Great video. Clear and succinct. I've been trying to determine how to use Readwise to collect highlights from books I'm researching for my businesses and for my Ph.D. program. This video gave me a better idea of how to set up my Notion system to collect and apply the information I'm gathering. Well done.
Fantastic job. Very clear explanation and you made it considerable easier to understand than other RU-vid videos. Keep the content coming please, the productivity world needs you.
I make outlines in notepad and review 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes right before bed, Ctrl f helpful if I want to locate super quickly and I can always re-arrange the outlines by copy and pasting. Text is super small and more abbreviated the more into my long-term memory gets. I still think this a good idea and i couldn’t agree more, I have a bunch of closed books with lots of info that definitely weren’t retained.
4:32 actually the app has a Cloze SRS (manually made fill in the blanks questions). It's not how I would make flash cards, (I prefer to do question answer format) but it steps up the active recall game if you so choose to adhere to SRS more strictly.
This video is such great quality I thought you had at least 10-100.000 subscribers! My only thing is that you speak a bit slowly but that’s just preference :) thanks for the vid
Thank you! And I appreciate the feedback I normally don't speak that slow. It's the nerves of speaking on front of a camera. 😅 Hoping that'll get better with practice!
Valid points. At the time I did the video I remember trying both and I there was a couple scenarios where pocket wouldn't let me use their "Article View" for something so I couldn't highlight it and instapaper didn't have the same problem I could always use their embedded reader no problem. Also I liked the Email I got with instapaper that I could forward things like newsletters etc. Pocket has something similar but only pulls links not the Email content itself. This might not be an issue anymore I haven't double checked recently but at the time that was where my decision came from.
Hey Dale! Loved you video. I'm a new user to "read" and "readwise" and I am building a PKM in Mem. I'm wondering if you could help me navigate the capturing I'm doing in Readwise and Mem that I'm using for linking and connecting the dots. Thanks...
Thank you for this!! I signed up for Readwise because of your video :) however, I've still been unable to figure out how you get the table of contents for your book highlights (you talk about it at 10:41)? My highlights are just one long page of texts and I would love to get the context of my highlights (i.e. chapter title, subtitle, etc.) like you have in yours. How did you do it?
Hey! Thanks for the comment I'm glad you liked it and I hope you get some value out of it! As for your question: When you are going through your book and adding your highlights you need to highlight the headings themselves and add a "note" to those specific highlights indicating the type of heading by adding the text ".h1" to the note for a top level heading or ".h2" for a sub heading you can even do ".h3" for a sub-sub-heading. Then when Readwise exports the text you'll have the nice formatting. For a better description check out this: blog.readwise.io/add-chapters-to-highlights/ Hopefully that helps! Thanks again!
Thank you for your video. I wonder whether your earlier inability to remember things you "consumed" might stem from your school/college years and lack of habit or proper training at that time in "digesting" knowledge. May I respectfully ask you what is your academic background and, if any, what is the main subject?
To answer your question I graduated from University with a degree in Engineering. I did well in formal education but I would argue that University (or at least the one I went to) didn't really promote good study habits for long-term retention. It definitely made us consume a ton of information in a short period of time but most people I know from my or similar educational backgrounds (Computer Science/Physics/etc.) did a lot of short-term cramming and not much effort spent on regular reviews or gaining a core understanding of basic principles. Even with this substandard approach, you could still do very well on tests but not actually remember pretty much anything a couple years later. Of course that's just my own personal experience. Probably could've studied more intelligently when I was younger and retained more.
Hi, great video! I just bought a year’s subscription to a major Danish bookstore - a bit like Amazon, but smaller. Am used to making lots of highlights in e-books that I bought in previous years, so Readwise looks like it’s right up my alley! But do you have any mileage with e-books that you sort of “rent” through a subscription or borrow from libraries? Do your highlights from those e-books transfer over to Readwise? And do they stay there even after you subscription expires? Cheers, Søren
That's a great question. Unfortunately I haven't tried that out. Sorry about that. Where I live the library system e-books books don't work on kindle which is a pain. But if you end up finding out anything please reply I'll pin the post or something so others can see. That'd be great if they stuck around. Good luck!
Hi Dale, thanks for your video, which brought me to Readwise. In principle I find readwise not bad but see as a central problem that web version and app each sync with e.g. Kindle but not with each other. Say: I have edited my Kindle highlights on readwise web (edit mode), e.g. to make whole sentences out of marked sentence fragments for the repeat mode, to add headings etc.. Exactly these edits, which are the essence after all, are not synchronized between readwise web and readwise app, but the original highlights from Kindle are. Another issue for me is that a CSV export only works for all highlights at once, but when reimporting, these are then no longer differentiated by books etc. (this was my attempt at a workaround: export from readwise web version as csv and then reimport into readwise iPad app). Do you know a solution for this maybe after all? Thanks a lot, Isabelle
but from a minimalist standpoint, some features and tools would make life too consuming for me. i like a blank canvas but there is definitely a purpose for integration of this system in your life
Hey Nayeem, Thanks! A possible option for you would be to Email the PDF to your Kindle and then highlight on your kindle. As long as your kindle is integrated with Readwise and Readwise is integrated with notion that would work: [Email(pdf) -> Kindle Readwise Notion] www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/email Also Pocket seems to support pdfs as long as they are hosted so if you put your pdf in google drive or something and give pocket the link you could try that. Not as confident about this one I don't use Pocket personally. [GoogleDrive(pdf) -> Pocket Readwise Notion] help.getpocket.com/article/903-what-can-be-saved-to-pocket There may be simpler ways but I'd have to look into it more closely. But hopefully one of those works for you.
The only problem is, I have way too many highlights I need to remember. Thousands. Will hardly ever make it through all of them and memorise many of the principles highlighted
im a little lost, so you use both instapaper and readwise? arent they almost the same? id like to minimize the amount of middle men, especially when bringing them to Notion. Which is best?
They are similar but serve different purposes. The easiest way to think about it is that instapaper is essentially for saving internet content for perusing later. You see an article you want to read at some point. Add it to instapaper. Then when you are reading it if something stands out as specifically important you can highlight it in instapaper that is where Readwise comes in to collect those highlights. Not only from Instapaper but many sources. Readwise stores and can export to something like Notion all your highlights so that you can effectively have a mini version of all the important chunks of all your content. If that is something you are looking for then you can't really get by with only one. You can export the entirety of your articles in csv format from instapaper but as far as I can tell you can't just export your highlights and also instapaper doesn't handle the variety of sources: books, articles, podcasts, video that Readwise does. Hopefully that helps.
Anyone here has an idea how can I find the notes / highlights I saved on kindle integrated from instapaper? Since my kindle is synced with my Readwise, notion, and instpapaer account. Does it show anywhere automatically in any of those accounts?
That was the Readwise phone app for Android. From the starting point of the app by clicking on "Highlights Feed" it's just a feed of highlights from your various books.
To completely honest nope not at this time. I got pretty burnt out juggling making my videos and my full time job (I had a lot more vids I took down). Trying to take in a bit more leisure time and a little less "Side Hustling" But figured I'd keep the tutorial vids up for people if it helped them out.
I'm a beginner. you obviously are very knowledgeable about this stuff, however, you went through it much too fast. I wanted to learn something but it just didn't happen.
Thanks for taking the time to comment. It's definitely a tough balancing act between trying to not go too slow and bore people and trying to keep things interesting and engaging. I've gotten a lot of comments in the past with the opposite that I was going too slow! Keep looking into it I'm sure you'll get it figured out. Good Luck!
