And that, of course, reduces the chance that you’ll do it at all. Not exactly a workflow that you would call intuitive and uncomplicated. So I’d have to keep digging around in apps or web interfaces if I wanted to get to my highlights. There’s just one problem when you read content in many different places: every service, every app has its own system for exporting highlights. Especially with digital texts this works very well. The first step for me is always to mark interesting parts of the text. So I have to make sure that I not only read texts, but also process them. Often, even after months, I still have a feeling for a text and a rough idea of what was in it, but I certainly don’t get the argumentation or details straight. If I just read a text, it might be nice for the moment, but it’s not very helpful in the long run. So I read things on all possible corners of the internet and of course I want to do something with it. Usually that’s Amazon, the Apple Books store, or – in the case of indie authors – simply the person’s website. And I buy them wherever I can get them at the best price. Still, over the last ten years, eBooks have become an integral part of my reading process. Often, though, I don’t have time to read an article at that moment and save it to Instapaper to read it later.
One is RSS feeds, which I use instead of social media to read exciting articles. I read digital texts in many different ways. Readwise wants to be the missing piece in the middle here, bundling highlights from Kindle or Apple books, PDF, articles on websites or even podcasts in one place. Getting interesting passages out of there to write notes with them, for example, can be quite annoying and fragmented. Digital texts can be floating around in all kinds of apps.
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