Readwise Reader - How I Process EVERYTHING I Read

there has definitely been a point perhaps multiple times where you're consuming content whether it's an article a YouTube video or a podcast and as you consume it in the back of your mind you're more concerned with capturing the information and how you'll do it rather than the content itself and this friction alone takes a lot of the pleasure away from the content you're consuming and up until now the closest thing we have to fix this was read wise which aggregated all of our insights we found on the web whether it's podcasts tweets books Etc and automatically export them into our app of choice whether it's obsidian notion or others this was a pretty good alternative to doing everything manually but it still has a major issue if you want to take notes on something like a YouTube video you have to rely on Chrome extensions and a bit of manual work if you want to take notes on different blog posts maybe through an RSS feed you have to have more apps and likely paid ones to do that and don't even get me started on podcasts however late last year read wise released read wise reader and that changed everything so what is reader reader is probably the most powerful readilyter app out there right now kind of like pocket or insta paper but on a whole other level because it's also a Twitter newsletter and RSS reader and it even works on YouTube videos it also funnels all of your content sources into one centralized location which automatically connects to read wise and exports all of it to your app of choice it's important to note that reader is still in public beta but I found it to be very stable I've been using it daily for a while now without a single issue so let's move over to the screen and take a look at it alright so you can find reader by coming to readwise.io and it'll be here on top if you don't yet have a readwise account they have a 30-day free trial available so you can follow along and if you use my link below you get an extra 30 days on top of that once you're logged in to read wise you can just click on reader here or just type in forward slash read and now you're on read wise as reader when you open up reader for the first time it'll prompt you to install their readwise browser extension as well as the IOS and Android apps so it's now used that extension to grab an article and I'm going to grab one of the Articles I'm going to feature in my monthly newsletter for January and it's right here so then if we click on the read wise reader extension I now have the option to annotate anything I want straight here but I'd rather do that inside reader because the experience is much better I'm going to make this a little bigger so you guys can see and now this article lives in our inbox so the first thing to understand about reader is how it's broken down we have a Home tab library and a feed Tab and the Home tab is kind of like a Netflix home page you can continue what you're reading and you suggested different things based on different parameters such as recently added quick reads and long reads you can configure this to your liking by coming over here to the top right press configure and you can toggle on what it is you want to see on the Home tab next up we have the library and the feed Tab and the library is stuff that you find online and saving to reader so the article that we just saved is over here in our inbox and I like to manage my library the same way I manage my to-do list if you're interested I have a video on it as well but in short nothing ever stays in my inbox it needs to end up in either later archive or be deleted so let's look at the article that we just saved and let's do some highlighting and the first thing is that everything can be done with the keyboard you can use up and down arrows to navigate across your article you can hide the side panels by pressing the different brackets you can press h to highlight the current paragraph which will be exported to your app of choice T to give it a tag and if you press o it's going to take you to that website and I'm just scratching the surface here if you press the question mark you can see a list of everything that you can do with the keyboard you can yet customize the keyboard shortcuts but you will in the future and lastly just like notion or obsidian you also have the command palette which in reader is command or control K so when you press it there's a lot of things that you can do straight from here if I press on the right bracket you can see who the author was you can see the domain when it was published how long ago it was saved and how long it will take you to read and even have a notebook for the document and you can write a document note and if whatever I'm reading was recommended by someone I just put that here and on the left hand side you would see chapters or headers for easy navigation but because this is a short one it won't have anything but I just added an article here by Ali abdall and if you want to search just press forward slash I'm going to type all your doll and this is what it would look like if it was full and one of the best features which actually already works on mobile is to have it read back to you at whatever speed you like you can even change the voice this functionality is not yet on the desktop but the readwise team said they'll bring it soon and when you highlight something and you know it's going to end up in the obsidian you can just use double brackets because even though read wise can't read the obsidian can so in this case here let's say that I'm highlighting this here in a nutshell and I make a note on the Highlight I can just say relates to Skin Care and then when I open it up in obsidian I'm going to have the link to skincare active alright so let's now move on to one of my favorite features which is taking notes on YouTube videos so I'm going to come here to my YouTube channel so I'm going to play my last video and I'm going to put it in reader by clicking the browser extension and then I can open this up in reader and as you can see it pulls the transcript and you can follow along where you are in the video through the transcript so if I hit play it's going to highlight where I am on the video and this also works even if I speed it up and if I click on different parts of the transcript it's going to take me to that part of the video and then you can highlight whatever you want you can then come to obsidian and I'm going to manually sync as you can see the videos right here and here are my highlights and I'm going to get into the obsidian configuration in the later parts of the video it's also worth mentioning that at times there may be some small parsing errors because remember this is still in beta and also for now the videos that you take highlights on live over here in the Articles folder but in the future I imagine that read-wise will have a dedicated video section because there's a lot of demand for that another way I've been using reader is for Twitter threads so let's say I'm reading the thread I got right here from Thomas Frank and I can share this thread to read Wise by sharing it via private message and I just type in a t and now I can just come back to read wise and now it's here in my inbox and I can just take my highlights on it as I would with a blog post normally when I'm going over my inbox in my library which usually happens first thing in the morning or at night I just go one by one and if it's something I actually want to read I'll just press L to save it for later and if I'm done reading it and I got nothing out of value I'll just press D to delete and then I'm going to say I'm sure and then from the later tab the ones that I want to save in reference to in the future I'm going to Archive and I'm going to press e for that and then if I want to find a piece of content that I archived I can just come to my archive tab or I can just press forward slash and search for what I want you can also have different Library setups by clicking here on the library and then edit library locations by default you'll have the triage workflow which uses the inbox later archive system but if you want you can choose the shortlist workflow which gets rid of the inbox altogether and everything lands on the later page and then you can move the documents you want to focus on into short list and then to Archive and lastly you can also have the classic workflow which as they say is kind of like insta paper or pocket and it just has a later and an archive before we move on to the feed tab I want to talk about today's sponsor which read wise also has an integration with and that is short form short form is an app that provides concise and insightful summaries of the best books articles and educational material over the holidays I read one of Austin cleon's Books titled keep going and the first thing I did when I finished it was to head over to short form to look at the summary now you might be thinking why are you looking at the summary of a book you just read and the reason is that short form isn't just summarizing what you read it's also providing their own research-backed input about each important point in the summary these short form interventions add a ton of value to what you're reading because they can support what you just read but also at times they will provide a counter argument to the author's point which really helps Foster our own critical thinking and that's what makes short form great short form covers dozens of genres including philosophy productivity and self-improvement and because short form integrates with read wise whatever I highlight in short form will show up in my obsidian Vault seamlessly short form is constantly updating their library with new books and articles so there's always something new to discover and subscribers get to vote on what books to cover to get a five-day free trial draw in short form through my special link short form.com from Sergio or click the link in the description thanks short forum for sponsoring this video alright so now we're on the feed Tab and this is where all the stuff that you already subscribed to will land such as RSS feeds newsletters and even Twitter lists so if you create a Twitter list in your Twitter account you can just make that list public and then just paste the URL for that list right here under manage feeds and I'm going to come here to Nasim talab's list and I have one here for math Twitter and if I press the share button copy link to List come back to read wise then I can come here to add feed and paste it here then I'm going to give it a second as you can see it's adding the newest five items or I said already picked up math Twitter so if I come back to feed I can see math Twitter is here and the latest tweets from the accounts on that list will always be shown here this is one of the few features of reader that I don't really use I prefer to browse Twitter on my app or the website and the tweets that I do want to look into I'll save those into reader another source of content that you can have on your feed are newsletter so if you come back here and we press the blue plus icon and we go into more import options and when we scroll down we can see that read wise provides us with two emails one to send it to the library to our inbox and another one to forward it to our feed personally I prefer to have my newsletters land on my feed and then for the ones that I know I want to pay more attention to I just move those to the inbox so whenever I'm signing up for a newsletter I just give them this address right here which sends all the newsletters to my feed but if you'd rather have your emails land in your email inbox you can set up Auto forwarding with your own email provider like Gmail you can make a all that emails from a specific newsletter get forward to this address right here if you wanted to go to the feed or this address right here if you wanted to go to the inbox the other main thing that lands in my feed are my RSS subscriptions and if you don't know what an RSS feed is it's just an automatic subscription to a website's posts and read wise lets you do that straight from reader once you're on an article or a blog post or even some newsletters you'll see here on the side that we have an option to subscribe to this person's feed so if I subscribe to Olive doll every new post that gets published on Ali abdall's website will show up here on my feed and before using reader I was using three different apps to manage my RSS feed I was using inner reader as an RSS aggregator I was then using an iOS and Mac app called reader to read my feeds and then finally insta paper as my reader letter solution and this was all replaced by reader you can also head over here to manage feeds to see not only the feeds that you're subscribed to but also this new feature called suggested and as a name implies this is suggesting new feeds based on what you read so over here High signal feeds is from source courses that you read a lot and then here lower signal are from ones that you've occasionally saved read or highlighted I imagine that in the future it'll suggest your new feeds based on the ones that you already have and I really like that read wise tells us the frequency of the feed because if you see something here that's like 100 posts a day I mean it's obvious that you're not going to sign up for that it's going to clutter your whole Space so it's a really nice addition to see that here and over here on the left side ribbon we have a bunch of these different views as default and all of your content will be automatically parsed into these different folders so all of your articles will be here your emails here your tweets here Etc and if you click here on the gear icon and then manage filtered views and everything that's on the sidebar can be managed here in the filtered views so if you don't want to see books on your sidebar just come here and simply unpin from sidebar and as you can see all these different views are defined by the queries here and these queries work kind of like SQL or data view in obsidian you can tell it exactly what you want as a filter as long as you specify it using their syntax and I'm going to leave a link to their syntax in the description but in the future I'm imagine it'll look very similar to something like notion where you have a user interface with drop down lists for different filters the last thing I want to show you before the obsidian configuration is the ghost reader so if you click on anything you have saved in reader and press command k for command palette you can type invoke ghost reader or just press shift G and when you press it we have all these different options that we can do with it and you can tell it to summarize the content and in here you'll see this little ghost shows up which means that it's working and once it's done it'll add it to the documents note over here on the right hand side you can also ask it to generate some questions or generate q a pairs based on your own highlights I says now go over the obsidian configuration so I'm going to come here into my obsidian Vault and I need to install a plugin so I'm going to come here to settings browse and we're going to search for read wise official and here it is we're going to install we're going to enable then options and now we need to go into the readvises website to authenticate so in here I'm going to go to read wise and I'll come to dashboard and here for export I already have for this account I already have obsidian here but if you don't you need to click on obsidian and click connect and then we can come back to the read-wise official plugin settings and click connect and it's going to take us to the config page inside readwise and by default the plugin will create a folder called read wise and inside that folder you'll have a subfolder for books articles tweets and podcasts and over here we can have a custom file name and I do make a small change here if you want you can go through all the documentation but all I do here is add the author followed by title and you can see we have a preview here on the right and then I'll leave most of this as default but I do have my own yaml front matter which is this so this will just create a yaml here for author tags and when this node was created so then if you come back to the plugin settings you can see we have an option here to configure resync frequency I'll choose the smallest that they'll let me which is one hour but you can also activate it manually by pressing command P for command palette read wise and we have the option sync your data now and as you can see it was already synced so over here on the left we can see we have a readwise folder and since we only looked up and saved articles those two are already here as you can see the yaml configuration was already applied as well if you're thinking of signing up with widthwise now is probably the best time you could do it because if you come here to readwise.io read and you scroll all the way down to the frequently asked questions and you click on the second one it tells you that once reader officially exits beta we intend to reprice read wise reader so they're increasing the price which is fair but they say here only for new subscribers and they say it again this means that if you subscribe while readers in beta you'll get lifetime access for 7.99 and you know read Y is not sponsoring me but I really think this is a great deal and in all honesty I was actually not a read-wise subscriber until reader came along it was a good service but it felt more like a nice to have rather than a need but with reader this is honestly a no-brainer alright so that's gonna be it for this video guys let me know what you thought and also let me know if you enjoyed the way I laid out the studio I made a couple big changes and I love to hear from you thanks for watching guys and I'll see in the next one

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Keywords: readwise reader, readwise, readwise reader tutorial, readwise configuration, readwise tutorial, rss reader readwise reader, reader browser extension, readwise reader youtube videos, readwise obsidian

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Length: 14min 52sec (892 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 26 2023