Readwise

Overview

Readwise is a platform designed to help users retain and revisit highlights from ebooks and articles. It integrates with services like Kindle, Instapaper, and iBooks to import highlights. Using spaced repetition, Readwise resurfaces these highlights through daily emails and a web/mobile app, reinforcing memory and knowledge retention. Users can tag, annotate, and organize highlights, and connect Readwise with note-taking apps such as Evernote, Notion, and Roam for seamless integration. The platform offers a full API for creating, fetching, and updating highlights, allowing developers to integrate Readwise functionality into their applications. Readwise aims to maximize the value derived from reading by ensuring that key ideas are remembered and utilized over time.

Common tasks

Highlight Extraction Spaced Repetition Note Organization Knowledge Synthesis

FAQ

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Can I use Readwise for free?

Readwise is free for the first 30 days. After the free trial, Readwise costs a small monthly fee, or you can refer your friends for additional free months.

Why should I pay for Readwise?

The same reason you pay for your books: to learn and grow wiser. Readwise costs much less than a single book per month but lets you get much more out of your time spent reading.

How does Readwise work?

Readwise makes it easy to access all of your highlights from places such as your Kindle, Instapaper, iBooks, and more. We then send you a daily email with some of those highlights, resurfacing the best parts of what you’ve read at the right time.

What's the difference between Readwise Lite and the full Readwise?

If you just love the daily email, and easily reviewing the best of your highlights, Readwise Lite is for you. If you want the full power of the web app: tagging, note-taking, and all future reading technology that we build, we’d recommend the full Readwise.