Readwise
Productivity
highlight review and retention
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
8 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 3 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score +0.18.
Idea: 5 for, 0 againstExecution: 2 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for retaining book ideas
From 3 comments
Hey HN, As self-proclaimed bibliomaniacs, we were pained by how hard it was to revisit and organize our highlights. It would often feel like we'd read a book, have phenomenal new…
tristanho on HNI dig it! Like reliving all the good moments from a great book. I think it would change the way I highlight stuff, from references to more memories. Providing a good memorable…
overcast on HNThanks for doing this - this seems like a very good addition to improve the retention of the information intake for books. At least for me - I've noticed that resurfacing what…
stpe on HN
Better than painful manual Evernote copying
From 2 comments
I currently manually copy highlights and notes to Evernote (one note per book). It's way painful. I'd be willing to pay a reasonable fee for that functionality. Will sign up when…
murrayb on HNThis looks pretty cool. I’d rather use this than maintain my mess of selenium scripts I was using for this purpose.
ryanmarsh on HN
Objections
Terms of service grant overly broad rights to user content
From 1 comment
Good question! We modelled our TOS off others around the web, and I believe that term was somewhat standard. I agree it's quite aggressive though -- we're going to look into…
tristanho on HN
Chrome extension and Amazon login raise privacy concerns
From 1 comment
Hey jszym, that's our bad. We do mention the extension being required on our landing page (below the fold), but we definitely could make it more clear. Thanks for raising it to…
tristanho on HN
Does not support non-Amazon highlights
From 2 comments
That is indeed correct. We currently only support importing your highlights synced with Amazon's cloud. It's totally possible to also allow you sync with the notes from books on…
tristanho on HNThis is cool, but most of the books on my Kindle don't come from Amazon so the highlights aren't synced online. I would like a version of this that just works on the kindle's…
spookyuser on HN
Requests
Support Calibre, Kobo, Moon Reader and KO Reader imports
From 2 comments
Thanks ropeladder :) Calibre, Kobo and Moon Reader are all on the list!
tristanho on HNAdded KO to our list too (damn, this is list is getting long...)
tristanho on HN
Support My Clippings.txt import
From 1 comment
We're on it spookyuser! Probably the next import method we look at.
tristanho on HN
Manual highlight entry
From 1 comment
Hey, thank you for the product, I will be using it regularly. One feature request though: I'd like to use Readwise as my "central dump of highlights," but not every highlight I…
digorithm on HN
Firefox extension
From 1 comment
Have you considered packaging the Chrome extension as a WebExtension for Firefox? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Porting_a_Google_Chrome_extension
mintplant on HN
Questions
What is the business model?
From 1 comment
This looks pretty cool! What's the business model going to be? The ToU are quite far-reaching regarding user content: "By submitting User Content through the Services, you hereby…
thomas11 on HN
Are there other ways to browse highlights?
From 1 comment
This looks pretty cool! What's the business model going to be? The ToU are quite far-reaching regarding user content: "By submitting User Content through the Services, you hereby…
thomas11 on HN
Alternatives named
Clippings.io
From 1 comment
I've been using https://www.clippings.io/ for years and have been very happy with their excellent Chrome Extension…
kindlelover on HN
Anki
From 1 comment
Think you might be interested in checking out https://apps.ankiweb.net/ for expansion ideas!
farsight on HN
Kintrospect
From 1 comment
Super interesting, I did a small tool for myself for this same purpose. Is a mix between highlights and Evernote https://kintrospect.com/
abuiles on HN