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Most people forget 90% of what they read.

2025-06-02 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:59 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Books and reading · mode: Review and recommendation · tags: AI

Ali recommends Readwise, an app he says he has used for about five years with no affiliation, for remembering what you read: it gathers Kindle highlights, resurfaces random ones daily and now offers an AI chat over your highlights with citations.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Readwise for remembering what you read, and its chat with your highlights

  • ★ Ali says he has been using Readwise for about five years and has no affiliation with it. — 00:00:00 · Readwise
  • ★★ Readwise connects to your Kindle account and adds every highlight to your library; it can email you five random past highlights a day, and its app has a daily review of five or 10. — 00:00:00 · Readwise, Kindle
  • ★★★ Readwise has a chat-with-your-highlights feature: an AI chat that answers a question, such as the meaning of life, from everything Ali has highlighted on Kindle and in Readwise Reader, citing the exact books and articles. — 00:00:00 · Readwise, Kindle
  • ★★ To get better at remembering what you read, Ali recommends the app Readwise, with which he says he has no paid relationship. — 00:00:29 · Readwise

Mentioned

Central: Readwise

Also: Kindle · Readwise Reader

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