A little Readwise every day

Readwise has a lot of great tools to help manage the content you’re reading. I’ve mentioned their RSS reader before, and they do a nice job of pulling over highlights from Kindle and other places.

Ever since I started using it, they’ve been sending these emails called “Your daily Readwise” that I’ve been ignoring. I recently starting using that daily feature a bit more, and I love it!

If you’re a Readwise user you can find it here, and the way it works is quite simple. Every day it will pull a handful of your old highlights for you to review, and it looks like this:

It works a bit like Anki, where it’ll pull in quotes over time so you can get better at remembering them. I treat Readwise quotes as reminders, not as items to memorize. If I really want to memorize a quote, I’ll put it in Anki. For the rest, I’ll just let Readwise surface them for me from time to time to keep them fresh.

Sometimes it’ll pull in a quote that I no longer care about, so “discard” will hide it from showing up again. “Keep” is the default that I click for most of them.

The “Master” button is quite powerful, and you can use that to help remember key pieces of a quote. For example, I could hide the word “afraid” in the quote above, and then next time it shows up I’ll have to remember what that piece was.