💡 WiseUp! Vol. 3 — Export to Apple Notes, find similar highlights, and more
This week, we're sharing a guide walking you through setting up the new Apple Notes Export, along with notes on what's changed in Readwise and Reader. We’re also sharing Erin’s refreshed tutorial on organizing documents using features we’ve rolled out this past year—folders, bundles, and more!
Our latest updates focused on polishing existing features like reading progress and tagging. Read on for all the details or view our log of weekly improvements.
Before we get into the tips…
📍 Let's start with a reading recommendation
No, You Don’t Get an A for Effort
While compiling Wisereads, our editor Abi came across a piece from Think Again author and Wharton psychology professor, Adam Grant. He adds nuance to Carol Dweck’s idea of praising effort over performance: "There’s a reason we award Olympic medals to the athletes who swim the fastest, not the ones who train the hardest. What counts is not sheer effort but the progress and performance that result. Motivation is only one of multiple variables in the achievement equation. Ability, opportunity and luck count, too."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.
❓ A Reader question from David E:
How can I quickly mark multiple feed documents as seen in the mobile app?
When you're viewing your documents in a list, you can swipe right or left to archive your library documents, mark feed documents as seen, and more. You can customize your swipes in the Reader app to speed up common actions.
❓ A Readwise question from Stepan S:
Do you have any recommendations on how to bring notes together in Readwise?
We have a new feature in Readwise called Find Similar Highlights! While reviewing any highlight, select the overlapping speech bubbles icon to discover related highlights through our Chat with Highlights feature.
📖 New help doc of the week
Exporting Readwise highlights to Apple Notes
ICMYI: You can now export your Readwise highlights to Apple Notes! To help you get the most of this new integration, Cayla created a comprehensive guide to teach you what it can do and how you can configure the settings.
🎬 New video of the week
Organizing your documents in Reader
Our community manager Erin recently created an updated tutorial on how to organize your documents in Reader. After watching this video, you’ll know how to group feeds for quick processing, create auto-updating filtered views, and share collections of documents using the Bundle feature.
📰 February 8-14 updates
What's new in Reader and Readwise
🔖 Fixed Reading Progress — Artem fixed several glitches with reading progress and paged scroll. Reader now keeps your place more accurately after making a highlight, and no longer cuts off text when the Ghostreader summary is open.
👈 Fixed Swiping Back — Artem fixed a bug where swiping from the left to go "back" after reading a document wasn't working on iOS.
🐦 Fixed Saving Tweets — Adam fixed a bug where the Safari extension couldn't save Twitter posts. Saving tweets should now work as expected!
🔖 Improved Tagging in Shares — Adam fixed an issue where renamed or deleted tags still appeared in share sheets and browser extensions.
💌 Improved Email Links — We added an explanation about how mailto: links work on web, to make it easier to share email documents with friends.
👍 Three featured finds
From technical writer Cayla
Something to read 📖
After finishing Brandon Sanderson's original Mistborn trilogy, Cayla can confirm it lives up to the hype!
Something to focus 🧠
Cayla is putting an end to tab-switching with the perfect split-screen on her new monitor setup.
Something to unwind 🎮
Over the weekend, Cayla enjoys growing crops, mining ores, saving the ecosystem, and meeting mermaids in this relaxing farm sim game: Coral Island.
💬 From the Readwise group chat
Silent reading & subvocalization
I just learned that silent reading isn't silent for everyone.
— Adam Grant (@AdamMGrant) December 15, 2024
Some people hear the words in their heads as they read.
🤯 pic.twitter.com/wKAbQwUO6A
We recently learned that when you hear a voice inside your head as you read, its called subvocalization. Adam Grant's tweet sparked a lively discussion among the team: some have never heard *the voice*, some tune it out to speed read, and others love the narration. Which are you?
See you next week!
Warmly,
the Readwise customer support team