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Tristan Homsi

Readwise Beta - Effortlessly rediscover and organize your Kindle highlights

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Readwise sends you a daily email which helps you retain & organize your Kindle highlights effortlessly ✨ Resurface, categorize, and actually remember the lessons from books you read.

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Jason Crawford
@homsit @ddoyon @michpokrass Nice, just signed up! Looking forward to this. Do I have to resync on the web all the time? Or does it automatically sync in the background every time I highlight something? Automatic would be far, far preferable, might even end up being a dealbreaker for me. PS: when I'm logged in to your site, there's no about/FAQ/contact-us or anything :-/
Tristan Homsi
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@ddoyon @michpokrass @jasoncrawford Unfortunately you do have to resync on our site every time you have new highlights. I definitely agree it's suboptimal, but unfortunately Amazon does not provide an API for accessing highlights so we have to let you export them using your browser. However, we're soon going to make automatic resyncing really fast and easy (just click one button and forget about it). FAQ -- that's a great idea, I've added it to our todo list. We'll mention the syncing there ;) Thanks for all the great feedback Jason!
Dan Pardi

Just getting started using this but have wanted something like it for a while. Reminds me a bit of oh life journal.

Pros:

Provides a valuable service to remind you of what you've read

Cons:

Haven't identified one yet

Tristan Homsi
Maker
Thanks for the review Dan! Do let us know if you think of any ways we can make Readwise even better :)
Sarah L. Lovemore

I absolutely have loved this service since I started receiving the daily mails. I would prefer to receive them weekly though, and it would be great to also then choose what day to receive them.

I would love to be able to also highlight articles that I read on a browser and receive a similar service. I'm not sure if this is possible, but since I've been voraciously highlighting in my kindle, I now similarly want to highlight everything I read digitally because the idea that the content can be resent to me in bite sized bits in the future, is JUST BLOODY BRILLIANT. Can the Chrome app please be made to do this too?! i.e. I can highlight some content on a webpage and then click the r. icon for the chrome app, and voila - the snippit is saved. Writing this makes me feel that this service probably already exists, but I haven't found one yet, and I feel you guys could do it.

LOVE what you've done here. Thank you!

Pros:

The concept

Its encouraged me to read more so that I can have more quotes!

Cons:

Can we do this for websites too?

Can we change the frequency of the newsletter?

Tristan Homsi
Maker
Hey Sarah! Thanks for this wonderful review. We're really happy you like it. As for your email frequency, you can definitely change your settings! Just go here: https://readwise.io/preferences/... and you can choose either "weekly" or "every 2 days" :) Thanks for the suggestion to highlight web content! That's a super interesting direction that we're looking more into... I've bumped it up our todo list thanks to your feedback.
Jim Lyons
Love your point about being encouraged to read more - I feel exactly the same way, though thrilled that the Readwise newsletters bring back highlights from my reading of five and more years ago, combined with the more recent.
Jim Lyons

I put as my only con - "Only as good as the original highlights" which really isn't a con, and of course makes sense - no other way this can work. Fortunately mine are pretty good, and my reading has been diverse. It's fascinating to me how one can read an entire book, highlighting away, but then just one sentence, viewed later, can be so profound/interesting/fun. It's so nice to have this random access into something I have invested my time in (the original highlighting) but was never quite sure how or if I would ever use.

Pros:

Getting these daily updates has been a joy!

Cons:

Only as good as the original highlights.

Rajat Srivastava

Great idea and implementation. I like the surprising element about the lines I've highlighted long time back and this might even make me wonder about the mood I was when I was reading a particular book.

Pros:

Good for avid readers who might have forgotten an extremely beautiful line in a book they read 3 years ago, in an email sounds interesting.

Cons:

Daily email can be annoying. I would like to read my highlights once a week, maybe but not daily. No known alternative to me.

Charles Pensig

I've been using this for several weeks and continue to enjoy reading my old highlights. The best part of it is seeing themes emerge in the things I highlight--my values. I look forward to seeing how my relationship with my books evolves as I read and highlight more.

Side bonus: I even buy more kindle books just so I can revisit them with Readwise.

Pros:

Lets me remember book in a way I never thought possible.

Cons:

Requires a lot of highlights in order to keep a daily digest going.

Bryson Ridgway

This genius application allows the causal reader to employ highly-effective learning techniques that enhance memory, knowledge attainment, and shares related but unique information between readers - it's awesome, really awesome.

Pros:

Knowledge = most valuable possession. Time = most precious resource. Readwise maximizes knowledge, with minimal time & keeps it interesting

Cons:

Allow user to design spacing between information retrieval, and create tool to aid in structure building/mental models.

Tim Falls

Amazon's web interface for accessing Kindle highlights is pretty unruly, so hoping this is a good alternative.

Pros:

it works!

Cons:

perhaps too many items in each daily digest?

Jun Xiang Tan

Awesome product!

Pros:

Proactive approach on reminders of what I read

Cons:

Only Kindle support. Would love to have support on Blinkist and Medium on articles I've read.

Len Edgerly

I love to annotate my Kindle books, and when Readwise brings notes and highlights from books I've read several years ago it's like a reunion with old friends. It's a fantastic idea, perfectly implemented. Thank you, Readwise!

Pros:

Easy to use, fabulous way to review book annotations

Cons:

None

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