💡 WiseUp! Vol. 73 — How to remember what matters and export to OneNote (now including metadata!)

📍 Let's start with a reading recommendation

How not to forget what matters

It's always a delight to read Henrik Karlsson’s essays on Escaping Flatland. Today’s piece inspired Wisereads editor Abi to dig back into her collection of quotes in Readwise to practice hypomnēmata. “During the first two centuries of the Roman Empire, there spread a practice known as hypomnēmata, a type of notetaking system, used as a tool for meditation, in which the writer would store quotes from books they had read. Each day, often in the morning, the notetaker would open their notebook and look for a passage relevant to something they were struggling with, and then they would meditate on that—unpacking it, making the idea top of mind, ensuring it was alive in them… The idea was that over time, the insights they gathered by reading would be transformed into character, something deeply ingrained in their way of thinking and seeing and acting.”

From the support inbox

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❓ A Readwise question from Rush Z:

How can I include document details like title, author, and source when exporting my highlights to OneNote?

You can include a document's metadata alongside your highlights by turning on Include Document Metadata from the OneNote export preferences page. When enabled, Readwise will export details such as the document title, author, source, and other available metadata together with your highlights, making your notes in OneNote easier to organize and reference later.

❓ A Reader question from Frank B:

Can Ghostreader generate summaries in German?

Yes! The trick is to re-write the summary prompt in your desired language.You can customize the Ghostreader auto-summary prompt by editing the "Summarize the document" prompt in Ghostreader preferences on web or desktop. Rewrite the prompt in your preferred language, save your changes, and future summaries should be generated in that language going forward. Read more about Ghostreader prompt customization in our help documentation.

📖 New help doc of the week

Share your thinking, not just your sources

Have a great article covered in highlights and notes that you want to share with someone? This week, Cayla expanded our sharing docs with step-by-step instructions and screenshots for web and mobile, plus a handy tip for finding every document you’ve shared with a public link.

🎬 New video of the week

Integrate your highlights with OneNote

To dovetail this week’s tips and tricks, we’re sharing our quick start guide to connecting Readwise to your OneNote account.

📰 June 13 - June 19 updates

What's new in Reader and Readwise

🆕 NEW! OneNote Export Metadata — Thanks to Rasul, you can now include a metadata block (author, title, URL, summary, and tags) with your highlights when exporting to OneNote. The new toggle on the OneNote export settings page is on by default for new users, and existing users can switch it on whenever they like.

💬 Improved Ghostreader Chat Links — Adam tuned Ghostreader chat so its answers now point you back to the source more often, with cleaner link formatting. It's easier to jump from an answer straight to the document or passage it came from.

🎨 Fixed Code Blocks in Light Mode — Krzys fixed a bug where code snippets rendered as dark text on a dark background in light theme, making them impossible to read. Code blocks are now legible in light mode whether you're reading an EPUB or a web article.

🎬 Fixed YouTube Highlight Links — Rasul resolved a bug where the "view highlight" deep link for YouTube documents dropped you at the top of the transcript instead of the highlighted moment. Those links now jump to the right spot.

📦 Fixed Export Filenames for Non-English Titles — Rasul fixed garbled characters in full-content exports, so documents with Chinese (and other non-Latin) titles now keep their filenames intact.

📚 Fixed Kobo Highlight Order — Rasul corrected the annotation location calculation for Kobo imports, so your Kobo highlights now come in sorted in the order they appear in the book.

💾 Fixed OneNote Exports on Full Storage — Rasul made OneNote exports stop cleanly and report back when your OneDrive runs out of space, instead of failing silently partway through.

📂 Fixed Pinned View Ordering — Ibai implemented a fix to make pinned domains and custom views hold the manual order you set, instead of snapping back after a reorder.

🗃️ Fixed Document Type Filters — Thanks to Mati, when you change a document's type, filtered views built on a type: query now reflect the edit right away and properly match the functionality of category: queries.

🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from zeit.de, elmundo.es, repubblica.it, editorialedomani.it, qz.com, gatesnotes.com, fortelabs.com, and the New York Times. He also fixed a rendering bug where inline bold and italic emphasis was getting lost inside italic blockquotes.

👍 Three featured finds from the team

From support specialist Angie

Something to read 📖
Next on Angie's TBR is Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg. It's the story of Alex, an African grey parrot whose remarkable abilities challenged long-held assumptions about animal intelligence, intertwined with Pepperberg's decades-long relationship with him and the scientific skepticism she faced along the way. It's a science book about how cool birds are.

Something to focus 🎧
The Huawei FreeClip 2 have become Angie’s new favorite focus earbuds for travel. Their open-ear design sits comfortably on the outside of your ear, so she can wear them for hours without the fatigue that usually comes with headphones. They're also small enough to replace bulky over-ear headphones on shorter trips. They're not sold in the US, but they're a great tech souvenir to look for while traveling abroad.

Something to unwind 🛢️
If you're looking for something to unwind with, Angie has completely binged Landman on Paramount+. Set amid the modern oil boom in West Texas, it blends high-stakes drama with a surprisingly grounded look at the dangerous, demanding work that powers the industry. Growing up in the South, it reminds her of the stories she heard from friends' parents about these tough, lucrative jobs and the larger-than-life characters they attracted.

💬 From the Readwise group chat

Screen with a view

Abi shared this gem with the team and Angie hasn't blinked since. WindowSwap lets you open a random window somewhere in the world: 10-minute videos of the view from someone's actual window, with ambient sound. No maps, no filters, just click and you're in Tokyo, or a farm in Finland, or someone's balcony where a cat is hogging the entire frame. It's weirdly calming and impossibly addictive.