How I remember everything I read with Readwise

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There's many kinds of notes that you want to exist, but you don't have to create them.

That is exactly what Readwise does.

This is a just mind-blowing treasure trove of knowledge, this one folder called Readwise.

Why would I not save and preserve?

Just the gems of insight, the nuggets of wisdom that these sources contain.

I've pushed aside so many distractions, I've dedicated and invested so much high-quality attention to consume these in the first place.

I don't usually recommend specific apps.

My attitude is generally that they're interchangeable.

But there is one product, there is one platform called Readwise that is different.

You can almost think of it like a second brain companion.

It is this critical almost piece of infrastructure that you can install into your second brain ecosystem that is So powerful,

so valuable that it is more or less irreplaceable.

There's many kinds of notes that you want to exist.

You want them to be created, but you don't have to create them.

Isn't this kind of the whole point of technology to save human effort?

So think about the kinds of notes that you'd like to exist.

that you can automate,

that you can have it happen in the background automatically with no effort or more importantly,

attention, that thing you already have so little of required from you.

So think about the kind of most typical case, which is your reading.

You read books,

you online articles,

you read blog posts,

you read newspaper articles,

that kind of focused aware reading,

where you're not just reading a tweet or an Instagram caption,

you're actually taking the time and space to sit down and really think about something.

really take an idea seriously.

That is a rare and precious experience.

Now what if,

as you were reading,

you could highlight the best parts,

the most relevant parts, the most interesting parts, the most unusual and surprising parts, the parts that resonate with you personally?

You can't.

You're probably already familiar with this kind of feature,

whether it's on a Kindle device and you put down your finger and you just move it across a sentence or a paragraph.

What readwise can do is basically sense or detect when you've made such a highlight.

And within a few minutes of you making that highlight,

it extracts just that piece of text,

no more,

no less,

just the part that you highlighted and it sends it,

exports it,

internet over to your note-taking app and it can actually do that to any one of a

dozen or more different note-taking apps so you don't have to choose a specific note-taking app.

So that's half of what Readwise does.

That's the first major use case.

You could call it highlight syncing finds your highlights sends them to your notes out And I did that for years,

but in the past few years Readwise has taken kind of the next step a very exciting step

Which is they have created what's called a read later app a read later app

You can think of it like a digital reading list Where do you put and where do you find all the things?

get to later, that article that is so interesting, but you don't have time to read it in the midst of your workday.

Even other kinds of content,

by the way,

not text,

that YouTube video,

that is 30 minutes long or an hour long that demonstrates or teaches some very important thing you wanna know,

but you don't have time in the midst of your busy week to watch that.

Save it to your read later app.

It could be almost any online resource as long as it has a specific URL,

a specific web address can be added to your Relator app.

Now, why would you want to do that?

Sounds kind of...

Simple and obvious, you just compile a of all the things you want to get to later.

But this little act of just, it's just one button, it's actually a little plug-in in your browser that just says safe.

As you go through your days and your weeks just hitting safe on things.

What does that do?

The benefits of that tiny little effortless action are really incredibly profound.

One thing it does is it removes you from the distracting environment that is the Internet.

Most of the Internet.

especially social media is not designed for calm, deep, purposeful reflection.

It's exactly the opposite, right?

You may find a fascinating,

very in-depth piece of writing on social media,

but if you really want to create the focused reading environment that's necessary, you have to take it out of that environment.

to a separate environment,

in this case,

a dedicated piece of software that is designed for that,

that is clean,

minimalistic, there's zero ads, zero distractions, you just put the content

that you actually want to consume, that you want to put into your mind in a place that supports that kind of consumption.

The other thing that that does is it gives you a chance to step away from a piece of content that you want to consume.

thought at the moment would be useful and relevant,

but often if you time shift it,

if you save it in the afternoon and come back to it that evening,

the next day or days later or weeks later,

suddenly that little bit of time that has passed, even if it's just a few hours, suddenly gives you almost this sense of objectivity.

You're able to see it in a new light.

You're able to see it without the emotions and the feelings and the distractions of that moment.

And often the effect of that is you realize you don't actually want to consume it at all.

You gain wisdom about what is relevant and important and what I find is I end up deleting,

never even looking at maybe half of the stuff that I save in my read later up.

And it's the half that is most clickbaity, most sensationalistic, most pointless, most full of hype.

That's the be filling my mind anyway.

Let me show you what this actually looks like.

So I'm going to start by going to their website, which is readwise.io.

The homepage is explanatory showing you and explaining how readwise works, but once you've created an account, you can go ahead and sign in.

Once you sign in, you'll see your dashboard.

Your dashboard is the list of all the different things that ReadWise does, and it actually does a lot of things.

It be a little overwhelming, to be honest.

But let me take you through just a couple of the features that I personally use.

The thing that pay attention to here is the first section called connect and sync highlights.

This is the original way that I used the service and the most important way that I continue to use it today.

The terminology it uses is import and export.

All this is saying is where is the content coming from, what is the source, and then where's it going to?

Where is the destination?

So import, export, source, destination, reading and notetaking.

So, I'm going to go ahead and click Import, and what you see here is a pretty extensive

page of the many, many sources that Readwise can import from.

Okay.

I'm not going to go through all of these, but some of these are podcast apps, our book review apps, annotation apps up here.

RSS, which is a reading format, apps, other later such as Instapaper and Pocket.

You can also import from email, from a CSV, from PDFs, all different things.

So I'll leave this to you to play with.

I really only use one.

which you'll see right up here, which is Kindle.

I download pretty much all eBooks on the Kindle service, mostly, honestly, because it connects to Readwise.

That's how important this is.

So all I did is added Kindle as an import source.

up here at the top where it says connected.

And you can actually see that I need to click to reconnect.

So once in a while, every few months or so for reasons I don't understand, it goes out of connection.

This is actually a opportunity because I'm gonna show you what it looks like to sync Kindle with ReadWise.

So I'm gonna click right there.

It will ask me to sign in to my Amazon account and be sure to use the same Amazon account that you use as well.

in the first place.

you see the Kindle logo here in the corner.

And what it does is it gets all your notes,

which are little comments you've added using the notetaking, the annotation feature on Kindle and your highlights, all the passages that you have designated.

By the way, everything I'm showing you here also works both on Amazon Kindle devices, like the actual devices they sell, and it works.

Amazon Kindle app.

That app is free, not just for Android but for iOS.

So you can really read an Amazon Kindle book on virtually any mobile device and on your computer by the way.

So even if you don't have a mobile device or you don't want to read on a mobile device,

you can download the Kindle desktop app for Windows PC or Mac completely for free.

The eBooks won't be free, but the software to read them incredibly is completely free.

So what am I looking at here?

If you look on the left,

you'll see all the books that I've read on Kindle and And you can probably see, there's a lot, there's hundreds.

So I can actually click on any book that I've read in the past here on the left,

and it will show me every one of the highlights I've made.

In this case, this is the most recent book I've been reading.

I have 64 highlights so far.

You can see the passage I highlighted right here.

There's the location, which I could use to look it up in the book if I needed to.

Or even easier,

I could click right here where it says options and open it directly to that page in the Kindle app so I can see it in context.

This only works if you have the Kindle app installed on your same device.

I could also add a note with my own thoughts or interpretations about this passage or simply delete the highlight.

If decide in retrospect, it's not relevant.

Now, you might be wondering at this point,

isn't Isn't this what we're trying to find in the first place compilation of all our different highlights?

Yes Yes, in that Amazon has already done most of the work.

They've done a lot of work to surface all this information, but this interface is actually very limited.

I can do a basic search, but not more advanced searches.

I can't edit any of this.

I can't add bold, underlining, highlighting.

I can't really add my thoughts besides this little note thing, which isn't very useful.

This is a read-only, it's a consumption format, whereas notes really should be something interactive.

And as the book you see on screen indicates messy, right?

So what we really need to do to...

capabilities is to get this content into our notes app.

Now, you could just copy and paste them.

I could just go here to the bottom, click and drag.

Actually, no, I really can't.

So it's funny.

Amazon doesn't really make this easy.

They don't want you to remove this content.

They want you to take it anywhere because then you'd be less dependent on them.

It's never really very easy to use.

In this case, it doesn't even really look like I'm able to select the text.

But even if I could, you really don't want to do this manually.

If you do any kind of significant reading,

not just do you want to avoid,

you know, all this meticulous copying and pasting, but sometimes if you're like me, you start reading a book and then life gets you.

shift so you put it aside and then come back to it later.

With read-wise,

it will pick up where you left off and begin syncing new highlights even if months or

years passes until you get back to that book.

So you don't have to remember and remind yourself, oh I picked up that book again.

Let me go back, find the note in my note-taking out.

up, go to the bottom and keep copying and pasting my notes like, oh my God, please do not subject yourself to that suffering.

What Readwise is doing, in this case, is just automating that entire process.

So let me show you what this looks like for this one example, okay?

So for the book, messy, the power of disorder to transform our lives, which is kind of a funny example for me to be using.

I'm just going to copy the title so that I can do a search for it.

And we'll head over to Evernote.

I'll go here to the search function.

Actually, let's see if I just type messy and then search everywhere.

There is the result.

Messy by Tim Hartford.

So a couple things to notice.

This note was created completely Automatically.

I've actually never opened this note.

The service already got the title and the author put it in the title of this note.

And then each paragraph you see here is a highlight.

So for example, each of these passages might come from very different parts of the book.

them so you know that there's they're different by adding a paragraph separation right there.

The thing to notice is the location.

So there's the number, location 82, and you can also click this link and it will actually open within the Kindle app.

Another thing to notice is see this day right here, it says updated.

So what happened in this case is I started reading the book probably for an

hour or two and took all the highlights up to here and then I put it aside for And when I picked up again,

it automatically added this horizontal line as well as this date.

This is useful information.

It tells me, okay, I ended here, and then I picked up reading right here.

And the cool thing, the really quite amazing thing is I can move this note, right?

I can move it within Para.

Maybe I have a project that it's related to or an area or a resource.

In fact, I want to move this note.

I should move this note to where it's going to be most useful and relevant.

In fact,

even if I change the title,

read what I

still knows the note is there it knows how to find it and it will continue adding new highlights that

you've taken no matter what you call the notes no matter what you change the title to and no matter

where you move it so you're never going to get that broken link where you start making new highlights

in an e-book and it has no idea how to find where that note is.

went.

Now, if you look up here at the very top, where is this note actually located now?

Where does it begin?

Where is it created in the first place?

It's in a notebook, which is Evernote's name for a folder called Readwise.

So if I click on that, this is the default folder where every single highlight that is imported by Readwise goes.

So you can see this is a just mind-blowing treasure trove of knowledge.

I mean,

if I expand this out, this goes all the way back to, well, it says 2018, but it actually goes back a lot further.

I think these dates were updated based on some sinking But this is many, many years.

This is probably over a of my high quality attention that I've spent reading.

You'll notice, too, that it's not just books.

For example, this is a book called The Art of Gathering, but also something we haven't even talked about yet, which is articles.

So if you read an article such as this one and take a highlight,

which you can do and read wise's very own, reading wise's And wise's very reader, it will do the exact same thing.

It looks the same, acts the same, works the same with an online article as with an e-book.

So actually many of the items you see here such as this one and this one and this one and this one are actually imported from online

articles or in this case a tweet or it could be all sorts of different websites.

So we've looked at the import section.

Let's also now look at the export.

So I'll click here.

And you can see once again, there's many options.

These are all the different places, the destinations, that read-wise can send your highlights to.

I personally use Evernote, that's why it's up here in the connected section.

And they're adding more all the time,

so you can check back to see if your note-taking app of choice is supported in the future.

So let me show you what this looks like.

I actually never have to do this.

It happens completely automatically.

But sometimes, just to be sure it's working, or to see it working, I like to click configure.

And you have a few options here, I have the export option.

so that I don't have to do this manually.

I also like to include highlight locations, compact layout is always nice, and I don't want to select items to be exported.

I to select all of them to be exported.

So if I click start export to Evernote, I'll need to log in.

Once you've logged in, you'll see this little spinning wheel, and it says export to zero, new highlights to zero notes.

If had new highlights that it had not yet exported, it would tell me right there.

And like I said, the reason these are both zero is that this happens automatically without my involvement.

So everything that I've shown you so far, which you could call connecting and syncing highlights.

It was the original, the first kind of value add, when to simply get your highlights from one place to another.

But there's a second major way that I use Readwise, which is much more recent.

Let me now show you the Read Later app, which is called Reader, that the company Readwise launched a couple years ago.

Here's what it looks like.

You can find it once you've created an account at read.readwise.io.

So this one has some more things that you need to understand.

Reader is a reading list, so not surprisingly, it is presented in the form of a list.

There's a few different ways you can see the items you've saved,

you can see this home view, you can see a feed which actually pulls in items.

that you're subscribed to, such as in these letters automatically, so you don't even have to save them.

But I actually like that step of having to say yes,

I want to get to this later and hit save, which means I like the traditional library view.

There's also a few, I think of them as filters over here on the left.

Sometimes in a certain kind of mood, or you have a certain span of time.

Or you just feel compelled to consume a particular format of content so this list

You see currently is all different kinds of content from podcast episodes to tweets to New Yorker articles to YouTube videos

But I can also filter by articles only by books By emails by PDFs you can see I don't really read emails or PDFs here,

by tweets, by videos.

You can also make a short list if you want to designate certain items as especially important.

Or you can create custom views.

So this is one that I created with all audio.

So sometimes I don't really care what kind of audio it is.

Like, it could be a Spotify episode.

or a YouTube video or even a tweet.

I'm not really designating what form of audio it is.

As as it's audio, it goes in the to listen to filter, which is created by a tag that I created called to listen to.

I'll just show you one example.

If I click into this item, which is an interview with Rick Rubin on his philosophy of creativity.

Let's say I wanted to save this paragraph right here.

I could select it with my mouse and then it automatically gets highlighted.

I even have to hit any button.

I could also add a note or tags but I don't bother with any of that.

I'm really just looking for the highlight.

You can see I've just exported to Evernote manually and it exported one new highlight from one note.

Well which one that is.

Let's head over to Evernote and you can see here right at the top of my readwise folder is the title of the original source,

the link where it came from, and the exact passage that I highlighted.

I have over 300 folders in my Evernote account.

This is probably the most of the valuable.

This one folder called Readwise.

And I think it's the most valuable because I've done the most work to find this knowledge, right?

Something that I wrote down, some random idea I had, you while walking in the park, walking in the dog, that has some value.

But I consider the many hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours that I've spent reading all these books and articles to be one.

Much more hard fought.

I've really fought.

I've pushed aside so many distractions.

I've dedicated and invested so much high quality attention to consume these in the first place.

Why wouldn't I keep them?

Why would I not save and preserve?

Just gems of insight, the nuggets of wisdom that these sources contain.

So often,

when I'm looking for an answer to a question or a solution to a problem,

you I want to know what Rick Rubin did in his career.

I to know what Charles Eisenstein thinks about, you know, his of eating.

I want to know how this family did overlanding in the Americas.

I want to know Kim Stanley Robinson's, you know, ideas on a future sci-fi scenario in which we terraform Mars.

I want to go back years and ask Daniel Pink what he thinks about how to persuade people and sell them on things.

This is really like having a mastermind,

a counselor,

advisors of most of the greatest minds that I've ever had contact with,

all of which I can search,

I annotate with my own thoughts, I can incorporate and integrate into whatever I'm writing or creating or trying to think about or decide on.

Really, Readwise gives you almost the 2020 value of an entire second brain with extremely small amount of effort and you can do it for

you know,

a of dollars a month,

which I think is just one of the best ways to spend your money to make sure that you're capitalizing on the value of something far more valuable,

which is your attention.

You or you could delete the highlight what the heck is that it comes from the author in some cases as well he has more furniture

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