I’m really excited for this! A one-stop-shop for read-it-later sounds really nice. As long as it’s not completely focused on power user, markdown everything, etc. I’ll be happy (and they said they’ll make it work for many types of users, so I’m optimistic).
I am looking forward to the ability to highlight paragraphs on websites. I hope they have a browser extension like Liner. I like Liner except for their incessant promotion and advertisement to upgrade.
Great news! I’m really looking forward to checking out Readwise Reader and just signed up to be notified about their private beta.
Overall, I’m a big fan of Readwise. Most notably, I’m more motivated to read books knowing that I’ll have easy access to passages that I highlight. I think Readwise Reader has the potential to elevate my reading practices for other forms of content, including articles in blog posts in PDFs.
Great question @jaketheo. I use Readwise to capture quotes from books (mostly kindle), newsletters, or websites that I want to see again.
I have Readwise set to send me an email delivered several times a week with a handful of those quotes and I’m delighted to read something that I may have forgotten about.
The bonus feature is that there’s nearly always a quote or blurb that is totally appropriate and helpful for the mood/issue/challenge/celebration fo that particularly day. @MacSparky talked quite a bit about the app on MPU and once I tried I was happy to subscribe!
I concur with @Joe_M. Like Joe, I read a lot of Kindle books that are extensively highlighted. One can also send a PDF with highlights to Readwise and have those highlights show up, though, I am having trouble with this feature. I also capture some of the “Your Daily Readwise” and import them to a research folder for future articles and books I’m working on. Here is a sample from today’s email:
Some day, some app is going to come along, do great OCR/text extraction of PDFs, even two-column PDFs from print journals who still insist on doing that, and make them easier to read on the iPhone, or anywhere, and it will be glorious.
I use Readwise every day to remind me of quotes and resurface ideas that I’ve highlighted. I find it extremely helpful as an incubator of items that I know are important to me but weren’t actionable yet… Many times because I wouldn’t have even have known how to categorize them. I use it for quotes from fiction, articles, poetry, even song lyrics.
The only issue I’ve had with Readwise is that the subscription cost seemed a little high for the service. If they can increase their service offering without significantly increasing the cost, I’ll be a user for life.
I use Readwise every day and am already super excited about it’s Obsidian integration. I wonder if this new app will be part of the existing service or if it will be charged on top of it. Does anyone know?
