💡 WiseUp! Vol. 8 — Upgrade your highlights with headings, share curated Bundles, and more

📍 Let's start with a reading recommendation

Everything You Need to Know About Human Memory Retention

While compiling Wisereads, our editor Abi came across this piece by Cedric Chin, an introduction to a topic near and dear to our hearts—memory, active recall, and spaced repetition. "The spacing effect is a wonderful quirk of the forgetting curve: if you attempt to recall a piece of information right at the point where you are about to forget it, your brain will hold on to this memory for a period of time that is longer than the first forgetting curve. This holds true for every subsequent cycle of the forgetting curve — the third curve is longer than the second, the fourth is longer than the third, and so on." 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 Eric J:

How can I share a collection of readings with someone?

You can use Bundles! Bundles are themed collections of documents with pretty landing pages that can easily be shared with others.

To create a bundle, first save a filtered view in the web app, click the down chevron next to its name, and select Enable public link. You can also add a description and a cover image to spice up the landing page. When a recipient clicks Open in Reader, a filtered view will be created in their account and populated with the documents you curated. (See it in action: Our writer, Abi, made a bundle of her favorite pieces on gratitude.)

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❓ A Readwise question from Bruce W:

How can I export the highlights from a single book?

Go to the book, click on the down arrow, select 'Export Highlights,' and voilà! All your highlights will download as a Markdown file (a fancy name for simple text). Open it in any basic text editing app (like Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on Mac) to view. Pro tip: you can export highlights by document in Reader too!

📖 New help doc of the week

Upgrade your highlights with headings

Last week, you learned how to use concatenation tags to skip mid-paragraph fluff. This week, Cayla continues her series on action tags: learn how to create a Table of Contents in Readwise with heading action tags so you can navigate your highlights effortlessly.

Read the guide

🎬 New video of the week

How to set up your Reader feed

Trying to cut down on social media? Now’s the perfect time to set up your Reader feed. In this video, Erin will teach you how to build your own custom feed inside of Reader, where you can catch up on your favorite email newsletters, RSS feeds, and Twitter accounts without distraction.

Add to Reader

📰 March 15-21 updates

What's new in Reader and Readwise

📱 Improved Document Navigation — Artem fixed a glitch where the bottom part of a document sometimes wouldn’t respond to taps. Scrolling while you read should now work properly.

🎨 Improved Browser Extension — Adam fixed a problem where highlight text on certain webpages was unreadable due to the color scheme. We now use white as a highlight element's text if the surrounding text is closer to white than black. The browser extension should also properly save articles from our WiseUp! newsletter.

🔀 Improved Roam Export — Rasul fixed a bug where the Roam API preferences page export preview was inaccurate. It should now correctly apply styling to the previews.

🛜 Parsing Updates — Kryzs improved how Reader handles posts from linkedin.com, acoup.blog, every.to, businessinsider.com, and theverge.com.

👍 Three featured finds

From community manager Erin

Something to read 📖
In preparation for her upcoming interview series, Erin's reading Stop Asking Questions. Contrary to what the title suggests, this book has some great strategies to reframe your questions for conversations that flow.

Something to focus 🧠
During her breaks, Erin works on her posture with this wall angel exercise! It's also helped with her neck pain AND gives her a moment to mentally reset between tasks.

Something to unwind 🌱
Erin's holy grail of natural sleep aids is this ashwagandha and GABA supplement by Youtheory, which helps with her insomnia.

💬 From the Readwise group chat

Quick, grab my e-ink tablet

Hey, you never know when you’ll have extra time to read. If you were to run into the Readwise team at airport security, you’d see us juggling an alarming number of e-ink tablets 🤳