I'd use it myself. You can follow the development in here: [https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=284](https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=284)

I love readwise for highlighting, but it feels kind of static. I’ve been messing around with recall recently and you can basically just ask a question and it searches across every pdf, youtube video, and article you’ve ever saved at the same time to give you an answer. is readwise planning to add a global chat feature like this? Right now reader feels like a filing cabinet but i really want to be able to talk to my whole library at once.

Also a user for a decade. I use it for To Do's, Calendar, organized themes, capturing Readwise entries automatically, random capture. I've changed how I organize multiple times. The older items I get to mainly via search. Don't really use the AI feature although I often have ChatGPT write its output in "workflowy format" i.e. nested lists to be copied in. I like the dashboard format. Haven't adopted the new tables feature so I still keep structured data in Excel/Access. I sometimes screw up mirrors. I have 180k bullets. The web app is highly reliable. I find the Android app awkware to use. I can't remember really losing any significant data.

I was deleting and organizing tags on my PC and none of the changes transferred to the iOS versions (phone and iPad). Is this normal? I don’t want to report it as a bug if this is normal and I’m just an idiot. 😂 (If it is I will report it via the official channels. ) I usually use the mobile version but wanted to do some bulk management which I thought would be easier on my PC. Also, I set up views that also didn’t sync, which is odd because I had no problems with that aspect in the past. Honestly, I was surprised to see the tag view show up on mobile because I thought it was a PC only feature. I know I can filter via tags and it’s essentially the same. It’s just the view option is a little faster for me.

[imagegen](https://preview.redd.it/2gaomlao3hzg1.png?width=1254&format=png&auto=webp&s=b96b2f9615b250681a339efd910d7fc74fa9ea02) I’ve been experimenting with connecting my Readwise highlights to AI tools lately, and it changed how I think about saved notes. Instead of asking an AI: > I started asking: > Turns out your highlights become a surprisingly personal knowledge base: * recurring ideas * favorite authors * contradictions in your own thinking * topics you keep circling back to One thing that worked well for me: * pick 5 saved articles/books on one topic * ask the AI to teach the topic using only those sources * then ask for a short quiz or counterarguments Feels less like generic AI search and more like learning from your own intellectual history. Curious if anyone else here is using Readwise this way. You can find a bit more details [here](https://medium.com/@alekseyrubtsov/your-highlights-can-teach-you-8de4e6e329b6).

I’ve started using a weird but effective reading workflow with AI, especially for longer or dense articles. I wanted to have x-ray and understand if a claim is false or not supported. Before I read, I send the article to ChatGPT and ask it to: * Extract the main claims * Find weak points / possible objections * Add highlight-style comments Then I *don’t* read the AI output. I go straight to the original article. While I read, I see those AI-generated notes as a kind of “margin commentary” — like a quiet colleague who occasionally asks, “Is this really true?” or “What’s the assumption here?” Only *w*hen I read the article myself do I look at the AI layer: * Did it overgeneralize the conclusions? * Did it miss something important? * Do I agree with its objections? The key for me: * AI prepares the structure and questions. * I still do the actual reading and thinking. * AI becomes a second layer for comparison, not a replacement. * I know when I need to check the claims It’s closer to using pre-reading questions and annotations than to outsourcing comprehension. Makes reading less passive, especially as a non-native reader. Anyone else using AI as a “margin thinker” rather than a summarizer? You can find few (really few) more details on [Medium](https://medium.com/@alekseyrubtsov/reading-with-spoilers-fcaed5eb1367).

A few weeks ago I'd say "let me Google that" or "let me ask Gemini" maybe a dozen times a day. Now most of those queries hit a local box on my desk and never touch Google's infrastructure. Sharing because the setup took less work than I expected. What it replaces: \- Google Search → SearXNG (self-hosted, aggregates Google + 70 others, my query never reaches Google with my IP attached) \- Gemini / ChatGPT for "summarize this / find me X / draft this" → Qwen 3.5 35B A3B (35B-param MoE, \~3B active per token) running locally \- Pocket / Readwise daily-digest workflow → cron job that pulls + summarizes \+ writes to a markdown file Hardware: a fanless mini-PC on my desk. \~12W idle, 32 dB under load. Once configured it just runs. No subscription. No telemetry I haven't audited. Software: \- SearXNG via Docker on :8888 (standard install + enabling JSON in settings.yml so the agent can parse responses) \- LMStudio (which is open-source llama.cpp + Vulkan under the hood) running Qwen 3.5 35B A3B Q4\_K\_M on the integrated GPU with partial layer offload \- Hermes Agent (open-source) as the orchestrator Data leaving my network: \- Search queries: never leave plaintext from MY box. SearXNG proxies them. Upstream engines see the SearXNG instance, not me. \- LLM inference: 100% local. Weights from Hugging Face, model runs on my hardware, no telemetry. \- Web fetches the agent does: those go out, but only when I explicitly ask the agent to read a URL. No background telemetry. Honest caveats: \- Qwen's license is open-weights but isn't a free-software license by FSF standards. If that matters, swap in Mistral or a fully-Apache model. \- The local model is not GPT-5 / Claude 4.6-class for hard reasoning. It IS capable enough for "summarize this article / find recent news on X / draft a thing" — what I was actually asking Gemini to do. \- Runs on Linux out of the box. Windows / Mac is possible but the Vulkan acceleration story is best on Linux. Anyone else gone fully off cloud LLMs for daily-driver work? Curious where your local stack falls short of cloud for you, and what you'd swap in if a 35B-MoE on consumer hardware is now realistic.

# Šiandien (2026-05-07) # Lietuvoje Lietuvos srities pranešimų šiandienos sraute neaptikta. # Europoje Šiandien specifinių Europos pranešimų sraute neaptikta. Aktualios Europos zonos temos – žr. „Vis dar aktualu". # Pasaulyje * [vm2 Node.js bibliotekos pažeidžiamumai – sandbox escape ir RCE](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kr0eyvdnq06jn9s23fkq0ja4) (The Hacker News). Plačiai naudojama serverless / SaaS platformose. * [Kritinis Monero RPC „deadlock" pažeidžiamumas](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kr091xvgh76zh2pny68d6ktt) – paralyžiuoja pilną mazgą (HackerOne). * [Monero „Connection Count" klaida](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kr091xxvwr4dfhvdkdzjj0ct) – atakuojami išėjimo kanalų peer reset (HackerOne). * [Tariamas 787 217 mokinių įrašų nutekinimas iš MoreIdeas / Dubajus EdTech](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kr026xgrmm5x7ws92tf9r0vy) (Dark Web Informer). * [Indonezijos ESDM ministerijos kuro tiekėjų įrašų nutekinimas](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kr026xmmmzyt6sxg7hm0pjy6) (Dark Web Informer). # Vakar (2026-05-06) # Lietuvoje Lietuvos srities pranešimų vakar dienos sraute neaptikta. # Europoje * Rumunija: JAV ekstradicija 17 metų senumo įsilaužimo schemos dalyviui (SecurityWeek). Tarptautinio bendradarbiavimo signalas. * Vidurio Rytų kibernetinė kova plečiasi, ypač JAE (Dark Reading) – netiesiogiai liečia Europos kompanijų infrastruktūrą JAE. # Pasaulyje * **Palo Alto PAN-OS „zero-day" RCE** – aktyvi ugniasienių kompromitacija; reikalingas skubus pataisymas (BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, SecurityWeek). * **DAEMON Tools tiekimo grandinės ataka** prieš vyriausybines ir mokslo institucijas; kūrėjai patvirtino pažeidimą ir išleido švarią versiją. * Kritinis vm2 sandbox bug leidžia vykdyti kodą host'e (BleepingComputer). * Apache HTTP/2 „double-free" – DoS ir potencialus RCE (Dark Web Informer). * MuddyWater (Iranas) per Microsoft Teams renka kredencialus, „Chaos" ransomware kaip dūmų uždanga. * CloudZ RAT iškiša Windows „Phone Link" kredencialų ir SMS OTP perėmimui. * Quasar Linux RAT – taikinys: programinės įrangos kūrėjai (SecurityWeek). * Cisco DoS pažeidžiamumas reikalauja rankinio įrenginio perkrovimo (BleepingComputer). * xlabs\_v1 (Mirai) per ADB užgrobia Android IoT prietaisus DDoS atakoms. * GoDaddy ManageWP phishing per Google ads (BleepingComputer). * Instructure (Canvas LMS) pažeidimas atskleidžia mokyklų priklausomybę nuo tiekėjų (Dark Reading). * Dar vienas Google Chrome šifravimo apsaugos apėjimo būdas (Dark Reading). * Oracle įveda mėnesinius kritinius saugumo pataisymus (SecurityWeek). * CISA: kritinė infrastruktūra privalo įvaldyti izoliaciją ir atkūrimą. * Google Android programėlių vieša verifikacija – atsakas į tiekimo grandinės atakas.

I read Reader articles on a Kobo via KOReader + the third-party `readwisereader` plugin (tomtom800). Setup is great — articles sync, auto-archive when finished, highlights flow back to Readwise and into my Obsidian vault. Missing piece: highlights made on the Kobo don't show up in-context when I reopen the article in Reader's UI. The plugin can push highlight text through the API, but there's no way to attach a position anchor for Reader to render the highlight against the article. Would love to see Readwise expose an anchor field on the Reader highlights API — even fuzzy text-fragment style (highlighted text + a few words of context, matched at render time) would be enough. Posting in case others want this too. Anyone else hit this on Kobo / Boox / other external reader setups?

i've used instapaper premium on my palma and pagination works fine - just use the article view mode. annotations are supported but you have to use the native instapaper highlight tool not boox's pen. if that feels clunky try [pocket premium](https://featherab.com/shopit?search_keywords=Pocket+premium) which has better eink integration or [readwise reader](https://featherab.com/shopit?search_keywords=readwise+reader) which was built for this. kobo's instapaper integration is terrible compared to boox. i'd grab a palma pro if annotations are critical

I tend to highlight a lot when I am reading long form articles or books. All of these highlights show up in the readwise app. However, ideally I want to identify the highlights that I want to see in readwise daily review at the time of making the highlight in reader. So effectively I want all highlights in the article/book retained and available if I specifically look for that in readwise by selecting the article/book but only have the subset that I identified in reader to show up in the daily review i.e. so I do not have to discard highlights in readwise later.

[imagegen](https://preview.redd.it/2gaomlao3hzg1.png?width=1254&format=png&auto=webp&s=b96b2f9615b250681a339efd910d7fc74fa9ea02) I’ve been experimenting with connecting my Readwise highlights to AI tools lately, and it changed how I think about saved notes. Instead of asking an AI: > I started asking: > Turns out your highlights become a surprisingly personal knowledge base: * recurring ideas * favorite authors * contradictions in your own thinking * topics you keep circling back to One thing that worked well for me: * pick 5 saved articles/books on one topic * ask the AI to teach the topic using only those sources * then ask for a short quiz or counterarguments Feels less like generic AI search and more like learning from your own intellectual history. Curious if anyone else here is using Readwise this way. You can find a bit more details [here](https://medium.com/@alekseyrubtsov/your-highlights-can-teach-you-8de4e6e329b6).

One weakness in my Obsidian workflow was content from shortform platforms. A lot of the most useful information I come across is short-form videos and carousels from independent creators. I wanted a way to save that material and easily take notes on it, both so I could think with it more intentionally and so I wasn’t relying on platforms to keep it available forever. So I built a small mobile app for myself I use it to pull in YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and carousel content, transcribe it locally on my device, edit it, highlight it, annotate it, connect it to other notes with bidirectional links, and export it as Markdown with YAML frontmatter and metadata for Obsidian. I also added notebooks inside the app so I can group transcripts, write notes on them, and export those cleanly too. https://preview.redd.it/ocip28xrlezg1.png?width=1284&format=png&auto=webp&s=db93c7870a3d5ffccb0e58a50f710e5c5cb61f9f https://preview.redd.it/v2n89nlfkezg1.png?width=1100&format=png&auto=webp&s=d748f175d054ee1aca3eb812950b65ae1f7306e9 Mostly sharing because I’m curious whether this solves a real workflow problem for other Obsidian users too. I'm also trying to find beta testers as well. *Not linking it because im not trying to shill, just genuinely curious if* *this gap was just me or if other people in this sub have been working around* *the same thing.* *how are you all handling video to vault right now? am i missing an obvious workflow that already exists?* *I know of notebook LM and Readwise but they dont work with reels or tiktoks from my understanding.* Also wondering if a direct “send to Obsidian” share extension matter, or is clean Markdown export enough?

Hey folks, happy Tuesday! Time to check out [the latest changelog](https://docs.readwise.io/changelog#may-1-2026) here on Reddit. The idea is to help keep y'all in the loop of what the Readwise developers are getting out into the world. Here's what we shipped last week: * 🌓 **Fixed Mobile Dark Mode Highlights** — Adam fixed a bug where highlight text appeared black in dark mode on mobile. Highlights are now readable in dark mode again. * ⚡ **Improved Document Chat Speed** — A regression in the OpenAI model used by document chat was causing a slowdown in the replies. Adam switched the chat tool-call to use a different model, so replies should feel quicker again. * 👆 **Fixed Annotation Bar After Auto-Highlighting** — Adam fixed a bug where the annotation bar popover didn't appear after a highlight was created via auto-highlighting. The popover now shows up the way it does for manual highlights. * 📧 **Fixed Feed Email Attachments** — Thanks to Rasul, attachments forwarded to a Feed email address now reliably land in your Feed instead of occasionally bouncing into Library. * 🐦 **Improved Tweet Rendering** — Tristan tightened how Reader renders saved tweets so they conform to Twitter's display rules and look closer to the original. * 📨 **Fixed Twitter List Digests** — Tristan fixed an issue with Twitter list digests in Reader, caused by a change in the Twitter API. Twitter digests should now be working again. * 📄 **Fixed Kindle Highlight Parsing** — Rasul fixed a parsing bug where Kindle Notebook HTML with no space before the color parentheses caused some highlights to be skipped during import. Your imports should be complete again, even when Kindle's HTML is squished. * ✉️ **Added Kindle Sender Aliases for Trailing-Dot Usernames** — Rasul added a fallback Kindle sender address (`rwkindle-<id>@send.readwise.io`) for users whose Readwise username ends with a dot. Amazon rejects these types of sender addresses, so previously these users couldn't get sends to work. The Reader web Kindle setup instructions now show the correct alias to approve in Amazon. * 🎙 **Added Podcast Category Override** — Mati added "Podcast" to the document category dropdown when manually editing a document's metadata in Reader. * ⌨️ **Fixed Custom Keyboard Shortcuts** — Mati fixed a bug where pressing the × button on one shortcut for a command removed \*all\* shortcuts for that command. Each shortcut now removes individually, the way you'd expect. * ✨ **Reader Mobile Polish** — Mati polished two small Reader mobile interactions: the Reader forwarding email copy button now copies properly, and tapping into a document while using the skim UI on iPad will correctly save your place instead of scrolling back to the top of the list when exiting the document. * 🔗 **Fixed Highlight Section Sync** — Mitch fixed an error when an existing highlight had an invalid URL. Sync should now complete even on books with legacy invalid URLs. * 🛜 **Parsing Updates** — Krzys updated how Substack articles are parsed, including more reliably removing subscription CTAs and better embed rendering. He also improved parsing for [howtogeek.com](http://howtogeek.com/) and [thurrott.com](http://thurrott.com/). If you'd like to get the Changelog in your inbox, check out our [WiseUp! newsletter](https://wiseup.readwise.io/about/), where the Readwise team shares answers to common questions, video tutorials and guides, highlights of our latest improvements, and a couple of lighthearted extras we think you’ll enjoy. And as always, feel free to let us know if you have any questions, tho realistically we're going to see an in-app bug report or question faster :>

The semantic tagging idea is interesting but I'd push back a little on doing it at capture time. In my experience, the moment you're highlighting something — especially mid-article or mid-video — you don't always know yet whether it's a core belief or just a counterpoint worth noting. The classification feels obvious in hindsight, not in the moment. So you either slow down the capture to tag correctly, or you tag lazily and the taxonomy becomes noise anyway. What I'd actually propose instead: capture raw and fast, but run a lightweight enrichment pass *after* sync, before it hits the vault. Something like a nightly n8n workflow that takes untagged highlights from the last 24 hours, sends them to Claude with a short classification prompt, and writes the semantic metadata back into the Obsidian frontmatter automatically. You get clean capture flow *and* structured annotations — without the cognitive overhead landing at the worst possible moment. The agent then queries against already-enriched notes rather than needing to infer type at retrieval time, which is both slower and less reliable. I'll be honest — I'm relatively new to Readwise myself so I haven't actually built this out yet, but this is roughly the architecture I've been picturing. And since neither of us has stress-tested the at-capture tagging approach in practice, it might be worth actually running both in parallel for a few weeks and seeing which annotations end up more accurate — your manual tags vs the post-sync enrichment pass. The MCP exposure piece is where I think the real leverage is regardless of which tagging approach wins. That's what makes it composable rather than just a better note-taking system.

The "Recently Read" inbox idea is genuinely good. My issue was always the linking part, once you've got 6 months of highlights across 40 books it stops feeling like connecting ideas and starts feeling like a chore. I actually got frustrated enough with this that I ended up building something that tries to solve exactly this, kind of like Readwise and Obsidian had a baby where the connections happen automatically without the manual work. Still early but it's been working well for my own reading workflow. Happy to share if you're curious.

Readwise → Obsidian → Agent that grows with you Readwise's "Chat with Highlights" is useful, but it's a walled garden — the intelligence stays inside Readwise and resets with every session. The more interesting play: sync every highlight into your Obsidian vault the moment it lands. Now your agent — OpenClaw, Hermes, whatever sits on top of that vault — doesn't just answer questions about your reading. It accumulates taste. Example: You highlight three separate paragraphs over two months — one from The Psychology of Money, one from a Naval thread, one from a Substack on FIRE math. Individually, they're notes. But an agent ingesting them incrementally starts to notice: this person is obsessed with time-as-wealth, not stuff-as-wealth. The next time you ask "should I take this consulting gig?", it doesn't give you a generic pros/cons list — it pushes back with your own pattern: "You've highlighted 11 things about optionality and zero about income maximization. Does this gig buy you time or cost you time?" That's the difference. Readwise Chat knows what you read. An agent hooked to a growing Obsidian vault starts to know how you think — and gets one calibration sharper with every sync. It's essentially a second brain that has read everything you've read, in the order you read it, and is watching the pattern emerge in real time.

I've been saving highlights for over a year now, across books, PDFs, and articles, but I've realized I almost never go back to them in a useful way. I'll re-read a highlight but it doesn't connect to anything else I've read. Curious how others handle this. Do you just trust the spaced repetition? Do you write notes on top of highlights? Or does your tool help you connect ideas across different books? Would love to know what's actually working for people, because right now my highlights feel like a graveyard. 😅

Hey all, the mods said you might be interested to know that after years of being tragically defunct, r/harpersferry is no longer a restricted subreddit! I'd like to build it into a central location for everything related to Harpers Ferry, WV. The history of the town includes visits from America's founding fathers to the rise & fall of the C&O Canal to its investiture as a National Park. And of course the Civil War had a profound impact on the town as well. More recently, local politics involves everything from the Hilltop Hotel to mayoral elections and historic commission debates. There are great spots in nature to explore, like Loudon Heights, the Appalachian Trail, the C&O towpath, and local paths like the Ridge Street Trail. Restaurants, bars, breweries, music venues, inns, & shops. Community organizations, events in town... I own a lot in Upper Town but am not (yet) a resident. I try to visit about once a month, as children and life allow. I used to teach history, and I was previously a moderator of [r/Obsidian](https://www.reddit.com/r/Obsidian/) and [r/Readwise](https://www.reddit.com/r/Readwise/) but have stepped back from those roles to focus on staying healthy enough to keep up with my husband on the trails. Before we had kids he was a hike leader for the Mid-Atlantic hiking group, and once our kids are a little older we hope to volunteer with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy and other community groups. If you have any photos of Harpers Ferry, or fun anecdotes about living in or visiting the town, or any interest in the town's history, please consider joining the subreddit and sharing them <3 I'm also working on building a routine of sharing local news and collecting stories about Harpers Ferry from Reddit :)

The first troubleshooting step to try is opening the command palette (Cmd+K on Mac, Ctrl+K on Windows) and running "clear search database and content cache." This rebuilds Reader's local search index and has fixed this for a number of users. If search is still not returning results after that, please write into [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) so that we can investigate the issue with your account.

Feel free to add your upvote to the feature request for [Daily Digest configurations](https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features/p/daily-digest-configurations). In the meantime, if you’re looking for a more immediate workaround and feel comfortable using AI tools (or don’t mind using something outside of Reader), you might find our [Readwise CLI or MCP](https://docs.readwise.io/tools) helpful. You can find a [usage examples](https://docs.readwise.io/tools/examples) that our team is starting to collect for these tools. For instance, getting a daily/weekly digest can give you the intelligently selected recommendations you're looking for.

I really, really like readwise and have moved most of my reading over to it and recommended it to my friends. I would like to be able to search by author or book title instead of an entire text search each time. Filtered views achieves some of this, but there is some friction as I really just want to open search type "author: name" or "tag: tag" and get what I need. I said this last month, but I'll say it again: bookmarks. Instead of sending me to the bottom of the document for footnotes or endnotes, it would be much smoother to surface them as inline popovers. I often highlight large paragraphs, but I'm not sure they ever appear in my highlight reviews--is there a text count window? Rank and classify highlights via importance or even relationally...e.g, main argument linked with supporting evidence similar to the .c1 .c2 feature. \-- I prefer reading physical books, partly because I find it easier to remember and mentally structure material in that format. There’s also research suggesting that print reading can support comprehension and recall in ways that differ from digital reading. But digital reading is just too convenient, which got me thinking about how the sort of embodiedness of reading a physical book or spatiality of a book could be, if it all, replicated in an app like this. I wonder if the developers think about this too. Some UI improvements for book reading view: * Show chapter number and title in the bottom progress area * Include distance-to-finish (pages or chapters remaining), not just overall percentage * In the top header, display both book title and author name together for clearer context. As a researcher I jump around books and sometimes forget the author of what I'm reading and would like to see it at a glance. When I open a book I would like it to pause on the cover and wait for me to click again before taking me back to where I left off reading. It would be useful to have a lightweight, temporary bookmark—similar to physically holding a page with a finger while flipping elsewhere in a book. This would let you jump to another section or reference something and then easily return to the exact spot without committing to a full bookmark. I can imagine a lot of different ways to implement this. A persistent visual representation of the book as a whole (like a spine or vertical strip) showing chapters as segment, your current position, and highlights or return points as markers. Maybe some way to visually represent areas that were densely highlighted/noted. When reopening a book, perhaps you could be given a small context card w/ visual marker of where you are in the book, chapter title, optional highlights, etc. Margin notes? I actually found that I prefer the continuous scroll instead of pages, but that breaks down the physicality even more. Anyway, maybe a lot of this is silly, but it's a great app and there's potential for so much more so just sharing some thoughts.

Strong wedge. I think the most defensible part is not summarization, but turning messy source material into a learning artifact with an actual recall loop. A few things I would pressure-test next: - source-grounded cards: every MCQ/flashcard should point back to the exact transcript/PDF/article span it came from - question quality labels: factual recall, concept check, application, trick/edge case, likely too easy, likely ambiguous - bad card feedback that updates the generator, not just deletes the card - spaced repetition export/import as a first-class flow, because a lot of learners already live in Anki/Obsidian/Readwise - privacy wording that is brutally clear: local vault/storage vs server-side inference are different trust promises - an eval set for generated questions, especially hallucinated answers, duplicate questions, and questions that can be answered without reading the source - a study pack output with summary, cited cards, quiz attempts, weak areas, and source links bundled together The key risk is that auto-generated quizzes can feel productive even when the questions are shallow. If Skimr can make card provenance and quality visible, the active-recall angle becomes much stronger than another summarize-this extension. This maps to how I am thinking about AgentMart too: reusable knowledge assets are more valuable when they include sources, expected outcomes, evals, and quality signals - not just generated notes.

I use calibre to manage my library, but I am struggling to find a good solution for my highlights. I do not want to rely on any webservices such as Readwise. If I import the highlights to Calibre, where are they stored? My Google search suggests that they are stored within the meta database file, and is not within any specific book folder. Is there any good way to organize them? I am curious to know what you guys do. thanks!

Hey u/No_Law_8054, thanks for sharing this! We've started tracking them as separate requests here: * [Support internal footnotes](https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features/p/support-internal-footnotes) * [Display footnotes in a popup module](https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features/p/display-footnotes-in-popup-module) * [Skip over non-essential elements when using TTS](https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features/p/skip-over-non-essential-elements-when-using-tts) Feel free to add your vote to each one, and we'll keep you posted on any updates!

Hey u/Local_Instance8177 Good find with MCP! That works well if you're already set up with it. That said, it's a bit of a power-user workaround: you need MCP connected, you have to manually ask Claude to save the conversation, and long chats can get truncated due to the context window in Claude filling up. A dedicated extension would be one-click and capture the full conversation. We're tracking this feature request to support importing highlights and chat conversations from other LLMs [here](https://readwise.canny.io/readwise/p/import-highlights-and-chat-conversations-from-other-llms). Upvote it if you'd like to see this, and feel free to mention Claude in the comments if that’s the LLM you’d most want us to support. We'll keep you posted if and when we ship this!

Hey u/badimtisch, we’re tracking this request to manage email subscriptions from the Manage feeds page [here](https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features/p/manage-email-subscriptions-from-manage-feeds-page). Feel free to upvote it there, and we’ll keep you posted if and when we ship this. In the meantime, as u/blankonthedraw suggested, you can use a filtered view with `feed:true AND type:email` to show all emails sent to your Feed. cc: u/what_time

Hey everyone! I recently took over r/harpersferry because it was impossible for redditors to actually get answers about Harpers Ferry as restricted subreddit that hadn't been touched by its original founders for years. As part of the "new mod process," Reddit encourages putting together a little primer about the changes, so here goes... **Community Vibe** I'd like to build r/harpersferry into a central location for everything related to Harpers Ferry, WV. The history of the town includes visits from America's founding fathers to the rise & fall of the C&O Canal to its investiture as a National Park. There's local politics, from the Hilltop Hotel to mayoral elections and historic commission debates. There are hikes, like Maryland Heights, the Appalachian Trail, the C&O towpath, and local paths like the Ridge Street Trail. Restaurants, bars, breweries, music venues, inns, & shops. Community organizations, events in town, and more. **A Bit About Me** I own an empty lot in upper town but am not (yet) a resident. I try to visit about once a month, as children and life allow. I used to teach history, and I was previously a moderator of r/Obsidian and r/Readwise but have stepped back from those roles to focus on staying healthy enough to keep up with my husband on the trails. Before we had kids he was a hike leader for the Mid-Atlantic hiking group, and once our kids are a little older we hope to volunteer with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. **The Plan** Over the coming weeks I plan to reach out to (more) folks who have posted about Harpers Ferry to let them know this sub is now public and available. I'll also update the sidebar with "related subreddits" (like r/WestVirginia and r/AppalachianTrail) , and probably put together a sticked thread with resources for things around town (like the Park Service website). I'll also continue cross-posting related threads from other subreddits, and sharing anything relevant I come across. If there's something in particular you'd like me to do, please let me know in the comments. Right now I'm keeping flairs pretty simple, but as time goes on I'm sure a better organizational structure will suggest itself. **How to Get Started** 1. Please introduce yourself in the comments, and share what you're interested in. 2. Make a new post! Even a simple question or photo can spark a great conversation. 3. If you know someone who would appreciate this community, invite them to join.

I went down this rabbit hole a while back trying to do on-device notes from client calls, and the two things that bit me were edge cases and trust. I ended up recording with the stock Voice Recorder, then piping files into my own Whisper-based toy app, but I kept hitting weird failures with long files and low battery, so I started focusing on: what happens when the OS kills you mid-transcription, and how do you resume cleanly without corrupting state. I found it way easier once I treated each file as a job with a simple state machine (queued, processing, partial, done, failed) and stored progress + partial text every few minutes so I never lost more than a tiny chunk. On the tooling side, I cycled between Otter and Notta, and weirdly ended up on Pulse for Reddit after trying Readwise Reader and Mailbrew just so I could track niche Android threads like this and steal UX ideas from real users’ complaints.

I feel that sometimes using productivity apps gives me a kick more than doing the actual work. Some apps work sometimes, the other ones work on and off based on how bored I have gotten of using the current app. I ruthlessly cut the dead weight, and here are the only 5 paid apps that survived: * [Todoist Pro](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/todoist-to-do-list-calendar/id572688855)**:** I gladly pay a monthly fee for the privilege of having every single one of my devices yell at me when I ignore a task. Plus, the gamified "karma points" are the only thing validating my existence right now. * [Subcut](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/subcut-subscription-tracker/id6758765733)**:** The irony of using an app to manage my app spending isn't lost on me. You just upload a bank statement and it mercilessly exposes all the ghost subscriptions bleeding you dry. It basically bullied me into saving a few hundred bucks on day one. * [Readwise](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/readwise/id1476885528)**:** I pay a subscription so it can randomly text me quotes from books I barely skimmed three years ago. Gives me unearned intellectual confidence at dinner parties. * [Raycast Pro](https://www.raycast.com/pro)**:** I am paying for a fancy search bar because moving my right hand off the keyboard to use a mouse feels like peasant work at this point. * [Brain.fm](https://www.brain.fm/)**:** I pay $50 a year for scientifically engineered beeps and boops. Working in total silence forces me to confront my own thoughts, and frankly, nobody has time for that. I wonder how much you guys spend on average on productivity apps?

Good question. Apple Notes is great for note-taking, and honestly, if that’s all someone needs, it’s probably the better free option. Resurf is trying to solve a slightly different problem. It’s more of a personal context library where you can quickly capture links, PDFs, images, videos, notes, screenshots, and references in one place. A few differences: \- You can capture different types of material, not just text notes \- You can read articles inside the app with built-in reader/web view \- You can view PDFs and media without jumping between apps- \- You can organize context around projects, research, ideas, or inspiration using Spaces and tags \- There’s optional BYOK AI chat, so you can later ask questions across the things you saved \- AI tagging can help organize your library with less manual work I’d describe it as somewhere between Obsidian, mymind, and Readwise Reader, but local-first and focused on a polished Mac experience. On price, I agree it’s not cheap compared to free/bundled apps. I’m a design engineer myself, so I care a lot about making Resurf feel well-crafted, fast, and thoughtfully designed, not just functional. That takes time, and as an indie developer, the price helps me keep building it properly and sustainably.

i saw karpathy’s gist on an “llm wiki”: [https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f](https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f) the idea is that instead of just searching your notes when you ask something, an llm could slowly build a structured wiki from your saved articles, notes, highlights, clips, etc. that made me think about my own problem: i save a lot of useful stuff, but rarely revisit it. sometimes i remember “there was this one article/video that made this exact point” but i can’t find it when i need it. if an llm had access to everything you’ve saved over the years, what would you actually want it to surface? somethings i was thinking of - \- connections between ideas \- old saved stuff at the right moment \- contradictions in my thinking \- how my views changed over time? \- auto-generated topic pages? any thoughts on what you would use it for?

The 5-item cap on initial feed imports is actually by design. When you first subscribe to a source, Reader limits the backlog to 5 items to keep your account from getting flooded with potentially hundreds of older posts right away. Everything published after that point will come through automatically, so you're all set going forward. That said, we hear you on wanting to pull in more upfront, and [we're tracking that request](https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features/p/import-more-than-5-documents-when-subscribing-to-an-rss-feed). Feel free to add your vote and we'll reach out if/when we implement a way to import more items on the initial add. As a potential workaround, you can manually add older posts to Reader [using the browser extension](https://docs.readwise.io/reader/docs/saving-content#save-from-the-web-with-the-browser-extension) or the [share sheet on mobile](https://docs.readwise.io/reader/docs/saving-content#save-on-mobile-with-your-devices-share-menu).

Twitter: We do currently have a new system to import tweets as we're waiting for the Twitter API to be fixed. Importing tweets works, but it may take a bit longer than usual to import into your account. If you write into to us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]), then we can take a closer look for you. Newsletters: Forwarding them to your [custom email address](https://docs.readwise.io/reader/docs/faqs/email-newsletters) is reliable. Once you set up forwarding from your email client, newsletters land directly in your Reader inbox. Substack: [How can I subscribe to Substack newsletters in Reader?](https://docs.readwise.io/reader/docs/faqs/email-newsletters#how-can-i-subscribe-to-substack-newsletters-in-reader) Highlighting in the Substack app: You'll need to do your highlighting inside Reader itself. Once you're reading a Substack post in Reader (via email forwarding or the browser extension), any highlights you make there will sync to Readwise automatically. Highlights made in Substack will not be saved in Reader. Obsidian: It's one of the most used integrations. Read more about how Readwise works with Obsidian: [How does the Readwise to Obsidian export integration work?](https://docs.readwise.io/readwise/docs/exporting-highlights/obsidian)

👉 [https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features/p/pagination-for-pdfs-in-original-view](https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features/p/pagination-for-pdfs-in-original-view) This should be a very simple improvement. You open a PDF and tap to go to the next page, as you do with all other formats. It's strange that this has been missing for so long. It makes Reader inferior to other readers, such as NeoReader.

Alright, so got my iPad and need help with second brain which is easy, free and repeatable. My core use case is storing information (highlivhts) with source from various sources in correct pre designed folders and that system being able to be connected to lets say claude code for smoother connections and mapping. I have looked through countless videos nothing clicked. For eg - if im watching YouTube video in the transcript what worked .. In ebooks or news app or news articles of news app dont work...largely will be any ebook reader and news articles (if news apps domt work) and web browser articles and YouTube videos or lets say insta links? I saw readwise but it is paid...obsidian is good place but sync across devices as well as text sync is problematic ....apple notes is good but dont go with read wise...slightly manic

Hey u/what_time! That makes sense that less-frequent newsletters can get buried amongst noisy ones. We're tracking the feature request to [manage email subscriptions from Manage Feeds page](https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features/p/manage-email-subscriptions-from-manage-feeds-page), so feel free to add your upvote so that you'll be notified of any progress. In the meantime, a [filtered view](https://docs.readwise.io/reader/docs/faqs/filtered-views#what-are-filtered-views) for your email subscriptions will surface them in the left-hand panel so they don't get drowned out.

Hey u/sankofastyle! For auto-scrolling, could you make sure you're on the latest version of the desktop app? If the issue persists, could you write to us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) to dig further? For TTS's last position, we'll also need you to reach out to us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) so that we can get document ID and your account information to pass along to our engineers to investigate.

Currently on the trial and trying to figure out if Readwise actually fits my setup before I commit to paying for it. My reading life is pretty scattered. Heavy Twitter/X user, follow a ton of Substack writers, have an embarrassing number of newsletters hitting my inbox, and I use Obsidian as my second brain for everything. Readwise seemed like the glue that could tie all of this together, especially the Obsidian sync which looks genuinely great on paper. But the Twitter tagging highlight flow has never once worked for me. I tag @readwise on a tweet or thread, nothing shows up. No confirmation, no highlight in my inbox, just silence. Tried it maybe a dozen times across different tweets and threads. Disconnected and reconnected the integration. Nothing. A few honest questions for people who've actually settled into using this: \- Is the Twitter/X tagging just dead at this point given the API situation? Should I stop expecting it to work? \- For heavy newsletter readers, is the email inbox parsing actually reliable or does it miss a lot? \- Substack specifically -- are you using the RSS route or the email route, and which works better? I follow a mix of free and paid publications and genuinely cannot tell which path handles paid content cleanly. Does Readwise hit a paywall on paid posts or does being a subscriber sort that out? I've seen conflicting things and want to know the actual current state, not what worked two years ago. \- On Substack highlights specifically -- if you highlight inside the Substack app or web reader, does that sync back into Readwise automatically or is that a one way street? \- Obsidian sync is the feature I'm most excited about. Is it as good as it looks in the demos? I want this to work. The concept is exactly what I need and the Obsidian integration alone might justify it. But if the Twitter piece is permanently broken I want to know upfront rather than find out after I've paid. What's the honest verdict from people who use a similar stack?

Hey u/SickMedicine and u/CallMeAbra, feel free to upvote the bookmark feature request [here](https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features/p/bookmark-places-in-documents), and we’ll keep you posted on any updates! Time left in the current chapter is already supported. If you enable long-form reading view for EPUBs (Account > Long-form defaults > EPUBs), tapping the lower bar will let you switch between reading percentage, time left in the chapter, and time left in the book.

Hey u/Thesis_2026, thanks for flagging this. If you were working with a PDF, keyboard shortcuts don’t currently work in Original view due to limitations in how those files are rendered. If you [switch to Text view](https://docs.readwise.io/reader/docs/faqs/pdfs#how-do-i-customize-the-appearance-of-a-pdf-while-reading), or use other document types, shortcuts should work as expected. We’d love to support keyboard shortcuts on PDFs in Original view as the underlying technology evolves, and we’ve started tracking requests for this [here](https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features/p/enable-keyboard-shortcuts-for-pdfs). Feel free to add your vote, and we’ll keep you posted on any updates. As for Ghostreader, we’ve recently updated it on desktop and web. It now lives in the Chat section in the right side panel. To use Ghostreader on a specific highlight, you can press `G` or use the three-dot menu in the annotation bar and select `Chat about this` . Feel free to reach out at [[email protected]]() if anything else comes up!

constantly. issue isn't note-taking, it's that "i saw this" can be in 6 places: notes, bookmarks, youtube history, slack, kindle highlights, twitter likes. each has its own search and most don't index the body, only titles. couple things that helped me reduce it: - one capture surface for anything i actively want to remember. doesn't matter what tool, but if it lives in obsidian \*and\* readwise \*and\* a tab group it lives nowhere. the act of "do i save this in tool X" is what makes it findable later. - hybrid search across that surface. just keyword fails when you remember the gist not the words. just embeddings fail when you remember the exact phrase. tools that intersect both (DEVONthink, Recoll, anything that does "semantic + keyword") dig things up that pure-text grep misses. - a recent-history fallback. arc/zen/firefox history search is underrated for "i saw it on the web in the last week". i'm building loombrain partly because i wanted a single graph that ate captures from chat, browser, notes and had hybrid retrieval. but the methodology bit (one surface + hybrid) matters more than the tool you pick.

Hey u/No-Dragonfruit3534! When you add new highlights to Readwise, they get appended to the bottom of the page rather than slotted into their original spot, so they can end up out of order. If you want them back in the order they appear in your Kindle book, you just need to refresh the highlights: 1. Go to your [Books list view](https://readwise.io/books) 2. Click the down arrow next to the book 3. Hit "Refresh highlights" (or "Delete book" if that's the only option visible) 4. Then re-sync your Kindle highlights (either by emailing them in again or re-uploading) That should put everything back in proper reading order.

Hey u/beausoleil! For the connection issue, just disconnect Google Docs/NotebookLM over on the [Export page](https://readwise.io/export) and reconnect. That should kick start the sync for you again. Subfolder exports aren't available yet as everything lands in the Readwise folder we create. Feel free to [upvote here](https://readwise.canny.io/readwise/p/notebooklm-customizable-template) and we'll let you know if it makes it in.

Do you have a specific feature you would love to see incorporated into Reader or Readwise? Check out the list of [Reader features](https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features) and list of [Readwise 1.0 features](https://readwise.canny.io/readwise) we’re considering and feel free to upvote! Want to see features we’ve recently shipped? Check out our most recent [December Beta Update](https://readwise.io/reader/update-dec2025). Don’t see a feature you want? Share it in the comments below ⬇️ *We will refresh this pinned post on the first week of every month.* Please familiarize yourself with [our subreddit rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/readwise/about/rules) before posting. Thanks!

In an effort to keep this subreddit organized, we will utilize this pinned post to answer your bug-related questions. We also post a [weekly changelog](https://www.reddit.com/r/readwise/?f=flair_name%3A%22Changelog%22) where we share all the bugs our devs have fixed in the previous week. If you believe you’ve hit a bug with either Readwise or Reader, feel free to post it in the comments below so that our team can help. **If you’re experiencing a bug that is specific to a document, highlights, or note-taking app, please email** [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) **as we will need your account details to troubleshoot.** *We will refresh this post the first week of every month.* Please familiarize yourself with our [subreddit rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/readwise/about/rules) before posting. Thanks!

Just found this thread... IMHO the screen thing is overstated. Yes, it's cool that paper has "spatial memory" --ou remember where on the page something was, what was on the facing page, how thick the rest of the book felt in your hand. Kindle gives you none of that--but it's not THAT big of a deal. Bigger issue is that highlighting feels like progress but it's mostly a way to feel productive. I checked mine after two years of heavy Kindle reading and had over 4,000 highlights I'd never looked at twice. What actually helped: reading with a specific question I wanted answered (not "to finish"), and forcing myself to re-encounter the highlights. Readwise was the obvious option, Matter is cheaper, I switched to Chapterly (dot)ai because it just texts me one a day and I don't have to open another app to use it. The pick doesn't matter much. You just HAVE to revisit and read actively.

I used to use TTS a lot. But it seemed to get worse quite a while ago. The screen doesn't always track with the text and navigating the reader and jumping around trying to use TTS isn't great. The quality of voices used to be GREAT, but now the competition is better. I mostly use the free Eleven Reader app now. It does enough for me. I can't take notes as well as within Reader, but I don't take that many notes. The promise of improved notes workflow hasn't really worked out for me because of my evolving system. I'm seriously thinking about dropping the subscription because what I used it mostly for has been replaced by Eleven Reader. I'd much prefer to do everything within Readwise Reader, but the TTS experience has degraded over time. It could be how I'm using it. Maybe I started pushing it harder because I liked it so much...

**ACCIDENTAL HIGHLIGHTS** ・ I can’t imagine a scenario where highlights are accidentally created in Reader without recognizing it happening; the only thing I can think of is to “Toggle autohighlighting” (in More menu when reading a document). **BOOKS ONLY** ・ I ended up writing my own CLI tool for Reader → Obsidian rather than using the official plugin, this was originally part of the reason why. That and I wanted ***atomic*** highlights that are note-per-highlight instead of note-per-source, since it’s more the way I think and it let’s Datacore and Bases work much more naturally with highlights. If you know you’re way around code/APIs (or AI tools, carefully), it’s relatively trivial to filter highlights by the parent document’s category, and probably even easier since the release of the new **[Readwise CLI](https://readwise.io/cli)**.

That viruses mainly spread by surfaces and large droplets. NO! Many, even covid, spread by *aerosols*, particles so small they hang in the air like smog or cigarette smoke (potentially for hours after the infectious person left the room!) *"The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill":* https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/ If that's paywalled, maybe: https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01gqbgawqd9ev1gpm2qkrpd24z/

If you get your books from other sources, then Kobo is the way to go If you use Reader and Readwise, Kobo is the way to go.  If you like having control over the UX of your device, Kobo is the way to go In all seriousness, the fact that I can increase the font of my books on Kindle, but not the library interface is my main frustration. Having to put my glasses on the navigate to the book I want to read, then taking them off again to read, putting them back on to adjust settings... Nope. 

The examples have me dead 💀 that’s literally me and I write like 300+ notes when I’m reading because I’m insane, not to mention I’m constantly making typos on it too. And I just noticed the other day that it was saving it like that in my clippings 😭 I use Readwise though so it’s not THAT big of a deal (i guess) but It still annoys me. I always liked that I had my clippings just in case, and it’s giving me anxiety that they’re all messed up like that.

How is anyone using this effectively? In the normal course of reading my feed, I often accidentally highlight something in the article, at least once every few days. It seems to usually be an image that I don't even notice. Then when my readwise->obsidian sync happens, I end up with a ton of sync'd article highlights where the highlight is just an image. I can't figure out way to only sync book highlights, which I'd love to have, since those at least are intentional, so instead I get a ton of article clutter in my Obsidian notebook. Anyone have any tips to resolve this? Thanks! [Useless article highlights in Obsidian](https://i.redd.it/3sovjvnwy6yg1.gif)

I would like to designate when adding a highlight manually whether it is part of a book or article. Right now every highlight added manually everything dumps into books, and I don’t see a workaround via email addition to get things into articles. My use case is primarily excerpts from newspaper articles on newspapers dot com, image-text which needs to be OCRed before it can be added to Readwise. I usually go through apple photos which has great character reading ability.

Hi, Ive started Uni 2 months ago and still haven't been able to pick up a good pdf reading/annotation software. Ive been using Readwise Reader but haven't been satisfied due to it only being a browser application and keeping the files with annotations in their own cloud. What I am looking for is: * A Free, Open Source Pdf reader and editor * being able to highlight, add annotations and export highlights with annotations * a editor that makes the highlights in the document itself, so that I can switch if I want to (I am pointing this out because reader doesn't) * A editor that will work on MacOs and iPad OS/IOS I looked into Citation software such as Zotero but it seemed overkill as well as them storing the documents in their own cloud AGAIN. Ive already tried PDFgear but there seems to be some suspiciousness around it. Ive also looked into LibreOffice but the iPad OS version seems to be wonky. I am looking forward to your suggestions :) Edit: I also want a good stable OCR, but I don't need a new body of text, I need it to work within the document.

Hi, Ive started Uni 2 months ago and still haven't been able to pick up a good pdf reading/annotation software. Ive been using Readwise Reader but haven't been satisfied due to it only being a browser application and keeping the files with annotations in their own cloud. What I am looking for is: * A Free, Open Source Pdf reader and editor * being able to highlight, add annotations and export highlights with annotations * a editor that makes the highlights in the document itself, so that I can switch if I want to (I am pointing this out because reader doesn't) * A editor that will work on MacOs and iPad OS/IOS I looked into Citation software such as Zotero but it seemed overkill as well as them storing the documents in their own cloud AGAIN. Ive already tried PDFgear but there seems to be some suspiciousness around it. Ive also looked into LibreOffice but the iPad OS version seems to be wonky. I am looking forward to your suggestions :) Edit: I also want a good stable OCR, but I don't need a new body of text, I need it to work within the document.

Hey folks, happy Tuesday! Time to check out [the latest changelog](https://docs.readwise.io/changelog#april-24-2026) here on Reddit. The idea is to help keep y'all in the loop of what the Readwise developers are getting out into the world. Here's what we shipped last week: * 📥 **NEW! OPML Import via Share Sheet** — Arek added direct OPML sharing to Reader on iOS. If you're moving from another RSS or podcast app, you can now export your subscriptions as OPML and share them straight to Reader without needing to swap to a computer for the upload. * 🏷️ **NEW! Tagged Highlights List** — Mati added a new view in Reader mobile for browsing your highlights grouped by tag, making it easier to revisit everything you've marked with a specific label. * 🟡 **Fixed Duplicate Highlights** — Artem fixed a bug where EPUB documents were generating duplicate highlights in some cases. Highlights should now only save once. * 🔐 **Fixed iOS Share Sheet Login** — Tristan fixed a regression where the iOS share sheet told users to "Log in to Readwise Reader" even when they were already signed in. You can now share links into Reader from iOS without the false login prompt. * 📡 **Fixed Feed Sidebar** — Tristan fixed two Reader iOS regressions caused by a recent upgrade: the RSS folder chevron was rotated wrong, and the Feed row in the sidebar wasn't rendering. Both are back in place. * ✨ **Fixed Reader Onboarding** — Artem restored the share-onboarding image and fixed icon alignment on Reader's onboarding screen, both of which had regressed after a recent change. New users should see a clean onboarding flow again. * 👆 **Fixed Highlight Tap** — Adam fixed a bug where tapping a highlight caused the annotation bar to flash on and off. Highlight taps should now feel steadier. * 🛜 **Parsing Updates** — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from [thurrott.com](http://thurrott.com/) and [howtogeek.com](http://howtogeek.com/), tightened custom-domain mapping to avoid false positives, and made Reader's parser more reliable on long-running sessions. If you'd like to get the Changelog in your inbox, check out our [WiseUp! newsletter](https://wiseup.readwise.io/about/), where the Readwise team shares answers to common questions, video tutorials and guides, highlights of our latest improvements, and a couple of lighthearted extras we think you’ll enjoy. And as always, feel free to let us know if you have any questions, tho realistically we're going to see an in-app bug report or question faster :>

I went through the same doomscroll loop and none of the “blocker” tricks worked for me either. What finally helped was tying my phone unlock to a tiny, pre-picked action: one page of a book in Readwise Reader, one 5–10 min kettlebell set, or a 3-breath box breathing drill. The key was: zero decision-making. If I had to choose, I was back on Reddit. What I found useful was batching temptation: I set focus modes so socials only unlock 2 short windows a day, and I physically moved those apps to a hidden folder on the last page so there’s friction plus that “mini-task before scroll” rule. On the product side, I love that you’re doing no feeds and fixed tracks. I’d experiment with “if you unlock during a blocked window, you must do a 60-second Unskroll task first.” I had a similar flow when I played with One Sec and Opal, and I weirdly ended up on Pulse for Reddit after trying RescueTime and Forest so I could see which subs were actually hijacking my attention and reply more intentionally instead of just lurking.

I used to run a pretty typical stack. Notion for notes, Todoist for tasks, Readwise for articles, and a few other tools scattered around. The monthly bill crept up to about forty dollars without me really noticing. The bigger issue was that nothing talked to each other. I'd save something and forget where I put it, or duplicate notes across apps because I couldn't remember which system I'd used. The fragmentation cost more time than the money did. I moved everything into Reseek about six months ago. It handles bookmarks, PDFs, random screenshots, and notes in one place, and the search actually finds things based on what I meant rather than exact keywords. I still use a separate calendar and Slack for work chat, but the knowledge side is unified now. My total tool spend dropped to around fifteen dollars monthly. More importantly I stopped losing track of stuff I'd already saved. For me that single-search layer was the piece that made consolidation actually work instead of just trading one mess for another.

I don't keep literature notes at all in the traditional sense. I take inline notes and highlight using Readwise, and those get imported automatically into my vault. If you're interested in Zettelkasten I highly recommend the book "A System for Writing" by Bob Doto. It's the only book that really made the method make sense to me. He's also a fellow redditor, very active in r/Zettelkasten and elsewhere.

ngl i wanted the same thing with the toolbar popping up. stock remarkable doesn't let you hide it by default but tapping once anywhere on the page makes it disappear after a second. for the folder thing - if you use the remarkable chrome extension or share from the mobile app you can pick a destination folder each time. it's not automatic but better than top level. some people use a service like readwise but that's overkill.

I went through something similar when I realized I was doomscrolling “smart” content and retaining nothing. What helped me was treating it like a course with tiny, explicit outcomes per session: “after 10 cards I can explain X in 2 sentences.” I’d bake that into your paths: each chapter should answer “what can you now do or explain?” not just “you saw some cool ideas.” I’d also add tiny prompts every few cards that force recall, like “rephrase this in your own words” or “how would this apply to your job?” I found that single reflection step made stuff stick way more than gamified XP. On tools, I bounced between Readwise Reader and Mem for this kind of thing and ended up on Pulse for Reddit after trying those plus Mailbrew, mostly because Pulse for Reddit caught threads where people were sharing niche, high-signal resources I could then turn into mini learning paths.

I ran into the same “signups but no real usage” wall with a research-heavy tool. What helped was forcing myself to watch 5–10 people go from “I just signed up” to “I tried to do one concrete job.” I sat on Zoom, asked them what they were currently writing, then did the ugly parts for them: pulling their notes, pasting in transcripts, structuring the project while they narrated what they wanted. From that, I learned two things: first task has to be insanely small and pre-scoped. Stuff like “drop in one article or doc and I’ll give you a 3-part outline and 3 angles.” No projects, no folders, no decisions. Second, auto-capture really matters. I wired in Readwise and a basic Gmail forward before I even did a Chrome extension. For discovery/feedback, I bounced between Product Hunt, Indie Hackers, and ended up on Pulse for Reddit after trying GummySearch and Hypefury, since it actually caught threads where people were whining about the prep work before writing, which gave me way sharper onboarding ideas.

I'm struggling with managing/processing my read later pile of articles found through RSS feeds. I think I'm still mourning the loss of google reader and searching for functionality I used to have back in the day... I'm new to Inoreader, over from Readwise, mainly because I wanted to be able to create a feed of my read later pile to share with a couple of people rather than spamming them with links. I'm currently using the beta/new version of reader on macOS, using Vivaldi. Happy to switch to the old version if it will give me what I need (unless that's going to be switched off soon). Anyway, I love the functionality of being able to create feeds of your tags or folders; but I can't see that the feeds show any of your annotations/highlights, nor do the exports (other than to readwise, in which case you ONLY get the highlights, not the rest of the article, and the issue with that was that I couldn't share a feed from readwise). Am i being a complete n00b and missing something obvious, or is it not possible to have an RSS feed or html snippet which shows your annotations in the same way as it does if you download the PDFs of your annotations? Also, is it possible to archive "processed" read later articles from the article itself and/or on mobile, or can this only be done from the read later page? Or can anyone recommend a similar service which will do all of these things instead? Thanks in advance.

I'm new to Inoreader, over from Readwise, mainly because I wanted to be able to create a feed of my read later pile to share with a couple of people rather than spamming them with links. I'm currently using the beta/new version of reader on macOS, using Vivaldi. Happy to switch to the old version if it will give me what I need (unless that's going to be switched off soon). Anyway, I love the functionality of being able to create feeds of your tags or folders; but I can't see that the feeds show any of your annotations/highlights, nor do the exports (other than to readwise, in which case you ONLY get the highlights, not the rest of the article, and the issue with that was that I couldn't share a feed from readwise). Am i being a complete n00b and missing something obvious, or is it not possible to have an RSS feed or html snippet which shows your annotations in the same way as it does if you download the PDFs of your annotations? Also, is it possible to archive "processed" read later articles from the article itself and/or on mobile, or can this only be done from the read later page? Thanks in advance.

The split between private think and public share is clean logic. The gap I see is the middle step — how does an MOC "mature" into something Gamma-ready? That transition from messy connected notes to a coherent shareable structure is where the system quietly breaks down. Readwise feeds in, Gamma outputs, but the actual synthesis work in Obsidian sounds like it still depends entirely on your own discipline to know when something is done. Do you have a criterion for "done," or is it intuition?

the friction surface is your weak spot. three tools = three sync states + three places truth could be. obsidian + readwise + gamma each have different "did i save it?" answers depending on which app you opened. biggest leak: readwise is great for highlights/articles, weak for fleeting captures. where do "thought i had walking the dog" notes go? if they go to obsidian directly via mobile, readwise stops being your "capture" layer and becomes your "import" layer. those are different things and worth separating in your own model. gamma is doing a lot of work for what i bet is occasional output. in the past 18 months, how many things you "thought" actually got published as gamma decks vs. just lived as obsidian notes you referenced? if the ratio is low, gamma is rented infrastructure for an underused workflow. quartz or any md-to-static-site does the same job free if your sharing format is mostly docs/posts not slides. what i'd add: a verifier loop. once a quarter, count notes that surfaced via search/backlinks vs. notes that just sat. anything below \~10% surface-rate is a candidate for archive-and-stop-capturing. tools matter way less than what culling discipline does to retrieval signal.

been refining for 18 months. here's the logic: **1/ readwise** → captures highlights from kindle, articles, podcasts. firehose in. **2/ obsidian** → private vault. atomic notes, MOCs, daily notes. where thinking happens. **3/ gamma** → public layer. when an MOC matures into something shareable (course, talk, guide), i export it visually. obsidian publish felt clunky for non-obsidian audiences. notion felt wrong for thinking. this stack finally split "private think" from "public share." what's broken? what am i over-engineering? what's the one tool you'd add or cut?

been refining for 18 months. here's the logic: **1/ readwise** → captures highlights from kindle, articles, podcasts. firehose in. **2/ obsidian** → private vault. atomic notes, MOCs, daily notes. where thinking happens. **3/ gamma** → public layer. when an MOC matures into something shareable (course, talk, guide), i export it visually. obsidian publish felt clunky for non-obsidian audiences. notion felt wrong for thinking. this stack finally split "private think" from "public share." what's broken? what am i over-engineering? what's the one tool you'd add or cut?

Reading on Kobo for a couple of years already. Highlighted hundreds of passages across maybe 80+ books. Never once went back to look at them. Last week I figured out where Kobo stores them (KoboReader.sqlite in the .kobo folder when you connect via USB) and pulled everything out. 400+ highlights, plus all the reflections I’d written next to them. Reading my own notes from 2 years ago was strange. I’d written things I completely forgot thinking. Some passages I’d marked as important meant nothing to me now. Others hit harder the second time around. Made me realize highlighting is kind of a promise to your future self that you never keep. The highlight gets saved, and then it just sits there forever. So I’m decide to build a small iOS app for myself and that pulls in your Kobo, Kindle, and Readwise highlights into one library and shows you one forgotten quote a day on your home screen, also lets you add reflections. I’m running a small TestFlight beta soon and looking for a few people to try it before launch. If you’ve got Kobo/Kindle/Readwise highlights sitting unused and 15 minutes to test the import flow, I’d be really grateful for the help 🙏🏻

I've been building a highlight browser for e-readers and wanted to share it here since this community is exactly who it's for. It was born out of my own frustration of not having a tool that did exactly this and I hope some of you will find it useful. **What it is** [Luminaria](https://luminaria.uk) lets you browse, search and export all the highlights from your Kobo, KOReader, Kindle or Readwise in one place. The core is local-first — you can import your highlights, browse everything by book, export to Obsidian, and tag passages without ever creating an account or entering any data. **Privacy** I'm a privacy lawyer by background and that's shaped how the product works. If you choose to get a sync token (free), we collect your email address and nothing else. No tracking cookies, no analytics, no ads — ever. We technically cannot read your highlights because they're stored encrypted against your token. The sync token is optional — you don't need it to use the core product. **What the sync token unlocks (free)** - Sync highlights across browsers and devices automatically - Manual sync from KOReader via the plugin - Highlights from multiple KOReader devices merge rather than conflict — if two devices sync they combine rather than overwrite Core functionality is free and always will be. Premium features exist to cover hosting costs, not to paywall the basics. **For anyone who's used it before** If you're using the KOReader plugin, please update to the latest version — v1.1.0 adds silent sync while reading (no notification overlay when a book is open), smart change detection so unchanged highlights don't re-upload, and a clearer message when you hit the free sync limit. **What's coming** - Custom theme gallery — Rivendell and Mordor themes already in progress - Kobo NickelMenu plugin for native firmware users who don't use KOReader - Support for additional devices and firmware Happy to answer any questions. If you try it and hit any issues let me know. [luminaria.uk](https://luminaria.uk). Thanks!

Honestly, the most underrated ones aren’t the flashiest: Readwise — resurfaces highlights from books and articles daily. Passive knowledge retention most people skip entirely. Excalidraw — thinking tool disguised as a whiteboard. Faster than any mind-mapping app for untangling complex problems. Reclaim.ai — auto-schedules your tasks and focus blocks around meetings. Underused by most, genuinely saves hours weekly. Loom — async video messaging cuts meeting load significantly once your team adopts it. But honestly the biggest productivity unlock most people overlook is a well-structured tracker — knowing exactly what’s in progress, what’s blocked, and what’s next across your projects. Most people use scattered notes and memory, then wonder why things slip. A clean client and project management system often does more than any new app. The pattern across all good productivity tools: they reduce the decisions you make daily. Less deciding, more doing.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

When I first started, I tried using Zotero. It was too clunky for me, even though I used it in grad school 15 years ago. I switched over to using Readwise and their Reader app for saving digital articles. If I highlight in them, the highlights get saved for review. I know this is outside the Antinet approach, but it works better for me. I tag my index cards with Re:Ref to note that the reading is saved in Readwise, rather than my Bib cards.

if youre already bouncing between OCR tools and readwise and notion, that whole pipeline is kinda exhausting. reseek does the extraction plus tagging plus search in one spot so youre not manually shuttling PDFs around. i dumped all my scanned textbooks in there and the semantic search actually finds stuff i forgot i highlighted. still use readwise for kindle stuff tho, not gonna replace everything.

I went through a similar “can’t finish a book anymore” phase and RSVP readers were weirdly the only thing that broke the doomscroll loop for me. What helped was treating it like intervals instead of a magic fix: short high-WPM bursts, then dropping the speed and replaying tricky parts so comprehension didn’t tank. I also found chunking by phrase instead of pure single words made fiction feel less robotic, but single-word is great for dense non‑fiction or articles. If you ever add keyboard nudges to quickly rewind 5–10 seconds, that’s clutch when attention slips. On my end I used Readwise Reader for articles, Moon+ for epubs, and ended up on Pulse for Reddit after trying a few tracking tools because it caught reading-related threads I would have totally missed. Curious if OP’s thinking about a “streaks” or “sessions” view so people can see they actually spent 20–30 minutes reading and not just scrolling again.

I use Obsidian for notes. Notion for projects. Readwise for highlights. But Reddit? 800 saved posts sitting in a flat, unsearchable, unlabeled list. No metadata. No tags. No way to connect anything. It was the one part of my knowledge system I had completely given up on. Last week I needed to find some posts I'd saved about spaced repetition. Couldn't remember the title, subreddit, or when I saved them. Typed to an AI agent: *"find my saved posts about spaced repetition"* Found them in seconds. Labeled and organized instantly. The best Reddit insights are now part of my actual PKM system instead of dying in a saved list nobody visits. Anyone else treating Reddit saves as a separate, forgotten silo?

I use Obsidian for notes. Notion for projects. Readwise for highlights. But Reddit? 800 saved posts sitting in a flat, unsearchable, unlabeled list. No metadata. No tags. No way to connect anything. It was the one part of my knowledge system I had completely given up on. Last week I needed to find some posts I'd saved about spaced repetition. Couldn't remember the title, subreddit, or when I saved them. Typed to an AI agent: *"find my saved posts about spaced repetition"* Found them in seconds. Labeled and organized instantly. The best Reddit insights are now part of my actual PKM system instead of dying in a saved list nobody visits. Anyone else treating Reddit saves as a separate, forgotten silo?

Depends on whether your books are **ePub** (from the Books store) or **PDF** (especially scanned image-PDFs you imported). Different fix for each. **For ePub books (Apple Books store purchases):** Use the built-in highlighter — long-press text → Highlight → pick a color. Then in any book, tap the notes icon (dog-ear) → see all highlights in one list → share/export to Notes, Mail, or a .txt file. Zero friction, Apple just hid it well. Even better: **Readwise** reads your Apple Books highlights automatically and pipes them to Notion, Obsidian, Notes, or just a daily review email. $8/mo but it's the highlight-workflow people use when they're serious about retention. **For PDF books (especially scanned ones):** This is where Apple Books is terrible — it can't reliably select text from image-based PDFs, which is why you're stuck copy-pasting. Two paths: 1. **If the PDF has a real text layer**: just use PDF Expert or Goodnotes on iPad. Both have proper highlight → export flows, and the highlights sync to Notes/Files as markdown or text. 2. **If the PDF is scanned images** (no selectable text): you need OCR first. I made [Formattery](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/formattery-file-converter/id6759955312) — runs OCR on-device and outputs a searchable PDF or plain `.txt`. Drop the OCR'd PDF back into Books or PDF Expert and highlights finally work. Batch handles a whole book at once. No cloud, no subscription. 3 free conversions/day. 50% off lifetime — $2.99: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6759955312&code=FORMATTERY50 **TL;DR:** if you're on Books store ePubs, the highlight feature is already there (+ Readwise if you want it automated). If you're on PDFs, switch to PDF Expert/Goodnotes; if the PDFs are scanned images, OCR them first.

My notes live in Obsidian. My reading and highlights live in Readwise. My topical research lives in NotebookLM. Each tool is great on its own. However, no AI I tried could reach across all three. Every time I reached for Perplexity or Gemini Deep Research, the output read like everyone else's. I built a deep research agent as three Claude Code skills sitting on top of three command-line interfaces (CLIs). The skills are `/research_create`, `/research_search`, and `/research_distill`. They sit over `obsidian`, `readwise`, and `nlm`. I use no vector database. I use no Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline. I use no embeddings. Similar to Karpathy's LLM Knowledge base proposal, but using my whole second brain as raw files, creating targeted wiki's per project. I just use Markdown, YAML, and JSON on my disk. The output of a research run is a `memory/` folder for one topic. I throw it away when I am done. The system relies on multi-round query expansion. Round one creates several queries from the seed and runs a researcher subagent per query in parallel. It then aggregates the results, runs a gap analysis, and fires off round two. Here are some design decisions: 1. **Use the filesystem as your state, not a vector database.** The raw files stay immutable while the create skill emits an ephemeral memory folder with an index file and the source files. 2. **Make `index.yaml` your progressive-disclosure wiki.** You create one entry per source with the full file path, highlights path, original path, title, authors, date, publication, summary, tags, and a relevance score. The agent reads the index first, picks three to five relevant files from the summaries, and reads only those files. This creates three layers of detail: the summary in the index which is always loaded, an optional key-highlights file containing manual highlights for a huge signal, and the full document as a last resort. Because this is a YAML file the agent can easily write code to search, filter and sort items. 3. **Keep the orchestrator context-free.** The orchestrator schedules researcher subagents in parallel, and each subagent reads its slice, deduplicates the findings, and returns a compressed JSON summary. Subagents compress tens of thousands of input tokens into 1,000 to 2,000 output tokens, so the orchestrator only ever sees structured metadata instead of raw content. The actual file gets moved into the memory folder with a bash `mv` command, not by passing bytes through the model. The thing that surprised me was how small the index stays. Even at 100 to 200 sources, the index stays around 700 to 1,000 lines. The thing that would have killed this project was letting the orchestrator load source files directly. I do not want to parse 200 files individually. That blows your context budget and your Claude Code $200 subscription in one query. I also learned a hard lesson about Obsidian. Letting the LLM roam the Obsidian vault directly is around 10x more expensive than using the Obsidian CLI local index. What do you use for your private deep research layer? Are you building memory-folder style systems on top of your own notes? Or are you still pointing a vector database at everything and hoping it works? **TL;DR:** For personal-scale private research, a memory folder with an index file and progressive disclosure beats a RAG pipeline on cost, traceability, and correctness. Keep your orchestrator context-free, let subagents touch the raw files, and use command-line tools whenever possible, even for Obsidian.

I went through the same “why is every reading app trying to be a social network” thing and ended up just tracking in a janky Notion table for a while. The bits that mattered most for me were super low-friction logging and a fast way to capture quotes without breaking flow, so I’d double down on those. One thing that helped my own habit was a tiny “streak but with no guilt” view: show last 7–14 days with soft hints, but don’t scream when I miss a day. I’d also think about a way to tag books by mood or energy level instead of just genre; I found that made it easier to pick what to read next. For discovery and feedback, I used Readwise and Bookly before, and I ended up on Pulse for Reddit mostly to catch threads where people share reading workflows and minimalist app ideas that I was missing in my feed.

I'm a content creator, and for a long time I treated Notion like a storage bin. I'd throw things in without processing them first, and after a while a lot of it turned into stuff I never looked at again. What changed was getting more intentional about collection. Once I stopped saving everything blindly, my Notion got a lot cleaner and actually became useful again. This is the workflow that's been working for me: Before I save anything in Notion, I figure out what's actually worth turning into something. If I want to keep the original material, Readwise helps me bring highlights in. If I only want the key points, I run it through Claude and organize it using my own collection template so insights have a consistent format. Granola also helps when a good idea comes up while I'm talking with friends. I also use Floatboat alongside Notion. It's where I do the messy middle work: drafting, organizing snippets, pulling web content as markdown. Once it's clean, it goes into Notion as a proper entry, usually as part of content planning, a research note, or a page I'll come back to later. For me, the act of organizing itself creates a sense of order and helps me clarify my thoughts. Curious how other content creators here effectively use Notion! Or are there any Notion features I could use to simplify my workflow?

Hi everyone — I'm Luca, founder of Slax Reader. Just spun up this subreddit as a home for people who use Slax to read, save, highlight, and think out loud. **What is Slax Reader?** A read-later app built for people who actually read. Save articles, PDFs, newsletters, X threads — read them clean, highlight, annotate, and connect ideas across what you've saved. Web + iOS, free tier available. **What this sub is for** - Bug reports — we read every one - Feature requests — upvote others' if you want them too - Tips and workflows — how you actually use Slax day to day - Honest feedback — what you love, what we're getting wrong - Migrating from Pocket, Instapaper, Matter, or Readwise Reader? Ask away **What to expect from me** I'll be in here. Answering questions, pushing back when I disagree, shipping based on what I hear. No PR team filtering replies. **House rules** 1. Be kind — to other readers, and to us 2. Bug reports: include your OS, app version, and repro steps if you can 3. No spam, no affiliate links, no bashing competitors 4. Running another reading tool? DM me instead of posting — happy to chat, not a place to promote Try it: [slax.com](https://slax.com) Thanks for being early. What's the one thing you wish your current reading app did better? Drop it below — that's how I decide what to ship next.

Had a moment last year I'm still kind of embarrassed about. A friend asked what I'd been learning lately. I'd probably gone through 200 episodes that year. Huberman, Tim Ferriss, My First Million, Acquired, the whole stack. I opened my mouth to answer and just... had nothing. I could name hosts. I could name guests. I couldn't name a single thing I'd actually done differently because of any of it. Did the math that night and it got worse. Roughly 8 hours a week for about 5 years. Call it 1,200 hours. Best case I could point to maybe 10 things I'd actually changed. That's 120 hours per useful idea. If anyone had told me the rate up front I wouldn't have started. I'd been confusing consumption with learning. Took me way too long to see it. Spent the next few months trying to fix it, and a few things actually worked: **The 60-day delete rule.** Anything older than 60 days in my queue got deleted. No exceptions. If it really mattered I'd have listened by now. First purge cleared out 180 episodes. Haven't missed one since. **The 3-sentence test.** After every episode I write 3 full sentences from memory. Not bullet points. Full sentences. If I can't, I didn't learn it, I just heard it. About 1 in 4 episodes pass. Those are the ones worth my time. The rest I quit earlier now. **Listening at 1x with a notebook.** I know. Sounds miserable. It kind of is at first. But my retention easily 4x'd. Turns out the 2x thing was a lie I'd been telling myself about how much I was "getting through." Slower with a pen beats faster without one, every single time. **A few tools that helped:** * **Snipd** lets you clip the 30 seconds that actually mattered and transcribes it. If an episode only has one good idea, you keep just that. Game changer for me. * **Podex** summarizes business and self-improvement podcasts into numbered playbooks, basically pulling the specific tactics out. I use it to screen episodes before I commit 2 hours. If the playbook looks thin, I skip. If it looks solid, I listen properly with a notebook. Heads up though, catalog's still pretty small, so it's not useful for every podcast yet. * **Readwise Reader** for when the actual takeaway turned out to be a book or article the host referenced. Now I just follow that thread instead of staying stuck in audio. **The hardest change: accepting that finishing isn't a virtue.** I used to feel weirdly guilty closing an episode early. Now I close them the second I've got what I came for. 10 minutes, 40 minutes, halfway through. Doesn't matter. Finishing was never the point. Applying was. The bigger lesson for me was that most of what I'd been calling "learning" was just a productive-feeling way to avoid doing the actual work. Listening is easy. Writing down what you got from it is harder. Actually applying it is the hard part. The gap between those three is where most of our hours quietly disappear. Curious what other people here have tried. And if anyone's found tools that work outside the business-podcast niche I'd love to hear them, still looking for good options there.

had the same panic when rmapi died. what i use now is [print to remarkable](https://featherab.com/shopit?search_keywords=print+to+remarkable+chrome) extension on chrome but for safari you're out of luck officially. the workaround is using [readwise reader](https://featherab.com/shopit?search_keywords=readwise+reader+app) which pushes articles as pdfs automatically. or just save as pdf on mac then drag to remarkable desktop app. remarkable really needs that safari extension though. three steps instead of one is annoying.

Most things I save aren't actually important — and that's fine. When I come across an article worth keeping, I drop it into Readwise Reader or a Notion database. It lives there quietly, like a graveyard: I don't tend to it, but I can surface anything whenever I need it. If something genuinely earns my attention — a key idea, a striking figure — I'll write it down using an [append-and-review](https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/the-append-and-review-note/) note system. That note gets revisited periodically until the idea actually becomes part of how I think. The graveyard is storage. The review notes are memory.

Hi everyone, I’m a Notion power user. For the past few years, I’ve built my entire **P.A.R.A. system** (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives) within Notion to manage my research and life. Notion is my external brain, but capturing fragmented knowledge on the go has always been a major friction point. **The Problem:** The official share extension isn't necessarily "heavy," but it’s consistently **unreliable**. Half the time, it fails to fetch page titles, leaving my database full of raw URLs and "Untitled" pages. I found myself spending more time "cleaning up" my Notion Inbox at night than actually reading what I saved. **The "Anti-Collection" Philosophy:** People often suggest Raindrop or Readwise. I love those tools, but I don't want another separate silo. We all know what happens to bookmarks—they go there to "die" and collect digital dust. I want my links to live *inside* my Notion system immediately, so they are already part of my workflow without the extra friction of jumping between apps. **So, I built Linkn.** (Check out the demo video below!) It’s a lightweight, dedicated bridge for Notion: * **Reliable Metadata:** It ensures every link hits your DB with a clean title and proper metadata. No more manual cleanup. * **Zero-Friction:** One tap from the iOS Share Sheet and the link flies into your specific database in the background. * **Native Flow:** I’ve streamlined the OAuth 2.0 flow, making database mapping a simple plug-and-play experience. **It's officially live on the App Store!** I’m still refining the roadmap (AI auto-tagging and summarization are coming next), and I’d love to get some feedback from this community. **🎁 Early Bird Giveaway:** Since I just launched, I’m looking for "power users" to stress-test the app. **I’m giving away discount codes!** If you're interested: 1. Leave your email on my landing page: [**https://linkn.my/**](https://linkn.my/) 2. Or simply **send me a DM** here on Reddit. I’ll send over a code as a thank-you for helping an indie dev out. I’m happy to chat about the Notion API, how I handle the title parsing logic, or anything related to building a seamless productivity workflow. Let’s make the Notion experience a bit more frictionless together!

Hi everyone, I’m a Notion power user. Over the years, I’ve built out my entire **P.A.R.A. system** (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives) within Notion to manage my projects and long-term research. For me, Notion isn't just a tool; it’s my external brain. However, I’ve always struggled with one friction point: **Capturing fragmented knowledge on the go.** I have a habit of saving interesting links and articles to process later. But the official Notion share extension has been a nightmare. My database would end up filled with "Untitled" pages or raw, meaningless URLs. Over time, my "Inbox" became a digital graveyard, and the manual cleanup started breaking my workflow. **The common advice?** "Just use Raindrop or Readwise." **But here’s the thing:** I don't want another bookmark manager. We all know what happens to bookmarks—they go there to die. I want my fragments to live *inside* my Notion system from the start, so they can actually be integrated into my P.A.R.A. folders without the extra friction of jumping between apps. So, I built a small utility called **Linkn**. (Check out the short demo video below to see how it looks!) It’s designed to be a "Zero-Friction" bridge. One tap from the share sheet, and it parses the clean title and metadata, sending it straight to your designated Notion database. No more messy URLs. No need to open another app. You just stay in your flow, and your links are waiting for you in Notion when you're ready to do the deep work. **I’m still refining this workflow, and I’d love your input on where to take it next:** * Would auto-categorization via AI be helpful for your sorting process? * How about AI-generated summaries or scheduling "Review Dates" automatically based on the topic? I’m building this to make my own system more "frictionless," and I’m curious if this resonates with any of you. How are you all handling the "link mess" in your Notion setups? Let’s explore how to make the Notion workflow more seamless together! Here is the url of my landing page : [https://linkn.my](https://linkn.my/) And welcome to join our Discord: [https://discord.gg/YjgzhsY7](https://discord.gg/YjgzhsY7) （Not sure why my demo video turned super blurry after uploading 😅 anyone know why? ）

Hey folks, happy Wednesday! Time to check out [the latest changelog](https://docs.readwise.io/changelog#april-17-2026) here on Reddit. The idea is to help keep y'all in the loop of what the Readwise developers are getting out into the world. Here's what we shipped last week: * ⚡ **Faster Web Performance** — Artem made a number of performance upgrades and improvements to the Reader web and desktop apps. They should now be [noticeably smoother](https://x.com/ReadwiseReader/status/2044402588762734909) to use, especially when scrolling through your documents. * 🤖 **Improved Readwise MCP** — Piotr made Claude more efficient when working with your Readwise highlights through MCP. You can ask Claude to find highlights from a specific book and get back the results in a single request rather than two, with the book's title, author, and tags included. * 🔐 **Updated OAuth App Verification** — Piotr updated the MCP's OAuth flow to allow connections from any app, with a new Verified badge on the authorization screen so you can tell at a glance whether the app is trusted. Untrusted apps will now display a warning, instead of blocking the connection entirely. * 🔀 **Fixed Notion Reconnect** — Rasul fixed the Notion export reconnect flow so the navigation lands in the right place. Reconnecting your Notion integration should work smoothly now. * 📄 **Fixed PDF Loading** — Tristan fixed a cache issue that caused some users to be unable to open PDF files. Affected users should find PDFs loading normally again on their next page load. * 🛜 **Parsing Updates** — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from [nytimes.com](http://nytimes.com/), [antiochian.org](http://antiochian.org/), [Steel.dev](http://steel.dev/), and Twitter. He also fixed newsletters from Dan Koe, Liberty's Highlights, and Substack that were being incorrectly truncated due to a `<script>` tag. If you'd like to get the Changelog in your inbox, check out our [WiseUp! newsletter](https://wiseup.readwise.io/about/), where the Readwise team shares answers to common questions, video tutorials and guides, highlights of our latest improvements, and a couple of lighthearted extras we think you’ll enjoy. And as always, feel free to let us know if you have any questions, tho realistically we're going to see an in-app bug report or question faster :>

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Is it just me or is filter just not very robust? It never seems to keep up with what I'm reading. I've tried to nail down a pattern but all I've been able to determine is that it seems to have difficulty updating with books. I typically use the webapp so after typing this I decided to confirm that the same issue is on the Windows app. And it would appear that the Windows app "continue reading" works fine. So maybe it's a browser cache issue.

I'm an avid reader. I subscribe to a lot of Substack newsletters, and honestly I've probably spent more time reading them than reading books. The problem: I struggle to retain what I read. Some newsletters are purely informational, and that's fine — low stakes if it doesn't stick. But others genuinely shift my thinking, and I want those insights to actually become part of how I reason, not just float away. Things I've tried: **Readwise** — I capture highlights, but I rarely review them. And even when I do, I'm just remembering the *author's* thought, not internalizing it as my own. **Evergreen notes (Andy Matuschak's approach)** — writing atomic, concept-level notes and linking them to existing ones. Intriguing in theory, but I haven't found a workflow that sticks. Curious what actually works for others. What's your approach to going from "I read something interesting" to "this has genuinely changed how I think"? And what tools do you use? If you have a workflow that actually sticks, I'd love to hear the specifics — not just the tool, but how you actually use it day to day.

Awesome article! I like the mention of signal-to-noise ratio. One thing that brought me back to chromium after a while using EWW was the use of a package called Readwise for in-place highlighting. Basically you can simply highlight any text on any webpage, and Readwise would push this highlight (with backlinks to the site you highlighted) into Obsidian / Logseq / et al.... Interestingly, this gave the chromium browser a more favorable signal-to-noise ratio. Why? Well, I found that a lot of my browser use was revisiting old documentation pages I had read a thousand times. It turned out that the ability to have persistent highlights on those pages, and have the relevant sections and excerpts worth revisiting literally illuminated in glorious yellow to immediately grab back my attention, was the subtle yet indispensable extension to the browser's bookmarking system that I had been searching for for so long. The feature of having the highlights in the (chromium) browser, and also an interleaved record of those highlights in my knowledge graph, all for the cost of highlighting something with my cursor, was a mind blower to me and really changed the way I browse and annotate the web. But, alas, the full on 'level 8' experience still had it's distractions. Was it possible to get the best of both worlds? Pure TUI browsing, plus this changing signal-to-noise enhancement from a Readwise-like tool? Rhetorical question obviously as this is Emacs: A year ago I stumbled upon [https://github.com/nobiot/org-remark](https://github.com/nobiot/org-remark), which provides the same in-place highlighting and persistence features as Readwise. THIS is what brought me back into EWW. Check this out -- here I'm annotating your blog post, and you can see the notes persisted in an org document (which is in my logseq knowledge graph). I apologize if this seems off topic. The language in you post resonated so much because it was exactly org-remark's enhancement of EWW's signal-to-noise ratio that finally brought me back to the true bliss that is browsing in EWW. And by the way, org-remark works everywhere -- EWW, org documents, code files. It's easy to extend to fit elfeed, pubmed, dash docs, etc.... It generalizes that Readwise-esque experience beyond just the web-browsing use case to anywhere text exists. That's an Emacs vibe right there!!! Edit: to clarify some of org-remark's value prop: \- **When you re-visit the page, the highlights are still there** \-- that's what makes the signal-to-noise ratio in the eww + org-remark marriage so good \- One merit of org-remark over Readwise is that you don't have to share your daily internet highlights with a 3rd party. That may seem to come with trade-offs --- you might be thinking "then how do I sync all my web highlights across devices?". Given how the reference system in org-remark works, **you're highlights on on machine will persist across others** if you sync your knowledge graph with logseq's sync features (other KG providers have similar sync features --- buyer and non-buyer beware, these often cost money, but you can roll your own free implementation with something like syncthing or a vcs based sync). Big caveat -- when i say machine, I mean laptop because I assume the presence of emacs, but after reading Josh's (OP's) post, the elevated wizards could probably figure out how to get something like this working (natively, on Android at least) with something like termux(sp?) without the need for a 3rd party app. https://preview.redd.it/asyffgsnulwg1.png?width=2978&format=png&auto=webp&s=ebf7a4b96254d9d273a28b9a809fef1f06a4174e

I'm actually doing this exact same thing using the Readwise MCP server. It pulls the full transcripts of posts on X, youtube transcripts, articles, and then I'm synthesizing it all into a wiki in my Obsidian vault that compounds over time. It's my way of trying not to drown in all the AI updates and news. The wiki output is here if you want to see what the synthesis looks like: [https://coldmountain.ai/wiki](https://coldmountain.ai/wiki). It's a personal knowledge base pattern (Karpathy's "LLM wiki") where the agent synthesizes across sources into topic pages. Happy to share more about the setup if useful. The whole pipeline is: Readwise API → scheduled agent (Claude) → Obsidian vault → published to site.

I’ve been using Readwise Reader a lot more recently and have really enjoyed the “Send to Kindle” feature. Problem is that highlights I save on Kindle documents don’t sync into Readwise. Is there a workaround for this? If not, does anyone have a recommendation on an e-ink device that works with Reader? No need for color. Preference would be on crisp b&w with nice backlighting for reading in dark.

Every few months someone ships "the Notion for academics" and it never sticks. I think the reason is that academic workflow isn't actually one problem — it's five problems, each with a good specialist tool and no glue between them. **The five problems:** 1. **Reference management** — where does the canonical list of papers I've read live? Winner: Zotero (open-source, offline, handles PDFs). Paperpile is solid if you live in Google Docs. 2. **Writing** — where does the LaTeX actually compile? Winner: Overleaf for collaboration. Local TeX + VS Code for solo work. 3. **Reading / annotation** — where do I mark up PDFs? Winner: Zotero's built-in reader is fine. Highlights + Readwise for heavy note-takers. 4. **Project management** — what's the state of my paper? What's due when? No clear winner. People use Notion, Trello, Obsidian, a whiteboard, or nothing. 5. **Discovery** — what should I read next? What's on arXiv today? Winner: arXiv-sanity-preserver, Semantic Scholar, Connected Papers. **Where PaperPilot fits:** PaperPilot is specifically trying to own problem #4 (project/deadline management) and the glue between #1 and #2 (getting a BibTeX entry from your reference manager into your Overleaf doc with one keystroke). It intentionally does not try to be #1, #2, #3, or #5 — there are better tools for each, and replacing them would be hubris. If I had to draw a diagram of a sane 2026 stack: Zotero (refs) --paste--> PaperPilot --inserts into--> Overleaf (writing) | +-- tracks deadlines + kanban + calendar Genuinely curious: what's your stack look like? What's the glue that's missing?

Thanks, that’s a really good question. I think Pocket and Readwise already do a lot of things well. The part I’ve been focusing on more is not the act of saving itself, but what happens a few weeks later when you’re trying to find something again. For example, if web articles, social posts, and YouTube links all get saved in different places, I often end up in that situation where I remember what I saw, but not where I put it. That’s the part I’ve been trying to reduce. So even if the content comes from different places, I’m trying to keep it in one place, let you attach a quick note about why you saved it, highlight the important part, and later find it again not just by title, but also through tags or the note you left for yourself. So if there’s a difference, it’s probably that I’m putting more weight on making saved things easier to actually revisit and use later, rather than just making it easy to save them in the first place. That said, this is still the part I’m actively refining the most.

**\[Project Showcase\]** I built an open‑source, privacy‑first web highlighter (Highlight Sync). # Why I built this I’ve always wanted a way to highlight text on any webpage and actually *keep* those highlights in one place. Existing tools (like Readwise) are great but they’re paid, cloud‑based, and lock you into their ecosystem. I wanted something **free, open‑source, local‑first, and syncable on my own terms**. That’s how **Highlight Sync** was born. # ✨ What it does Highlight Sync is a browser extension (Chrome + Firefox) that lets you: * **Highlight text on any webpage** with a floating toolbar or keyboard shortcut. * **Store highlights locally** in IndexedDB — no cloud, no tracking. * **Tag and search** across all your highlights. * **Review with spaced repetition** (SM‑2 algorithm) so you actually remember what you read. * **Export in multiple formats**: Markdown, Obsidian, Notion, Anki, CSV, JSON. * **Sync optionally** via GitHub Gist (free) or your own endpoint. * **Cross‑browser support** (Manifest V3). * **Privacy‑first**: zero analytics, zero external requests unless you enable sync. # 🛠️ How to use 1. Install via GitHub release (Chrome/Firefox support coming to stores soon). * Load unpacked extension in Chrome (`chrome://extensions`) or Firefox (`about:debugging`). 2. Highlight text with **Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + H** or right‑click → “Highlight Selection.” 3. Manage highlights via the extension popup: * **Search tab** → full‑text search. * **Tags tab** → organize by topic. * **Review tab** → spaced repetition digest. * **Export tab** → choose Markdown/Obsidian/Anki/etc. * **Settings tab** → configure sync (GitHub Gist or self‑hosted). # 📤 Export formats * **Markdown**: grouped by page/date/tag. * **Obsidian**: YAML frontmatter + `> [!quote]` callouts + `[[wikilinks]]`. * **Notion**: Notion‑compatible markdown. * **Anki**: Tab‑separated flashcards. * **CSV/JSON**: For custom workflows. # 🔒 Security * All data stored locally by default. * GitHub PAT encrypted with AES‑256‑GCM. * Strict Content Security Policy. * No analytics, no tracking, no external requests unless sync is enabled. # Why it’s different |Feature|Highlight Sync|Others (Readwise etc.)| |:-|:-|:-| |Price|**Free**|Paid subscription| |Open Source|✅|❌| |Local‑First|✅|❌| |No Account Required|✅|❌| |Spaced Repetition|✅|Partial| |Obsidian Export|✅|Partial| |Anki Export|✅|❌| |Self‑hosted Sync|✅|❌| |Privacy‑First|✅|❌| # 🔗 Links * GitHub: [https://github.com/bhayanak/highlight-sync](https://github.com/bhayanak/highlight-sync) * License: MIT (free to use, modify, distribute) # Note: Please use it if you find it useful, give me advice and suggestions, ideas so i can improve it further. # This is my one of first extension and i cant put on chrome store(as it charges), going to put on edge/firefox its under review.

I’m generally very happy with Readwise Reader, but one thing still bothers me a lot: code block parsing/formatting in technical articles. It often looks messy enough that it breaks my focus and makes programming posts much harder to read. I mostly use Reader for technical content, so this part of the experience matters a lot to me. Has the team shared any recent updates on improving code block rendering/parsing, or has anyone found good workarounds?

I used to think of my iPhone as a consumption device. reddit, youtube, texts, done. over the last year I've turned it into a legit work tool. here are the apps that made that happen, ranked. 8. Fantastical ($6.67/mo) calendar. the natural language input works great on mobile. I type or dictate "lunch with Sarah Thursday 12:30 at that Thai place" and it creates the event with all the details. the widget is the best calendar widget on iOS. 7. 1Password ($3/mo) I manage client logins and my own credentials. the autofill on iOS is seamless now. tap, face ID, done. 6. Slack work communication from anywhere. the widget shows unread messages. notifications for DMs, muted for channels. I handle 70% of my slack volume from my phone. 5. Notion I access project docs, client wikis, and my task lists from my phone constantly. the mobile app has gotten way better. quick-add for tasks and notes works well now. 4. Readwise Reader ($13.99/mo) every article, newsletter, and PDF I want to read goes here. I do most of my professional reading on my phone during downtime. commute, waiting rooms, before bed. highlights sync automatically. 3. Willow Voice ($15/mo) voice dictation on my phone. I tap the overlay, talk, and text appears in whatever app I have open. emails, texts, slack, notes, search queries, AI prompts, anything. the reason this ranks so high is that typing on a phone screen is genuinely slow and annoying. dictating is 3-4x faster on a phone than typing because the small keyboard slows you down even more than a desktop keyboard. I send full professional emails from my phone while walking. my emails come out polished and my texts come out like texts. filler words stripped. handles names and technical terms. I use it probably 30+ times a day from my phone. driving (hands-free), walking, cooking, in line somewhere. any time I need to respond to something and I'm not at my desk. $15/mo, free tier 2,000 words/week, no android. 2. Claude ($20/mo) AI on my phone. quick research, brainstorming, drafting, summarizing. I dictate my prompts through willow which means I give way more context from my phone than I would typing on that tiny keyboard. the combination of willow + claude on iPhone is honestly more useful than most laptop setups. 1. Todoist ($4/mo) task management. the quick-add with natural language is perfect for mobile. "email sarah the proposal by friday 3pm" and the task is captured with the due date. the widget shows today's tasks. I capture tasks the moment they come to me instead of trying to remember them later. this app has fundamentally changed how I handle my workload. what iPhone apps made the biggest difference for work?

I work full time as a data analyst and I run a niche newsletter and paid community on the side. I have maybe 10-12 hours per week to work on the side project. every minute counts so my tools are optimized for speed above everything else. here's my stack, ranked. 10. Stripe ($0 + 2.9%) payment processing for the paid community. subscriptions, payment links, invoicing. the dashboard tells me MRR at a glance. 9. Fathom Analytics ($14/mo) privacy-focused analytics. simpler than Google Analytics. I look at page views, referrers, and popular posts. that's all I need. 8. Cleanshot X ($29 one-time) screenshots for social media posts and newsletter content. annotated screenshots of tools and data are my most shared content. 7. Carrd ($19/yr) landing page. simple, fast, looks good. my newsletter signup page is on carrd and it converts well. I don't need a full website for this. 6. Obsidian (free) content ideas and drafts. I have a kanban board of newsletter ideas at different stages. when I sit down to write I pick from the "ready to draft" column instead of staring at nothing. 5. Readwise Reader ($13.99/mo) I read industry content here and highlight anything relevant to my newsletter. highlights sync to obsidian automatically. my reading feeds directly into content ideas. 4. ConvertKit ($29/mo) email platform. newsletter delivery, automated welcome sequences, subscriber tagging, landing pages. the editor is fast and the deliverability is solid. 3. Willow Voice ($15/mo) voice dictation. when you only have 10 hours a week, anything that makes you faster is critical. I dictate newsletter drafts, community posts, promotional emails, social media copy, and AI prompts. dictating a 1,500-word newsletter draft takes me about 15-18 minutes. typing the same thing takes 40+ minutes because I edit as I go. the draft needs cleanup after dictating but the total time (dictate + edit) is still about half of typing a polished first draft. I also dictate all my emails (subscriber replies, collaboration outreach, sponsor inquiries) and the tone matches automatically. professional for sponsors, casual for community members. strips filler words. the iPhone app means I can dictate newsletter sections during my lunch break at work or on my commute. $15/mo, free tier 2,000 words/week, no android. 2. Claude ($20/mo) I use this for brainstorming newsletter angles, analyzing subscriber data, drafting promotional copy, and repurposing newsletter content into social posts and community threads. the projects feature with my newsletter archive and audience data loaded in gives relevant output. I dictate my prompts through willow which means I describe what I want in enough detail to get useful output on the first try. saves me from going back and forth. 1. a strict schedule (free) Tuesday 7-9pm: write the newsletter. Wednesday 7-8pm: edit and schedule. Thursday lunch: community engagement. Saturday morning: content planning and reading. Sunday: admin (finances, analytics, emails). I protect these blocks and I don't deviate. without this structure the side project dies because "I'll get to it this weekend" means I never get to it. anyone else running a side project on limited time? what's your stack?

# Backstory I had my eyes on a DC-1 since 2024. I'd already been looking for an e-reader that had better PDF and annotation support. The DC-1 seemed like it had far fewer trade offs compared to similar e-ink devices. I didn't want a locked-down walled garden device (Remarkable), I wanted a fully featured computer that was tuned for reading and researching. # Rocky Start Purchase journey and unboxing experience were first class. The level of care and attention to welcoming the user is on par with 2000s/10s Apple devices. Unfortunately, after firing up the device, I initially felt let down. DC-1 ships with an Android OS tuned for distraction free use, but it quickly reveals itself to be Android 13, warts and all. The Daylight Reader app seems like a great idea shipped unfinished. Overall, things felt more crunchy than expected. # Dialed In Once the initial disappointment wore off, I started looking at the DC-1 simply as an Android tablet with a great display, then I started to love it. I went through a couple reader apps until I landed on Xodo for PDFs, Readwise for web clippings and RSS subs, and Kindle for ebooks. I added Obsidian, Claude, Todoist and google drive. I've learned some tricks for getting content shuttled between these apps and am pretty happy with the system I have dialed in. I recently tried a friend's Boox Note Air, which I also really enjoyed. The OS seemed a bit more opinionated and the overall polish was better. That said, I like DC-1s display better for moving around on PDFs. # Cautiously Optimistic Overall, I'm really happy with the device. It works as advertised. It does exactly what I wanted it to do. What's missing is the overall "Daylight experience" that the team is pointed towards, but hasn't yet delivered. Anjan has a great vision for what computing can be. Measured against that vision, the DC-1 feels rough. Measured against the current e-reader competition, it's a strong competitor. I hope the Daylight team has some updates on the horizon. Right now, no one seems sure they'll be around for another year. If not, I hope this screen finds its way into other devices, but I'll be sad if the Daylight "dream" ends here.

https://preview.redd.it/gcqkoiu0nbwg1.png?width=1270&format=png&auto=webp&s=013ba6a69e05a14426795ebdf68ae00b7e5259ee **Kocono** **Problem:** Kobo Libra/Clara Colour users can't export color-coded highlights to Apple Notes. The only way to see highlights is on the e-reader itself, and existing export tools strip the colors. **Comparison:** Readwise exports highlights but strips color-coding. Kobo's built-in export doesn't support Apple Notes format. Kocono preserves all 4 colors, and generates AppleScript for direct Apple Notes import. **Pricing:** Free • [https://kocono.com](https://kocono.com)

I went through the same “read 10 PM posts, retain zero” loop and what actually helped me was treating it more like reps in a gym than a feed. The quiz gate idea is solid, but I’d make the bar to “pass” really clear up front and keep the first few days laughably easy so people feel momentum before they hit anything punishing. I’d also surface a tiny “why this question matters as a PM” note after each quiz so it ties back to real decisions, not trivia about the article. On archetypes, I found I think in “next job bet” and “core weakness” more than labels like FAANG vs Startup, so maybe a 30-second slider on skills (strategy, execution, growth, AI, stakeholder) and then map to paths under the hood. I bounced between Lenny’s library, Notion highlights, and Readwise Reader, and ended up on Cake Equity after trying Carta and Pulley for a similar reason: the thing that stuck made next actions painfully obvious instead of just collecting more stuff.

Hey, I’m looking for an app that can basically be my everything reader + highlighter, but I haven’t found one that really does it all yet (and yeah, not Readwise). What I want: \- Save + read stuff like articles, PDFs, EPUBs, newsletters, RSS, tweets \- Proper read-it-later flow (clean, distraction-free reading) Highlighting is the big one for me: \- Highlight more than just text (images, tables, etc. would be nice) \- Add notes to highlights while reading \- Sync across devices without being janky Bonus: \- Works well on iPad + Apple Pencil support \- is free or sideloadable 😉 Not expecting something perfect, but curious what you’re all using that gets close. Appreciate any suggestions 🙏

I read a lot and I also highlight a lot — passages I want to remember, ideas I want to return to but for years they just sat on my Kobo doing nothing. I tried Readwise. It's good, but £7.99/month felt like a lot for something I mainly wanted to browse and search. So I built [Luminaria](https://luminaria.uk). **What it does:** * Imports highlights from KOReader, Kobo native firmware, Kindle My Clippings, and Readwise exports * Full-text search across everything * Export to Obsidian (free), PDF or Notion (paid) * KOReader plugin for automatic WiFi sync * Obsidian plugin that drops one markdown file per book into your vault automatically * Everything stays in your browser — nothing uploaded to a server unless you choose to sync from KOReader or use the Obsidian plugin **The stack:** Cloudflare Workers + KV, Resend for email, Stripe for payments. Frontend is vanilla JS — no framework, just a single HTML file. **Where it is now:** over 50 sign ups, a few paying users, KOReader plugin on the official plugin repo, Obsidian plugin submitted to the community directory. Small but real. **Pricing:** Free tier with 2 KOReader syncs per week. Premium is £2.99/month or £25 lifetime (early bird — first 100 users). Happy to answer any questions about the build. It's been a fun project and genuinely useful for my own reading life which is probably the best outcome. Any feedback would be sincerely appreciated. Thanks a lot.

I was recently talking to my brother who had the first gen ipad and used it for everything and for years until the motherboard died on it. I asked him if he would buy another and he said he wouldnt because he does everything he needs to on his phone. I on the other hand have an ipad pro 11 and an ipad mini. I need to find things to do on them. The mini is used primarily to read - I read using Zotero and Readwise Reader. I use the Pro with Logitech keyboard to touch up assignments and papers Im working on. I use Pages, Google Drive and Google Docs (the docs are synced to my Windows PC). I also have comics on my pro which I tell myself someday I will read but havent done so yet. I have the pencil but I dont use it to write my notes instead I use the pencil/notability as a whiteboard on a tv when demonstrating something.

I am a PM who reads TLDR, Lenny's, and the occasional Medium post every week and remembers almost none of it. Every existing tool Readwise, Matter, Feedly solves the saving problem. None solve the "did you actually understand it" problem. So our team built PM Dojo . Same daily PM content, three changes: 1. Archetype-based sequencing. Pick one of five paths in 60 seconds : FAANG Climber, Startup Climber, AI-First PM, Growth PM, or Scanner. Your feed is ordered for how you actually want to grow. 2. Quiz gate per article. Two comprehension questions after every read. No skip button. 3. Streak that means something. Your streak only counts the days you passed the quiz. Hollow reading earns nothing. We shipped it in a 5-day buildathon five of us working alongside AI agents in parallel. What I want back: where it breaks, what feels like unnecessary friction, whether the archetype you got matched how you actually think about your growth. Happy to answer anything in the comments.

my screen time report says I spend about 4 hours a day on my phone. used to be mostly instagram and reddit. over the last year I've replaced a lot of that with apps that are actually useful. here are 6 that I use more than any social media app now, ranked. 6. Pocket Casts podcasts. I listen during commutes, workouts, and cooking. the trim silence feature saves about 15% of listening time on talky shows. the queue management is way better than apple podcasts. 5. Readwise Reader every article, newsletter, and PDF I want to read goes here. I do most of my reading on my phone during downtime. highlights sync to obsidian automatically. 4. YNAB budgeting. I enter every purchase as it happens. 5 seconds per transaction. the awareness of where my money goes has saved me hundreds per month. 3. Claude AI assistant on the go. I use it for quick research, brainstorming, drafting, and answering questions. the mobile app is solid. 2. Willow Voice voice dictation. I compose texts, emails, slack messages, and notes by talking into my phone. tap the overlay, talk, text appears in whatever app I have open. accuracy is noticeably better than apple's built-in keyboard dictation, especially on names and anything technical. cleans up filler words, and my texts come out sounding like texts while my work emails come out sounding like work emails. I use it while walking, driving, in line at the grocery store. the Mac app works the same way. $15/mo, no android app, free tier 2,000 words/week. 1. Todoist task management. every task and commitment lives here. the natural language input ("email jessica by friday 2pm") makes capturing tasks instant. the widget shows what's due today. I've tried things 3, reminders, notion, and I keep coming back to todoist because the quick-add is faster than all of them. the inbox-zero approach to tasks changed how I think about productivity entirely. what apps do you use more than social media?

I've actually been working on this for quite a while. I used [readwise.io](http://readwise.io) for quite a while and love the way it let me collect "dots", or nuggets of info, that I could then connect later with other "dots" of learning later. It would then resurface them and I'd at least have to recall and remember what was interesting to me. I recently just took it to the next level and built a tool that I used when my learning sources more common things like podcasts, videos and even just text based learning. So, the observation for me was that I learn better by making something based on what I'm learning. In my corporate life the scenario would be me learning something that others have made into a career over years, and then create training for others to learn in 30 minutes of online learning. I'm going to sidestep going down this rabbit hole :) IRL, I learn from long-form podcasts, YouTube videos and a lot of researching with AI tools. The biggest issue for me there is 2 hours of conversational learning is hard to retain and I do way better building a learning artifact from it that allows me to take notes, do some quick inline quizzes and some reflection prompts. I know, this is the most learning designer thing ever, but for me, the process of watching, listening, highlighting and saving notes, and the using my own words to recap what I just learned from a select chunk at a time is the key to retaining and making use of what I learned.

Been working remote for a while now, and I’ve realised most productivity stacks are just… too much. Here’s what my current setup looks like right now **Planning & Tasks** * Sunsama: helps me plan my day realistically * TickTick: quick tasks + reminders (clean and simple) **Focus & Deep Work** * Cold Turkey: blocks distractions when I really need to focus * One Sec: stops mindless app opening * Pomofocus: simple pomodoro timer **Notes & Thinking** * Obsidian: for deeper thinking + linking ideas * Craft: cleaner writing and organizing stuff **Meetings & Communication** * Loom: quick async videos instead of long messages * Notion notes:  basic meeting summaries **Email & Inbox** * Superhuman: fastest way I’ve found to respond to emails **Content / Work** * Ulysses: distraction-free writing * Cap.so: quick screen recordings * Descript: makes editing way easier **Research / Learning** * Readwise Reader: saves + revisits useful content * Feedly: keep up with industry stuff without noise **Outreach / Growth** * Hunter + Clay: Best combo for lead sourcing **Scheduling** * Reclaim: protects focus time * Calendly: simple scheduling **Side projects / Hosting** * JetHost: I use it for small projects/landing pages… super simple, no headaches * Cloudways: when I need more control **Some random ones** * Airtime: helps keep meetings efficient * ClearVPN: useful when working from random places * SideNotes: quick notes without breaking flow Thanks for reading, Let me know what tools you use.

If your goal is to get out of the Kindle ecosystem and not get locked into another one, I'd highly recommend a Boox. I have the Boox Go Color 7 (original model). Been using it for about a year and love it. It's an Android device, so I can use it to read books on Kindle, Kobo, Libby, [Bookshop.org](http://Bookshop.org), etc. Basically any service that has an Android app, which has been all of them. I can also use it to read the NYTimes and any articles I save on Readwise Reader. What I like about this approach too is that all of these apps are also on my iPhone and, generally speaking, the sync on them works well. So I can start reading a book in the Kobo app on my Boox, and then switch to my iPhone if I need to for some reason. Same with articles in Readwise Reader. Overall been very happy with my Boox. The interface can be a little laggy at times and there's a bit of set up involved which I found a tad annoying, but once I got it set up, it has served me well.

Has anyone found an easy way to extract the full article text from Reader (for a single article)? For example, I save YouTube videos there, but I’d like to pull out the main points from the transcript using AI rather than manually highlighting. Since there’s no obvious way to copy or export the full article, I’m wondering if there’s a workaround. Highlighting the entire thing just to export it feels really cumbersome. FYI - my highlight exports go to Notion.

Here's my method (sorry, I don’t use Obsidian): 1. Highlight passages in Zotero 2. Add comments and notes if necessary in Zotero 3. Highlight only the paper or article title in the Zotero list - create bibliography from item - export as html 4. Highlight all annotations and comments in the Zotero list at once - export them together as markdown 5. In Apple Notes, import the 2 Zotero exports - the bib and annotations/comments - automatically into Import Folders (I usually rename the folder to the paper name and move the entire folder to the inbox with project, topic and inbox tags) 6. Then do the manual work to move, extract quotes or just create notes and add the bib to the refrence list From there it's just working the process for ZK notes. There's no overwriting - I have to manually add the any new information where it belongs. I typically don't go back and add new annotations. If I thought I might do that I guess I would keep my raw imports around in a side folder with a key or label to see what is added. I'm not sure what your issue is with citations - maybe explain that more?? PS - for my Hypothes-is notes I use Readwise to gather those and then the Readwise to Apple Notes app.

For a long time my system was kindle highlights plus a vague intention to review them someday. Readwise sends you a daily digest of old highlights which helped a little, but re-reading a highlighted sentence you don't remember highlighting isn't the same as actually knowing what the book said or being able to use the idea. The missing piece was having somewhere to put the things I actually wanted to keep, not just flag. Notion handles project and work stuff for me, but for books and articles where I want the ideas to genuinely stick, I use remnote because it lets me schedule review of the specific concepts rather than just storing them. The difference between a notes app and a notes app with spaced repetition built in is larger than it sounds, it's the difference between a library you never visit and one that emails you. Readwise still does its thing in the morning for passive exposure. Remnote is for anything I'm actively trying to retain, which is maybe 10-15% of what I read, the rest I let go. Notion stays for everything work facing that I need to reference but don't need to memorize. Three tools doing three different jobs, none of them overlapping. That took longer to figure out than I'd like to admit.

I used to feel dumb because I'd read a book, love it, tell people about it, and then completely blank when they asked what it was about. Like I knew I learned something but couldn't access any of it. Thought it was just me until I started asking around and realized most people have the same problem. We consume tons of content and retain almost nothing. Tried different solutions over the years. Took notes while reading but never looked at them again. Used Readwise to resurface highlights but just skimmed past them. Tried explaining concepts to friends but felt awkward doing it constantly. What finally worked was adding audio review to my routine. I started using BeFreed which is a personalized audio learning app. After I finish a book I use it to drill the key concepts. It generates flashcards automatically and quizzes me on them over time. The difference is active recall vs passive review. Reading my highlights again doesn't make me remember them. Getting quizzed on them days later when I've started to forget does. Example: I read Never Split the Difference twice and could only vaguely remember "mirroring" and something about tactical empathy. Used the app to study negotiation concepts for a few weeks. Now I can actually explain labeling, calibrated questions, accusation audits, all of it. And use them in real conversations. The AI coach thing helped too. When I confused two similar concepts it explained the difference with examples until it clicked. It's not magic though. You have to actually do the reviews. Takes maybe 10-15 minutes a day. And the app works better for concept-heavy books than narrative ones. But for someone who felt like reading was pointless because nothing stuck, this changed things. Anyone else dealt with this? What's helped you actually retain what you read?

I was using the Reader for more than 1 year with the Readwise Plugin. But I ditched it because of the cost and getting rid of an intermediary makes more sense I believe. Right now I completely use the Web Clipper. I also wrote down a templater script that let me make comments on highlights via footnotes. Also the Readwise import to Obsidian didn't let importing the full text and highlight together and was creating two notes for each text. This way I can use only one note for each item.

I've got a few ways depending on what I need. Dashboard page: For immediate access to the notes in my vault I have a dashboard page. This dashboard is a lot simpler than others' as I don't need much, just links to other pages like my "index" page, bases that list my active projects, etc. Index page: It's a page that groups all my MOCs. For example in my index page I have a heading called "British History" and it links to MOCs like Queen Boudica, Anglo-Saxons, Danelaw, Alfred the Great, etc. CMD + O: If I need a specific note I can normally just fuzzy search for the name. All my notes are systematically titled so I can usually find what I'm looking for pretty easily. Otherwise if I know what keywords would be in the note I can use the search functionality. Daily note: I have as much of my reading as possible integrated with readwise which I've configured to insert a link to the daily note when it syncs. So if I'm looking for a quote from a book that I read and I know that I read it on a specific day, I can look at that day's daily note and find my notes on a source. So yeah, I don't just have one organisation method I use all the time, I have different systems that coexist to find the information how I want to find it.

Kepano seems to have demoed a read-it-later system based entirely in Obsidian. What’s hypothetically keeping you in Readwise? One use case I’m thinking about—I like to highlight when I read. It’d be easier to do that if I’m reading directly in Obsidian, and I can even add backlinks in the moment. If I’m reading in Matter, it’s clunky to re-clip the whole article in Obsidian and go back through and mark highlights/backlinks. Curious if that’s a use case that comes up for you.

I'm searching for a good way to read my pdf books (mostly specialized literature) highlight and get those highlights into spaced repetition and then to my Obsidian vault as well. The later is not really the problem because RW -> Obsidian is good enough atm :) I'm struggling finding a convenient way to do so. * Onyx Neo Reader: All highlights are with double line breaks, hence I would need to touch every item. (I use the Onyx integration to readwise) * readwise App on Onyx: I really miss a page scroll option >.< Also how do I clip flow charts or tables? * readwise App in read mode: eats both tables and flowcharts and makes them unreadable I have not tried * reading the full pdf highlighting with something else then moving into readwise. The reason is that I want to work with the highlights I have even if I have not yet finished the book I would love to go to a consistent way within readwise so that I can also switch between devices. How do you handle this? Every way I try feels clumsy and underwhelming

Hi friends, I dabbled in all the PKBS years ago (notion, obsidian, tana, loqseq) and everything kinda just fell apart cuz i just didnt want to waste all that time and effort maintaining them instead of really using them. Instead, i just did all the note taking in Apple notes + apple voice memo. Now, i've been using AI (codex/claude, etc) and built myself a personal LifeOS app which solves a lot of my life-related things quite well, but it can't quite do the PKBS like obsidian does, so now im thinking to revisit rebuilding a new Obsidian system for this. What's a good system/way to build a new Obsidian vault now? Previously i did the PARA, August bradley's PPV, MOC... and these got too complicated to maintain. Are there better / simpler practices these days? I've seen ppl talk about Kaparthy's llm wiki, but not sure how to quite add this in. The main content i have are the bunch of Apple notes + voice memo + Readwise data that i want to sort through and combine together in a way that I can actually consume and use. Thanks for any help/guidance in building my new obsidian

This is a [view](https://docs.readwise.io/reader/docs/faqs/filtered-views). The easiest way is on the web. Press `shift+f` to open the query input. Then, paste my query, and hit enter. You can then save it for use later. My query is specific to my cleanup needs. It looks for all seen feed documents that are not YouTube videos. I have mine set to older than 2 months because that's a reasonable cutoff for my feeds. You can always change that part. The last two parts make sure I don't delete feed items that I've highlighted or tagged. There's one other option that you can `AND` at the end: `has__not:notes`. I'm okay deleting feed documents with notes since mine only contain AI chat summaries. If I want to keep an item, I usually add it to the inbox or archive, so deleting feed items with notes doesn't bother me. Once you have the filtered view, you can apply a bulk delete by pressing `shift+b` and selecting "Delete all documents" (or something like that). Thankfully, the most recent update added "restore from trash" so you should be able to easily revert any issues. If you want, you can copy/paste the review documentation page into ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini and ask it to help you craft a query that meets your needs.

Now that Obsidian Web Clipper has gotten really good, how are folks thinking about the role of external reader apps like Readwise and Matter? I wonder whether it’s easier to skip over Readwise and clip directly into Obsidian. You lose the mobile reading experience (especially since I use Chrome mobile, which doesn’t play well with Obsidian Web Clipper), but you cut out a middleman and you can plug it all directly into Claude. Readwise and Matter both have good ingest capabilities, but perhaps that’s functionality that can happen through Claude instead.

I keep coming back to Readwise Reader because of the experience of reading an article. With other feed readers, I notice that I don't read as much -- I just scan titles. I've definitely feel the pain when having a large feed document count. I have a custom view set up to capture the build up to help speed up the app. feed:true AND domain__not:youtube.com AND seen:true AND saved__before:"2 months ago" AND has__not:highlights AND has__not:tags I would love if RSS features got some more love! Even just reordering folders would be amazing!

If changing tags in Reader the flow down to Readwise is not consistent. Some tags change some don't or some instances of a tag change and some don't. Changing the name of a tag in Reader that is linked to many items is also sometimes not possible, it just does not accept the changes when clicking okay, or is very sluggish. There are sometimes ghost tags as leftovers in Readwise after changes in Reader are not reflected in Readwise, or both the new and the old tag names are visible as two different tags in Readwise. Overall a very difficult experience. Is there any plan to try to tighten this up a bit? Thank you.

Dear Readwise community, I truly love Readwise — a lot. But using it has become genuinely frustrating for me. I use it primarily to read RSS feeds. The loading times are really, really long. I recorded a video on my phone showing the app launch: it takes 16 seconds for the app to open, and 46 seconds before I can access the feeds. And honestly, I think it was actually faster than usual that day, because I had to try several times to get the recording right. On my e-reader, the Boox Go 7, it's even worse. Sometimes I can't access the feeds at all. Typically, I open the Feeds tab, go make myself an espresso, come back — and it's more or less ready, assuming it hasn't crashed. Is this normal? Is there anything I can do to prevent this? Thank you

Hey folks, happy Tuesday! Time to check out [the latest changelog](https://docs.readwise.io/changelog#april-10-2026) here on Reddit. The idea is to help keep y'all in the loop of what the Readwise developers are getting out into the world. Here's what we shipped last week: * 📓 **NEW! Wikiwise (experimental)** — Tristan built a native Mac app for setting up, customizing, and managing your own [local-first markdown wiki with an AI agent](https://wiki-wise.com/). Just point it at a folder and your markdown files become interlinked pages. Add sources and the LLM agent reads them, writes summary pages, cross-references everything, and keeps it all consistent. The wiki compounds with every source you add, with no need for a database, configs, or account. Wikis can compile to a clean, fast website you can share on the web. If you decide to try it out, feel free to send us any feedback! * 🔀 **NEW! Expanded MCP Access** — Thanks to Piotr, our MCP can now be used with Notion and Perplexity. * 💎 **Fixed Obsidian Exports** — Tristan fixed a backend process glitch that prevented exported documents and highlights from reaching Obsidian. * 📝 **Fixed Highlight Ordering** — Mati fixed a bug where highlights created via keyboard shortcut appeared at the top of the notebook panel regardless of their position in the document. Highlights now sort by their actual location, so your notebook and exports reflect the correct reading order. * 🎙️ **Improved Podcast Exports** — Full transcripts now export to Obsidian, and podcasts are correctly categorized as podcasts in Readwise instead of being saved as articles. * 🛜 **Parsing Updates** — Krzys improved how Reader handles Twitter/X content. Krzys also fixed a bug where email newsletters containing embedded script tags were getting cut off mid-content. Newsletters from Dan Koe, Liberty's Highlights, and various Substack authors were among those affected. Full newsletters should now come through intact. If you'd like to get the Changelog in your inbox, check out our [WiseUp! newsletter](https://wiseup.readwise.io/about/), where the Readwise team shares answers to common questions, video tutorials and guides, highlights of our latest improvements, and a couple of lighthearted extras we think you’ll enjoy. And as always, feel free to let us know if you have any questions, tho realistically we're going to see an in-app bug report or question faster :>

Hey u/a12omg, at the moment, feed folders only support RSS feeds, so unfortunately it isn’t possible to add email newsletters to your Work folder. That said, we’re tracking a request for email folders, and you’re welcome to add your vote [here](https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features/p/support-email-folders). We’ll keep you posted if and when we ship that feature. In the meantime, the best workaround is to create a [filtered view](https://docs.readwise.io/reader/docs/faqs/filtered-views). You can even recreate your Work folder this way by including both your RSS feeds and email newsletters like Dense Discovery in a single view, then pin it to your sidebar for easy access. To create a filtered view, press `Shift + F`, type `author:"Dense Discovery"`, and then save it. You can also open an email from Dense Discovery and click the author field in the Info tab in the right sidebar to quickly view everything from that author, and save the filtered view from there. Alternatively, you could expand that filtered view to include your existing Work folder feeds as well, so everything lives in one place. Feel free to reach out at [[email protected]]() if you need any help!

I’ve spent the last three weeks watching people completely blow up their OpenClaw setups. Ever since the repository smashed past 250,000 GitHub stars and that absolute nightmare of a v2026.3.22 update dropped on March 23 with its 12 undocumented breaking changes, my Discord DMs have been a literal warzone. I've personally helped fix over 200 broken instances. The pattern is always the same. People install the tool, run it for a week, break their primary routing logic because they didn't read the docs, and then spend five grueling hours trying to fix something that would have taken five minutes to prevent. Now version 2026.4.12 is officially out. Everyone is making noise about the flashy UI tweaks and the massive GitHub metrics. There's even a ridiculous TikTok rumor going around that OpenAI just acquired the project outright. I spent my entire morning ripping through the actual raw commit logs, the pull requests, and the buried changelog lines. There is a massive amount of quiet, foundational restructuring happening right now. You need to understand these shifts immediately, especially if you rely on Docker containers or Anthropic models for your daily workflows. First, let's talk about the biggest elephant in the room. It isn't actually a code commit. It's a brutal policy shift that OpenClaw's latest architecture is desperately scrambling to adapt to. As of April 4, Claude subscription limits completely stopped working with third-party AI harnesses. If you were using OpenClaw to pipeline your daily Claude queries under your standard $20 Pro subscription, that door just got slammed shut in your face. Usage through OpenClaw and similar tools now hard-shifts directly to separate API billing. The 2026.4.12 changelog hints at some heavy refactoring in the Anthropic provider modules to handle these new rate limit errors and billing threshold rejections without crashing the entire agent loop. But the practical reality for you? Casual chatting through the OpenClaw UI just got significantly more expensive. You are now paying strictly per token. I am already seeing guys on the forums accidentally burn $15 a day because they left an automated web-scraping agent running through an Anthropic node instead of routing it locally. The core developers knew this API billing crunch was coming. That is exactly why the recent 2026.4.8 update aggressively prioritized pushing Gemma 4 integration over the finish line. If you dig into the newly merged PRs from the past two weeks, the local inference handling for Gemma 4 is shockingly optimized. You can now run Gemma 4 completely free as a highly reliable fallback node. If you configure your OpenClaw routing rules to default to Gemma 4 for basic parsing, text summarization, and RAG preprocessing, you can save your expensive OpenAI or Anthropic API calls exclusively for the heavy-lifting reasoning tasks. The 2026.4.12 patch quietly smoothed out some nasty context window memory leaks we were seeing last week with these local models. Set your primary provider to local Gemma 4, map your API keys for the massive models only when your task complexity triggers a specific threshold, and your wallet will survive the month. Now for the actual emergency warning. If you are running OpenClaw inside Docker and you rely on Google Vertex or Gemini models in your stack—do not pull the 2026.4.12 image. Stop what you are doing and check your compose files. I caught this buried in the r/openclaw subreddit this morning, replicated it on my home server, and it is a complete mess. The 2026.4.12 Docker update fundamentally breaks all \`google-vertex/gemini\` routing. Looking at the raw container logs, the OAuth authentication handshake for Google Cloud Platform gets completely mangled by a dependency update inside the core connector module. It doesn't give you a helpful error. It just spits out a generic 401 unauthorized code or throws a blank response timeout that freezes the execution chain. If you run Vertex for your enterprise endpoints, you need to pin your Docker image strictly to \`v2026.4.8\` or earlier. Drop the \`latest\` tag from your configuration right now. The dev team is aware of the breakage, but until a hotfix patch drops, your Gemini pipelines will silently die inside the container. Stepping back from the immediate bugs, reading these logs makes one massive industry shift incredibly clear. OpenClaw isn't just a wrapper or a chatbot UI anymore. It is rapidly becoming the default operating system for local AI infrastructure. Look closely at the new Readwise MCP server integration they just shipped alongside the GPT-5.4 support headers. You can now pipe your entire Readwise database directly into OpenClaw's context architecture using the Model Context Protocol. This means your autonomous agents have instant, semantic access to every highlight, book, and technical article you have ever saved. Because the harness is running locally on your hardware, your personal data graph isn't being scraped to train someone else's foundation model. This is the real reason NVIDIA just announced NemoClaw at GTC. Controlling the local action harness is the actual prize in the current AI arms race. OpenClaw connects natively to 22 different channels and executes real local machine actions rather than just answering trivia questions. That is infrastructure, not a toy. We are moving out of the experimental hobbyist phase and straight into the mission-critical enterprise phase. Updates are going to hurt a lot more when they break your deployment. Go check your Docker tags immediately. Re-evaluate your Claude API billing limits before you get a shock at the end of the month. And set up Gemma 4 as your free local fallback today. Has anyone else actually hit this Vertex bug on a bare metal Linux installation, or is it strictly isolated to the Docker runtime environment? I'm trying to figure out if it's a container networking issue or a fundamental flaw in the updated Google authentication module.

Can you explain the privacy / security issues in more detail? Seriously curious if Chrome extensions like Readwise, Instapaper or Craft share such problems. They capture the content as seen in the client and send it to their service instead of having the server parse the url. And they do so IF a user decides to activate the extension on a given page. Not meaning to be a smartass, just an honest question for the reasoning of this choice. (long time mymind user, but never used it to save articles because of this limitation)

Seconding the Boox Go Color 7. I was a long-time Kindle user, but got all my purchased books out of there last year before they shut down. I strongly considered a Kobo but realized I did not want to be locked into another ecosystem. I like the Boox because I can read books from Kindle, Kobo, Bookshop, Libby, and just about any other platform there is that has an Android app. I can also use Readwise's Reader on it to read articles I've saved, and read the NYTimes. I like the flexibility of the Boox. Downside to the Boox is that it requires a bit more set up than something like a Kindle or Kobo. But overall very happy with my purchase, and I have been using it for about a year now. I would definitely consider another Boox in the future (eyeing the Boox Palma Pro 2 at the moment). No matter what, though, I will only be purchasing e-readers that are not locked into a specific platform.

Hi! Readwise founder here. First and foremost: **no data from your browsing ever leaves your device unless you activate the browser extension by hitting the icon or using the shortcut.** You could verify this by watching the network requests our browser extension makes -- no data leaves the extension until you activate. We have been extra thorough to make sure this is the case, as privacy is very important to us (and really, we have no incentive otherwise. We never sell data under any circumstances, Readwise is a subscription service!) Unfortunately, we do have to ask for these permissions, though, due to how browser extension permissions work. There's no other way for the extension to work the way it needs to if it didn't have those permissions. Basically, one of the coolest features of the browser extension is that automatically activates and shows your highlights *if you go to url you've already saved/highlighted.* The browser extension spec does not give us a way to ask for domains selectively to enable this functionality, except by asking for permissions up front. I completely understand if you're not comfortable with that though. It's not as nice of a UX, but you could instead install our basic bookmarklet from [read.readwise.io/resources](http://read.readwise.io/resources) which would allow you to save on web without an extension. Hope that helps! Tristan

There are some newsletters I like that only provide the truncated version via RSS. I want to get the full newsletter into my "work" feed filter/folder. So 1. I subscribed to the newsletter using my @ [feed.readwise.io](http://feed.readwise.io) email address 2. I get the confirmation email in my main Feeds page 3. But I'm not able to add this source to my "work" folder, or even find it in a filtered search (e.g. [https://www.densediscovery.com](https://www.densediscovery.com) doesn't show up when i filter for dense or densediscovery.com) What am I missing?

I bought a second-hand Ipad Mini and use it exclusively to read. I have Readwise Reader and Zotero where I am able to read and annotate text. I dont really do much notetaking on it however, i have the apps that i use to note take on there so I can access them. I am currently experimenting with Apple Notes, Craft Notes and Obsidian. But good old Google Drive with folders and docs seems to work well - i just dont like the idea of Google using my files to train Gemini.

I use vaults for specific purposes so my answer is that I have a very high probability of having useful notes resurface. I also use Napkin for short snip quotes that has a really nice way of surfacing themes. I use this when I need inspiration & each morning if I have time. These can be imported into obsidian. I use Readwise (although I prefer the now defunct Omnivore) for highlights that are longer, with notes & a read it later component. I can set up digests around topics & they are emailed to me. Readwise also has AI chat that only chat with your notes. This also imports to Obsidian. If it takes you that long to set up your graph, maybe change how you organize? Use YAML, not tags. Create a note for themes & concepts and use the heck out of aliases. Your graph should take care of itself.

I personally went the Boox route. I had a Kindle and was tired of being locked into that ecosystem. Considered Kobo, but realized it was more or less basically the same lock-in. Went with a BOOX Go color 7 and am overall very happy with it. On the Boox II I can have Kindle, Kobo, Libby, and any other e-reading app. I also have the NYTimes and Readwise Reader, so I can read all my saved articles. The Boox does have some downsides; it can be a bit fiddly to set up and it feels laggy at times (although I think this is an issue generally with all e-readers, not just Boox). There's a lot of customization options too, which you may or may not like.

Hi everyone, I’ve been heavily utilizing NotebookLM lately for clinical and academic tasks, and it’s been a game-changer. Currently, I’m using it for: • Clinical Support: Generating patient scenarios and clinical decision support pathways. • Patient Education: Drafting brochures and informed consent forms. • Research: Identifying appropriate statistical methods, summarizing journal author guidelines, and paraphrasing academic English. While NotebookLM is powerful, I feel like I might be missing out on some "pro-level" integrations. I know many of you use Obsidian for PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) or Claude for its superior reasoning/writing capabilities. My questions for the community: 1. Do you pipe your NotebookLM outputs into Obsidian? If so, what does your folder/tagging structure look like for these AI-generated insights? 2. Are you using Claude (or other LLMs) as a "pre-processor" before feeding data into NotebookLM, or vice versa? 3. Are there any specific "sources" or workflows you've found that significantly reduce hallucinations in clinical/statistical contexts? 4. Any other apps (like Logseq, Readwise, etc.) that you’ve successfully paired with NotebookLM? Looking forward to hearing how you've optimized your stacks!

Hey all — I shared this a couple of weeks ago and got some really helpful feedback both on the threads and in messages, so I wanted to post a quick update with some new features. I built a simple, private web app to make it easier to browse and revisit your KOReader highlights. If you’ve ever exported your highlights and then… never looked at them again, this is for that. **What’s new since the last post:** * 🔄 **Auto-sync** – your highlights now sync automatically when WiFi is turned on (via the KOReader plugin) * 📄 **PDF export** – export your highlights into a clean, readable PDF * 📚 Book covers now included in the UI * 🔑 Easier setup with a short link code (no more typing long API keys on-device) **What it does:** * Upload your KOReader highlights export (.md file) and browse them by book * Search across all your highlights (not just titles) * Random quote from your library on the homepage * Works with KOReader, Kindle, Readwise, and Kobo exports **Privacy-first:** * No account required * No server / no data collection * Everything stays in your browser (stored locally) If you want to try it: [luminaria.uk](http://luminaria.uk) Would really appreciate any feedback — especially if: * parsing breaks on your files (I've had limited testing with Kindle export (.txt) and Kobo natively * the sync plugin doesn’t behave as expected * or there’s anything missing that would make this more useful Thanks again to everyone who commented on the first post — the updates came directly from that 👍 https://preview.redd.it/yeq6iop328ug1.png?width=1716&format=png&auto=webp&s=7cb039b8cf56d278564f6f5775d3666e90492c5b [Interactive Demo ](https://app.arcade.software/share/u3p1Q1R57dinbQ0cbldA)

Everyone talks about the same tools…They’re great, no doubt. But I wanted to try some lesser known AI tools that actually help in day to day work. I’ve been testing a few recently, and some of them turned out actually useful. **Here’s what I’ve been using:** **• Anything AI :** Good when I’m stuck on something. Helps turn random thoughts into clear next steps. **• Littlebird:** I use this for research. Shows what people are actually talking about, not just keywords. **• Guideless:** Feels like a quiet helper while working. Doesn’t get in the way. **• Convo:** Nice for quick back-and-forth thinking. I use it instead of overthinking in docs. **• Wispr Flow:** Voice to text. I use this when I don’t feel like typing everything. **• Endel:** Background sound for focus. Simple, but works better than expected. **• JetHost AI Website Builder:** When I need a quick site for a small idea, and it generates something usable in minutes. **• Readwise Reader:** Helps me save and revisit useful stuff (articles, posts, etc.) without losing it. **• Okara AI:** Still exploring this, but seems useful for organising ideas and content. I’m still testing new tools here and there, but trying not to overcomplicate things anymore. If anyone else is using tools like these?

I also wanted to show how convenient this setup is: \- iPad mini 6, 256gb in starlight. Still smooth for games and reading and ~~doomscroll youtube.~~ learning new stuff on Readwise. \- Gamesir g8+. A little chunky, but good for longer sessions. \- airpods pro 2. almost no delay while gaming. Asobi has been such a great experience to use. I takes about 45 seconds from opening the app to select game and actually land in the game. Nice. I DO experience some freezing in the latest version that is frustating. But these are still early days of the app :) Good job

Not even exaggerating… Over the last 2–3 years I’ve probably tried 100+ productivity apps. Most of them felt great for a few days… then slowly turned into something I had to maintain instead of something that helped me. So I stopped trying to build the “perfect system” and just kept what I actually open every day. Here’s what I am actually using currently: **1. Google Calendar:** Still the base of everything. If it’s time-based, it goes here. Nothing fancy, just blocks. **2. Apple Notes app (plain and simple):** Tried Notion, Obsidian, etc. Always came back to simple notes. Quick to open, quick to write, no thinking. **3. TickTick (or any simple task app):** Tried many. The only rule now: If it takes more than a few seconds to add or check a task then I won’t use it. **4. Readwise Reader:** This one actually stuck. I save articles, posts, random ideas and revisit them later. Helps without turning into a “second brain project”. **5. Loom:** This replaced a lot of meetings for me. If something can be explained in 2 minutes, I just record it. **6. Endel (for focus):** Didn’t expect this to work, but it helps me stay focused without thinking about it. **7. Simple voice notes / voice to text tools:** Big one. Sometimes typing feels like work. Talking is faster. **8. One “experiment” tool at a time:** I still try new apps… but only ONE at a time. Otherwise it becomes chaos again. **9. JetHost AI website builder (random but useful):** Not a typical productivity tool, but this saved me a lot of time recently. I had a small idea and needed a quick site. Instead of overthinking design/setup, it just generated something usable fast. For quick projects, this kind of thing actually removes a lot of friction. **What I learned after all this:** Most productivity apps fail not because they’re bad… But because: * they take too long to maintain * they add extra steps * they try to do too much The apps that stick are: * fast * boring * easy to open * easy to ignore when needed At this point my “system” is basically: calendar + notes + tasks That’s it. Everything else is optional.

In an effort to keep this subreddit organized, we will utilize this pinned post to answer your bug-related questions. We also post a [weekly changelog](https://www.reddit.com/r/readwise/?f=flair_name%3A%22Changelog%22) where we share all the bugs our devs have fixed in the previous week. If you believe you’ve hit a bug with either Readwise or Reader, feel free to post it in the comments below so that our team can help. **If you’re experiencing a bug that is specific to a document, highlights, or note-taking app, please email** [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) **as we will need your account details to troubleshoot.** *We will refresh this post the first week of every month.* Please familiarize yourself with our [subreddit rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/readwise/about/rules) before posting. Thanks!

Do you have a specific feature you would love to see incorporated into Reader or Readwise? Check out the list of [Reader features](https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features) and list of [Readwise 1.0 features](https://readwise.canny.io/readwise) we’re considering and feel free to upvote! Want to see features we’ve recently shipped? Check out our most recent [December Beta Update](https://readwise.io/reader/update-dec2025). Don’t see a feature you want? Share it in the comments below ⬇️ *We will refresh this pinned post on the first week of every month.* Please familiarize yourself with [our subreddit rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/readwise/about/rules) before posting. Thanks!

I feel like we all end up using the same tools. So I started trying a few random ones over the last few weeks and Some of them actually stuck. Here’s what I’ve been using: **• Anything:** I use this when I’m stuck on something. It helps me turn a messy idea into a few clear steps so I can actually start. **• Littlebird:** Good for research. Shows what people are talking about around a topic, which helps when I’m trying to understand something quickly. **• Guideless:** Hard to explain, but it feels like a light helper while working. Doesn’t get in the way. **• Convo:** I use this when I just want to think out loud instead of writing long notes. Good for quick ideas. **• Wispr Flow:** Voice to text. I use it a lot when I’m tired of typing. Surprisingly accurate. **• Endel:** Focus sounds. I didn’t expect much but it actually helps me stay in flow. **• Readwise Reader:** Saves articles, tweets, random stuff. I go back to it later instead of losing everything. **• Okara:** Still new for me, but seems useful for organising ideas and content. **• JetHost (AI website builder):** I used this recently to spin up a quick site for a small idea. It basically made a full site in a few minutes. I just edited a few things and it was live. Saved me a lot of setup time. The tools that actually stick are the ones that are simple and don’t slow you down.

Hey Obsidian community! You may remember [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1ru3xx3/looking_for_beta_testers_for_a_onyx_boox/) which got some overwhelming interest a few weeks back. I'd built a new keyboard app (IME) because I wanted to rely 100% on my stylus, rather than a typing keyboard, to enter text. Turns out there are a few pieces of UX design that I wanted across apps, not just to work in one notes app: * Write first, convert to text when ready (it's distracting when the handwriting changes mid-thought) * Annotations (tags, links, headings, screenshots) drawn over the handwriting rather than written into it * and of course, low latency input and good looking text (using the Jetpacks Ink renderer) I love Obsidian and funnel all my writing and reading highlights/annotations into it (for years -- [read more here](https://jpham.space/kit/how-i-use-enzyme)), and so the most important function of my Boox device is to have good ergonomics to capture into that system. Because I enjoy fountain pens / nice paper :) and have relied on analog journaling for quite some time, this was a challenging endeavor in making something that I would personally use daily. It's been a game changer to use wikilink/tag annotations in Readwise Reader and Kindle apps, which I've set up to all sync to Obsidian. I've been delighted to hear from the alpha testers that Scrawl has become a daily driver, and with their help I have over the last few weeks improved functionality and cross device compatibility for Scrawl (i.e. a button driven radial menu for annotations, streamlined settings menu, onboarding, and more). I'm excited to announce that Scrawl is now publicly available on the Google Play store: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scrawl.app&pcampaignid=web\_share](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scrawl.app&pcampaignid=web_share) Welcome to any feedback on the UX here, and would love to hear from you if you're also using Boox for Obsidian or marginalia capture in similar ways!

Hey Onyx community! You may remember [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/1ru4j5o/looking_for_beta_testers_for_a_onyx_boox/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) which got some overwhelming interest a few weeks back. I'd built a new keyboard app (IME) because I wanted to rely 100% on my stylus, rather than a typing keyboard, to enter text. Turns out there are a few pieces of UX design that I wanted across apps, not just to work in one notes app: * Write first, convert to text when ready (it's distracting when the handwriting changes mid-thought) * Annotations (tags, links, headings, screenshots) drawn over the handwriting rather than written into it * and of course, low latency input and good looking text (using the Jetpacks Ink renderer) I love Obsidian and funnel all my writing and reading highlights/annotations into it (for years -- [read more here](https://jpham.space/kit/how-i-use-enzyme)), and so the most important function of my Boox device is to have good ergonomics to capture into that system. Because I enjoy fountain pens / nice paper :) and have relied on analog journaling for quite some time, this was a challenging endeavor in making something that I would personally use daily. It's been a game changer to use wikilink/tag annotations in Readwise Reader and Kindle apps, which I've set up to all sync to Obsidian. I've been delighted to hear from the alpha testers that Scrawl has become a daily driver, and with their help I have over the last few weeks improved functionality and cross device compatibility for Scrawl (i.e. a button driven radial menu for annotations, streamlined settings menu, onboarding, and more). I'm excited to announce that Scrawl is now publicly available on the Google Play store: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scrawl.app&pcampaignid=web\_share](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scrawl.app&pcampaignid=web_share) Welcome to any feedback on the UX here, and would love to hear from you if you're also using Boox for Obsidian or marginalia capture in similar ways!

Hey folks, happy Tuesday! Time to check out [the latest changelog](https://docs.readwise.io/changelog#april-3-2026) here on Reddit. The idea is to help keep y'all in the loop of what the Readwise developers are getting out into the world. Here's what we shipped last week: * 🗑️ **NEW! Restore All from Trash** — Mati added a "Restore All" button to the trash view on both web and mobile. If you accidentally bulk delete documents, you can now bring everything back in one tap instead of restoring items one by one. * 🟡 **Fixed MCP Highlights** — Piotr fixed a bug where creating highlights via MCP (for AI agent integrations) could fail on text containing parentheses, brackets, or other special characters. Highlight creation through MCP tools should now handle any text reliably. * 📧 **Fixed Email Display** — Mati fixed an issue where internal marker text was appearing at the bottom of emails in original view mode. Emails should render cleanly now. * 💬 **Fixed Chat Keyboard Shortcut** — Mati fixed a bug where pressing `D` to delete a document while the Chat sidebar was open would incorrectly focus the chat input, blocking further keyboard shortcuts. * 📚 **Fixed Kindle Imports** — Piotr updated our handling of Russian Kindle clippings. Newer firmware uses different wording for "highlight" and "page," and both old and new formats are now supported. * 📝 **Fixed Note Textarea** — Mati fixed a sizing issue with the note editing textarea on web. It now renders at the correct width. * 📡 **Fixed RSS Feeds** — Piotr fixed an issue where RSS feeds from certain sites were saving broken content instead of the actual feed. * 🐦 **Fixed Twitter/X Display** — Krzys shipped several Twitter fixes: missing media in longer tweets, truncated tweets in threaded conversations, and broken formatting for Chinese-language tweets are all resolved. Images also no longer appear misplaced in tweet documents. * 🛜 **Parsing Updates** — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from [reuters.com](https://reuters.com/), [psychotherapynetworker.org](https://psychotherapynetworker.org/), [blog.allegro.tech](https://blog.allegro.tech/), [integralguide.com](https://integralguide.com/), [jamoe.org](https://jamoe.org/), [faridsaid.com](https://faridsaid.com/), [lyz-code.github.io](https://lyz-code.github.io/), [blog.markwhen.com](https://blog.markwhen.com/), and [xda-developers.com](https://xda-developers.com/). He also created a new system that better strips navigation, comments, and sidebar clutter from saved articles. If you'd like to get the Changelog in your inbox, check out our [WiseUp! newsletter](https://wiseup.readwise.io/about/), where the Readwise team shares answers to common questions, video tutorials and guides, highlights of our latest improvements, and a couple of lighthearted extras we think you’ll enjoy. And as always, feel free to let us know if you have any questions, tho realistically we're going to see an in-app bug report or question faster :>

Look, I'm going to say something that might sound weird at first, but hear me out. There's this one reading habit that's been flying under the radar, and honestly? It's quietly making some people magnetically attractive without them even trying. I'm not talking about reading self-help books or becoming some fake intellectual who quotes Nietzsche at parties. I'm talking about something way more subtle and powerful. I stumbled into this realization after noticing a pattern. The people I found most compelling weren't necessarily the smartest or the most accomplished. They were the ones who could hold a conversation about literally anything, make unexpected connections between ideas, and genuinely seemed interested in the world. Turns out, they all shared one specific reading habit that completely changed how their brains work. After diving into research from cognitive scientists, psychology experts like Dr. Keith Stanovich, and analyzing patterns from successful communicators, I realized this isn't just about being "well read." It's about how you read and what that does to your entire personality without you even noticing. **Read Widely, Not Deeply (At Least at First)** Here's where most people fuck up. They pick one genre, one type of book, one narrow interest and stick with it like it's their identity. You love fantasy? Cool. That's all you read. Into business books? Great. Your nightstand is a Tony Robbins convention. But attractive people? They're reading all over the map. Fiction, psychology, history, science, memoirs, even weird niche stuff that has nothing to do with their career or goals. Why? Because variety creates cognitive flexibility. Your brain starts making connections between different domains. You start seeing patterns others miss. Dr. Stanovich's research on "cognitive reserve" shows that people who engage with diverse content literally develop better critical thinking and conversational range. They become more interesting because they can relate almost anything to almost anything else. That random book about octopus intelligence? It somehow connects to your conversation about relationships or business strategy. Resource drop: Start with "The Beginning of Infinity" by David Deutsch. This book is an absolute mind-bender about knowledge, progress, and how everything connects. Deutsch is a physicist at Oxford, and this book won't just teach you about quantum theory, it'll completely rewire how you think about problems, creativity, and human potential. Fair warning though, this book will make you question everything you think you know about reality and knowledge. It's dense but insanely rewarding. **Read Like You're Having a Conversation** Most people read passively. Words go in, maybe stick around for a bit, then float away into the void. But here's the secret sauce that makes someone irresistible: active reading that turns into internal dialogue. When you read something interesting, pause. Argue with it in your head. Ask "what if the opposite is true?" Connect it to something you experienced last week. Write a quick note in the margin or your phone. You're not just consuming information, you're wrestling with it, making it yours. This habit does something magical to your personality. You become someone with opinions that aren't just recycled from Twitter or your immediate social circle. You have stories and examples that come from unexpected places. People notice when you're not just repeating what everyone else says. Research from cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham shows that this kind of engaged reading literally builds new neural pathways and improves memory consolidation. You're not just reading for information, you're reading to build a more interesting version of yourself. Resource drop: Try using the Readwise app for this. It's not your typical reading app, it's more like a memory system that resurfaces highlights from everything you read. You mark passages that hit you, and the app brings them back randomly so they actually stick in your brain. It's like having a personal trainer for your reading retention. The spaced repetition method they use is backed by decades of memory research, and honestly? It makes you remember shit you read months ago, which makes you infinitely more interesting in conversations. **Read Uncomfortable Stuff That Challenges You** Here's where it gets spicy. The reading habit that really separates magnetic people from everyone else is this: they deliberately read things that make them uncomfortable or challenge their existing beliefs. Most of us curate our reading like we curate our social media feeds, only stuff that confirms what we already think. But attractive people? They're reading opposing viewpoints, controversial ideas, and books that make them squirm a little. Not because they're trying to be edgy, but because intellectual humility is sexy as hell. When you can say "I read this book that completely changed my mind about X" or "I used to think Y, but then I encountered this perspective," you're showing emotional maturity and curiosity. Those are core attractiveness traits that have nothing to do with looks or status. Jonathan Haidt talks about this in his research on moral psychology. People who expose themselves to diverse viewpoints develop better perspective-taking abilities and empathy. They become less dogmatic, more nuanced, more capable of holding complex conversations without getting defensive. That's magnetic. Resource drop: Pick up "The Righteous Mind" by Haidt himself. He's a social psychologist at NYU, and this book breaks down why good people are divided by politics and religion. But more importantly, it'll help you understand why people think differently than you without writing them off as stupid. This book is legitimately eye-opening for having better conversations with literally anyone. It's one of those rare books that makes you simultaneously smarter and more empathetic. **Read Before You Scroll** Last thing, and this might be the most practical habit change. The people who seem most present, most engaged, most genuinely attractive? They've replaced doomscrolling with reading. Even just 20 minutes in the morning before touching their phone. This isn't some productivity hack bullshit. It's about starting your day by feeding your brain something substantial instead of algorithmic junk food. Your first mental input sets the tone for how you think all day. Start with Twitter drama and your brain is primed for reactivity and outrage. Start with a good book and your brain is primed for depth and curiosity. Studies on attention span and digital media consumption show that constant scrolling literally degrades your ability to focus and think deeply. Reading, especially physical books, rebuilds that capacity. It makes you someone who can actually pay attention during a conversation instead of mentally checking out every 30 seconds. If you want to go deeper on these psychology and communication topics but struggle to find time for all these books, there's an app called BeFreed that's been pretty solid. It's an AI learning app built by a team from Columbia and Google that pulls from books, psychology research, and expert interviews to create personalized audio content based on what you actually want to work on. You can literally type something like "I want to become more interesting in conversations as someone who's naturally quiet" and it generates a structured learning plan with episodes you can customize, from quick 10-minute overviews to 40-minute deep dives with examples. The voice options are surprisingly good too, there's even this smoky, slightly sarcastic narrator that makes the content way more engaging than typical audiobook narration. It's basically a smarter way to absorb the same insights from books like the ones mentioned here without dedicating hours you might not have. Resource drop: For breaking the scroll habit specifically, try the One Sec app. It adds a breathing delay before opening distracting apps, which breaks the automatic scroll reflex. Sounds simple but it's weirdly effective at redirecting that impulse toward something better, like actually opening that book you've been meaning to read. **The Compound Effect** Here's the thing nobody tells you about this reading habit. The changes are subtle at first. You're not going to read one diverse book and suddenly become irresistible. But over time? Six months of reading widely, actively, uncomfortably, and consistently? You become someone fundamentally different. You have more interesting things to say. You make unexpected connections. You're less judgmental and more curious. You can hold a conversation with pretty much anyone about pretty much anything. You're not performing intelligence, you're genuinely engaged with ideas. And people feel that. They're drawn to it without knowing exactly why. Because in a world where everyone's reading the same tweets and watching the same TikToks, someone with genuine intellectual curiosity and range stands out like crazy. That's the quiet power of this reading habit. It doesn't announce itself. It just makes you more magnetic, one page at a time.

I recently switched from Notion to Craft, drawn by the promise of a native, snappy interface. Unfortunately, I've run into enough UX inconsistencies and performance issues that the experience has been disappointing - especially since I expected a native app to comfortably outperform Electron-based Notion. Here's what's been frustrating: **Performance.** This is the biggest issue. Opening documents, searching, navigating between docs - everything has noticeable lag. I connected my Readwise library and the collection table is barely usable due to the volume of items, whereas Notion handled the same dataset without issue. (macbook air 16gb m4) **Inconsistent interaction patterns.** The plus button behaves differently on the Calendar, Tasks, and All Docs screens. There's no keyboard shortcut to quickly add a task to the inbox on macOS - every time, I have to reach for the mouse and navigate to Tasks. Either add a shortcut or replicate the mobile quick-input interface (where I can create a task, note, or daily note from anywhere). **Search is fragmented.** There's Quick Open, and then a separate search with two modes (keyword and smart). To do an in-document search, I need to go to All Documents, open search, choose a mode, and then search. Quick Open doesn't help when I can't remember the exact document name. Why not combine these into a single unified search? **Discoverability issues.** Deleting a table row took me ten minutes - it was buried in a second-level menu. Starring a document is hidden inside the Info panel rather than surfaced as a top-level icon, even though starring is presumably far more common than let's say presenting. The Info panel itself has an "Actions" section inside Page Info *and* a separate "Actions" sub-page, which made finding basic features like starring confusing on first use. **Tag management.** There's no way to delete a tag globally - I have to remove it document by document. Combined with the document-opening lag, this is painful. **Minor confusion points.** I still don't understand what "Imagine" is or how to remove it from the sidebar. The whole concept of it is not clear and I don't understand what is it for? I'm not planning to use craft as vibecoding app sorry. I'm going to keep investing time in Craft because the core concept is appealing. But the foundation - performance, search, and interaction consistency - needs work before the polish of the UI can truly shine.

i've spent the last 6 months obsessively building and testing different reading systems. books, articles, research on learning science, way too many productivity youtube videos. finally organizing it because every "how to read more" guide i found was either "just read 20 pages a day bro" or some elaborate notion template that takes longer to maintain than actually reading. here's what actually works for building a system that compounds. - **Stop treating reading like a checklist:** the goal isn't books finished, it's knowledge retained and applied. most people read 20 books a year and remember maybe 3 ideas total. that's not a reading habit, that's expensive entertainment. shift your mindset from consumption to integration. - **Build a capture system that doesn't require discipline:** if you have to manually type notes after reading, you won't do it consistently. use the path of least resistance. - highlight directly in kindle or apple books, export weekly - voice memo key insights immediately after finishing a chapter - the problem most people hit is having tons of highlights scattered everywhere with no way to actually revisit or connect them. this is where a tool that does the synthesis for you helps. BeFreed is a personalized learning app that generates custom audio lessons from books and research. you can type something like "help me actually retain what i read about cognitive biases" and it builds a learning path pulling from the same sources you're reading. a friend at google recommended it and honestly it's replaced my second read-throughs. you can adjust depth from 10 minute summaries to 40 minute deep dives, plus there's a virtual coach you can pause and ask questions mid-lesson. covers most of the books worth reading anyway. - **Readwise** is solid for automatic highlight syncing if you want everything in one place - **Create friction for bad books, remove it for good ones:** tbh most books should be abandoned by page 50. keep your current read visible, phone out of reach. the "sunk cost" of finishing bad books kills more reading habits than anything. - **Schedule processing time, not just reading time:** this is the part nobody talks about. block 30 minutes weekly to review what you captured. ask: what surprised me? what contradicts something i believed? what can i apply this week? - **Use the feynman technique on one idea per book:** pick the most important concept and explain it simply, out loud or written, like you're teaching a friend. if you can't, you didn't understand it. this single habit compounds faster than reading twice as many books. - **Connect new knowledge to existing knowledge:** isolated facts don't stick. after each book, spend 5 minutes asking "what does this relate to that i already know?" your brain remembers through association, not repetition. - **"How to Read a Book"** by Mortimer Adler, a classic that's been around since 1940, genuinely changed how i approach difficult texts. this is the best meta-reading book, insanely practical breakdown of analytical reading levels that most speed-reading gurus completely ignore. - **Read in clusters, not randomly:** read 3-4 books on the same topic before moving on. you'll notice patterns, contradictions, and develop actual opinions instead of just absorbing whatever the last author said.

Hi all, two questions from a heavy Reader user: 1. Filtering podcasts by date saved/added Is there a way to search for podcasts (or any documents) saved today or yesterday via the MCP API? I've been using the `published_date` filter but that reflects the episode's original publish date, not when I added it to Reader — so recently saved episodes with older publish dates don't surface. However, Claude cannot find a `date_saved` or `date_added` parameter in the search tool. Am I missing something, or is this a gap in the current API? 2. "Unnamed podcast" entries I saved a batch of podcast episodes recently and a few of them show up as "Unnamed podcast". I understand this is expected for very fresh episodes and that content fills in later — but is there any guidance on how long this typically takes? --- On a broader note: the MCP + Claude workflow for podcasts has been genuinely excellent. I save Spotify episodes to Reader, then use Claude via MCP to search my queue, pull up transcripts, and have a conversation about the content. It's transformed how I engage with my listening queue. Would love to see the date-saved filter added so I can more easily surface what I've just added in a session. Many thanks!

Hi. I'm a Readwise Subscriber and use it alongside Obsidian - currently I have my highlights exported to an Obsidian notebook. Is there any way I can have the highlights from yesterday extracted into a separate note using dataview or similar? Currently I go to my Readwise notebook, go to the books I'm currently reading, go to the bottom of the note and then copy any relevant notes into a separate note but this seems a bit long-winded so I was wondering if anyone has an easier way? Thanks for any suggestions!!

I read a lot of non-fiction and I highlight obsessively. Kindle, physical books, doesn't matter — if something resonates I mark it. But here's my problem: those highlights just sit there. I go back to them maybe once, feel good about having them, and then they slowly become meaningless because I can't remember why I highlighted something six months later, or how it connects to something I read in a completely different book. I've tried Readwise — it just shows me old highlights randomly which is nice but doesn't help me understand how ideas connect across books. I've tried dumping everything into Notion — too much friction to maintain. I've tried re-reading highlights before starting a new book — takes too long. I'm genuinely curious how other heavy readers handle this. Specifically: \- What do you actually do with highlights after you make them? \- Have you ever stumbled on a connection between two books you read years apart and felt like your brain just clicked? \- What would make your highlights actually useful rather than just a graveyard of good intentions? Asking because I've been thinking about this problem a lot and I want to understand if others feel it the same way I do, or if I'm just bad at reading habits.

KOReader got me into the habit of highlighting passages while reading, and syncing them to Readwise. At some point I thought — wouldn't it be great to have those quotes just show up on my phone's home screen throughout the day? I couldn't find a widget that did this well, so I built one myself and put it on GitHub as open source (MIT license). **What it does:** * Shows a random highlight from your Readwise library as a home screen widget * Tap to get a new quote * Filter by book, tag, or highlight length * Fully customizable appearance — colors, fonts, corners, padding * Material You support * Background sync to keep highlights up to date So if you're using KOReader → Readwise (or any other Readwise sync) and want your highlights to pop up on your Android home screen, give it a try. **Requirements:** Android 12+, Readwise account with API token GitHub: [https://github.com/benstockhecke/readwise-android-widget](https://github.com/benstockhecke/readwise-android-widget) APK download: [https://github.com/benstockhecke/readwise-android-widget/releases/tag/v1.1.0](https://github.com/benstockhecke/readwise-android-widget/releases/tag/v1.1.0) Feedback and contributions welcome!

I've been a Readwise user for a while and always wished there was a simple home screen widget that shows me random highlights throughout the day. Since I couldn't find one that did exactly what I wanted, I built my own — and I'm sharing it for free. **What it does:** * Displays a random highlight from your Readwise library on your home screen * Tap to get a new quote * Filter by book, tag, or highlight length * Fully customizable look — colors, fonts, corner radius, padding, borders * Supports Material You dynamic colors * Background sync so your highlights stay up to date * Exclude individual highlights you don't want to see **Requirements:** Android 12+ and a Readwise API token It's completely free, open source (MIT license), and the APK is available for direct download. Contributions and feedback are welcome! GitHub: [https://github.com/benstockhecke/readwise-android-widget](https://github.com/benstockhecke/readwise-android-widget) APK download: [https://github.com/benstockhecke/readwise-android-widget/releases/tag/v1.1.0](https://github.com/benstockhecke/readwise-android-widget/releases/tag/v1.1.0) Would love to hear what you think or if you have feature ideas.

Hi! I’ve been running into this a couple of times now and it’s starting to become somewhat disruptive/distracting while I’m reading. I might be missing something though. 1) when I remove a highlight, it does get removed from the highlights list but the highlight itself still remains in the text. So even after deleting it the colored highlight doesn’t go away 2) I’ve also noticed that when I create a highlight and for example, I extend it, the text sometimes ends up looking like it has multiple layers of highlighting (almost like going over the same line twice or more with a highlighter on paper). Because of this I’m not sure whether it’s being treated as a single unified highlight or as multiple overlapping ones This might seem minor but it came to mind because I use Readwise with Readest. If these are being registered as separate highlights, I’m wondering if they might also be syncing multiple times. And going back to the first point, I’m also concerned that highlights I’ve removed might still be syncing, since the highlighted text remains visible. Other than these Readwise concerns, it’s also distracting.😅 Are these expected behaviors? Just wanted to check in case there’s something I’m overlooking. Thanks so much.

I love Reader & Readwise. I have been using it for years. That is the problem. I have over 30k of archived articles and highlights. I recently started a new job and when I tried to login on Chrome at the office it failed. It just looped saying “fetching articles” or something like that. Initially I thought the firewall didn’t like the “.io” URL. My employer blocks Chrome plugins so that led me to believe they didn’t like those type of websites. Then I tried creating a new free account with a different email and that worked right away. So it has to be the amount of articles getting loaded/cached etc that is causing the failure for my regular account. Any suggestions on how I can get my account to load so I can continue to use Reader & Readwise while at the office? Thanks

Hey folks, happy Tuesday! Time to check out [the latest changelog](https://docs.readwise.io/changelog#march-27-2026) here on Reddit. The idea is to help keep y'all in the loop of what the Readwise developers are getting out into the world. Here's what we shipped recently: * 🤖 **NEW! Readwise MCP** — The (new, improved) [Readwise MCP server](https://readwise.io/mcp) gives Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI direct access to your Readwise highlights, and the full text of all your Reader documents. Once connected, you can ask your AI to search your notes, answer questions using your own reading history as context, or even make changes to your Reader library for you. * 🚀 **NEW! Readwise CLI** — You can now search, read, and organize your Readwise and Reader data from the [command line interface](https://readwise.io/cli). The CLI lets you semantically search your library, save URLs to Reader, manage document locations, create highlights, and export your full library — all from the terminal. These work great with AI coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, and can access Reader in read-only mode if you prefer. * 🎓 **NEW! Readwise Skills** — We [pre-built AI workflows](https://github.com/readwiseio/readwise-skills) like inbox triage, feed catchup, a custom book review that is aware of related context in your vault, and a quiz mode for testing yourself on recent reads. You can also analyze your reading history and tell you something surprising you don't know about yourself. Works with the Readwise MCP or CLI. * 🦞 **NEW! Readwise for Claws** — We just launched a [ClawHub skill](https://readwise.io/openclaw) that connects your Readwise and Reader library directly to your claw. Anything you save (articles, PDFs, tweets, YouTube, podcasts, newsletters, books) is instantly searchable and readable by your agent in clean markdown. `npx clawhub install readwise-official` * 👻 **NEW! GPT-5.4 Support** — If you bring your own OpenAI API key for custom Ghostreader prompts, you can now select GPT-5.4 as your model. * 🔖 **NEW! Modify Action Tags** — You can now modify or remove header markers after creating them, and the associated sections and auto-generated tags update to match. As part of this change, Ibai also fixed an issue where `.h1`/`.h2` header action tags and `.c1`/`.c2` concatenation tags could interfere with exports. * 🦾 **Improved MCP Reliability** — Tristan fixed a bug where highlight colors were causing [MCP server](https://readwise.io/mcp) responses to break. Highlight data should now come through correctly when using the API or MCP tools. Piotr fixed an issue where bulk document updates via the MCP server could trigger rate limits, so operations should no longer fail silently. Piotr also added support for Mistral as an MCP client via OAuth. * ⚡ **Improved Search Indexing** — Piotr fixed an issue where profiles with extremely large documents (like multi-volume epub collections at 50MB+) could cause issues with search indexing. Large document batches are now split by size, so even the biggest libraries should index smoothly. * 🔀 **Improved Google Docs Exports** — Rasul improved how Reader detects certain Google account errors during export. Google recently started returning some revoked-token failures in a new format that Reader wasn't recognizing — these are now handled properly, so you should get a clean re-authentication prompt instead of silent export failures. * ⭐️ **Fixed Shortlist Webhook** — Mati extended the shortlist hook so moving items to shortlist triage status will now dispatch a webhook (i.e. for Zapier). * 📧 **Fixed Email Imports** — Mati fixed a bug where emails forwarded by Gmail as attachments (`.eml` files) weren't working right. Reader now correctly processes these attachment types, so all forwarded emails should arrive as expected. * 📚 **Fixed Kindle Imports** — Single-language Japanese, Chinese, and Russian Kindle clippings now parse correctly. Rasul also added a warning when sending Kindle books bigger than Kindle's 7MB email limit. * 🦊 **Fixed Firefox Login** — Mati fixed a CSRF error that blocked login for Firefox users running strict privacy settings. Those users should be able to sign in without adjusting their browser configuration. * 🐦 **Fixed Twitter/X Saving** — Tristan fixed a bug with saving tweets that had partial or malformed data from Twitter's API. Rasul also improved retry behavior when Twitter's connection drops during initial sync setup, so tweet saving should fail less often. * 🛜 **Parsing Updates** — Mati improved the reliability of our YouTube parsing and fixed a bug where YouTube channel URLs (like `youtube.com/@channel`) were being treated as individual videos. YouTube content should also parse faster. Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from [google.com](http://google.com/), [hackernoon.com](http://hackernoon.com/), [sciencedirect.com](http://sciencedirect.com/), and [smarthomecircle.com](http://smarthomecircle.com/), [sparknotes.com](http://sparknotes.com/), [wavelength.asana.com](http://wavelength.asana.com/), [samhenri.gold](http://samhenri.gold/), [grist.org](http://grist.org/), [codely.com](http://codely.com/), [deepwiki.com](http://deepwiki.com/), [factory.strongdm.ai](http://factory.strongdm.ai/), [wericmartin.com](http://wericmartin.com/), [bitwarden.com](http://bitwarden.com/), [emcrit.org](http://emcrit.org/), [justin.poehnelt.com](http://justin.poehnelt.com/), [stopsloppypasta.ai](http://stopsloppypasta.ai/), [theverge.com](http://theverge.com/), and [theadhocracy.co.uk](http://theadhocracy.co.uk/). He also improved page fetching more generally, which should make parsing work better across the board. If you'd like to get the Changelog in your inbox, check out our [WiseUp! newsletter](https://wiseup.readwise.io/about/), where the Readwise team shares answers to common questions, video tutorials and guides, highlights of our latest improvements, and a couple of lighthearted extras we think you’ll enjoy. And as always, feel free to let us know if you have any questions, tho realistically we're going to see an in-app bug report or question faster :>

let's be honest. every post about reading more says the same recycled garbage. "read 20 pages a day." "carry a book everywhere." "set a goodreads goal." cool. you know what happens? you read a bunch of books, remember maybe 5% of them, and your actual thinking doesn't change at all. i spent way too long researching learning science, memory systems, and what actually separates people who read to perform from people who read to say they read. here's the step by step playbook. **Step 1: Stop reading more, start reading strategically** the compounding doesn't come from volume. it comes from connection. your brain builds intelligence through mental models, frameworks that help you see patterns across different domains. most people read linearly, one book after another with no system. smart readers read in clusters around themes. want to understand decision making? read psychology, economics, and military strategy together. the overlap is where insight lives. try this: pick one theme you want to master for the next 90 days. every book, article, and podcast feeds that theme. **Step 2: Build an actual capture system** here's where most people fumble completely. you highlight stuff, close the book, and it evaporates into the void. your brain isn't designed to retain isolated information, it needs repetition and connection. the problem is most capture methods feel like homework. you're not going to manually journal every insight when you're tired after work. this is where having the right tool changes everything. i've been using BeFreed, a personalized audio learning app that kind of builds itself around you. you type something like "i want to build better mental models from nonfiction books" and it generates custom podcasts pulling from the exact sources you care about, psychology research, classic strategy books, expert interviews. the virtual coach Freedia auto-captures your insights into something called Mindspace, so you're not manually journaling anything. a friend at google put me onto it and honestly it's replaced like 80% of my aimless podcast time. clearer thinking, way better retention. **Step 3: Apply the 48 hour rule** knowledge that isn't used decays fast. neuroscience shows you lose most new information within 48 hours unless you actively engage with it. after finishing anything meaningful: * explain the key idea to someone, or write it in your own words * identify one situation in your life where it applies * take one small action based on it this is how reading becomes thinking becomes doing. **Step 4: Layer your sources for depth** books give you frameworks. podcasts give you context. articles give you updates. use all three intentionally. **Make It Stick** by Peter Brown is essential here, it's a bestseller backed by decades of cognitive psychology research and it completely rewired how i approach learning. brown and his co-authors prove that effortful retrieval beats passive re-reading every time. the strategies feel counterintuitive but the evidence is overwhelming. pair it with the Readwise app to automatically resurface your highlights. spaced repetition without the work. **Step 5: Build review rituals that stick** weekly: spend 20 minutes reviewing captured notes from the week. what connects? what contradicts? monthly: look at your theme cluster. what gaps remain? what's the next logical book? this isn't optional. the review is where compounding actually happens. skipping it is like depositing money and never checking your balance. **Step 6: Protect your input quality ruthlessly** not all reading is equal. social media threads optimized for engagement train your brain for shallow processing. long-form writing trains deep thinking. **Range** by David Epstein, a New York Times bestseller, makes the case that broad reading across disciplines creates more creative problem solvers than narrow expertise. epstein's research into elite performers across fields is genuinely fascinating and will change how you choose what to read next. be ruthless about what gets your attention. your reading diet shapes your mental architecture. **Step 7: Track transformation, not consumption** stop counting books. start tracking decisions changed, problems solved differently, conversations where you connected ideas across domains. the goal isn't to be well-read. the goal is to think better. build accordingly.

Ever notice how some people can turn any moment into something memorable with just a quick comment, while the rest of us think of the perfect response three hours later in the shower? Yeah, me too. I've spent the last year digging through communication research, improv techniques, and wit studies because I was tired of being the person who laughs at jokes but never lands them. Turns out wit isn't some genetic lottery you either won or lost, it's a skill you can actually build, and the process is way more interesting than I expected. The thing is, most advice on becoming witty is complete garbage. "just be yourself" or "think faster" like thanks, super helpful. But when you look at actual comedians, writers, and naturally funny people, there are real patterns in how they process information and respond to the world. And the good news? These patterns can be learned. **Your brain needs better raw material** Wit isn't about being smart, it's about making unexpected connections between ideas. But you can't connect what isn't there. This is why reading widely matters more than reading deeply for wit development. I started using an app called Readwise to resurface highlights from everything I read, articles, books, random reddit threads. It's like spaced repetition for ideas. You're training your brain to pull from a bigger database when situations call for quick responses. The more diverse your inputs, the more interesting your outputs become. For books, "The Humor Code" by Peter McGraw is insanely good at breaking down what makes things funny from a scientific perspective. McGraw's a behavioral economist who spent years studying humor across cultures. The book introduces the "benign violation" theory, basically everything funny violates some norm or expectation but in a safe way, and once you understand that framework, you start seeing opportunities for wit everywhere. This book will make you question everything you think you know about what makes something funny. **Pattern interruption is your secret weapon** Witty people are basically professional expectation violators. They set up a mental pattern then smash it. Someone says "I'm going to the gym" and the expected response is "nice" or "good for you." The witty response finds a twist, "gonna work on your personality?" (if you're close friends) or "finally" (if you're siblings) or something that zigs when everyone expects a zag. Start practicing this consciously. When someone makes a statement, pause for half a second and ask yourself "what's the expected response here?" then deliberately think of something else. At first your responses will be trash and you'll sound like you're having a stroke, but your brain is building new neural pathways. The podcast "Smartless" with Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes is perfect for studying this. Listen to how they build on each other's ideas and subvert expectations mid-sentence. These are three comedically trained guys just having conversations, and you can literally hear the wit mechanics at work. If you want to go deeper on humor theory and comedic timing but don't have the energy to read through dense communication textbooks, there's an app called BeFreed that's been helpful. It's a personalized learning platform that pulls insights from comedy books, improv training resources, and communication research, then turns them into custom audio sessions based on what you're trying to improve. You can set a goal like "become wittier in social situations as someone who overthinks" and it'll build you a learning plan drawing from sources like improv principles, standup structure, and conversational psychology. The content adjusts to how deep you want to go, from quick 10-minute overviews to 40-minute deep dives with examples. Plus you can pick voices that don't sound like a corporate training video, there's even a sarcastic narrator option that makes the learning itself more entertaining. It connects a lot of the concepts from books like "The Humor Code" and improv theory in a way that actually sticks. **Embrace the awkward silence** Here's something nobody tells you, wit requires confidence to let moments breathe. The funniest people I know are comfortable with brief pauses. They don't panic and fill every silence with nervous babbling. They'll drop a comment then just... let it sit there. Practice this by literally counting to two in your head before responding to anything. Sounds stupid but it works. You're giving your brain time to access that database we talked about earlier, and you're signaling to others that you're someone worth listening to. Rushed responses are rarely witty responses. **Reframing is everything** Wit is often just aggressive reframing. Someone complains "this coffee is terrible" and you respond "yeah but at least it's overpriced." You've taken their negative frame and found a different angle on the same situation. There's an improv principle called "yes, and" where you accept the reality presented then add something unexpected to it. Start doing this in regular conversation. Someone says "traffic was horrible", instead of "yeah it sucks", try "yeah I aged seven years on the 405, I'm actually 31 now." It's stupid but you're training the muscle. The book "Impro" by Keith Johnstone should be required reading for anyone trying to develop wit. Johnstone basically created modern improv theater, and while the book is technically about performance, it's really about spontaneous creativity and how to silence your internal censor. The chapter on status transactions alone will change how you see every conversation. Best book on social dynamics I've ever read disguised as a theater manual. **Consume comedy analytically** Stop just laughing at funny things and start dissecting them. Watch standups with a notepad (I know, psycho behavior) and write down the structure of jokes that land. Most follow patterns, misdirection, call-back, rule of threes, escalation. Bo Burnham's "Inside" on Netflix is a masterclass in comedic structure. Watch it once for entertainment, then watch it again studying how he sets up and pays off jokes, sometimes across the entire special. Understanding structure makes you faster at building your own responses. **Your personality matters more than your punchlines** The uncomfortable truth is that wit without warmth just makes you an asshole. The wittiest response delivered with mean-spirited energy kills the room. But the same response delivered with playful energy makes you magnetic. This is why "punching up" (making jokes about those with more power) works better than "punching down." It's not just about being politically correct, it's about the emotional dynamics of the room. Self-deprecating humor works because you're the safest target. Observational humor about shared experiences works because it's non-threatening. Read "Born Standing Up" by Steve Martin for a fascinating look at how one of the wittiest performers alive developed his voice. Martin talks about his years of bombing and slowly figuring out his comedic persona. The book's like 200 pages and reads fast, but it'll give you realistic expectations about the timeline for developing wit. **Practice in low-stakes environments** You can't develop wit by waiting for perfect moments. You need reps. Start writing funny comments on reddit posts (honestly). The immediate feedback loop helps you calibrate. If something lands, analyze why. If it bombs, figure out what missed. Text conversations are perfect practice because you have time to craft responses without pressure. Try making one person genuinely laugh via text each day. Not with memes, with original observations or responses. **The technical stuff that actually matters** Delivery is like 60% of wit. The exact same words said with different timing or energy produce completely different results. Record yourself talking sometimes (I know, horrifying) and notice your vocal patterns. Do you rush? Do you mumble the punchline? Do you laugh at your own jokes before anyone else can? Confidence in delivery comes from repetition. The more you practice being playful with language, the more natural it becomes. Eventually you stop consciously constructing witty responses and they just... happen. Also, learn to recognize when wit isn't appropriate. Someone's sharing something vulnerable? Not the time. Someone's angry? Probably not the moment. Wit is a social tool and like any tool, using it wrong makes things worse. **The actual timeline** If you consistently practice these things, you'll notice improvement in like three months. Not "suddenly hilarious" improvement, but "occasionally lands a good one" improvement. After a year of deliberate practice you'll be noticeably funnier than you are now. This isn't a weekend project. Your brain is literally building new response patterns, and that takes time. But unlike height or bone structure, this is something you can actually change through effort. Which is kind of empowering when you think about it. Being witty won't fix your life or make people automatically like you, but it does make conversations more enjoyable for everyone involved, including yourself. And in a world that's increasingly digital and disconnected, being someone who makes moments more interesting is a genuinely valuable thing.

Hi all -- I deleted a saved article \[source: Reader\] from Readwise with the goal of re-syncing all the article's highlights (both the older ones AND several new ones) -- but now I can't figure out how to do the re-sync. When I add a NEW highlight in to the article in Reader, Readwise syncs ONLY that new highlight -- not the others. Is there a way to force a re-sync or refresh? I no longer see "refresh highlights" as an option in Readwise -- maybe that feature has been moved? Thanks! [What Readwise USED TO look like :\( ](https://preview.redd.it/3p3fv7r431sg1.png?width=758&format=png&auto=webp&s=34fa7ed807319efd431e26ee5e4e3acec5fea22c)

Hello, I've recently added the readwise web extension on Firefox and I find it really helpful but I'm a bit concerned about my data. On Firefox, the permissions that they get are not clear (see photo); can they see what is on my current page even if I don't highlight anything and then click on "highlight and save to readwise"? Because if it is the case, it means that they could know everything about what I'm doing on the web even if I don't "call" their extension. When I've looked about the "Access your data for all websites" permission on the Mozilla explanation page, it is said that "The extension could read the content of any web page you visit, as well as data you enter into those web pages, such as usernames and passwords.", like does readwise really see what password I enter on any web page (because it doesn't seem to be the case with the chrome extension (see photo)) ? Why do those permissions seem to be disproportionate over the extension usage? So yes, If you could give me some clarifications about this, it woud be useful 😊. [chrome extension](https://preview.redd.it/9b8645tpesrg1.png?width=1179&format=png&auto=webp&s=9927c98e227bcb2081589f31ef830ad2a0d8e883) [firefox extension](https://preview.redd.it/a584wgt3asrg1.png?width=260&format=png&auto=webp&s=d29958886c4ccb8f4e428a3646a63669070a8d75)

I've been using Readwise Reader on my Boox devices but it always bothered me that I was basically only using it for Substack newsletters and the occasional article save from the web. I also thought it felt a little bit sluggish and bloated for E-Ink. I didn't want to keep paying $100/year for that, so I built my own. re:ink is a simple, lightweight Android app for reading Substack newsletters on e-ink. It connects to your email inbox via IMAP and pulls in full articles — including paid subscriptions — then renders them in a clean reader with customizable typography. No ads, no tracking, no account required. **What it does:** - Pulls full Substack articles (including paid) via email ingestion - E-ink optimized UI — grayscale, no animations, bold fonts - Customizable reader (font, size, margins, alignment, pagination with volume keys) - Read-later queue for saving links from articles - Optional cross-device sync and cloud queue for sending articles from your phone - Auto-updates from GitHub I've been using it daily on my Note Air 5C and Go 7. It's completely free and fully open source — just wanted to share it with the community. **Install:** Grab the APK from [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/christi4nity/re-ink/releases/latest) and sideload it. Android 9+. **Source:** [github.com/christi4nity/re-ink](https://github.com/christi4nity/re-ink) (GPL v3) It also supports plain RSS feeds if you want to use it for non-Substack sources, though that side is more basic. Contributions welcome if anyone wants to build it out further.

Hey all, this may not be the biggest news to you if you saw our CLI announcement last week -- but we often hear folks don't find out about enough of our new stuff! **We just shipped an official Readwise skill for ClawHub.** If you're using OpenClaw (or any of the other million claws), your agent can now access your entire Readwise and Reader library. What your claw can do with it: \* Search your entire library (full-text + semantic search across every word of every document) \* Read the full content of anything in clean markdown \* Create highlights and annotations \* Tag and organize your library \* Triage your Reader inbox \* Quiz you on what you've read The idea is pretty simple: you save stuff the way you already do (browser extension, mobile share sheet, bookmark a tweet), and your agent instantly has it. No extra steps. We built this on the Readwise CLI we launched last week, packaged as a ClawHub skill for easy install: \* Landing page: [readwise.io/openclaw](http://readwise.io/openclaw) \* ClawHub: [https://clawhub.ai/TristanH/readwise-official](https://clawhub.ai/TristanH/readwise-official) \* CLI (for non-OpenClaw agents): [readwise.io/cli](http://readwise.io/cli) Would love to hear what workflows you build with it, or if there's anything we can improve!

Hey everyone, I've been building something that scratches my own itch, and I finally shipped a base version I'm comfortable sharing publicly. The problem: I read a lot. Articles, research, YouTube deep dives. And I forget almost all of it. Tools like Readwise and [Mem.ai](http://Mem.ai) are great, but they sit between me and my own knowledge. My notes, my reading history, and my thought patterns all live on someone else's server, processed by their AI. So I built Project Nexus. It is an open source personal knowledge system that works entirely with your own API keys. Here is what it does right now: 🧩 Browser extension One-click capture of any article or YouTube transcript 🤖 AI summaries Uses your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini key, processed directly in your browser 🕸️ Knowledge graph A visual 2D canvas of everything you have captured, with entity relationships 📅 Spaced repetition A gamified review system so you actually remember what you read 🔒 BYOK and self-host Your keys, your Supabase instance, your data. Full stop Built with Next.js, Supabase with pgvector, Vercel AI SDK, and Plasmo for the extension. I have tried to keep the setup genuinely simple. Clone, add your keys, and run. There is also a hosted cloud option if you do not want to self-host. Repo: [https://github.com/MAX-786/project-nexus](https://github.com/MAX-786/project-nexus) Site: [https://max-786.github.io/project-nexus/](https://max-786.github.io/project-nexus/) I am at the very beginning of this journey, so I would genuinely love to hear the following: What is the one feature that would make you actually install and use this daily? Is there anything in the privacy or BYOK model that does not feel right or trustworthy to you? Thanks for reading. Happy to answer any questions in the comments.

Hi everyone — I’m building Acorny (acorny.io ([http://acorny.io/](http://acorny.io/))), a reading companion for people who highlight a lot but forget most of what they read. The idea is simple: • capture highlights from articles, PDFs, Kindle, and more, we have browser extensions for [Chrome](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/acorny/khakobfdacgdecadkjcplkmnmlfdejbp)， [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/acorny/) and [Edge](https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/acorny/bgnjnddcflalagpkjjlbhjinljnjmnkk) which can help you collect highlights • turn them into active recall cards • review them with spaced repetition so the ideas actually stick I’m looking for early users who: • read a lot • highlight often • have tried tools like Readwise / Reader / note-taking workflows • are willing to give honest feedback What I’d love to learn: • what part of your current reading workflow is most frustrating • whether active recall feels more useful than passive resurfacing • what would make a tool like this worth using every day If this sounds interesting, I’d love your feedback: [https://acorny.io](https://acorny.io) ([https://acorny.io/](https://acorny.io/)) Happy to answer questions or give beta access.

**Problem**: I'm a heavy Reader user with >4,000 documents across PDFs, web articles, YouTube transcripts, X, substack feeds and podcasts — all tagged by subject. My biggest unmet need is being able to take a curated set of documents (say, filtered by tag or some other rule) and use that subset for "AI synthesis" where I do things like creating a research report, presentation or such. This also allows me to personally digest much larger volumes of information, much faster. While you can do this in NotebookLM or Claude using projects (and uploaded files specific to that project), I can't seem to find a means of getting my source docs into any other tool other than a painful one at a time process - and, Reader is far faster at saving and organizing across channels. **Solution(s)**: A couple of possible solutions, although I recognize the first could be incredibly hard...build in this ability for doing deeper AI synthesis within Reader itself. Of course, I'd love this! But, I'm not technical enough to know what constraints make this unfeasible. Another possibility is to leverage the Bulk Action capability for allowing a partial export of just that material in the search, view, other. A bonus would be an option to export to a Google Drive folder (to feed directly into NotebookLM) or some means of doing similarly with Claude Projects (or, other possible solution). Reader is genuinely the best read-it-later app I've used, and the MCP integration is exciting. But without this export capability, the library becomes a read-and-annotate tool rather than a research asset. This one feature would unlock a completely different class of use case for power users. Curious if others have found workarounds — and whether this is on the roadmap anywhere.

i got a boox go color gen 2 last year for my bday & love it because i use readwise and the readwise reader but golly the paperwhite’s screen is significantly better!!!! both are in sleep mode in the second pic, and both have brightness fully up (no warmth) in the last pic. i have yet to tinker with my xteink x4 yet but that’s my next project. my kindle is my designated manga reader & the 32gb is already full 😅 i’m obsessed with the black matte glitter skin i made for them 😍 feel free to ask me any questions about these devices!

We launched our product with monthly and yearly plans on Stripe. Standard. Turns out I misunderstood how Stripe pricing works, I set the yearly plan thinking it would multiply the monthly price by 12. It didn't. I had basically set a very cheap yearly plan without realizing it. So we launch. First few users sign up. And almost out of nowhere 3 monthly subscriptions right away. Then boom - someone buys the yearly plan!!!! At first it's just disbelief. Then we look closer at Stripe and realize the mistake. Total panic and cold sweat. I mean, working so hard and losing unbelievable income because of one stupid mistake. We chose to be honest and contacted the user, explaining the situation, hoping to recover our yearly plan revenue. Turns out the user thought it was just a discount for early adopters. We thanked them properly, fixed the pricing, and gave them an extra free month as a gesture of goodwill. A few days later, one of our free users asked for imports from Raindrop, Evernote, and Readwise. We built it. And boom! That user upgraded to... a... real... yearly plan! My co-founder calls me at 2am, almost screaming :D We reached out personally to thank them and honestly couldn't express how the whole team was feeling - excited, grateful, and a bit in disbelief that this was actually happening. Summary: 500 users on the waitlist, launch, 10 subscriptions, 1 of them yearly - in just 1,5 weeks. Still feels surreal. But it's real. Proof of the value of our product. We are aiming to have 1000 subscribed users by the summer. I hope I don't mess up Stripe again. Wish me luck!!!

i got a boox go color gen 2 last year for my bday & love it because i use readwise and the readwise reader but golly the paperwhite’s screen is significantly better!!!! both are in sleep mode in the second pic, and both have brightness fully up (no warmth) in the last pic. i have yet to tinker with my xteink x4 yet but that’s my next project. my kindle is my designated manga reader & the 32gb is already full 😅 i’m obsessed with the black matte glitter skin i made for them 😍 feel free to ask me any questions about these devices!

We launched our product with monthly and yearly plans on Stripe. Standard. Turns out I misunderstood how Stripe pricing works, I set the yearly plan thinking it would multiply the monthly price by 12. It didn't. I had basically set a very cheap yearly plan without realizing it. So we launch. First few users sign up. And almost out of nowhere 3 monthly subscriptions right away. Then boom - someone buys the yearly plan!!!! At first it's just disbelief. Then we look closer at Stripe and realize the mistake. Total panic and cold sweat. I mean, working so hard and losing unbelievable income because of one stupid mistake. We chose to be honest and contacted the user, explaining the situation, hoping to recover our yearly plan revenue. Turns out the user thought it was just a discount for early adopters. We thanked them properly, fixed the pricing, and gave them an extra free month as a gesture of goodwill. A few days later, one of our free users asked for imports from Raindrop, Evernote, and Readwise. We built it. And boom! That user upgraded to... a... real... yearly plan! My co-founder calls me at 2am, almost screaming :D https://preview.redd.it/2bqht60yk9rg1.png?width=384&format=png&auto=webp&s=61cf3a468bda154afb317796e53b9a25448d0d79 We reached out personally to thank them and honestly couldn't express how the whole team was feeling - excited, grateful, and a bit in disbelief that this was actually happening. Summary: 500 users on the waitlist, launch, 10 subscriptions, 1 of them yearly - in just 1,5 weeks. Still feels surreal. But it's real. Proof of the value of our product. We are aiming to have 1000 subscribed users by the summer. I hope I don't mess up Stripe again. Wish me luck!!!

We launched our product with monthly and yearly plans on Stripe. Standard. Turns out I misunderstood how Stripe pricing works, I set the yearly plan thinking it would multiply the monthly price by 12. It didn't. I had basically set a very cheap yearly plan without realizing it. So we launch. First few users sign up. And almost out of nowhere 3 monthly subscriptions right away. Then boom - someone buys the yearly plan!!!! At first it's just disbelief. Then we look closer at Stripe and realize the mistake. Total panic and cold sweat. I mean, working so hard and losing unbelievable income because of one stupid mistake. We chose to be honest and contacted the user, explaining the situation, hoping to recover our yearly plan revenue. Turns out the user thought it was just a discount for early adopters. We thanked them properly, fixed the pricing, and gave them an extra free month as a gesture of goodwill. A few days later, one of our free users asked for imports from Raindrop, Evernote, and Readwise. We built it. And boom! That user upgraded to... a... real... yearly plan! My co-founder calls me at 2am, almost screaming :D https://preview.redd.it/8kgn0yrmk9rg1.png?width=384&format=png&auto=webp&s=e81476442cfd842460376a62989548c9dc36ad36 We reached out personally to thank them and honestly couldn't express how the whole team was feeling - excited, grateful, and a bit in disbelief that this was actually happening. Summary: 500 users on the waitlist, launch, 10 subscriptions, 1 of them yearly - in just 1,5 weeks. Still feels surreal. But it's real. Proof of the value of our product. We are aiming to have 1000 subscribed users by the summer. I hope I don't mess up Stripe again. Wish me luck!!!

We launched our product with monthly and yearly plans on Stripe. Standard. Turns out I misunderstood how Stripe pricing works, I set the yearly plan thinking it would multiply the monthly price by 12. It didn't. I had basically set a very cheap yearly plan without realizing it. So we launch. First few users sign up. And almost out of nowhere 3 monthly subscriptions right away. Then boom - someone buys the yearly plan!!!! At first it's just disbelief. Then we look closer at Stripe and realize the mistake. Total panic and cold sweat. I mean, working so hard and losing unbelievable income because of one stupid mistake. We chose to be honest and contacted the user, explaining the situation, hoping to recover our yearly plan revenue. Turns out the user thought it was just a discount for early adopters. We thanked them properly, fixed the pricing, and gave them an extra free month as a gesture of goodwill. A few days later, one of our free users asked for imports from Raindrop, Evernote, and Readwise. We built it. And boom! That user upgraded to... a... real... yearly plan! My co-founder calls me at 2am, almost screaming :D We reached out personally to thank them and honestly couldn't express how the whole team was feeling - excited, grateful, and a bit in disbelief that this was actually happening. Summary: 500 users on the waitlist, launch, 10 subscriptions, 1 of them yearly - in just 1,5 weeks. Still feels surreal. But it's real. Proof of the value of our product. We are aiming to have 1000 subscribed users by the summer. I hope I don't mess up Stripe again. Wish me luck!!!

let's be real. every "life changing books" post recommends the same tired list. **Atomic Habits**. **The Subtle Art**. **Think and Grow Rich**. cool, you and 50 million other people read those and nothing changed. why? because reading without a system is just entertainment. i went through dozens of reading studies, behavioral research, and tested this myself for two years. the books that actually rewire your brain require a specific approach. here's the step by step playbook. **Step 1: Stop Reading for Information, Start Reading for Transformation** most people read to collect facts. that's why nothing sticks. research from the University of Waterloo shows we forget 70% of what we read within 24 hours unless we actively engage with it. transformation reading means asking: "what belief does this challenge? what will i do differently tomorrow?" try this: before starting any book, write down one specific problem you want it to solve. no problem, no book. **Step 2: Build a System That Does the Heavy Lifting** here's where most people fail. they finish a book, feel inspired for three days, then forget everything. you need something that extracts the insights and actually helps you apply them, not just consume them. the thing that made this click for me was BeFreed, a personalized learning app that generates custom audio lessons from books and research. you type something like "i want to be more disciplined but i always burn out" and it builds a learning path pulling from the exact books and experts relevant to your situation. it connects dots between sources you'd never link yourself. a friend at Google recommended it and honestly it replaced my podcast rotation. the virtual coach Freedia captures your insights automatically so you're not scrambling to take notes. i use it during commutes and actually retain what i learn now. **Step 3: The 7 Books Worth Your Time in 2026** these aren't random picks. each one targets a specific lever for change. **1. The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter**, a journalist who spent time with evolutionary biologists and extreme athletes. this book rewires how you think about discomfort and growth. 200,000+ copies sold. easter makes the science visceral and actionable. **2. Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss**, former FBI hostage negotiator. communication is leverage. this book teaches tactical empathy that works in salary negotiations and relationships alike. absolute game changer. **3. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk**, the definitive work on trauma and the nervous system. understanding why you react the way you do is step one to changing it. **4. Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman**, the antidote to toxic productivity culture. reframes your relationship with time itself. **5. Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke**, Stanford psychiatrist explaining why your brain feels hijacked. essential reading for anyone battling phone addiction or motivation issues. **6. The Courage to Be Disliked**, uses Adlerian psychology to dismantle approval seeking. uncomfortable but liberating. **7. Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish**, practical frameworks for better decisions. less philosophy, more tools. **Step 4: One Book Per Month, Applied Before Moving On** speed reading is a scam. research shows comprehension drops dramatically past 400 words per minute. read one book monthly. spend the final week implementing one concept before touching the next book. **Step 5: Track with Readwise** use **Readwise** to resurface highlights. it emails you daily snippets from past reads. this alone doubles retention. **Step 6: Find Your Format** audiobooks work better for narrative books. physical copies work better for dense concepts. match format to content. don't force yourself into one mode. **Step 7: Make It Social** tell one person what you learned. teaching is the fastest path to retention. even a voice note to yourself counts. the books listed above only work if you work them.

I wanted Claude inside my notes, while I'm typing. Not in a sidebar, not in a separate app (like Cowork). Just there, where I'm writing. So I made [Inline Claude](https://github.com/bawakul/inline-claude). Type `;;` anywhere in a note, write your question, press Enter. The response appears as a callout block. Follow-up questions work naturally, Claude sees previous Q&A blocks as context. But it's not just simple questions. There's one Claude Code session running behind the scenes, and it follows you around your vault. Ask a question in one note, switch to another, ask something else. It's all **one conversation, same context**. And because Claude Code is the backend, everything it can do is available from wherever you're writing: * Create and link files across your vault * Talk to MCP servers (Are.na, Readwise, Notion, APIs...) * Generate Mermaid diagrams, structured reports, whatever * **Modify the plugin itself** while you're using it (seriously, it blew my mind when I asked Claude to change the call-out colors while I was testing it out) That last one is the part I keep coming back to. The plugin is simple enough that Claude can reshape it on the fly. This is the concept of [malleable software](https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2023/03/25/llm-end-user-programming.html), you can modify it and fit it to your needs on the fly. **How it works** The plugin talks to a [local channel server,](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/channels-reference) which forwards to Claude Code over MCP. Everything stays on your machine. No cloud relay. You need Claude Code and Bun installed. > **This was vibe-coded** using [GSD](https://github.com/gsd-build/gsd-2). **I'm not a developer. The code works but may not be pretty. Feedback very welcome!**

I wanted Claude inside my notes, while I'm typing. Not in a sidebar, not in a separate app (like Cowork). Just there, where I'm writing. So I made [Inline Claude](https://github.com/bawakul/inline-claude). Type `;;` anywhere in a note, write your question, press Enter. The response appears as a callout block. Follow-up questions work naturally, Claude sees previous Q&A blocks as context. But it's not just simple questions. There's one Claude Code session running behind the scenes, and it follows you around your vault. Ask a question in one note, switch to another, ask something else. It's all **one conversation, same context**. And because Claude Code is the backend, everything it can do is available from wherever you're writing: * Create and link files across your vault * Talk to MCP servers (Are.na, Readwise, Notion, APIs...) * Generate Mermaid diagrams, structured reports, whatever * **Modify the plugin itself** while you're using it (seriously, it blew my mind when I asked Claude to change the call-out colors while I was testing it out) That last one is the part I keep coming back to. The plugin is simple enough that Claude can reshape it on the fly. This is the concept of [malleable software](https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2023/03/25/llm-end-user-programming.html), you can modify it and fit it to your needs on the fly. (Submitting to the Community soon!) **How it works** The plugin talks to a [local channel server,](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/channels-reference) which forwards to Claude Code over MCP. Everything stays on your machine. No cloud relay. You need Claude Code and Bun installed. >**Fair warning:** This gives Claude Code access to your vault and filesystem. There's a detailed security section in the README — please read it before installing. The plugin is a transparent pipe (no hidden prompts, no telemetry), but you should understand what Claude Code can do with your files. **This was vibe-coded** using [GSD](https://github.com/gsd-build/gsd-2). **I'm not a developer. The code works but may not be pretty. Feedback very welcome!**

I follow a bunch of newsletters, YouTube channels and podcasts but realistically get through maybe 2-3 of them. The rest just pile up. Curious how other developers handle this do you have a system? Do you just accept that you'll miss things? Have you tried any tools that actually helped? I've looked at things like Feedly and Readwise but feels like something is always missing. Would love to know what's actually working for people.

Hi all, I want to automatically forward email newsletters to my readwise feed, but I keep getting these errors: "Your message wasn't delivered because the recipient's email provider rejected it." and "Remote server returned '550 5.7.520 Access denied, Your organization does not allow external forwarding. Please contact your administrator for further assistance. AS(7555)'". I'm using Outlook. Everything works fine when I forward the newsletters manually. Has anybody had similar issues? I appreciate any help!

I have an older version, Boox 10.3 inch eReader tablet, and I want to try reading an EPUB in the two-column layout. Originally, the option in the pagination didn't show up, so I had to adjust the DPI setting for the app, and now it's showing up. However, when I click the pagination option, it doesn't change into two column layout. I tried changing all the spacing and all the sizes, font sizes and line widths, but still wasn't able to trigger it. I restarted the app as well, but to no avail. Is there any trick that I'm missing that I need to do to get into two column layout?

Hi, I've searched and tried a whole lot of things...I'm trying to install the readwise apk on my Supernote. I have a MacBook Pro with no USB ports. I'm trying to install the readwise apk over wifi, and I've installed adb, but it won't recognize the Supernote's IP address. I've installed the apk file onto the Supernote directly using the brows & connect feature, but it won't open on the Supernote. How on earth do I get this to work?

I use the Readwise Reader app in Edge for text translations. Edge can translate an entire EPUB or a saved webpage into my language, and I can highlight text, which is automatically saved back to the Reader and synced with Obsidian. The problem is that in Edge, when I highlight text, the Onyx floating menu automatically pops up, and the Reader menu with the option to highlight doesn’t appear. **Is there a way to disable the Onyx menu somewhere in the system?**

Some content just doesn't fit into a bookmark folder or a read-later app. You save it, never go back, and eventually feel guilty about it. Vibe Reader fixes that. Paste any link and get the key points in minutes. Works on articles, YouTube videos, and long reports. No language barrier. Here's what it does: * Paste any link and get a structured summary in minutes * Follow YouTube channels and new uploads get summarized automatically * Browser extension so you can save anything without switching apps * Ask follow-up questions if you want to go deeper * Jump back to the original anytime If you use Notion, Readwise, or Instapaper this isn't replacing any of them. It just handles the stuff those apps leave behind — content you want to actually understand, not just save. Available on iOS now. \- For anyone here — 50% off the first month of the Unlimited plan. Unlimited summaries, no caps. 1. Download Vibe Reader [https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6748338132?pt=690486&ct=reddit&mt=8](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6748338132?pt=690486&ct=reddit&mt=8) 2. After logging into the app, go to “Saved” → “Account Management”, then tap “Redeem” 3. Enter code **REDDIT** Honestly really curious to hear your experience — the good and the bad. Drop a comment after you try it, I read every reply.

I’m a happy new Manta owner and like using the Digest feature to grab and a notate extracts in documents, particularly a newspaper epub I send to a WebDAV folder via Calibre. I’m looking forward to having community plug-in access like you have on Obsidian and Readwise so it is easy to put content in and extract content out of our personal Supernote infrastructure. I wonder if this will be possible.

I quickly vibe-coded a web app built upon the /triage skill in the newly released Readwise CLI. It is better than the triage skill because it pre-processes the info overnight using Claude Haiku rather than a more expensive model, and it gives you a much nicer (and faster) UI with the ability to swipe right/left on each item. https://github.com/kerim/readwise-triage To use: 1. Use the CLI to generate a reader_persona.md 2. Install the launch daemon to run the Python script every night. 3. Launch the app in the terminal and then load in the web browser (You can also run the pre-processing script on-demand. It will take about one minute to process 20 items.)

Hi all, Apologies if this has been discussed before, I did some searching but didn’t find specific answers. My workflow is that I use Reader to collect links/articles (lots of things from LinkedIn, but also others), then o apply 1-3 tags from my tag collection and refer back to those documents when I need something. Is there a way to use ghost or something else to automatically suggest tags based on the content of the new article and previous articles I’ve tagged? I do this primarily on mobile (iOS), invoking Reader via the “share” feature on iOS. Thanks!!!

Honestly i used to feel like an NPC in group conversations. everyone would be debating some cool topic about philosophy or history or whatever and i'd just nod along pretending i knew what they were talking about. felt like shit. here's what i learned after diving deep into research, books, podcasts, neuroscience stuff: your brain isn't broken. the school system just taught us that learning = boring memorization for tests. but real learning, the kind that makes you genuinely interesting and sharp? that's completely different. it's about curiosity-driven knowledge building, and it's actually way easier than you think. spent the last year experimenting with different methods from cognitive scientists, autodidacts, and people way smarter than me. these tricks legitimately changed how my brain works. # 1. the "knowledge web" method (not what you think) forget trying to memorize random facts. your brain doesn't work like a filing cabinet, it works through connections. start with ONE topic you're genuinely curious about. doesn't matter what. then follow the threads. reading about WW2? that leads to economics, which leads to game theory, which leads to psychology. suddenly you're connecting dots across disciplines without even trying. **The Extended Mind** by Annie Murphy Paul (science journalist, her work's been in NYT, Time, Scientific American) breaks down how human cognition actually works. basically our brains are terrible at storing isolated facts but INSANELY good at building associative networks. this book genuinely made me rethink everything about learning. best book on practical cognitive science i've ever touched. # 2. consume "gateway content" strategically you don't need to read 500 page academic texts right away. start with what researchers call "high quality popularization." youtube channels like **Contrapoints** (philosophy, politics, culture), **Kurzgesagt** (science), **Pursuit of Wonder** (philosophy) make complex ideas genuinely entertaining. they're not dumbed down, they're translated. huge difference. podcast wise, **Philosophize This** by Stephen West is genuinely perfect for building philosophical literacy. he covers every major thinker throughout history, makes it super digestible, zero pretension. been listening for months and the amount of "oh THAT'S what Kant meant" moments is insane. # 3. the "teach someone" hack this sounds cliche but it's backed by actual learning science. the **Feynman Technique**. after consuming something, explain it out loud like you're teaching a friend who knows nothing about it. if you can't simplify it, you don't actually understand it yet. forces your brain to process at a deeper level. i literally talk to myself in the car doing this. looks insane but works. # 4. read BETTER not more quality over quantity. one great book will teach you more than 20 mediocre ones. **How to Read a Book** by Mortimer Adler (philosopher, edited Encyclopedia Britannica) sounds boring as hell but it's genuinely life changing. teaches you how to actually extract knowledge from texts instead of just moving your eyes across pages. inspectional reading, analytical reading, syntopical reading. game changer for actually retaining what you consume. # 5. build a "second brain" system your biological brain is for having ideas, not storing them. use apps to capture everything. **Notion** or **Obsidian** for building your personal knowledge base. every interesting idea, quote, concept goes in there with tags and links. over time you build this insane web of connected knowledge you can actually access. **BeFreed** is another option if you want something more hands-off and audio-focused. It's an AI-powered learning app built by Columbia alumni that pulls from books, research papers, and expert talks to create personalized podcasts based on whatever you're trying to learn. You can literally type in a goal like "understand Stoic philosophy as someone new to it" and it'll generate a custom learning plan with episodes you can adjust from quick 10-minute overviews to 40-minute deep dives with examples. The voice options are surprisingly addictive, there's a smoky one that sounds like Samantha from Her and a sarcastic style that makes dense topics way more digestible during commutes or gym sessions. i also use **Readwise** which resurfaces highlights from books and articles. spaced repetition but for ideas instead of flashcards. helps cement concepts long term. # 6. embrace "intellectual cross training" don't just stay in one domain. the most interesting insights come from connecting different fields. read history + psychology + economics + philosophy + science simultaneously. they all inform each other. understanding cognitive biases makes you better at analyzing history. understanding history makes you better at economics. it compounds. **The Beginning of Infinity** by David Deutsch (quantum physicist, founded field of quantum computation) is dense but holy shit. covers physics, philosophy, politics, aesthetics, evolution. shows how good explanations work across ALL domains. this book will make you question everything you think you know about knowledge itself. # 7. join communities where smart people hang out you become who you surround yourself with, even digitally. subreddits like r/TrueAskReddit, r/NeutralPolitics, r/AskHistorians have actual experts and people who care about nuanced discussion. lurk and absorb how they think and argue. also **Discord servers** around specific topics. way more active discussions than forums. find ones for philosophy, science, whatever you're into. # 8. the "monthly theme" system pick one major topic per month and go deep. not surface level, actually deep. january: stoicism. read primary texts, watch lectures, listen to podcasts, write notes. february: behavioral economics. march: existentialism. by end of year you've built genuine literacy in 12 different areas. way more effective than scattered random learning. # 9. learn how to disagree properly intellectual discussions aren't about winning. they're about refining ideas through dialectic. **The Scout Mindset** by Julia Galef (rationality researcher, host of Rationally Speaking podcast) teaches you how to actually seek truth instead of just defending your existing beliefs. covers motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, how to update your views based on evidence. insanely good read if you want to level up how you think. principle of charity: steelman other people's arguments, don't strawman them. engage with the BEST version of their position. # 10. accept that confusion means growth if you're not confused sometimes, you're not learning anything new. embrace the discomfort. neuroscience shows that productive struggle is literally when your brain forms new connections. if everything makes perfect sense immediately, you're staying in your comfort zone. real talk: becoming genuinely knowledgeable takes time. there's no shortcut to wisdom. but if you're consistent with even half this stuff for 6 months, you'll notice yourself contributing to conversations you would've been silent in before. the goal isn't to become some insufferable know it all. it's to develop genuine curiosity and the tools to satisfy it. knowledge for its own sake, not just to impress people. your brain is capable of way more than you think. the system just never taught you how to actually use it.

Hey all, wanted to let you know about the new Readwise CLI (as well as our MCP, in beta)! Anything you've saved in Readwise/Reader (highlights, articles, PDFs, books, youtube, newsletters) is now instantly accessible from the terminal and your AI apps. We're pretty happy with how it turned out, and so far the reception has been great. Almost anything you can do inside of Readwise/Reader, you can do via these tools: * Do a full-text + semantic hybrid search across all of the Reader content in your library * Move/tag/archive your documents * Read the full content of any document * Sync all of your data to a local folder * Create highlights * Pull the highlights from your daily review You can install it (and learn more) here: * CLI: [readwise.io/cli](http://readwise.io/cli) * MCP: [readwise.io/mcp](http://readwise.io/mcp) They work with basically any AI app (Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc). We also created a repo with some cool [example skills](https://github.com/readwiseio/readwise-skills) you can use with them. And here's a video of the CLI in action: https://reddit.com/link/1s042y3/video/nhbl2ry60hqg1/player Curious what you think and if you find it helpful!

Look, I've been there. You finish a mind-blowing book, feel like a genius for about 48 hours, then two weeks later someone asks what it was about and you're like "uh... it was good?" Meanwhile, you can still recite every word from that random SpongeBob episode you watched 15 years ago. What the hell, right? After diving deep into cognitive science research, memory expert podcasts, and neuroscience books (plus a lot of trial and error), I figured out why this happens and how to fix it. Turns out, your brain isn't broken. It's just that nobody taught you how reading and memory actually work together. The school system had us highlighting passages and rereading chapters like robots, which science now shows is basically useless for long term retention. Here's what actually works. # Step 1: Stop Being a Passive Reader (Your Brain is Lazy AF) Real talk. Your brain is designed to forget. It's not personal, it's biological. Your hippocampus is constantly deciding what's worth keeping and what's trash. If you're just passively scanning words without engaging, your brain labels it as "probably not important" and yeets it into the void. The solution? **Active reading**. This means you've got to interact with the material like you're having an argument with the author. * Ask questions while reading. "Why does this matter?" "How does this connect to what I already know?" "Do I actually agree with this?" * Argue back at the text. Challenge assumptions. Play devil's advocate. * Make predictions about where the argument is going before you turn the page. Neuroscientist Dr. Barbara Oakley talks about this in her book *A Mind for Numbers*. She explains that active engagement creates stronger neural pathways. When your brain has to work to process information (instead of just absorbing it), it's way more likely to stick around. This book absolutely changed how I approach learning anything. It breaks down complex cognitive science into practical strategies that feel like actual life hacks for your brain. # Step 2: The Feynman Technique (Explain It Like Someone's Five) This one's gold. Named after physicist Richard Feynman, the technique is stupidly simple: If you can't explain something in simple terms, you don't actually understand it. After reading a chapter or section: * Close the book * Grab a piece of paper or open a note * Explain the concept out loud like you're teaching it to someone who knows nothing about the topic * Use the simplest language possible, no jargon When you hit a part where you stumble or can't explain it clearly, boom. That's your knowledge gap. Go back, reread that section, then try explaining it again. This forces your brain to retrieve and reconstruct the information, which is way more powerful than just rereading. Cognitive scientists call this "effortful retrieval," and research shows it's one of the most effective ways to cement learning into long term memory. # Step 3: Spaced Repetition is Your Secret Weapon Here's a brutal truth: You will forget most of what you read unless you review it multiple times over increasing intervals. This isn't a character flaw. It's called the forgetting curve, discovered by psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus back in the 1880s. The hack? **Spaced repetition**. Review information at strategic intervals: * First review: 1 day after reading * Second review: 3 days later * Third review: 1 week later * Fourth review: 2 weeks later * Fifth review: 1 month later Use an app like Anki or RemNote to automate this. These apps use algorithms based on cognitive science to show you information right before you're about to forget it. Sounds nerdy, but it's insanely effective. I use Anki for everything from book concepts to random facts I want to remember, and it's genuinely changed my retention game. For a deeper dive into how memory works, check out *Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning* by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel. All three authors are cognitive scientists, and this book is basically the bible of evidence based learning strategies. It destroys so many myths about studying and memory (like the idea that rereading helps) and replaces them with techniques that actually work. Honestly one of the best learning books you'll ever read. # Step 4: Take Notes Like a Savage (But Smart) Don't just highlight. Don't just underline. That stuff gives you the illusion of learning without actual learning happening. Instead, use the **Cornell Note Taking Method** or create **concept maps**: * Write main ideas on one side, supporting details on the other * Draw connections between concepts with arrows and diagrams * Summarize each section in your own words at the bottom * Use different colors to categorize information types The physical act of writing (not typing) activates different parts of your brain and improves encoding. A study from Princeton and UCLA found that students who took handwritten notes performed better on conceptual questions than those who typed. Also, write your notes as if you're explaining them to your future forgetful self. Because you will forget. Trust me. # Step 5: Connect New Info to Stuff You Already Know Your brain is basically a giant web of connected ideas. New information sticks better when you can hook it onto existing knowledge. This is called **elaborative encoding**. When you learn something new, ask yourself: * What does this remind me of? * How is this similar to or different from something I already know? * Can I create a metaphor or analogy for this concept? * Where in my life could I apply this? The more connections you build, the more "hooks" your brain has to retrieve that information later. It's like creating multiple pathways to the same destination. The book *Limitless* by Jim Kwik dives deep into this. Kwik is a brain performance coach who's worked with everyone from students to Fortune 500 CEOs. He breaks down memory techniques, speed reading, and focus strategies in a way that's actually applicable to real life. His stuff on creating vivid mental associations for memory is particularly fire. This book will seriously make you rethink what your brain is capable of. # Step 6: Test Yourself Relentlessly (Pain = Gain) Pop quiz: What did you learn three paragraphs ago? If you struggled to recall it, good. That struggle is literally building stronger memories. **Self testing** (also called retrieval practice) is one of the most powerful learning tools, but most people avoid it because it feels uncomfortable. We'd rather reread, which feels easier but is way less effective. Try these: * After each chapter, close the book and write down everything you remember * Create flashcards with questions on one side, answers on the other * Explain concepts out loud without looking at your notes * Take practice tests if available The harder you have to work to retrieve information, the stronger the memory becomes. It's like lifting weights for your brain. # Step 7: Sleep On It (Literally) This isn't some woo woo advice. Sleep is when your brain consolidates memories and transfers information from short term to long term storage. If you're cramming info into your brain then staying up late binge watching shows, you're basically sabotaging yourself. Research from Harvard Medical School shows that people who sleep after learning retain information significantly better than those who stay awake. During deep sleep, your brain replays and strengthens the neural patterns formed during learning. So yeah, get your 7 to 8 hours. Your memory will thank you. # Step 8: Teach Someone Else (The Ultimate Test) Remember the Feynman Technique from earlier? Take it further. Actually teach someone else what you learned. Start a study group, explain concepts to a friend, or even create content about it (write a blog post, make a video, post on Reddit). Teaching forces you to: * Organize information coherently * Fill in gaps in your understanding * Answer questions you didn't think to ask yourself * Reinforce the material through repetition Plus, when you teach something, you remember it way better. Studies show that students who prepare to teach material learn it more thoroughly than those studying for a test. If you don't have someone to teach, try the "rubber duck method" used by programmers. Explain the concept out loud to an inanimate object. Sounds weird, works great. # Step 9: Create a Second Brain System Your biological brain is for having ideas, not storing them. Build an external system to capture and organize what you learn so you're not relying purely on memory. Use tools like: * Notion or Obsidian for interconnected note taking * Readwise to sync highlights from Kindle and resurface them periodically * BeFreed, an AI personalized learning app built by Columbia alumni and Google experts. Type in something like "I want to retain what I read about cognitive science and memory techniques," and it generates a custom audio learning plan pulling from books like the ones mentioned here, research papers, and expert insights in neuroscience and learning optimization. The depth is adjustable, from quick 10-minute summaries to 40-minute deep dives with examples. Plus there's a virtual coach you can chat with about your specific struggles with retention, which helps reinforce concepts through conversation. * A simple Google Doc with summaries of every book you read The app Readwise is particularly clutch. It automatically imports your book highlights and sends you a daily email with random highlights from your past reading. It's like spaced repetition on autopilot for your book notes. Keeps ideas fresh without you having to manually review everything. The goal isn't to remember everything forever. It's to build a system where you can quickly find and recall information when you need it. Bottom line: Your memory isn't the problem. The way you were taught to read and learn is the problem. Reading without a strategy is like going to the gym and just standing there. You've got to put in the work: engage actively, test yourself, space out reviews, and connect new knowledge to old. Do this stuff consistently, and you'll actually remember what you read instead of feeling like your brain is a leaky bucket. Your future self will be grateful.

[https://github.com/derekvan/Readwise-recommender](https://github.com/derekvan/Readwise-recommender) This project creates a detailed profile from your existing Readwise highlights (which you can then tweak, or you can just create from scratch, or I guess use an LLM to create based on other data), then uses that profile to score documents in your Later queue (or anywhere if tagged with a tag you specify) and then serve them to you on a daily basis. Previously, documents were scored with keyword search of abstract. Now, full-text of documents are read and score using the QMD app (via node, no continuous LLM tokens needed). Basically, what this allows me to do is save indiscriminately into Readwise, move promising articles into the Later bucket, then use this system to reveal them according to my interests. Also, it allowed me to declare "bankruptcy", move tons of documents into the archive with a tag, then use this system to surface relevant ones along with my more recent "later" documents.

I spent months studying frame control after noticing how easily people walked over me. I'd agree to things I didn't want, backtrack on my opinions, and somehow always end up accommodating everyone else's needs. Then I stumbled into a rabbit hole of psychology research, body language studies, and way too many podcasts about social dynamics. What I found completely changed how people interact with me. Frame is basically your reality bubble. It's the vibe you project about who you are and what you're about. When you have strong frame, people naturally adjust to your energy instead of you constantly adjusting to theirs. The wild part? Most frame issues aren't about confidence. They're about inconsistent self-concept and unclear boundaries. The core shifts that actually work: Stop explaining yourself into oblivion. This was huge for me. When you justify every decision or opinion, you're basically asking for permission to exist. Research from social psychology shows that over-explaining signals uncertainty, which makes others question your position. Notice how people with solid frame just state things. "I'm not available that day" instead of "I can't make it because my cousin's friend is having this thing and I already committed and..." You get it. State your position once, maybe twice if needed, then stop talking. The silence feels uncomfortable at first but it forces the other person to either accept your frame or reveal they're trying to manipulate you. Match actions to words religiously. Your subconscious picks up on every tiny inconsistency between what you say and what you do. So does everyone else's. This is where most frame collapses happen. You say you value your time but respond to texts immediately at 2am. You claim certain standards but compromise them when tested. The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane breaks this down beautifully. She's a former advisor to executives at Google and Harvard, and the book won multiple behavioral science awards. Her research shows that perceived authority comes from behavioral congruence, not dominance. When your actions consistently match your stated values, people's brains categorize you as trustworthy and high-status. This book made me rethink everything about presence. Best book on frame I've ever read. Start small. If you say you'll call at 3pm, call at 3pm. If you commit to a boundary, hold it the first time it's tested. Your brain is tracking everything. Develop actual convictions. Empty confidence is just noise. Strong frame comes from knowing what you believe and why. I started using Readwise to capture insights from everything I read and revisit them daily. This app pulls highlights from books, articles, podcasts and resurfaces them through spaced repetition. Sounds nerdy but it's insanely good for building a coherent worldview. You start noticing patterns across different sources, and your opinions become rooted in actual knowledge instead of whatever you last heard. The algorithm adapts to what resonates with you, so over time you're reinforcing ideas that actually matter to you. Game changer for developing intellectual frame. BeFreed is an AI-powered learning app that pulls from high-quality sources like books, research papers, and expert interviews to create personalized audio podcasts tailored to your goals. Built by a team from Columbia University and Google, it's designed for people who want structured learning that actually fits into daily life. You can tell it what you want to work on, like improving frame control or social skills, and it generates content at whatever depth you need, from a 10-minute overview to a 40-minute deep dive with examples. The adaptive learning plan evolves based on your progress and struggles. You can also customize the voice to match your mood, whether that's something calm for evening learning or more energetic for commutes. Makes it easy to stay consistent without feeling like another task on your list. Control your emotional reactions. Not suppressing them, controlling them. There's a massive difference. When someone says something provocative or tries to push your buttons, that split second before you respond is everything. Try this: When you feel triggered, exhale slowly before speaking. It activates your parasympathetic nervous system and gives your prefrontal cortex time to engage. Sounds too simple to work but the neuroscience is solid. People with strong frame aren't emotionless, they just don't let others dictate their emotional state. Body language is frame made visible. Take up space. Not in an obnoxious way, just stop making yourself smaller. Sit back in chairs instead of perching on the edge. Walk at your natural pace instead of rushing to match others. Make eye contact during the moments that feel slightly uncomfortable. There's a great YouTube channel called Charisma on Command that breaks down frame control through celebrity examples. They analyze people like Denzel Washington and Keanu Reeves, showing exactly how they maintain frame in interviews and challenging situations. Super practical stuff. Watch their video on "how to be respected without being a jerk" for a masterclass in calm dominance. Question your need for approval. This is the root issue usually. Every time you break frame, there's a desire for validation underneath. You change your opinion because you want someone to like you. You over-explain because you need them to understand. You accommodate because you fear rejection. Start noticing when you're about to compromise your frame and ask what you're actually afraid of. Usually it's not that scary. The discomfort of holding your ground is temporary. The resentment from constantly folding lasts forever. Pick your battles but fight the ones that matter. Strong frame doesn't mean being rigid about everything. It means knowing which hills are worth dying on. If something violates your core values or boundaries, that's where you plant your feet and don't move. Everything else is negotiable. The shift happens gradually. People start treating you differently because you're treating yourself differently. They sense you're not looking for their approval, and weirdly, that makes them seek yours. You stop attracting people who need you to be small, and start attracting people who appreciate you at full size. Frame isn't about dominating others. It's about refusing to abandon yourself in social situations. That's it.

Here's what nobody tells you: being interesting has nothing to do with how many countries you've visited or how impressive your job title sounds. I've spent years studying charisma, social dynamics, and human psychology through books, podcasts, and research, and here's the uncomfortable truth: most people are boring as hell because they're trying way too hard to be interesting. The paradox? People who obsess over being interesting are often the least interesting. Meanwhile, the ones who genuinely fascinate others aren't even thinking about it. They've cracked a code that most people miss entirely. Let me break down what actually works, backed by research and real insights from experts who've studied this subject for decades. Step 1: Stop Performing, Start Being Curious The biggest mistake? Treating conversations like a performance where you're the main act. Newsflash: nobody gives a shit about your monologue. Robert Greene talks about this in "The Laws of Human Nature" (bestselling book, over 4 million copies sold, this guy knows his shit). He explains that the most magnetic people are obsessively curious about others. Here's the move: ask questions that actually dig deeper. Not the boring "what do you do?" crap. Try "what's been taking up most of your headspace lately?" or "what's something you've changed your mind about recently?" These questions make people think, and when someone feels intellectually stimulated around you, they remember you. The psychology behind this is wild. When you make someone talk about themselves in meaningful ways, their brain releases dopamine. You literally become associated with feeling good. That's not manipulation, that's just understanding how humans work. Step 2: Collect Weird Knowledge (On Purpose) Interesting people have knowledge. They don't just know their field, they know random shit from everywhere. Read about mythology, then jump to neuroscience, then learn about 1920s architecture. This isn't about showing off, it's about building a mental library of ideas that connect in unexpected ways. Check out "Range" by David Epstein (an award-winning science journalist). This book challenges everything you think about specialisation. Epstein shows that generalists who pull from multiple fields are actually more creative and interesting than narrow specialists. The best ideas come from cross-pollinating knowledge from different domains. Practical tip: Use an app like Readwise to capture highlights from books, articles, and podcasts. Then actually review them. Your brain needs to see these ideas multiple times to make connections. I've been using it for a year, and the random knowledge combinations that pop up in conversations are insane. For anyone serious about building that knowledge range efficiently, there's also BeFreed, an AI-powered learning app built by Columbia University grads and former Google engineers. It pulls from thousands of books, research papers, and expert interviews on psychology, communication, and social dynamics, then generates personalised audio learning plans based on exactly what you want to improve, like "become more charismatic in conversations" or "develop more interesting opinions." You control the depth, from 10-minute summaries to 40-minute deep dives with examples and context. The app has a virtual coach called Freedia that you can chat with mid-podcast to ask questions or get book recommendations. Plus, you can customise the voice. I use the sarcastic style because it keeps complex psychology digestible. Makes absorbing all this knowledge way more practical when you're commuting or at the gym. Step 3: Have Actual Opinions (And Defend Them) Nothing is more forgettable than someone who agrees with everything. Interesting people have spicy takes. Not to be contrarian assholes, but because they've actually thought deeply about things. Listen to "The Jordan Harbinger Show" podcast; this guy interviews everyone from FBI negotiators to cult survivors to business legends. What makes it incredible? He doesn't just nod along. He pushes back, questions assumptions, and explores the uncomfortable angles. That's what makes conversations electric. You need opinions on stuff that matters to you. Maybe you think morning routines are overrated bullshit. Maybe you believe cryptocurrency is a pyramid scheme. Whatever. Just have reasoned positions you can explain. People respect conviction, even when they disagree. But here's the key: be willing to change your mind when presented with better information. That's not weakness, that's intelligence. And it's wildly attractive in conversations. Step 4: Master the Art of Storytelling Data shows people remember stories 22 times more than facts alone. If you can tell a good story, you're already in the top 10% of interesting people. Read "Storyworthy" by Matthew Dicks (bestselling author, literally teaches storytelling workshops to thousands). This book will completely change how you talk about your experiences. The secret? Every story needs a transformation moment. Not just "I went to Thailand," but "I went to Thailand thinking I needed adventure, and came back realising I was running from something." Practice this: take boring everyday moments and find the internal shift. Got stuck in traffic? Cool. What realisation did you have while sitting there? That's your story. The external event is just the vehicle for the internal change. Step 5: Develop Taste (In Literally Anything) Interesting people have refined taste in something. Could be coffee, could be music, could be obscure films, doesn't matter. What matters is that you care deeply enough about something to develop informed opinions. Try the app "Likewise" for discovering high-quality movies, books, and shows recommended by people with actual taste, not just algorithm garbage. When you have genuine enthusiasm for something and can explain why it's good beyond surface level, people lean in. This isn't snobbery. It's about having standards and being able to articulate what makes something exceptional versus mediocre. That level of discernment is magnetic. Step 6: Be Comfortable with Silence This sounds backwards, but interesting people don't fill every silence with noise. They let conversations breathe. They're comfortable with pauses because they're not anxious about being perceived as boring. Research from communication studies shows that strategic silence makes you appear more thoughtful and confident. It also gives the other person space to think deeper and share more vulnerable stuff. Next conversation: try waiting an extra 2 seconds before responding. Watch how the quality of dialogue shifts. People start sharing the real thoughts, not just the rehearsed surface stuff. Step 7: Live a Life Worth Talking About Here's the hard truth: you can't fake being interesting if your life is boring. You need to actually do things. Take risks. Try weird hobbies. Fail at stuff publicly. Have adventures, even small ones. This doesn't mean spending tons of money on travelling. It means being intentional about novelty. Take a different route to work. Try a restaurant that scares you a little. Go to that event alone where you know nobody. Your brain needs new experiences to generate interesting thoughts. If you do the same shit every day, you'll have the same thoughts and same conversations as everyone else. Check out "The Courage to Be Disliked" by Ichiro Kishimi (Japanese bestseller, based on Adlerian psychology, absolutely mind-bending). It argues that interesting people aren't trying to please everyone. They're living according to their own values, which naturally makes them stand out. The bottom line? Being interesting isn't a personality trait you're born with. It's a skill set you build through curiosity, conviction, knowledge range, and actually living. Stop trying to impress people and start being genuinely fascinated by the world. That's the difference between someone people tolerate and someone people actively seek out.

Long time Readwise user (since Beta days), and with all the development swapping over to Reader, I've been struggling a little to get acclimated to it's useage. One thing I'm really confused about is how the Daily Digest works. I currently only have a couple RSS feeds autopopulating content into Reader, but it seems that if nothing new is added then things are unearthed from my archived, read later, or shortlisted content. For me, these are all books that I am storing in Readwise for consumtion on my own terms, so opening my Daily feed to be endlessly reminded about one of my books isn't what I;m interested in.. It seems like it would be pretty simple to have an option to not push a daily notification if there's no new content to be consumed, and to also disable certain types of long form content like books from being suggested as part of this feed. For now I've disabled the Daily Digest, and check things manually every week or so, but I'm looking forward to seeing a bit more granularization in the options for the app.

I built a Chrome extension that summarizes YouTube videos with AI and saves them directly to your [Raindrop.io](http://Raindrop.io) collection. The problem: I bookmark YouTube videos all the time but never go back to them because there's no context about what's in the video. Now when I save a video, it comes with an AI summary I can actually search and skim later. **What gets saved to Raindrop:** YouTube URL as the bookmark link AI summary in the note field Full transcript appended (optional, up to 10K characters) Your custom tags as Raindrop tags Video thumbnail as cover image Auto-parsed metadata Summary options: Quick overview, balanced summary, detailed analysis, action items, or academic/study notes format. Pricing: 10 free summaries/month, no API key needed. Or use your own OpenAI key for unlimited (\~$0.06 per 10-min video). Setup: Create an app at Raindrop Settings → Integrations → generate a test token → paste it in the extension. Takes about 30 seconds. Bookmarks go to your Unsorted collection by default, so you can organize them from there like any other Raindrop bookmark. It also supports Notion, Capacities, Readwise, and Markdown download if you want to save to multiple places. Chrome Web Store: [https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tubenotes-youtube-summari/lmhkpjgfhmabeiladbjnbimcddkbpnfm](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tubenotes-youtube-summari/lmhkpjgfhmabeiladbjnbimcddkbpnfm) Happy to answer questions and would love feedback on things I can improve or add!

Hey! I watch a lot of YouTube for learning and wanted a way to get the key ideas into my Readwise review rotation without manually copying notes. So I built a Chrome extension that does it automatically. **How it works:** Go to any YouTube video with captions Click "Save Now" (button appears under the video) AI generates a summary (5 formats: quick, detailed, action items, etc.) Summary gets saved as a Readwise highlight **What shows up in Readwise:** The video appears as an "article" source in your library AI summary is the highlight text Video title as the source title, channel as author Thumbnail as cover image Tags via inline format (.tubenotes plus any custom tags you add) Source URL links back to the video So the highlights show up in your daily review just like any book or article highlight would. Pricing: 10 free summaries/month with no setup. Or bring your own OpenAI key for unlimited (\~$0.06 per 10-min video). Setup: Install → paste your Readwise access token from [readwise.io/access\_token](http://readwise.io/access_token) → done. It also saves to Notion, Capacities, Raindrop.io, or as a downloadable Markdown file if you want summaries in multiple places. Chrome Web Store: [https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tubenotes-youtube-summari/lmhkpjgfhmabeiladbjnbimcddkbpnfm](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tubenotes-youtube-summari/lmhkpjgfhmabeiladbjnbimcddkbpnfm) Would love feedback from other Readwise users. What would make this more useful for your workflow?

If you use Reader to save and watch YouTube videos, you may have noticed that almost all Alex Hormozi videos now show "Video unavailable – Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner" instead of playing inline. He's set them to disallow embedded playback. This completely breaks the Readwise workflow where you save a video, watch it in-app, and highlight the transcript as you go. It's one of the main ways I consume long-form YouTube content and take notes. The whole point is a distraction-free experience, I don't want to go to YouTube to watch it. And yes, I know there are browser extensions that hide recommendations and comments, but that's not the same as staying in a focused reading/note-taking environment without touching YouTube at all. I ended up building a local workaround, a script that watches my Readwise saves, auto-downloads new Hormozi videos with subtitles, and feeds them into a self-hosted media server. The transcripts still exists in Readwise so I can highlight, annotate and review them. It replicates the old experience but it took some initial effort rather for something that used to just work. **What I'm curious about:** * Is anyone else running into this? Or am I the only one who cares about this niche workflow? * **Why would Hormozi do this?** My guesses: * Algorithm optimization – force watch time to happen on YouTube so it counts for recommendations and keeps people on his channel * Someone was abusing his content by embedding it on their own site or course * General IP protection * If anyone has access to the Hormozi team, I'd genuinely love to know the reasoning. I doubt he or his team will ever see this, and I get that the number of people using Readwise Reader for YouTube is tiny – but I'm curious about the motivation behind it. Has anyone else noticed other creators doing this?