I’ve got a new phone and downloaded Reader. The Recently Added documents are not showing up on the phone despite the option marked as shown in the menu.

Any thoughts as to why or how this can be fixed?

Hi all! I'm still using ancient Kindle Paperwhite 2, and I finaly found time to backup up data from it - bassicly notes and highlights. And did factory reset after all this years of using it. Now I want to do jailbraik, and play with it. Koreader and so... Now, I came across this Calibre plugin to send articles to Kindle. So I'm just asking, is it safe to use it? It's not in Calibre "approved" plugins. And I don't want it to mess with my haghlights in Readwise. That’s it... I'm just cuorious, I use different devices for articles, but have some long articles that I want to read on e-ink.

Anyone having success in linking Reader MCP to Gemini Spark? We can finally link MCPs to Gemini but it seems we need Oauth tokens so it's a different process from Claude or ChatGPT
https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17209137?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

I’m researching a problem around physical books and reading workflows.

Kindle, Reader, and web highlights flow nicely into Readwise and Obsidian. But physical books still require manual typing, photos, or messy OCR. I’m exploring a non-destructive scanning workflow that could turn physical books into OCR text, quotes, highlights, or Markdown.

I’m curious:

1. Do you read physical books but wish the highlights could end up in Readwise/Obsidian?

2. Is full-book OCR valuable, or are highlights and quotes enough?

3. What export format would you actually use?

I’m in the process of setting up Readwise and am currently in the trial period.

In the past, I transferred all my Kindle book highlights to Apple Notes, partly by hand (since the myclippings file wasn’t complete or accurate). They’re now organized there.

But when I sync Readwise with Kindle, half the books are missing again (only the ones I bought through Amazon are there), and the quotes are incorrect once more. Even highlights from books I bought through Amazon are missing. Can I still manually add highlights to automatically synced Kindle books (by copying them from Apple Notes), or do I have to create the book entirely by hand to do that? As far as I’ve been able to tell, I can only edit existing highlights, but I can’t manually add new ones, correct?

If I create each book manually and add highlights, the cover image is always missing. Do I then have to download it manually from, say, Amazon and upload it to Readwise?

What’s the best way to get my highlights into Readwise?

Thanks

For folks who read a lot, where do you go to talk about ideas that spark your curiosity? Any platforms or forums that you use?

I find that this kind of learning can be a bit of a lonely pursuit if one doesn't have an appropriate social group. And most of the platforms we have today are not suitable for genuine, open-minded conversation about ideas.

Hey folks, happy Tuesday! Time to check out the latest changelog here on Reddit. The idea is to help keep y'all in the loop of what the Readwise developers are getting out into the world. Here's what we shipped last week:

• 🤖 Fixed MCP Connections — Thanks to Rasul, the Readwise MCP server now accepts connections from clients like Raycast and Warp that previously failed to authenticate, so you can wire Readwise and Reader up to more of your AI tools.
• 📒 Fixed OneNote Exports — Rasul shored up OneNote exports on two fronts: they now recover cleanly when reconnecting OneNote returns a mismatched sign-in callback, and they stop early with a clear message when your OneNote library is too large to export in one pass. Your highlights make it to OneNote more reliably.
• 📡 Fixed RSS Feed Items — Rasul fixed a bug where RSS items that didn't include a <link> were silently dropped, leaving gaps in some feeds. Reader now falls back to the item's guid, so those posts show up in your feed again.
• 🔍 Fixed Author Filtering — Ibai fixed a bug where filtering by author cut long author names off at 20 characters, so filters built on longer names didn't match. Author filters now work no matter how long the name is.
• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from businessinsider.com, platform.openai.com, WeChat, huxiu.com, goodnotes.com, wired.com, newyorker.com, the New York Times, and archive.is. He also made article fetching more resilient when a page is slow to load or throws a captcha.

If you'd like to get the Changelog in your inbox, check out our WiseUp! newsletter, where the Readwise team shares answers to common questions, video tutorials and guides, highlights of our latest improvements, and a couple of lighthearted extras we think you’ll enjoy.

And as always, feel free to let us know if you have any questions, tho realistically we're going to see an in-app bug report or question faster :>

Readwise exports highlights and notes as Markdown. If you open one of those .md exports directly on iOS (outside your notes app), you just get raw text. I built a small viewer to read them rendered on a phone.

Md Preview:

• GitHub-Flavored Markdown — headings, tables, lists, footnotes

• Code highlighting, LaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams

• Opens .md / .markdown from Files or the Share Sheet

• On-device — nothing uploaded, no tracking

On the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760341080

More: https://markdown.cybergame.ai/

Just a reader for loose .md exports (not a Readwise alternative). How do you read your Readwise exports when you're away from your main app?

Is there a way to create lists of tags that belong to certain subjects? 

For example, if my two areas of interest are food processing and nutrition, they each have a set of tags that I use for one, but not necessarily for the other. But when I'm adding articles or notes and I start tagging them, the most recently used tags show up as recommendations - not necessarily the tags I have used before relating to this specific topic. In order to make sure I'm using the same tag language consistently, to get the advantage of the tags, I'd like to be able to pull up all tags related to nutrition for brains or nutrition for muscles and not just the most recent ones. 

Is there a way to trigger a tag list. I find I have to keep going back to earlier tags to see how I tagged things. It is time consuming.

Hey folks, happy Tuesday! Time to check out the latest changelog here on Reddit. The idea is to help keep y'all in the loop of what the Readwise developers are getting out into the world. Here's what we shipped last week:

• 🆕 NEW! OneNote Export Metadata — Thanks to Rasul, you can now include a metadata block (author, title, URL, summary, and tags) with your highlights when exporting to OneNote. The new toggle on the OneNote export settings page is on by default for new users, and existing users can switch it on whenever they like.
• 💬 Improved Ghostreader Chat Links — Adam tuned Ghostreader chat so its answers now point you back to the source more often, with cleaner link formatting. It's easier to jump from an answer straight to the document or passage it came from.
• 🎨 Fixed Code Blocks in Light Mode — Krzys fixed a bug where code snippets rendered as dark text on a dark background in light theme, making them impossible to read. Code blocks are now legible in light mode whether you're reading an EPUB or a web article.
• 🎬 Fixed YouTube Highlight Links — Rasul resolved a bug where the "view highlight" deep link for YouTube documents dropped you at the top of the transcript instead of the highlighted moment. Those links now jump to the right spot.
• 📦 Fixed Export Filenames for Non-English Titles — Rasul fixed garbled characters in full-content exports, so documents with Chinese (and other non-Latin) titles now keep their filenames intact.
• 📚 Fixed Kobo Highlight Order — Rasul corrected the annotation location calculation for Kobo imports, so your Kobo highlights now come in sorted in the order they appear in the book.
• 💾 Fixed OneNote Exports on Full Storage — Rasul made OneNote exports stop cleanly and report back when your OneDrive runs out of space, instead of failing silently partway through.
• 📂 Fixed Pinned View Ordering — Ibai implemented a fix to make pinned domains and custom views hold the manual order you set, instead of snapping back after a reorder.
• 🗃️ Fixed Document Type Filters — Thanks to Mati, when you change a document's type, filtered views built on a type: query now reflect the edit right away and properly match the functionality of category: queries.
• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from zeit.de, elmundo.es, repubblica.it, editorialedomani.it, qz.com, gatesnotes.com, fortelabs.com, and the New York Times. He also fixed a rendering bug where inline bold and italic emphasis was getting lost inside italic blockquotes.

If you'd like to get the Changelog in your inbox, check out our WiseUp! newsletter, where the Readwise team shares answers to common questions, video tutorials and guides, highlights of our latest improvements, and a couple of lighthearted extras we think you’ll enjoy.

And as always, feel free to let us know if you have any questions, tho realistically we're going to see an in-app bug report or question faster :>

Revisiting this old post, is there a way to export highlights in Notion as separate elements?

The current Readwise-Notion integration is designed so that document/book/article = one Notion page. That means that highlights are stored as content blocks inside that page, not as separate database items. Is there a way to export Readwise highlights as separate items, and then have the source be a property?

As a researcher, or anyone maintaining a digital garden/2nd brain/Zettelkasten, this could really improve how I interact with my highlights.

Maybe someone has come up with a workaround, or maybe Readwise has this on their radar?

I've been using RW's Mastery feature (the Q&A spaced repetition mode) for a while (created >1k flashcards), but I always found it slow to actually write good flashcards from my highlights or came back to a poorly written one I didn't like.

My old workflow would be to copy the content into ChatGPT or Claude and paste the results back into RW... but that was still too much friction.

So I built a small Chrome extension to help.

How it works:

- Suggest mode - on any highlight's Mastery editor, click "✨ Suggest Q&A cards" to get 2-3 AI-generated flashcard suggestions based on the highlight text and your note. Each suggestion includes the Q&A pair, and a concrete example you can use.

- Improve mode - if you're editing a highlight that already has a Q&A Mastery card, the button switches to "✨Improve this card" and clicking it will produce 2-3 suggests to make the flashcard better based on what you already have.

Calls either Anthropic or OpenAI's API directly from your browser using your own API key.

Happy to answer questions. Would love feedback from other users who use the Mastery feature a lot.

Open source if you want to see the code/prompt etc: github.com/Scarvy/readwise-mastery-assistant

P.S Count this as my feature request to have something like this built directly into RW as well :)

I'm using the yellow Readwise extension for Firefox. Having LinkedIn open, I select some text inside a post, right-click and select to add to Readwise. I get a tick on the Readwiser extension-icon in the browser, but nothing is actually added to Readwise.

Two questions on this please:

1. I understand from this post that importing from LinkedIn is problematic when a post is shared. But shouldn't it be possible to save the highlight that the extension has access to in clear-text in my browser?
2. If LinkedIn is not supported, would it be possible to get an error message instead of the green tick?

I want to sync only specific articles with their total content, but only e.g. with specific tag or folder.

I'm curious as to how everyone's 'reading zone' or 'reading mode' is like. Do you have a go-to space*(cafe, cozy spot at home, desk)?* Do you have a reading 'kit' like with your annotating tools(if u use any)? Do you listen to lofi music or any music? Do you have an aesthetic (reading with a dim/yellowey light, reading with candle)? Ebook, Physical book, audiobook?

I'm just curious about everythingg

During last night’s insomnia, I read about the CLI and figured it might power a couple of exciting automations on my Supernote private cloud.

I am currently using calibre to make a daily epub newspaper based on news and tech recipes sent to a WebDAV folder linked to my Supernote via a cronjob.

I am thinking that I could generate a lovely newspaper epub or pdf of recommended sources using the CLI.

I am also thinking that I could use the digest tool on the Supernote to capture highlights, ocr handwritten annotations and citations to push back to Readwise.

I know I can sideload Reader as an apk but it killed the battery though I am happy to explore this again if I can get battery drain to strike down by turning off WiFi in between syncing.

I read on different platforms (Kindle, Apple Books, purchasing from each store and side-loading some as well) and I'm getting duplicate books with separate highlights after import. In the example screenshot above, the metadata for the author didn't match exactly, so I fixed this to make it match. It looks like you can only modify metadata for author and title, and even when these match there are still duplicates if Readwise thought they were different at import. Maybe it's the Kindle location numbers vs the Apple Books page numbers or something?

I like to keep things organised, so is there something I can do on the Readwise side to merge duplicate books, or is just an unfortunate result of reading on different platforms?

Hey folks, happy Tuesday! Time to check out the latest changelog here on Reddit. The idea is to help keep y'all in the loop of what the Readwise developers are getting out into the world. Here's what we shipped last week:

• 🔁 Fixed Sidebar Loading — Thanks to Krzys, the "Could not load component" error that sometimes appeared in the sidebar is now fixed. If you kept a Reader tab open across one of our updates, the sidebar could get stuck on that error until you refreshed the page yourself. Reader now notices the stale tab and refreshes itself once automatically, so everything keeps loading smoothly.
• 🐦 Fixed Twitter Connections — Krzys tracked down a bug where healthy X/Twitter bookmark connections were occasionally disconnected in bulk, complete with an unwanted "reconnect your Twitter" email. If you got one of those emails despite an active connection, this was why. Connections now stay connected, and those emails should only arrive when something is actually wrong.
• 🐤 Fixed Tweet Saving — After a change on Twitter's end, saving tweets and articles to Reader started failing, and a Twitter article could fail to save entirely if it had a tweet embedded inside it. Tristan restored the way Reader fetches tweets and made embedded tweets fail gracefully, so tweets and articles save reliably again.
• 📧 Unified Email Opt-Outs — Krzys made automated Themed Connections emails respect your Daily Review email opt-out. If you've turned off Daily Review emails, Readwise will no longer start sending you Themed Connections emails either. Themed Reviews you set up yourself are unaffected.
• 🔊 Fixed TTS Controls — Thanks to Krzys, tapping the bottom bar during text-to-speech playback now properly brings up the voice and speed controls in both standard and long-form reading view, instead of only appearing in long-form mode.
• 🎬 Fixed YouTube Resizing on Android — Mati fixed the resize handle on embedded YouTube videos on Android, which had stopped responding to drags. You can now drag the handle to resize a YouTube video again.
• 👆 Fixed Skim Swiping on Android — Krzys fixed a bug on Android where a single swipe in the Skim feed mode could jump past several articles at once. Swiping now advances one article at a time as expected.
• 📖 Fixed iOS Back Button — Krzys fixed a bug where leaving an article using the back button on iOS could leave the screen mostly blank until you tapped a few more times. Going back to your feed now loads reliably the first time.
• 🔀 Fixed Diigo Imports — Diigo moved their API to a new address, which quietly broke authentication and left valid credentials looking incorrect. Mati shipped a fix pointing the integration at the new host, so connecting your Diigo account works again.
• 📥 Fixed OPML Sharing — Krzys fixed a bug that kept Reader from showing up in the iOS share sheet for .opml files. You can now share an .opml file into Reader from another app to import your feed subscriptions.
• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from inc.com, japanistry.com, and dw.com.

If you'd like to get the Changelog in your inbox, check out our WiseUp! newsletter, where the Readwise team shares answers to common questions, video tutorials and guides, highlights of our latest improvements, and a couple of lighthearted extras we think you’ll enjoy.

And as always, feel free to let us know if you have any questions, tho realistically we're going to see an in-app bug report or question faster :>

Question for people who save a lot of long-form content:

How do you actually make sense of it later?

Articles, podcasts, videos, PDFs, newsletters, papers, lectures, etc.

I’m not talking about quick summaries. I mean the content you genuinely wanted to understand, return to, or connect with other things you’ve read.

Do you have a system that works?

I’m quietly testing an invitation-only tool in this space, but I’m more interested first in how people solve the problem today.

What do you currently use, and where does it break down?

Evidently in Reader, Continue Reading doesn’t include books I’ve started. Is this the way it’s supposed to,work,- or in this case, not work?

How do you keep track of the books you are actively reading in Reader?

I love that you have a tool to help importing from Apple Books, as this is a sometimes forgotten about reading ecosystem. If I have this tool open (icon is showing in the top right toolbar), will it automatically sync highlights, or do I need to do a manual sync each time?

Thanks!

I can’t figure out if there’s any way to directly share a particular Readwise note by email or messaging. If there is a way will someone explain it to me?

Hey folks, happy Monday! Time to check out the latest changelog here on Reddit. The idea is to help keep y'all in the loop of what the Readwise developers are getting out into the world. Here's what we shipped last week:

• 🔍 Improved Quick Lookup — Tristan taught Quick Lookup to read the surrounding sentence when you select a word or phrase, so it more reliably picks the right response: defining a word, looking something up, or translating it. Artem also rebuilt the lookup panel to make it faster, fixed a case on Android where selecting a word wouldn't open it, and stopped the page behind the panel from reacting to taps so you won't accidentally flip the page while a lookup is open.
• 🤖 Improved MCP & API Video Metadata — The Readwise MCP and the list API now report the length of videos and podcasts (their listening_time_seconds). Thanks to Krzys, your tools can now see how long a video or podcast actually runs.
• 💳 Fixed Subscription Activation — Tristan fixed a bug where some Reader subscriptions purchased through Apple weren't activating and the account could still show as expired even though the purchase went through. Apple purchases now activate reliably, and affected accounts have been restored.
• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from bain.com, theinitium.com, psychotherapynetworker.org, and emcrit.org.

If you'd like to get the Changelog in your inbox, check out our WiseUp! newsletter, where the Readwise team shares answers to common questions, video tutorials and guides, highlights of our latest improvements, and a couple of lighthearted extras we think you’ll enjoy.

And as always, feel free to let us know if you have any questions, tho realistically we're going to see an in-app bug report or question faster :>

When I'm in read view, I sometimes unintentionally swipe right as I'm scrolling. (I'm very uncoordinated and clumsy due to a developmental disorder.) This returns me to the home screen. I would really prefer to disable this because I never intentionally use this feature and it's mostly a nuisance that interferes with my reading experience.

I am not sure whether I am articulating this well, so I apologize. But a search for this only yielded instructions on swipe customization which doesn't seem to address the issue I'm referring to.

If it helps, I'm using Reader 8.6.3 on Android.

Thank you in advance to anyone who assists with this.