Note: This plugin requires a subscription with Readwise — a paid service that makes it easy to aggregate and review all your reading data into one place.
If you’re new to Readwise or have been waiting on this integration, feel free DM me and I’d be happy to reinstate your free trial
I love this so much! I happened to see the plugin while browsing the community plugins today (as you do), and my eyes about popped out of their sockets. I am a huge, huge Readwise fan, and had struggled with my own hacky Python implementation of this in the past. Wrote a blog post here on how to get it set up, out of sheer excitement. Maybe it’s useful to others!
This is FANTASTIC. I migrated recently from Roam to Obsidian and Readwise integration was one thing I was truly hoping I didn’t have to wait forever for.
I’m trying this but getting a “Sync failed” shortly after I hit “Run sync”. I had a Readwise folder from manual markdown exports, which I renamed before doing this. It did not get recreated.
Is there a log file or something where I can see what’s going on?
Updated 8/13 am: this is solved now; it was apparently an issue they’ve since resolved.
This integration has made me a first time Readwise customer and got me thinking a lot about possibilities for syncing Kindle highlights and notes through to Obsidian.
Here’s the one sticking point I’ve found.
I’m really enjoying the daily review process of reading old highlights in Readwise. The challenge I’m finding is that after my Readwise highlights have been synced to Obsidian, it will no longer sync through new notes on highlights I might leave while doing my daily review.
This makes any notes left in Readwise after an initial sync much less valuable (because I can’t utilize them in Obsidian).
**Edit
@erinmoore Here’s my pitch for Readwise to figure out how to sync through current notes
Right now, Readwise basically acts as a passthrough for my Kindle notes to get into Obsidian. This is great, and I love that functionality…but
If Readwise could sync current notes, it would then be a product that constantly enriches and refreshes the connection between all my reading, all through committing to a simple and enjoyable Readwise daily review. In short, Readwise becomes much more valuable and indispensable.
More and more I have been saving Tweet threads with Readwise, note you have to put the “save thread” on the LAST tweet of the thread, I did not know this.
BUT, now i imported a bunch of tweets and my Obsidian Tags are out of control because of all the hash tags in the tweets. I am not going to include them anymore.
I sent a request into Readwise to be able to not include them for Obsidian.
I’ve work a bit with the formmating to match the same formation in the Admonition plugins on obsidian. What I have observe is that if you already have the Readwise plugin in sync, you might have a problem when you want to change the basic formating. The first time I did it, Obsidian was stuck in a « Export » mode… like I had the same export message every 4 seconds without any progress. I desactivated the plugins, did the changes I wanted in the formating and then, reactivate the plugins and it did work just fine.
Either way, thank you very much ! It absolutly justify my subscription to Readwise.
When there are new highlights, Readwise appends the entire highlights (book title + all previous highlights) again. Is it possible to only append the new highlight? Or is this a bug?
Hello
The integration with Readwise is working great for me, with one detail. For each note created (one note per book title), I will see the content three times. In other words, if the structure of the note is:
Note example
Collapse
Metadata
Author: [[Jared Diamond]]
Full Title: Collapse
Category: #books
Highlights
% list of highlights
I will see that content three times inside the said note.
I already tried deleting everything and starting from scratch without success. How can I troubleshoot this?
@erinmoore → I just tried installing the Plug-in (Version 1.0.7)
iPad Pro (M1) On iPadOS 15. The plug-in installs but the enable button is dead. I am syncing from my Mac install. I reproduced the same issue on iPhone running iOs15.
@erinmoore I’m still facing the same issue as Isaac and danlandrum. I enjoy using the integration on my MacBook, but most of my work is done on either my iPad or iPhone. Any news on when mobile integration will be available? Thanks
CAN I ADD AUTHOR AND TITLE INFO AT END OF A HIGHLIGHT?
I’ve searched here and looked through the documentation for the Readwise Official plug-in but was unable to find the information I’m seeking. If anyone can help, I’d appreciate it. The two screenshots below show you what I’d like to do.
v2.0 seems to have some problems. getting “readwise: building export…” all the time. only way to fix is to delete the whole readwise folder and start from scratch.
Export enriched metadata (eg book covers) and even highlighted images.
Fine tune how your highlights format in Obsidian using our powerful templates including support for YAML front matter.
Maybe it’s useful to others!
