How we planned our Norwegian team offsite as a remote startup

We just returned from our sixth and best team offsite to date set in the scenic fjords of Norway. If you're wondering why we chose such an obscure destination, it's because we had an opportunity to rent out the one-of-a-kind landscape hotel where the movie Ex Machina and the HBO…

The Next Chapter of Reader: Public Beta

Today, we're excited to announce the public beta of our own, fully-integrated reading app (known as "Reader"). Get started for free at readwise.io/read. What is Reader? In case you missed our original manifesto, Reader is a more powerful, more flexible version of the classic read-it-later app.…

Does Bionic Reading actually work? Test for yourself!

July 2022: The results of this experiment have been posted here. tl;dr As a hackathon project at our recent team offsite, Mati and I hacked together a quick experiment to test whether Bionic Reading actually works. Initial results suggest not, but there are some glimmers in the data justifying…

Readwise Reader Winter Update

It's been a few months since we announced our work on Reader so we figured it’s time for an update on our progress, timelines, and the private beta! 💪 Progress When we announced Reader, we had just crossed a product milestone we called read-it-later parity. Basically, we had a read-it-later…

The Next Chapter of Readwise: Our Own Reading App

Our mission here at Readwise is to improve the practice of reading through software by an order of magnitude. This sounded just as ambitious when we originally wrote it in 2018, but we’ve made some meaningful steps since: thousands of customers, hundreds of millions of highlights, and more. Today,…

Adding Intention to Spaced Repetition

When we first started working on Readwise in 2017, the idea of applying “spaced repetition” to your reading highlights was — shall we say — met with skepticism. Few had heard the term spaced repetition back then, and even fewer believed we could build a consumer software product around it.…

Winter 2020 Updates

We’ve been quietly shipping all kinds of new features throughout 2020. Aside from wishing you & yours a merry conclusion to this crazy year, we want to make sure you're taking full advantage of everything Readwise has to offer! Let’s get into it: 🎨 Readwise Brand — Believe it or…

Remember Significantly More of What You Read With Readwise

Today we're excited to announce our first step in a bold new direction: active recall. Readwise already uses spaced repetition to help you remember more of what you've read. Active recall will take your retention to the next level. What is active recall? Active recall testing (also known as quizzing,…