Do you have a video of how your workflow goes to export to Obsidian? I am borderline almost ready to commit. I just need an app to automate the flow from my eReader to Obsidian. Also do you have any experience of the reader app on a tablet? Curious what the user experience is like.
Hey Fred! Thanks for the great suggestion. I will definitely make a video on setting up a readwise workflow. Meanwhile, if you want to get started and test it, there is a 1-month free trial in the link in the description. Connect your readers through the readwise (not reader) web app. From the Obsidian community plugins page, find the readwise official plugin and follow the instructions provided to set up the sync. You must have an active account to sync your highlights. Remember to assign a folder for the readwise highlights in your vault. Hope this helps! Stay tuned 👍
I don't really see the advantages. Why not copy the highlights directly in your notetaking app? The intermediate step of using readwise also brings the danger of cluttering your inbox with an insurmountable amount of material. Maybe my thoughts are too onesided, but i regularly find myself with an impossible to-read-list in front of me and i guess for me the app would rather enhance the problem instead of solving it :)
Thats a great point! The challenge with copying the highlights is the multiple different sources of highlights. I listen to podcasts, read kindle books and articles online and having all the highlights from all these sources are convieniently placed into one folder in obsidian. This definitely clutters things up though as you said. In this case I really like the convinience, but If you are able to move the highlights directly its probably a lot neater. I am curious: what notetaking app are you currently using?
@@Slipbox Hi Tomi, I'm using Logseq and am very happy with it. It made my notetaking so structured and i became so motivated that the problem of "taking too many notes" soon arose. i guess thats the downside of almost no friction with a second brain. my current goal is therefore to limit my input and only add notes if they are not alredy in a similar from or shape in my graph.
Thanks for the video Tomi. But this app is only useful when you already know what to follow. What about discovering new blog posts and newsletters? Do you have a method for finding new interesting things?
This is a great question, and something I have also struggled with. I have been going down rabbit holes and discovering new creators the deeper I go. Would love curated lists of content creators worth reading. Google will definitely not help in this case. That said it all depends on what you are interested in. My rabbit holes usually start in twitter, where I am able to tap into the communities of a given topic and then go down from there. Love the question, thanks!
Great video. I’m not sold on the Ghost Reader feature. I feel like our technology is starting to handle the process of thinking for us at an unnecessary level. Just because we have AI, that doesn’t mean we need it attached to every feature. The benefit of reading is getting to think about the text for yourself. It’s in the act of summarization that you learn. I’m not sure that should be handed off to a bot.
@@Slipbox this is exactly the use case. if there is a long form article I think might be worth my valuable time, I'll use ghost reader to summarize it and that summary can help determine if the value I initially felt in the subject/author is actually worth the time investment.
Do you have a video of how your workflow goes to export to Obsidian? I am borderline almost ready to commit. I just need an app to automate the flow from my eReader to Obsidian. Also do you have any experience of the reader app on a tablet? Curious what the user experience is like.
Hey Fred! Thanks for the great suggestion. I will definitely make a video on setting up a readwise workflow. Meanwhile, if you want to get started and test it, there is a 1-month free trial in the link in the description. Connect your readers through the readwise (not reader) web app. From the Obsidian community plugins page, find the readwise official plugin and follow the instructions provided to set up the sync. You must have an active account to sync your highlights. Remember to assign a folder for the readwise highlights in your vault. Hope this helps! Stay tuned 👍
I don't really see the advantages. Why not copy the highlights directly in your notetaking app? The intermediate step of using readwise also brings the danger of cluttering your inbox with an insurmountable amount of material.
Maybe my thoughts are too onesided, but i regularly find myself with an impossible to-read-list in front of me and i guess for me the app would rather enhance the problem instead of solving it :)
Thats a great point! The challenge with copying the highlights is the multiple different sources of highlights. I listen to podcasts, read kindle books and articles online and having all the highlights from all these sources are convieniently placed into one folder in obsidian. This definitely clutters things up though as you said. In this case I really like the convinience, but If you are able to move the highlights directly its probably a lot neater. I am curious: what notetaking app are you currently using?
@@Slipbox Hi Tomi, I'm using Logseq and am very happy with it. It made my notetaking so structured and i became so motivated that the problem of "taking too many notes" soon arose. i guess thats the downside of almost no friction with a second brain. my current goal is therefore to limit my input and only add notes if they are not alredy in a similar from or shape in my graph.
Thanks for the video Tomi. But this app is only useful when you already know what to follow. What about discovering new blog posts and newsletters? Do you have a method for finding new interesting things?
This is a great question, and something I have also struggled with. I have been going down rabbit holes and discovering new creators the deeper I go. Would love curated lists of content creators worth reading. Google will definitely not help in this case. That said it all depends on what you are interested in. My rabbit holes usually start in twitter, where I am able to tap into the communities of a given topic and then go down from there. Love the question, thanks!
Great video. I’m not sold on the Ghost Reader feature. I feel like our technology is starting to handle the process of thinking for us at an unnecessary level. Just because we have AI, that doesn’t mean we need it attached to every feature. The benefit of reading is getting to think about the text for yourself. It’s in the act of summarization that you learn. I’m not sure that should be handed off to a bot.
That's a great point! I don't use ghost reader very often. Having a summary sometimes lets me know if it's an article worth reading.
@@Slipbox this is exactly the use case. if there is a long form article I think might be worth my valuable time, I'll use ghost reader to summarize it and that summary can help determine if the value I initially felt in the subject/author is actually worth the time investment.
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