💡 WiseUp! Vol. 5 — Customize filtered views, add popular highlights, and more

📍 Let's start with a reading recommendation

How to be More Agentic

In honor of Women's History Month, we're spotlighting our team's favorite pieces by women. Editor Abi's top pick is this guide on agency by Cate Hall, a former professional poker player, lawyer, and medical startup cofounder. "In my way of thinking, radical agency involves finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying, unpleasant, or obscured in a cloud of aversion." Keep an eye out for our very first special edition of Wisereads later this week for more recommendations. Add to Reader

From the support inbox

Have questions about using Readwise or Reader in your workflow? We'd love to be your guide! Reply to this email with your question and you might be featured in an upcoming issue. Even if your question isn’t featured, we’ll respond to every message.

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❓ A Reader question from Aaron D:

How can I subscribe to a YouTube channel in my RSS Feed?

To keep up with your favorite YouTube channel while escaping the distracting algorithm, copy the channel link and paste it into Reader as an RSS Feed. Boom—all the new videos will be delivered straight to your feed!

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❓ A Readwise question from Alec S:

Can I see popular highlights from books I read elsewhere?

Yes! Add a title to your Supplemental Library to see the book's 10 most popular highlights. Once you've reviewed these, 10 more will automatically appear. (Angie used this when she sped through Astrophysics for People in a Hurry without saving a single highlight—oh, the irony.)

📖 New help doc of the week

Learn how to harness the power of custom filtered views

After reading Cayla's new guide on filter queries, you’ll be able to search your documents with specific parameters—think author, document type, and word count—to create custom views. Looking for any documents you saved but forgot to tag? Try has__not: tags.

Read the guide

🎬 New video of the week

Stop forgetting what you watch

In her recent YouTube Short, Erin shares how you can manually and automatically import videos from your favorite Youtube creators.

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📰 February 22-28 updates

What's new in Reader and Readwise

📸 Fixed Camera Focusing — Arek fixed a bug with Readwise's OCR highlighting feature where some iOS cameras weren't focusing properly. It's once again easy to get insights from paper books into your highlights.

🗞️ Fixed Kindle Digests — Rasul fixed a bug where weekly digests weren't automatically sent to Kindle. They should now show up every Friday.

🔗 Fixed Obsidian Document Links — Piotr fixed an issue where full document links in Obsidian included a static folder prefix that sometimes broke linking for users who changed the default folder name. Obsidian should now correctly resolve links to full documents.

🗣️ Improved TTS Reliability — Text-to-speech voices now default to more advanced, realistic voices, which should reduce errors and playback failures. Thanks, Artem!

📖 Improved Reading Experience — Swiping and scrolling should now feel much smoother. Artem made a bunch of small tweaks like fixing scrolling issues, improving performance, and ensuring better selection for text ranges.

🚀 Increased API Limit — Piotr increased the limit for the document update and document create endpoints in the Reader public API from 20 requests per minute to 50 requests per minute.

🛜 Parsing Updates — Kryzs made improvements to how Reader handles posts from dev.to, wired.com, theguardian.com, newyorker.com, and techcrunch.com.

👍 Three featured finds

From generalist writer Abi

Something to read 📖
Abi is refining her writing with The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker, a modern take on clear, elegant prose.

Something to focus 🧠
A cup of Trader Joe's ginger turmeric tea with lemon and raw honey is Abi’s go-to morning ritual.

Something to unwind 📺
In their adventure van, Abi and her husband wind down with Earthsounds, a calming docuseries narrated by Tom Hiddleston.

💬 From the Readwise group chat

Put your vocab to the test

As self-identifying wordcels, we couldn’t resist taking the English vocab test that resurfaced online. Our team's average vocabulary size is 28,449 words, including ESL speakers. Can you beat us?