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Jul 25, 2024 β€’ 9 tweets β€’ 4 min read β€’ Read on X
Last week we hit "Send" on Beta Update #9.

Here's what's new in Reader the past few months!

πŸ‘» Ghostreader v2
πŸ“ Mobile Folders
🟑 Upgraded Highlighting
πŸ“– Ebook Upgrades
πŸͺ² So so many bug fixes/improvements
πŸ‘» Ghostreader v2

Reader's AI is now:
* Way easier to access (two taps on mobile!)
* Way more powerful & accurate
* You're able to write/customize your own prompts, to then use later while reading!
More complex AI actions are now built into Reader:

* "Pick up where you left off" to get a quick recap of your last reading session

* A powerful "X Ray" prompt that explains exactly how a term (or character, or place) is defined by the author

* Many more!
Most importantly, you can even now customize or WRITE YOUR OWN Ghostreader prompts!

At Readwise we think a lot about products with low floors & high ceilings: this feature has a limitlessly high ceiling.

@deadly_onion gets into how to customize prompts:

loom.com/share/c186fa74…
@deadly_onion For another, quick look at how Ghostreader can be used check out this video from Tristan:



There's a lot more on the philosophy behind Ghostreader v2 in the full update post here: .

Now, to other updates...
readwise.io/reader/update-…
πŸ“ Mobile Folders

The desktop RSS folders we announced in our last update are now available on mobile, along with a fresh mobile sidebar for the Library!

All of your content should just be easier to access on mobile now, and the menus less cluttered!
🟑 Upgraded Highlighting

You can now RESIZE HIGHLIGHTS! This is probably the biggest improvement to highlighting in years, and one of our most requested features πŸ–οΈ

Beyond that:
* Punctuation is now auto-captured when highlighting
* Cross-page highlighting is much smoother
πŸ“– Ebook Upgrades

We've turned our attention to taking the ebook reading experience to the next level.

Namely, EPUBs will now be formatted much better, preserving the original stylings that the author/publisher originally set :)

(+ many other small book reading improvements!)Image
🦐 Minor improvements

Reader continues to improve in the small ways as well as the big:

🎡 Better Text to Speech voices (in beta)
⚑ Documents now open faster
πŸ’¨ Much smoother animations on iOS/Android
πŸ“‚ Feed folders should filter docs more logically

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Nov 21, 2024
A few weeks ago we hit "send" on Reader Beta Update #10.

Here's a summary of some new things we've shipped:

πŸ“² Send to Kindle
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ”§ Multiple Refactors
πŸ—‘οΈ Trash Bin
πŸ‡ Return to Reading Position
πŸ’¬ YouTube Transcript Cleanup
🦐 Minor Improvements
πŸͺ² So many bug fixes/improvements
πŸ“² Send to Kindle

Reading on kindle e-ink? You can now manually send individual documents from Reader to your Kindle, as well as automatically send a digest of newly saved articles daily or weekly!Image
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ”§ Multiple Refactors

We've made significant behind-the-scenes improvements to Reader's infrastructure, resulting in fewer bugs, faster performance, new browser extensions, and quicker development speed going forward.
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Sep 2, 2023
We just hit β€œSend” on the first Weekly Wisereads: a new newsletter containing the most highlighted articles in @readwise over the past week! πŸ“¨

This inaugural edition is extra special because @p_millerd generously shared his self-published book, The Pathless Path. For free.

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1/ Why Note-taking Apps Don’t Make Us Smarter

Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. @CaseyNewton is the latest to consider whether digital note-taking might be the same.

theverge.com/2023/8/25/2384…
2/ Interoceptive Journaling

While most of us regard journaling as an exercise for the mind, @neuranne introduces a form of journaling that might benefit the physical self.

nesslabs.com/interoceptive-…
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May 31, 2023
Last week we sent out a massive product update email! Here’s a recap of what’s new:

πŸ—£οΈ TTS is back for EPUBs & emails
⭐ Document summaries just got even better
πŸ”— Link between your documents
πŸ’… PDF Upgrades
πŸ”„ Parsing and RSS Upgrades
πŸ—£οΈ Text-to-Speech (TTS) on EPUBs & emails:

We temporarily disabled TTS on EPUBs & emails to make some improvements. It’s finally back and better than before, with improved support for non-English documents.

This language support isn’t perfect, but it’s getting there! twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
⭐ First Class Summarization

By default, Reader will pull a document’s creator-supplied summary. But we knew GPT cou.ld significantly elevate these previews.

Now hit the little ghost icon (or summarize button on mobile) to instantly get a summary of what you're reading! twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Jan 14, 2023
It's the new year, and we've shipped a lot of new improvements to Reader!

πŸ“€ New ways to export your data
πŸ“ Document-level notes
🎲Random sort
πŸŽ₯Youtube on mobile
πŸ“œPDF to text
πŸš€Dozens of bug fixes + improvements

Let's get into it πŸ‘‡
This is the twitter version of our latest beta update, which you should have received an email about if you're using Reader.

You can view the web version (with all instructions and details on how to use new stuff) here 😎

readwise.io/reader/update-…
πŸ“€ Export Features

It's critical to us that everyone can export their data out of Reader if desired. You can now export:

* A CSV file of all of your saved links
* An OPML file of all of your feeds
* All of your uploaded files
* Your highlights, on a doc level or all at once
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Sep 24, 2022
Lots new in Reader this week -- if you're in the private beta you should have received our 21st update email. Just in case, here's the tl;dr πŸ‘‡

NEW HOME SCREEN ON WEB
powerful, customizable, and (hopefully) beautiful :)
VIEW MANAGEMENT PAGES
One of our most useful/customizable features is filtered views. Finally, we have a page where those can all be be browsed, queried, edited :)
IN-APP LINK SAVING (WEB)

You can now save links to Reader whilst reading on web, just like you've been able to on mobile.

Of course, also doable via keyboard shortcuts, so you can continue to read without using your mouse 🐭
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