Readwise
app · in 15 sources (2019–2021)
Sources by year: 2019: 3 · 2020: 5 · 2021: 7
Often together
What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.
Instapaper (13) · Kindle (17) · Roam Research (7) · Notion (12) · second brain (4) · Evernote (5) · Amazon (5) · Twitter (3) · Ryan Holiday (2) · Drafts (2)
What the videos say
The most important statements of each year; all statements.
2021
- 2021-01-24 · My Favourite iPad Productivity Apps — Ali: Instapaper syncs automatically with Readwise, which syncs to Notion, so Ali's Instapaper highlights of articles sit in a Notion database. — 00:02:10
- 2021-03-04 · My Favourite Mac Apps - What's on my Macbook Pro — recommendation: Ali saves articles to Instapaper with its Chrome extension and reads them on any device; his Instapaper highlights sync automatically to Roam Research through Readwise. — 00:03:50
- 2021-03-28 · My Favourite iPhone Apps — recommendation: Ali highlights articles in Instapaper, and Readwise syncs the highlights automatically to Roam Research and Notion, his two main note-taking apps. — 00:02:55
- Ali's Airr quotes sync through Readwise into Notion and Roam Research, where he sees the transcripts of what he saved, such as many quotes from a Seth Godin episode. — 00:08:24
- 2021-05-05 · How I Organize My Life - The "LAZI" Productivity System — Ali: Readwise automatically syncs Ali's highlights, mostly from Kindle but also from the podcast app Airr and from Instapaper, straight into Roam Research. — 00:05:38
- 2021-05-13 · My Favourite Tech for Reading Books - Kindle vs iPad vs Books vs Audiobooks — Ali calls Readwise absolutely game-changing: it collects his highlights from Kindle, from Instapaper for articles and from Airr for podcasts, and sends them into Notion and Roam, his two note-taking apps. — 00:04:27
- In the Kindle app on the iPad, Ali highlights text that syncs via Readwise into Roam Research, and he can tap a highlight to add a personal note, which also saves to Readwise. — 00:07:46
- 2021-10-03 · How to ‘Read’ 1000 Books a Year — recommendation: Ali: For books that really resonate, Ali writes a proper summary in a Notion template that asks him to summarise the book in a few sentences and give his top three highlights, and Readwise pulls in his other Kindle highlights. — 00:08:31
Also named in: How To Remember Everything You Read - 6 Tips in 60 Seconds #shorts
2020
- 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — recommendation: Ali highlights passages of articles in Instapaper, and his highlights sync automatically to Evernote through a service called Readwise. — 00:10:33
- Ali has highlighted on Kindle since 2010 or 2008, when he first got one, and all his Kindle highlights sync to Evernote through Readwise. (hedged) — 00:12:01
- 2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali captures by source: from podcasts or audiobooks in the car he dictates voice notes into Drafts on his Apple Watch, synced to Evernote; Kindle highlights and notes sync to Evernote and Notion through Readwise, which he calls amazing. — 00:02:39
- 2020-09-18 · The 5 Magical Apps That Changed My Life — Ali has loved Readwise, the app of his framework's integration layer, for about two years since he first discovered it. — 00:04:27
- In the integration layer of Ali's framework, Readwise brings together the highlights he creates in the three consumption apps. — 00:04:56
- Readwise has very recently added an automatic export of all its highlights to Notion, the app of Ali's second brain, which he calls absolutely game-changing. — 00:06:36
- 2020-10-01 · What's on my iPhone - Favourite iPhone Apps ft. @KharmaMedic — Ali: Readwise connects to Kindle, Instapaper and Ali's podcast app Airr and gathers the highlights he makes in them. — 00:10:07
- Readwise emails you five random highlights every day from what you have read, watched or listened to. — 00:10:07
- Kharma Medic has no Readwise equivalent for audiobooks: he finds it really hard to take notes from them, which irritates him, and he is always looking for a way to capture a segment of audio he has just heard. — 00:10:07
- 2020-10-08 · How I Remember Everything I Read — Ali: Readwise connects to your Kindle account, pulls in every highlight from all your books and emails you five random highlights every day. — 00:02:26
- …and 10 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020
2019
- 2019-03-26 · Recommended Tech for Students 🎧📱 — recommendation: Ali recommends Readwise, a website that emails you five of your Kindle highlights every day: not spaced repetition, he says, but a good way to come across ideas that once resonated with you. — 00:04:23
- 2019-10-30 · How I Read 100 Books a Year - 8 Tips for Reading More — recommendation: Ali's eighth tip is Readwise, which he calls an amazing way to resurface passages he once highlighted; before it he had no way of actively going through his highlights. — 00:08:31
- Readwise syncs to your Amazon account and emails you five random highlights from your Kindle books every day. — 00:08:31
- Ali's daily Readwise email often brings a quote, such as one from Derren Brown's Happy or Tim Ferriss's Tools of Titans, that applies to what he is thinking about. — 00:09:19
- Ali has recently started syncing his Readwise highlights to Evernote, so when making a video on productivity he searches Evernote for the word and finds every quote on it he has highlighted. — 00:09:49
- Highlights made in Instapaper, which Ali uses to read online articles, also sync through Readwise to Evernote. — 00:09:49
- Ali now feels excited to highlight passages, knowing each goes into Readwise and Evernote as wisdom he can call upon, and this helps him read more consistently. — 00:10:18
- 2019-12-11 · What's on my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) — recommendation: Ali: Readwise syncs Ali's Kindle and Instapaper highlights into one Evernote note per article, so returning to a long Wait But Why article he sees only his highlights, which he calls incredibly useful. — 00:15:49
- …and 1 statement more in 2019 — all statements of 2019