Readwise Official

This official plugin maintained by the Readwise team enables you to easily and automatically export all your digital highlights to Obsidian from a variety of sources such as Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play Books, Instapaper, Pocket, Medium, Twitter, PDFs, and more.

Note: This plugin requires a subscription with Readwise — a paid service that makes it easy to aggregate and review all your reading data into one place.

Features

• Continuous, automatic syncing — Take a highlight while reading in bed and wake up to the highlight in your Obsidian vault
• Powerful, flexible templating — Customize the format of the export to your bespoke preferences using the Jinja2 templating language
• Enriched metadata — Upgrade your highlight exports with extra data including the cover image, original URL, author name, chapter headings, tags (taken while you read), and more
• Premium support — As a paid product, receive prompt replies to your questions and continuous upgrades to the plugin per your feedback

Usage

• Install the Readwise Official plugin within Obsidian
• Enable the plugin
• Connect the plugin to your Readwise account
• Customize the export settings, if desired
• Initiate the first sync
• Thereafter, the plugin can be configured to sync automatically or manually

Development

This project uses Node.js 20 in CI. To run the same checks locally:

npm ci
npm run typecheck
npm test
npm run build

Pull requests run these checks automatically through GitHub Actions.

Support

• Please see our Documentation or email us at [email protected] 🙂

Community Resources

• Readwise Obsidian Plugin - Is It Any Good? video by Santi Younger
• First Look at the Official Readwise Obsidian Plugin article by Ben Newton
• Getting Started with the Readwise Official Plugin video by Effective Remote Work
• Building a Second Brain with Readwise + Obsidian video by Systematic Mastery
• Making Unexpected Connections with Readwise and Obsidian video by Curtis McHale
• How I View My Latest Readwise Highlights in My Obsidian Daily Note article by Ben Newton
• Color Code Your Readwise Highlights in Obsidian with Chetachi's CSS snippets
• How to Import Your Shortform Highlights Into Obsidian Using Readwise article by Nicole van der Hoeven