New plugin: Readwise

Sharknader27 · May 20, 2021, 5:09pm

Got it. Thank you for confirming!

MortimerJazz · May 21, 2021, 3:10pm

I’m really excited about this - thanks so much for your time in building this out.

I’ve just got a few questions to make sure I’m getting the most out of it.

The main one is that I’ve developed a custom template within Readwise itself to insert a few headers and stuff throughout the page which is designed to help me write up additional thoughts/notes on the books and not just purely a list of quotes. Am I right in thinking at the moment that it wouldn’t be possible to replicate this within the plugin?
Is it possible to pull in the meta data that provides an image to the highlight source (the book cover/podcast image etc)?
I’m guessing that the individual files are supposed to be filtered by tag (i.e podcast, book etc) rather than having them filtered into folders, which is typically how Readwise downloads MD files. Have I got that?

Thanks again for your time on this - much appreciated!

scottsemple · July 25, 2021, 1:53pm

Is there a way to change the destination directory for new highlights?

At present, my highlights are going to the Obsidian main directory, but I have subdirectories for new notes (i.e. /pages) in order to make Obsidian play nice with Logseq.

If not, what’s the best way to combine new highlights with old ones from the same source? (If I cut and paste the new .md file into the subdirectory, the plugin reimports the highlight.)

Thanks!

renehernandez · July 27, 2021, 10:52am

You can specify the folder where you want your highlights to be created using the Highlights Storage Path setting.

saadch · July 28, 2021, 11:17am

Hi,
Is there a way to apply actions tags on the readwise export to obsidian? (particularly header tags)
Thanks!

scottsemple · August 6, 2021, 3:35pm

Great, thanks.

One more: What’s the best way to create a list of all highlight imports per day?

In Roam, each import adds a note to a [[Readwise]] page, saying “X highlights imported for Book Y on YYYY-MM-DD.” Then those entries appear both on the [[Readwise]] page as an ongoing list and on each Daily Note page in the Backlinks section.

It’s very useful because the [[Readwise]] page can be used as a processing inbox when using new highlights in other work.

Is something like that possible right now?

Thanks!

kenanmike · August 7, 2021, 1:46pm

Sounds great! Looking forward to checking it out.
How might the use case differ from the Readwise QuickAdd workflow and the Kindle Highlights plugin? (I could guess about the latter because it doesnt involve Readwise tags etc but especially wondering about the former).

github.com

chhoumann/quickadd/blob/master/docs/Examples/Template_AutomaticBookNotesFromReadwise.md

### Template - My Book Notes template
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#### Installation
Here's a video guide for [installing user scripts in QuickAdd](https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd/blob/master/docs/Examples/Capture\_FetchTasksFromTodoist.md#installation-video).

Basically, you'll want to create a new JavaScript file (file extension is `.js`) with the contents of the script. Then, in the script, you see the `YOUR_READWISE_TOKEN`, which is where you'll want to insert your Readwise token (find it [here](https://readwise.io/access_token)).

Now you need to create a new macro. To do so, open the Macro Manager, enter a name for it (I use `Readwise`), and then click `Add`. Then click `Configure` on that macro. Once a modal opens, select the user script you've created and click `Add`.

Once that's done, you can use the [template provided below](https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd/blob/master/docs/Examples/Template_AutomaticBookNotesFromReadwise.md#template). If you have your own, then you can just use the `{{MACRO:Readwise::instaFetchBook}}` to insert the highlights. If you called your macro something else than `Readwise`, replace `Readwise` with that.

This template should be added to a [Template choice](../Choices/TemplateChoice.md), and should be given values that resemble this:
![Template choice setup](../Images/readwise_template_choice.png)

The template path should be the path the template made based on the one here.

Notably, the book's name would be the one selected. I have chosen to write prepend a ``{ `` before it, as I use this to denote literature notes in my vault.

The remaining settings are up to you. Activating this choice will open a menu which allows you to choose a book, and the book notes will be used appended to the template.

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sumant28 · April 1, 2022, 11:21am

Experiencing some bugginess where the plugin won’t sync new highlights that have made it to the Readwise dashboard. All that happens after clicking initiate sync is a quick confirmation that sync has happened

hdfbob88 · April 15, 2022, 9:11am

Same problem here. Please fix this. Readwise hasn’t synced anything for two weeks now and I cant fix it. Tried updating Obsidian and the plugin itself and reinstalling it.

Does anyone have an idea on why this isnt working anymore? It tried it on Remnote and it syncs without any problem so it’s not Readwises fault…

hdfbob88 · April 17, 2022, 7:03am

Just FYI - it works perfectly again - thank you