This is a super helpful video - thank you for posting it. I’m a new Reader user and have found the tutorials created by the Reader team to be pretty unhelpful - too fast and confusing enough to make me wonder whether to delete the Reader app. By contrast, yours is great - a measured delivery with practical examples I can relate to. I’m now beginning to understand how I can leverage Reader for my own purposes. You have a new subscriber!
I ended up deleting the reader and readwise. Like you said the tutorials were unhelpful and tying to set stuff up like rss feeds and email forwarding they would send an email with broken links you were supposed to click to confirm your actions so with the links being broken there was no way to confirm your action. contacting "help desk" was not helpful at all. long delays in getting a reply and the reply was always unhelpful as well. Gonna stick with Instapaper and pocket. not worth the hassle especially when you have to pay for it as well.
I've seen a lot of people use this workflow, and I don't understand what the value is. When I read articles online, I have the article on one screen, and Obsidian open on a different screen. As I read the articles, I take notes straight into Obsidian. I later process those notes into atomic notes. I don't understand the value of highlighting the article, or of going back to the article later.
That’s totally fair and something I have done in the past as well. For one, many times I’m not reading at my computer. I’m on a Kindle reading books or on my phone catching up on articles, so this streamlines the process a bit. Two, Reader gives me an archived copy of the article I can go back to down the road. Link rot is a sadly real problem, and sometimes those articles disappear if I want to revisit the source text in the future. Lastly, the processing I do later is what you refer to as making them into atomic notes. I think of these highlight notes as literature notes from which I can develop permanent/atomic notes in my vault. Hope that helps!
@@EffectiveCo thanks for the reply. I do a lot of reading on my phone, unfortunately it's not on Kindle, and the app I use doesn't have a Readwise extension so I always manually type all my highlights into Obsidian. Being able to save a copy of an article sounds interesting depending on how much storage I am given. I would mainly use it as a warehouse to throw things into until I need them later down the line. The thing I'm most interested in is being able to process PDFs in the browser, but I will have to wait to get into the beta to test that out.
What would you recommend for gathering information from physical books? It seems that Readwise and Readwise Reader are just not the right product for that purpose. I wish they had something built-in to deal with manual notes that you can write from information from a book. Any advice here?
Readwise actually has a feature for that where you can scan in a highlight from a book. I'm exploring using it more myself. help.readwise.io/article/59-how-do-i-import-highlights-from-physical-or-paper-books
Great Review..Sounds like I will have to start subscribing the Readwise after watching your video! :) A few questions: Sounds like I can even replace my Bookmarking/Readlater services like Diigo, Pinboard, Pockets...etc? I find it so frustrating that I have juggle so many different platforms in order to achieve what I need: 1: keep a copy of the original site(so even if original site removed, I still retain a copy 2. allow easy export of all the bookmakrs, annotations, notes into a non-proprietary format or at least another service I would really appreciate your comment on this. :)
I’ve found Readwise can do the majority of that, including export to plaintext through an app like Obsidian (though it’s annotations and notes only so far, not full text of articles). Definitely recommend giving it a try if you’re looking at making a change.
Justin, your free trial is not working. The link does cause the "You've been referred by Justin: Sign up here for a full 60 days ..." link to appear on their homepage, but signing up via that results in a 30-day trial.
Anything you highlight in Reader will sync via the Readwise plugin. It won't sync whole articles at this point I'm afraid. If your highlights aren't syncing, I'd give the Readwise support team a shout!
I am curious how, or if, you can get the Readwise data into Reader? I just started using Reader but can not see or find anything I have in Readwise from book highlights.
Started using Reader and I have 2 questions. 1. How to export highlighted article from Reader to Roam/Obsidian etc (I can do it from Readwise but can't see how to do it from Reader) 2. A;so, can I search Reader by just document tag instead of the search displaying all references to the tag in search?
1. It doesn't export directly from Reader, but from the Readwise app (though they're tightly integrated) -- it only works on highlights and syncs them like it would highlights from a Kindle book. 2. It doesn't appear there's that level of refinement in search yet - I'll reach out to the team and put it on their radar. I agree that might be helpful.
Reader syncs through Readwise's highlight sync feature - which syncs to Notion! help.readwise.io/article/46-how-does-the-readwise-to-notion-export-integration-work Basically what you highlight in Reader syncs just like your Kindle highlights would.
I am not convinced that pasting volumes of quotes into a PKM is useful to me. I use my notes to remember things. Generally a few words and facts are enough. Any more than that, then it makes more sense to just link the original. Wish Kindle would allow a little copying but not worth £5, to £8, per month. Any PKM has tags, like "read-later" and can link to articles. Cannot decide between Obsidian (free) for Zettlecasten methed and CheckVist (free/chargeable) outlining. Most of my Obsidian notes become Outlines, but the jumping around notes in Obsidian is intriguing. Used both for a while. Obsidian is text-based like HTML but actually Markdown. I like text based things for long term use but you need to use your own cloud based storage to allow multi-device use. Whereas Checkvist is cloud-based with import/export options.
What are your comparative thoughts of Reader vs Instapaper? Which is better in your opinion for consumption, highlights and sending to notion or obsidian for future use? Thanks Krista
100% Reader all the way. Instapaper feels like abandonware these days. Great reading experience, but the features and sync capabilities of Reader are far and beyond Instapaper. I might do a video on that!
Hi. Why can't I use reader? I got message "Unfortunately your account does not have access to the Reader right now. We're onboarding folks as fast as we can, and hope to be in touch soon! :)"
Yeah I had that message the first time I tried to use Reader as well. As it turns out you have to separately sign up to get into the beta and then wait for the Readwise team to send you an invite to the Reader beta. They're now in the self-onboarding phase so my understanding is that it's a lot faster to get the invite than it was up to a few months ago when I first got my invite. Cheers.
@@jeffevio @Justin I've been a Readwise premium subscriber for over two years, and applied to the Reader waitlist as soon as it came out. Never have heard from them, and there doesn't seem to be any promotion of Reader, so I wonder if this is a ghost product!
@@paddymac5798 It took me some pestering of the Readwise team as it sounds like their emails are in a constant state of being blown up so I supposethey can fall through the cracks. Personally I reached out to Dan over Reddit and got a response like 3 weeks or so later. As well, since they started self on onboarding I think the process should be faster so maybe try signing up for the beta again? I hope you get access soon!
@@mrespresso9182 @Jeff Amazingly, right after I posted above, I got an email admitting me to Reader Beta! So, I'm off and seeing what it can do to improve my workflow. Hope you get yours too MrEspresso.😅
Raindrop used to be my app but something didn’t jive with me. Reader’s direct integration with my workflow and existence in a subscription I already pay made the jump really easy for me.
So sorry about making the assumption that most folks would understand! Personal knowledge management, or the systems and tools relating to capturing, storing, and retrieving information for yourself.
On a side node: It's the first time I've seen someone say "I'll Bing it". I'm sure this is what Google feared with OpenAI and Microsoft's collaboration with ChatGPT.
This is a super helpful video - thank you for posting it. I’m a new Reader user and have found the tutorials created by the Reader team to be pretty unhelpful - too fast and confusing enough to make me wonder whether to delete the Reader app. By contrast, yours is great - a measured delivery with practical examples I can relate to. I’m now beginning to understand how I can leverage Reader for my own purposes. You have a new subscriber!
I ended up deleting the reader and readwise. Like you said the tutorials were unhelpful and tying to set stuff up like rss feeds and email forwarding they would send an email with broken links you were supposed to click to confirm your actions so with the links being broken there was no way to confirm your action. contacting "help desk" was not helpful at all. long delays in getting a reply and the reply was always unhelpful as well. Gonna stick with Instapaper and pocket. not worth the hassle especially when you have to pay for it as well.
Your explanatory style is engaging and easy to follow. Very helpful. I'm now sold on Readwise.
Thanks so much for your kind words!
Wow, thanks, this is really helpful for some recent writing that I am working on.
Love that it will go into My Obsidian as well.
Can't wait for this! No more need for Instapaper to feed to Readwise to feed to Obsidian!
Public beta is live now :)
Mind changing app, thank you for introducing it🎉
You bet!
Great explanation. Thank you for the intro!
You're welcome!
I've seen a lot of people use this workflow, and I don't understand what the value is.
When I read articles online, I have the article on one screen, and Obsidian open on a different screen.
As I read the articles, I take notes straight into Obsidian.
I later process those notes into atomic notes.
I don't understand the value of highlighting the article, or of going back to the article later.
That’s totally fair and something I have done in the past as well.
For one, many times I’m not reading at my computer. I’m on a Kindle reading books or on my phone catching up on articles, so this streamlines the process a bit.
Two, Reader gives me an archived copy of the article I can go back to down the road. Link rot is a sadly real problem, and sometimes those articles disappear if I want to revisit the source text in the future.
Lastly, the processing I do later is what you refer to as making them into atomic notes. I think of these highlight notes as literature notes from which I can develop permanent/atomic notes in my vault.
Hope that helps!
@@EffectiveCo thanks for the reply.
I do a lot of reading on my phone, unfortunately it's not on Kindle, and the app I use doesn't have a Readwise extension so I always manually type all my highlights into Obsidian.
Being able to save a copy of an article sounds interesting depending on how much storage I am given. I would mainly use it as a warehouse to throw things into until I need them later down the line.
The thing I'm most interested in is being able to process PDFs in the browser, but I will have to wait to get into the beta to test that out.
Great video. Quick question. Where can you buy (DRM free) ebooks that work within Reader?
Unfortunately I don’t have a good answer for that
great video, but in no universe am I paying over $100 a year for a bookmarking/highlighting/reading app, I can do all of those for free elsewhere.
Does it save the articles such that even if the original article gets deleted for some reason, we still have it saved in Reader?
Hey Daniel! I work at Readwise and can confirm it does :)
What would you recommend for gathering information from physical books? It seems that Readwise and Readwise Reader are just not the right product for that purpose. I wish they had something built-in to deal with manual notes that you can write from information from a book. Any advice here?
Readwise actually has a feature for that where you can scan in a highlight from a book. I'm exploring using it more myself. help.readwise.io/article/59-how-do-i-import-highlights-from-physical-or-paper-books
@@EffectiveCo Would you say this method of manually doing it in Readwise would be the best option?
Great Review..Sounds like I will have to start subscribing the Readwise after watching your video! :)
A few questions:
Sounds like I can even replace my Bookmarking/Readlater services like Diigo, Pinboard, Pockets...etc? I find it so frustrating that I have juggle so many different platforms in order to achieve what I need:
1: keep a copy of the original site(so even if original site removed, I still retain a copy
2. allow easy export of all the bookmakrs, annotations, notes into a non-proprietary format or at least another service
I would really appreciate your comment on this. :)
I’ve found Readwise can do the majority of that, including export to plaintext through an app like Obsidian (though it’s annotations and notes only so far, not full text of articles). Definitely recommend giving it a try if you’re looking at making a change.
How do we transfer the saved articles from instapaper and subscriptions in feedly into readwise reader? that would be great to know. Thank you
You can import saved articles from Instapaper from the settings screen. Not sure about Feedly however
Justin, your free trial is not working. The link does cause the "You've been referred by Justin: Sign up here for a full 60 days ..." link to appear on their homepage, but signing up via that results in a 30-day trial.
I recommend reaching out to the Readwise support team as this should work. Might be a bug on their end.
Can we use TTS option for pdfs?
How have you connected Readwise reader to Obsidian? I have the Obsidian Readwise plugin set up, but it's not working with Readwise reader...
Anything you highlight in Reader will sync via the Readwise plugin. It won't sync whole articles at this point I'm afraid. If your highlights aren't syncing, I'd give the Readwise support team a shout!
I am curious how, or if, you can get the Readwise data into Reader? I just started using Reader but can not see or find anything I have in Readwise from book highlights.
I just heard the Readwise team will be integrating Readwise 1.0 (the highlight review) into Reader in the near future. Stay tuned!
Started using Reader and I have 2 questions. 1. How to export highlighted article from Reader to Roam/Obsidian etc (I can do it from Readwise but can't see how to do it from Reader) 2. A;so, can I search Reader by just document tag instead of the search displaying all references to the tag in search?
1. It doesn't export directly from Reader, but from the Readwise app (though they're tightly integrated) -- it only works on highlights and syncs them like it would highlights from a Kindle book.
2. It doesn't appear there's that level of refinement in search yet - I'll reach out to the team and put it on their radar. I agree that might be helpful.
Great video! I can't find out how to sync Reader with Notion.
Reader syncs through Readwise's highlight sync feature - which syncs to Notion! help.readwise.io/article/46-how-does-the-readwise-to-notion-export-integration-work
Basically what you highlight in Reader syncs just like your Kindle highlights would.
I signed up for readwise before watching your video. Can you pls get an offer to extend the 30-day trial to 60 days?
I can't help with that unfortunately; you'll have to contact Readwise.
I am not convinced that pasting volumes of quotes into a PKM is useful to me. I use my notes to remember things. Generally a few words and facts are enough. Any more than that, then it makes more sense to just link the original.
Wish Kindle would allow a little copying but not worth £5, to £8, per month. Any PKM has tags, like "read-later" and can link to articles.
Cannot decide between Obsidian (free) for Zettlecasten methed and CheckVist (free/chargeable) outlining. Most of my Obsidian notes become Outlines, but the jumping around notes in Obsidian is intriguing. Used both for a while. Obsidian is text-based like HTML but actually Markdown. I like text based things for long term use but you need to use your own cloud based storage to allow multi-device use. Whereas Checkvist is cloud-based with import/export options.
Obsidian has its sync service for 10$/mo. Works very well, but is limited to 10gb per vault.
@@xervoo6419 True.
What are your comparative thoughts of Reader vs Instapaper? Which is better in your opinion for consumption, highlights and sending to notion or obsidian for future use? Thanks Krista
100% Reader all the way. Instapaper feels like abandonware these days. Great reading experience, but the features and sync capabilities of Reader are far and beyond Instapaper. I might do a video on that!
Complete nonsense. It to weren’t an affiliate you wouldn’t be saying that. Instapaper is way better, readwise is scandalous At that price
Hi. Why can't I use reader? I got message
"Unfortunately your account does not have access to the Reader right now. We're onboarding folks as fast as we can, and hope to be in touch soon! :)"
Yeah I had that message the first time I tried to use Reader as well. As it turns out you have to separately sign up to get into the beta and then wait for the Readwise team to send you an invite to the Reader beta. They're now in the self-onboarding phase so my understanding is that it's a lot faster to get the invite than it was up to a few months ago when I first got my invite. Cheers.
@@jeffevio @Justin I've been a Readwise premium subscriber for over two years, and applied to the Reader waitlist as soon as it came out. Never have heard from them, and there doesn't seem to be any promotion of Reader, so I wonder if this is a ghost product!
@@paddymac5798 It took me some pestering of the Readwise team as it sounds like their emails are in a constant state of being blown up so I supposethey can fall through the cracks. Personally I reached out to Dan over Reddit and got a response like 3 weeks or so later. As well, since they started self on onboarding I think the process should be faster so maybe try signing up for the beta again? I hope you get access soon!
@@paddymac5798 Same!
@@mrespresso9182 @Jeff Amazingly, right after I posted above, I got an email admitting me to Reader Beta! So, I'm off and seeing what it can do to improve my workflow. Hope you get yours too MrEspresso.😅
Ryan is so talented
I signed up on your affiliate link and only got 30 days free trial - the standard one applicable to the world. Disappointing - clickbait?
No definitely not clickbait! Something might have changed on Readwise's end since I made the video. Sorry about that - let me check into it.
Have you tried Raindrop? Cheaper than Readwise, and some people seem to prefer it
Have you tried it? Im using it too but still cannot corporate it with PKM system.
@@azkanand5832 Raindrop syncs with Readwise now.
@@StevenMichels dude? Really?! Except my raindrop is a hot effing mess. Had for years. Just thought it was a bookmarker.
Raindrop used to be my app but something didn’t jive with me. Reader’s direct integration with my workflow and existence in a subscription I already pay made the jump really easy for me.
You kept saying PKM and it’s super frustrating so I had to Bing it. Please Kill Me?
So sorry about making the assumption that most folks would understand! Personal knowledge management, or the systems and tools relating to capturing, storing, and retrieving information for yourself.
On a side node: It's the first time I've seen someone say "I'll Bing it". I'm sure this is what Google feared with OpenAI and Microsoft's collaboration with ChatGPT.
Can't wait for Obsidian to just make their own RSS feed and read it later integrations. haha
People are already working on that in the plugin ecosystem I think.
thumb down, Readwise, not enough added value
Stop saying PKM its ridiculous