Readwise Beta
Effortlessly rediscover and organize your Kindle highlights
Readwise Beta launched on September 25, 2017 with 251 votes, #88 of 3,073 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
In plain words
Readwise is a service that helps readers retain and organize their Kindle highlights through daily emails. It resurfaces highlights from books users have read, allows them to categorize and review these passages, and helps them remember key lessons. The tool is designed for book readers who want to get more value from their reading and organize their digital notes in one place.
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From the sources
Readwise sends you a daily email which helps you retain & organize your Kindle highlights effortlessly ✨ Resurface, categorize, and actually remember the lessons from books you read.
Grow wiser and retain books better: Readwise sends you a daily email resurfacing your best highlights from Kindle, Instapaper, iBooks, and more.
Highlighting is great, but what's the point if you're never going to see any of those highlights again? Readwise lets you quickly liberate your highlights (all into one place), and ensures that you'll actually see and use them. How often do you finish a book, only to forget the key ideas two weeks later? We don't remember things by just reading them once. Readwise fixes this using a scientific process called Spaced Repetition . We surface your best highlights back to you at the right times, and let you review them every day with the daily email and app. With your highlights all in one place, Readwise gives you the power to organize and connect these ideas in new ways. Use search to find a…from readwise.io
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