What is Readwise?
Readwise is a digital tool designed to help you retain and organize the most valuable insights from your reading. Readwise leverages powerful techniques like spaced repetition and active recall to supercharge your memory. Through Daily Reviews, Readwise 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 Readwise 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 start using Readwise 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?
An even better question! To learn more about the deep cuts of Readwise's 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.