Updates & Info on the new Reader app by @Readwise
Save, read, and highlight anything -- from articles to PDFs to tweets to newsletters (and much more)
Nov 21, 2024 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
A few weeks ago we hit "send" on Reader Beta Update #10.
Here's a summary of some new things we've shipped:
📲 Send to Kindle
👨🔧 Multiple Refactors
🗑️ Trash Bin
🐇 Return to Reading Position
💬 YouTube Transcript Cleanup
🦐 Minor Improvements
🪲 So many bug fixes/improvements
📲 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!
Jul 25, 2024 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Last week we hit "Send" on Beta Update #9.
Here's what's new in Reader the past few months!
👻 Ghostreader v2
📁 Mobile Folders
🟡 Upgraded Highlighting
📖 Ebook Upgrades
🪲 So so many bug fixes/improvements
👻 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!
Sep 2, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
We just hit “Send” on the first Weekly Wisereads: a new newsletter containing the most highlighted articles in @readwise over the past week! 📨
This inaugural edition is extra special because @p_millerd generously shared his self-published book, The Pathless Path. For free.
⬇️ 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.
Last week we sent out a massive product update email! Here’s a recap of what’s new:
🗣️ TTS is back for EPUBs & emails
⭐ Document summaries just got even better
🔗 Link between your documents
💅 PDF Upgrades
🔄 Parsing and RSS Upgrades
🗣️ 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.
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 👇
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 :)