What is Readwise Highlights?
Readwise Highlights is a digital tool designed to help you retain and organize the most valuable insights from your reading. Highlights leverages powerful techniques like spaced repetition and active recall to supercharge your memory. Through Daily Reviews, Highlights ensures you regularly revisit key insights from your reading material, perfectly timed to enhance retention. This prevents knowledge from slipping away and keeps your memory sharp.
Where should I start?
Great question! With so many options for importing, exporting, and customizing, getting set up with Highlights can feel daunting. To help ease the mental load of a new system, here are some ideas:
- Import existing highlights from Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, Pocket, and more.
- Add some Supplemental Books to get started even without an existing library of highlights.
- Customize your Daily Review to show you more of the documents you care about.
- Export your highlights to your note-taking app(s) of choice, including Notion, Evernote, Obsidian, and more.
What else can I do with Readwise Highlights?
An even better question! To learn more about the deep cuts of the Highlights feature set, check out these resources:
Themed Reviews
Create customized sets of highlights and resurface them at any volume and interval.
Action Tags
Tag your highlights as you make them, join highlights together with concatenation, and more.
Mastery
Remember what you read with active recall and spaced repetition.
Chat With Highlights
Explore your highlights with AI to find new connections and insights.
