If you're anything like me, you take reading seriously. Why? Because I view reading as an investment in myself. I'm investing capital today (time) in the skills and knowledge (dividends) I want tomorrow. Or as Kevan Lee put it in this excellent Buffer post: "I look at books as…
Update: Since writing this blog post, we've developed our own read-it-later app! Designed for power users, Readwise Reader is built with highlighting as a core feature and integrates seamlessly with Readwise. Learn more about the background of why we decided to build Reader here: The Next Chapter of Readwise: Our…
Our mission here at Readwise is to improve the practice of reading through technology. This started by making it easy to consistently review your notes and highlights from ebooks, such as Amazon Kindle and Apple iBooks. But today we're excited to announce an integration with Highly, making it easy to…
Our mission here at Readwise is to improve the practice of reading through technology by an order of magnitude. While we have some strong opinions and good ideas (we think) on how to build such a product (indeed, we've already started!), what was less obvious was: How do we fund…
Do you ever wish that your highlights were tagged with useful keywords and categories, but never bothered because the process of tagging is just too cumbersome? In this guide, we're going to learn an easier way to tag your highlights using a powerful feature found only in Readwise called inline…
Have you ever found yourself highlighting an entire fluff-filled paragraph even though all you really wanted were the key sentences at the beginning and end? In this guide, we're going to learn how to cut fluff from your highlights on-the-fly using the concatenate action tag in Readwise. The concatenate action…
In this guide, we're going to learn how to add chapters to your notes and highlights in Readwise using the heading action tag. The heading action tag is a special note taken while you read that captures a book's structure — its parts, chapters, sections, and subsections, as the case may…
One of the many advantages of ebooks over physical books is that they're much easier to highlight. No more scribbled underlines, illegible marginalia, or dog-eared pages — just a swipe of the finger. Of course, not all ebooks are worth highlighting the same. You'll only highlight something if it's so interesting…
How many times has a book made you feel so inspired to do something, only for the moment to pass before you had a chance to act? Or how many times has a new idea made so much sense to you while reading about it, only to discover a few…
This is Part 2 in a series of articles in which we learn how to use Readwise to develop a reading workflow. In the previous section, we learned that a reading workflow involves three steps. First, capturing the salient parts of what you read using highlights. Second, periodically reviewing those…