How to think in writing
Seeing your ideas crumble can be a frustrating experience, but it is the point if you are writing to think. You want it to break. It is in the cracks the light shines in.
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Remember
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Revisit your highlights
Highlighting is great, but what's the point if you're never going to see any of those highlights again? Readwise pulls all your highlights into one place you'll actually return to.
Remember what you read
Reading something once isn't enough to remember it. Readwise uses Spaced Repetition to resurface your best highlights at the right times.
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Search to find any highlight instantly. Tag it, add your own notes, and connect ideas across everything you've read.
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What our users say
jihad
@jaesmail
“Scan your paper book annotations” say less, absolute game changer
1:45 PM · Jul 22, 2026
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Josh Daws
@joshdaws
I’ve been reading most books on Kindle for 15 years. Now my digital assistant has access to all 11,328 highlights across 15 years and hundreds of books. This is what I mean when I talk about giving AI the right tools. "Give me everything I’ve highlighted about the church growth movement from David Wells."
10:38 AM · Mar 19, 2026
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Steven Johnson
@stevenbjohnson
This is great. NotebookLM + @readwise is the ultimate second brain platform.
10:58 AM · Oct 22, 2024
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Ali Abdaal
@AliAbdaal
My favourite readwise highlight this year was:
“Your story must reflect change over time. A story cannot simply be a series of remarkable events. You must start out as one version of yourself and end as something new.”
- Storyworthy, from Matthew Dicks
12:20 PM · Dec 29, 2022
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Tiago Forte
@fortelabs
If you could integrate these 3 existing tools, you’d have a fully functional second brain with 90% less work:
1. Readwise to save excerpts/notes on content that resonates with you
2. ChatGPT trained on those excerpts as a retrieval method
3. Lex as a personalized writing tool
7:20 PM · Jan 14, 2023
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hilary gridley
@yourgirlhils
some real bangers in my @readwise roundup this morning. I love this product
9:17 AM · Jun 11, 2025
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)
@antoniogm
.@readwise -> @obsdmd -> @claudeai is the play
11:56 AM · Apr 12, 2026
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Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️
@EricJorgenson
"The quest for good explanations is, I believe, the basic regulating principle not only of science, but of the Enlightenment generally." via @readwise
2:13 PM · Nov 25, 2025
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John Carmack
@ID_AA_Carmack
I use Readwise to review my kindle highlights. They are almost all technical, but I highlight a few fiction passages that make me smile.
12:16 PM · Dec 30, 2025
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ludwig
@ludwigABAP
in case you don’t know, I am still syncing all my bookmarks (through readwise) and papers (through zotero) and maintaining a tag tree of it over on my personal website
2:27 PM · Dec 13, 2025
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Gabriel Packer
@gkpacker
Years ago, I started using @obsdmd as my second brain:
Each little dot is a note or article/book that I read digitally, and the highlights were imported automatically via @readwise
8:58 PM · Dec 3, 2025
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Kieran Drew
@ItsKieranDrew
One reason I love reading with Kindle is the Readwise app.
Sends me 10 of my highlights every day.
When I want to scroll social media, I read those instead.
3:27 AM · Sep 8, 2026
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Gaurav Vohra
@gauravvohra
I wish I could go back in time and highlight all the things I read prior to 2019 for @readwise
Compound returns are wild
2:08 AM · Mar 10, 2020
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Felix GG
@felixggj
Buy a Kindle.
Use Readwise to get a daily email of 10 highlights you made from all the books you’ve read.
Read it every morning (first thing I do when I wake up)
Never forget what you’ve read.
10:58 AM · Aug 27, 2025
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