💡 WiseUp! Vol. 62 — Better notes, combined tag search, and a reading habit that sticks

📍 Let's start with a reading recommendation

How to think about thinking (15 Ways to build metacognition)

Improve your metacognition, improve your learning, says Nat from NoteswNat. Her practical tips for building stronger metacognition pair nicely with her list of 50 Books That Actually Make You Smarter:⁠ “The people who succeed aren’t the ones who know the most facts. They’re the ones who know how to learn anything, adapt when they’re wrong, and think critically about their own thinking.”

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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 Readwise question from John A:

Can I get my full podcast transcripts exported to Obsidian?

Now your podcast transcripts come through in full, alongside your other Reader documents, giving you the entire conversation to review whenever you like. Thanks to John in our Readwise community for letting us know that podcasts were missing as well as our engineer Piotr for shipping the update within a day. To try it, enable Full Document Content in your Obsidian settings and start seeing full transcripts in your exports. It’s a nice way to keep your listening and note-taking in one place.

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❓ A Reader question from Shawden S:

I selected multiple tags from the Tags list. How do I actually see everything they return together?

Make your library feel more tailored by grouping selected tags into one focused view. Use Manage view and choose Create a new view from the selected tags if you want to keep it. If you only want to look at those tags for now, press Shift+F and enter tag:[tagname] AND tag:[tagname] for a filtered view. That way, you can quickly gather related material and look through it in one place.

📖 New help doc of the week

From highlights to hindsight

Instead of digging through old highlights to find something specific or remind yourself of a certain topic, just ask them. This week, we’re featuring our guide on how to use Readwise’s chat feature to surface insights, make connections, and get answers from your own reading history.

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🎬 New video of the week

How a journalist uses Readwise chat

Last spring Erin sat down with independent writer, technologist, and former Substack product lead Jasmine Sun to learn how she used our Chat with Highlights feature to jumpstart her viral article in the SF Standard. Their chat led to a larger discussion about AI, writing, and algorithms that feel even more salient today than they did a year ago.

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📰 Mar 28 - Apr 3 updates

What's new in Reader and Readwise

🗑️ NEW! Restore All from Trash — Mati added a "Restore All" button to the trash view on both web and mobile. If you accidentally bulk delete documents, you can now bring everything back in one tap instead of restoring items one by one.

🟡 Fixed MCP Highlights — Piotr fixed a bug where creating highlights via MCP (for AI agent integrations) could fail on text containing parentheses, brackets, or other special characters. Highlight creation through MCP tools should now handle any text reliably.

📧 Fixed Email Display — Mati fixed an issue where internal marker text was appearing at the bottom of emails in original view mode. Emails should render cleanly now.

💬 Fixed Chat Keyboard Shortcut — Mati fixed a bug where pressing D to delete a document while the Chat sidebar was open would incorrectly focus the chat input, blocking further keyboard shortcuts.

📚 Fixed Kindle Imports — Piotr updated our handling of Russian Kindle clippings. Newer firmware uses different wording for "highlight" and "page," and both old and new formats are now supported.

📝 Fixed Note Textarea — Mati fixed a sizing issue with the note editing textarea on web. It now renders at the correct width.

📡 Fixed RSS Feeds — Piotr fixed an issue where RSS feeds from certain sites were saving broken content instead of the actual feed.

🐦 Fixed Twitter/X Display — Krzys shipped several Twitter fixes: missing media in longer tweets, truncated tweets in threaded conversations, and broken formatting for Chinese-language tweets are all resolved. Images also no longer appear misplaced in tweet documents.

🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from reuters.com, psychotherapynetworker.org, blog.allegro.tech, integralguide.com, jamoe.org, faridsaid.com, lyz-code.github.io, blog.markwhen.com, and xda-developers.com. He also created a new system that better strips navigation, comments, and sidebar clutter from saved articles.

👍 Three featured finds from the CX team

From community manager Erin

Something to read 📖
If you feel like you’ve lost your creative spark (or have yet to uncover it), Erin just started The Artist’s Way. First published in 1992, the book provides a 12-week curriculum to creative recovery that award-winning artists Martin Scorcese, Doechii, and Elizabeth Gilbert swear by.

Something to focus ✍️
One of the primary prescriptions in The Artist’s Way is three pages of journaling everyday and these are Erin’s favorite journals for the assignment. It’s been a surprisingly simple practice for clearing her mind each morning.

Something to unwind 🥂
Little Rick’s Raspberry Lemonade. If you know, you know 😏

💬 From the Readwise group chat

A baller team

A few of our engineers caught a Lakers vs. Wizards game last week. I was honestly surprised the Wizards showed up on a court and not a Quidditch pitch.