💡 WiseUp! Vol. 14 — Prompt your memory with Cloze Deletion, Bump documents, and more

📍 Let's start with a reading recommendation

Effortless Awareness: Your Natural Condition

While compiling Wisereads, our editor Abi discovered The Transparency of Things by philosopher‑writer Rupert Spira, whose Substack explores meditation and awareness. "So, when you try to know your self, there is an absence of experience, an openness, an emptiness... That pure aware being – awareness itself – cannot know itself as an object. It can only be itself knowingly. To know your self is to be your self knowingly." Add to Reader

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❓ A Reader question from SC:

Is there a way to bump an article to the top?

Keep important items at the top with "Bump to Top"! On your computer, press ‘B’ to move any item to the top of your list — great for staying organized and focused. (Make sure your list is sorted by Date moved so the change shows.)

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❓ A Readwise question from András K:

What are Cloze Deletion flashcards?

Cloze Deletion strengthens your memory by hiding key words and prompting your brain to fill in the blanks.

In the Mastery editor, pick a word or short phrase in a sentence to hide (up to five consecutive words). When you review, a blank appears, and you recall the missing text—an easy way to reinforce memory.

📖 New help doc of the week

Access your Readwise highlights while chatting with Claude

You can now chat with your Readwise highlights through external clients using the Readwise MCP server. Follow Cayla's new guide to set up your Claude desktop app and access your highlights.

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🎬 New video of the week

Chat with your highlights... while you garden

In addition to our new MCP server, which integrates with AI tools like Claude and Cursor, you can also chat with your highlights directly inside Readwise! Here’s a quick tutorial from long-time Readwise user Bernie Goldbach on how he’s using Readwise Chat to think as he gardens 🌱

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📰 April 26 - May 2 updates

What's new in Reader and Readwise

🚀 Improved Performance — Mitch, Tristan and Hannes upgraded our database, which means Readwise now runs faster and more reliably.

🐦 Fixed Twitter Saving — X (formerly Twitter) changed a set of endpoints over the weekend, preventing us from accessing full threads or metadata (titles, author, etc). Tristan rewrote huge chunks of our integration, and now everything should be properly saved.

🛜 Parsing Updates —  Krzys made improvements to how Reader handles redirects, as well as posts from yahoo.com and stackoverflow.com. Rasul improved how we handle emails from stratechery.com.

👍 Three featured finds

From quality assurance specialist Eleanor

Something to read 📖
Our resident history buff is devouring Empress of the East by Leslie Peirce—a lively portrait of the Ottoman Empire’s only queen.

Something to focus ⏲️
A simple Pomodoro timer powers Eleanor’s work sprints and doubles as the countdown for her son’s tooth‑brushing and piano practice.

Something to unwind 🫧
Eleanor can’t relax until the dishes are done, so a super‑absorbent stone drying mat speeds up cleanup and lets her unwind sooner.

💬 From the Readwise group chat

No magic words, please

Can you imagine unlearning to say "thank you" at this time and age? Apparently, good manners costs OpenAI millions.

Although - this is us, not saying "thank you" after every interaction: