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Show HN: Readwise Reader, an all-in-one reading app

by tristanho on 12/15/22, 9:44 PM with 156 comments

• by lancesells on 12/15/22, 11:51 PM

  Looks like a great product but you're using Facebook Remarketing and Google Ads. That makes me not want to use an app with potentially very personal information. Let's say I save 100s of articles about a specific health problem. Having any of that info going to Meta scares me.

• by rupi on 12/16/22, 2:55 AM

  Looks amazing! I played with Reader for the last hour or so and it looks so much better than Pocket. The import from Pocket - delightful!

  I had originally started using Readwise to sync my Pocket and Memex highlights with Roam and it looks like you guys have removed the need for both by building Reader.

  My pocket (pun unintended) thanks you, provided price isn't going up. But I think there is a lesson here. Pocket has done no innovation for years - a classic 'cash cow'. But then you guys show up and make a product that (for me) is 10x better. It is also clever that you haven't taken any VC funding because I don't think this a product that will ever be venture scale. Now, you guys can build cool stuff and make a good living in peace without chasing that elusive venture exit.

• by atto on 12/15/22, 9:56 PM

  Been using Reader as my primary reading + save for later app for a few months. It's truly a joy — it's fast, simple, and works really well. There's obviously a cold-start problem where you need to use it for a bit to get most of the value, so I'd encourage anyone here that's interested in a similar app to give it a couple weeks.

• by sytelus on 12/15/22, 10:42 PM

  With all the hype by authors, it is very poorly designed website, app frontend and documentation. I still cannot figure out how to use this thing. I installed the app and app has look of circa 2007. No help pages, how-to steps, guide or anything of value can be found. I go to Twitter and Safari on my phone and have no clue how do I bookmark/save anything to Readwise. Nothing on iPhone or Twitter shows "save to Readwise" or anything like that. Their webpage is just filled entirely with marketing fluff instead of actual user centric how-to content. At lease tell users how to use all the functionality you are relentlessly bragging about!!

  The main thing in bookmark/offline readers is ability to search. I see tons of bragging on highlights and not much on search. Can I search by tags? How can I tag anything any way? Can I import my tags from places like Diigo? My primary question is always "where did I saw that?", not highlighting everything I read.

  I use Diigo and they are almost opposite for the better. Solid and clear way of how to migrate from competitors should also be #1 focus but here basic stuff is missing.

• by rchaud on 12/16/22, 3:46 PM

  Used Pocket for ~10 years, and I know Readwise is superior.

  Here's the issue I had with Pocket, and one I'm sure you will run into as well. Around 2018 or so, I noticed Pocket stopped going to the offline version of the article, and would load the awful full web page, with ads and popups and everything. I would have to keep my phone in airplane mode to force Pocket to default to the offline article. I imagine they did this due to complaints from site owners.

  Pocket at its peak probably had millions of users more than Readwise does. How will you handle similar requests when you reach that kind of scale?

  FYI, my system now is to simply "save to PDF" in a labeled folder and keep devices in sync with Syncthing Fork.

• by philips on 12/15/22, 11:15 PM

  I have been using Reader for months and it has been great. I love that it can handle adhoc content like PDFs and also subscriptions like RSS and mailing lists.

  The killer feature is exporting highlights to Obsidian for me though. I get a lot of utility from being able to find things I read in the past while doing writing or research.

• by thomasqbrady on 12/15/22, 11:49 PM

  I'm super intrigued by this, and feel like I'm 99% overlap in a Venn diagram with the target user, BUT… when the browser plugin immediately requested the ability to see everything I did on every site I ever visited (and the first one it asked me about was my employer's wiki with trade secrets galore), I clicked "deny" and moved on.

  Might still be worth a shot on personal devices, but with the say Safari syncs history across devices via iCloud, I'm not so sure…

  Is it still demonstrably better than other reading apps (Reeder, Instapaper, etc.) without the plugin?

• by wpietri on 12/15/22, 10:58 PM

  Paradoxically, the fact that this is a do-everything app makes me much less likely to try it out. If it were just, say, an RSS reader, then I might try exporting OPML from my current feed reader and seeing what happens. But reading is important enough to me that I would be very reluctant to put all my eggs in one basket. Especially a startup, where the best case is that a lot of my most important stuff requires me to pay $100/year forever.

• by bberenberg on 12/15/22, 10:25 PM

  Still waiting for a solution like what you have done with YouTube videos but for podcasts on the literal run. Easy way to tag a moment in a podcast from an Apple Watch for later review as a transcript I can cite. Best of luck building Readwise Reader, and I loved your post at https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01gewk3j3kt56v6w87qd1qqez1... and have been sharing it with lots of people I know.

• by CrypticShift on 12/15/22, 10:39 PM

  I think the original "read it later" app was "Pocket" 15 years ago. At the core it is still bookmarking with a "reader" mode. I use it on my e-reader (because of the kobo native integration)

  I'm looking back to the origins because Readwise is aggressively pushing this concept to the "limits". I mean, offering epubs and RSSs (and much more) is pretty inclusive. This may blur the original "simplicity" goal. However, The UX design is flawless. Nothing to say. So, this will surely help order all that disparate input.

  HN readers, don't be discouraged by the price tag. Give it a go, and make sure you "invoke the ghost" [1]

  [1] https://twitter.com/deadly_onion/status/1592990487257829376

• by gbourne on 12/16/22, 1:14 PM

  Just tried Readwise out - very nice! Pocket seems to have stagnated, so very refreshing to see innovation in the Instapaper/Pocket space. I know you all are working on a ton of things, but one suggestion is to add in other SSO options like Google (gmail). Right now I just see Amazon and Email.

  Also when syncing with Pocket, perhaps mention it might take a bit to sync and you'll find the article in your Inbox - I thought the sync didn't work, but eventually appeared under Inbox, as opposed to where I expected in recently added.

• by tr3ntg on 12/16/22, 2:00 PM

  Readwise has always been an impressive product - this makes it go so much farther.

  Tangent: for me, the Readwise brand as a whole has been damaged by its Twitter bot. There are so many people using it that it spams the replies to just about any Twitter thread. I hate seeing it, but I know these people are getting lots of value - just at the expense of everyone else’s reading experience.

• by awwx on 12/16/22, 5:25 AM

  I opened the link, and my laptop fan started running full blast.

  Chrome 108.0.5359.98, MacOS 11.7.1

  I opened the Chrome Task Manager and the "GPU Process" was pegging the CPU.

  I closed the Readwise tab and CPU usage dropped to normal.

  I opened https://readwise.io/read again. After a minute the "GPU Process" CPU usage went back up to 73%.

• by dragonstyle on 12/15/22, 11:51 PM

  This looks really great (I'm using the iOS app on an iPad).

  I like reviewing long HN threads and would love to save them to read later. However, when I go to a saved thread in Readwise, it only renders the root comment (and none of the replies). I can't find a way to escape the styled view to get to the original. Am I perhaps just missing something or if not, consider it a suggestion!

• by saltymimir on 12/15/22, 11:30 PM

  Was a bit skeptical about how good this was gonna be, but I'm definitely impressed.

  The improvements are a lot more apparent on desktop. I love the fact that I can do pretty much anything using the command palette and keyboard shortcuts. Feels like this is the kind of browsing experience that I'm most contend with. The GPT-3 "ghostreader" feature was also great; most of the summary / text generations fulfilled my expectations.

  If I have to pick on something: the mobile app browsing experience isn't that much better from Pocket or Instapaper. The scrolling and animation feels a bit laggy in my iPhone. The "ghostreader" feature in the app feels very limited and awkward to enable here as well.

• by mrehler on 12/18/22, 4:14 AM

  Been using it for a few days now, and my biggest hope is that it gets a dedicated Mac app. I've been a bit disappointed with it so far in Unite. Maybe if I picked up Coherence it would work better?

• by causi on 12/16/22, 5:04 AM

  If I'm going to use an "all in one" reader app it needs to support comics and graphic novels.

  $7.99/month

  This seems rather steep when there are already reader apps that do cloud bookmarks for free.

• by comfypotato on 12/16/22, 10:14 AM

  Awesome app! Going to dive in and explore a bit more later when I have some time. Can you comment on any portals or forums in which requests for features can be made?

  TLDR: do you have plans for an interface to implement your own interactions like in VSCode/Emacs/Vimscript?

  I’ve got a to-do item to implement a software artifact that’s hyper-specific to the keyboard configuration I like when it comes to reading, but this app has so many nice features that I can’t help but wonder if I can fit it to my functionality. I’m a big tweaker when it comes to personal software interaction configuration, and I’m curious if your app has any functionality through which to tweak interactions.

  An example of something I’ve always wanted: find the first currently visible paragraph break and move the top line of the immediately following paragraph to the top of the view window (similarly, find the last visible paragraph break, and move the last line of the previous paragraph to the bottom of the viewing window). I have lots of little micro-configurations that I hope to implement, and I’m wondering if there’s a route to bring this functionality to your app. Little things like this help to micro-optimize intensive research sessions. Happy to contribute if it’s that sort of project.

  The previously-mentioned interactions could be extended to only apply to a single monitor if the window is sized over multiple monitors. I have lots of ideas, and would love to discuss the prospects of accepting community requests and feedback concerning these sorts of personal settings.

• by bx376 on 12/15/22, 10:14 PM

  Congrats! This is truly a game-changer.

  Personally, I have two suggestions for a future release:

  1). Invert-color PDF dark mode harms readability.

  Simply invert the color will make serif fonts less readable. I use PDF.js with the following canvas renderer snippet to create a more pleasant reading experience.

  ```css

  #viewerContainer > #viewer > .page > .canvasWrapper > canvas { filter: sepia(23%); filter: saturate(45%); filter: hue-rotate(181deg); filter: brightness(90%); filter: contrast(93%); filter: invert(81%); }

  #viewerContainer > #viewer > .spread > .page > .canvasWrapper > canvas { filter: sepia(23%); filter: saturate(45%); filter: hue-rotate(181deg); filter: brightness(90%); filter: contrast(93%); filter: invert(81%); }

  ```

  Try this with this PDF.js extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-reader/ieepebp... by pasting it to the option page.

  2). Custom Font support.

  As a power user, I'd like to render the article with my personally preferable font (locally installed in most cases.) Why not simply give users the option to set css:font-family? It's really easy to implement.

  Anyway, the current product is pleasing enough! I'm already spiritually a paid-user.

• by rajekas on 12/16/22, 12:11 AM

  I am a fan.

  Been using it for several months now and it’s my default reading location and I read a lot. Reading is essential to my life and work and I have been looking for a solution that solves all my information consumption problems. Readwise has a good chance to be that solution as long as they don’t go the way of Google or Evernote.

  One continuing irritation: PDF reading on iPadOS isn’t as good as dedicated apps (I use PDF Expert). Highlighting works fine, but writing by hand using the Pencil is nowhere near as responsive or accurate as PDF Expert. I hope you invest resources into making PDF consumption the best in class - it’s the only thing preventing me from fiully embracing Reader as a complete solution.

  A suggestion - not arising from irritation, but a matter of positioning - much of the communication of Readwise/Reader’s utility is around productivity, of reading to optimize information uptake or insight maximization. I would prefer if it also highlighted creativity and imagination. I read to make new connnections and (hopefully) think new thoughts that I haven’t thought before. It’s an idyllic vision of the vocation of reading but one that has a long history in the annals of bibliophilia. Perhaps you should target not just the Tech Bro, but also the Romantic Reader.

  PS: an unexpected delight - I liked how I was onboarded by an existing user and had to turn around a couple of weeks later and help onboard the next generation. If done well, Readwise/Reader can become an essential social reading app for nerds, with the tool being the hub for a community of serious readers. Books are already read in circles - perhaps you should try to replace Google+ as well as Google Reader

• by noisy_boy on 12/16/22, 8:40 AM

  In order to pay for a "reader", I actually need it to be a "writer" too. If I enjoy a post/article etc and want to comment on it, I'll have to open the actual website/app anyway. That is sufficient friction for me to instead choose directly going to multiple sources for both reading and writing.

  Whoever can present me a cross-platform app that lets me add sources, bookmark stuff AND comment, has my money.

• by eiiot on 12/16/22, 3:23 AM

  Love to attention to detail with the web app (especially the Obsidian export!). Killer feature, definitely a pocket replacement for me.

• by pecheny on 12/15/22, 11:37 PM

  Imported an EPUB into the app. Really nice typography, so props to you on that!

  The internal links seem to be not working, though. I mostly read books with a lot of footnotes, so I won't be able to try it as my daily reading driver right now, but good luck! There's not a single one good reading app out there, so the market is yours to take.

• by beshrkayali on 12/15/22, 10:38 PM

  Really interesting solution and I was very happy using it today! Some quick thoughts:

  - It would be great if you add a feature to import an OPML

  - Definitely needs a way manage feeds in folders/tags

  - I would also really like a way to export my stuff in JSON/XML in case I want to move somewhere else (not sure if that exists already)

  Keep up the good work! Would be happy to pay for this.

• by tomComb on 12/15/22, 11:33 PM

  I'm sorry that there isn't a free/cheap tier.

  I don't mind paying US$8/m when I'm actively using it, but I wouldn't want to continue that if I have a period when I'm just using it a little.

  So, when/if that happens, can I easily export all my configuration data?

• by disqard on 12/16/22, 12:36 AM

  Thank you for making this tool!

  I'm interested in avoiding lock-in, and would love to be able to export every note as an individual markdown file ("export all your highlights to a single CSV file" is clunky, and unusable for me).

  It looks like:

  * I have to export every item individually, manually ("export highlights on a document-by-document basis to Markdown by going to your Library and clicking the down arrow as shown below")

  * I have to do this every time I edit an item inside Reader.

  Have you considered building a "folder sync" plugin that exports each item/note as a separate .md file, and keeps it sync'ed? Even a one-way sync would be better than the manual flow you currently have.

  Thanks for sharing the post and for taking questions here!

• by eXpl0it3r on 12/16/22, 10:47 AM

  This looks great and could potentially replace Feedly, Pocket and GoodNotes. And some comments mentioned that it's easy to export highlights to Obsidian. So if this turns out to live up to the promises, I see a lot of potential!

  The Pocket import was a bit tricky, but probably not entirely Readwise Reader's fault. Pocket failed to log me in at first and just redirected me back to the login page. After an application data clearing it seemed to connect, but none of my articles were imported from Pocket. So I had to disconnect Pocket again, which oddly puts you on the Readwise page, and after connecting Pocket for the second time, it finally synced my articles.

• by inhumantsar on 12/16/22, 2:04 AM

  Signing up on a mobile browser should lead to a splash page offering to take the customer to their app store or continue to the web app.

  I use Firefox and default it to private mode, so I get a nasty little "no storage available" and a spinner that never ends.

• by thenerdhead on 12/16/22, 12:52 AM

  It's a great read-it-later app, congrats on the launch.

  One feature that I'm curious about is whether or not it is possible to see the most highlighted quotes for a piece of content similar to what Kindle provides(popular highlights) and what Goodreads surfaces: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes

  You could even bring this to your YouTube feature with the recent "most replayed" feature they launched earlier this year: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/3888

• by flandish on 12/15/22, 11:14 PM

  Just curious - is it fully “offline” / disconnected from your services? If so - why 8/month and not a single payment “unlock/pro version”? Why are more and more apps trying to tickle all our accts for monthly/recurring fees?

• by chrisweekly on 12/16/22, 1:44 PM

  Readwise was useful and great even without Reader. Now, with Reader, it's indispensable. Everything from syncing Kindle highlights to finally solving my decades-long hunt for a good "bookmarks with annotations" solution, smooth integration with Obsidian (my "second brain" / digital hub)... it checks all my boxes. Easily in my all-time top 5 apps. The only complaint I ever had w/ Readwise was having to wait months to get the Reader beta which I finally got this summer. Bravo! Kudos! Keep it up!

• by justindirose on 12/16/22, 3:44 AM

  I’ve been using Reader since just after the private beta launched. It’s changed the way I read and interact with articles online. Instapaper was a favorite of mine in the early iOS days but it sadly and continually became a junk drawer. Obviously Reader still has that potential but the baked-in processing workflow has helped me abate that some.

  I did a video recently on YT where I walk through the app if anyone wants to take a look before you sign up.

  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vRHa18fRYhU

• by eigenvalue on 12/16/22, 2:18 AM

  Looks really nice and polished. One feature I think you should really try hard to add is some kind of “liquid reflow mode” for PDFs. Even if it doesn’t work for all PDFs, something that can parse the text from fully digital pdfs (ie, not scanned) and present it as regular reflowable text would be a super useful. It’s very hard to read a pdf designed for 8.5”x11” on a smartphone screen even in landscape orientation. I know it’s technically challenging but I think there’s a lot you can do there.

• by lawgimenez on 12/15/22, 11:18 PM

  I’m confused, your app doesn’t appear on share options on iOS.

• by bribri on 12/16/22, 12:35 AM

  Please make it work with saving hackernews comment threads!

• by zdwolfe on 12/16/22, 5:50 PM

  This is amazing, thank you. Been a user of Readwise for a while because it's the best highlight aggregator out there. Now that there's a reader with highlights + Obsidian.md highlight export, I can get rid of a whole stack of other apps I had glued together (https://github.com/zdwolfe/reading).

• by jyrkesh on 12/16/22, 2:26 AM

  FYI, the framerate on your homepage is _really_ bad in 4K on my W11 box. I couldn't understand why it wasn't being mentioned in the comments, but then I dragged it over to my 1440p, and it was way better. Not sure what's going on, looks very pretty, but until I saw all the positive stuff here, it had totally turned me off from my trying it.

  Will try it though :) Just dropping the informal ticket

• by Plasmoid on 12/16/22, 12:39 AM

  Looks neat. Could you add support for storing books in a storage system I control?

  I'd like to upload my books to somewhere that is under my control (google drive, dropbox, etc...). I've had bad experiences with services basically locking my library to them and making it nearly impossible to export/move them elsewhere.

  It's a nice plus for you, since you don't need to pay the storage costs yourself.

• by blntechie on 12/16/22, 4:55 AM

  Looks neat. The beta launch post is really well written and appreciate the segment on pricing.

  I'd appreciate if you would consider regional pricing at some point. As it's priced today, it's more expensive than all the streaming services I use (including Netflix, Disney+). I can certainly understand why regional pricing is not for everyone and its drawbacks but just wanted to ask.

• by scrollaway on 12/16/22, 12:30 AM

  A few questions:

  - Can you import from Pocket?

  - Can you import from various bookmarks?

  - How much do I own my data? If you go under, what's my backup plan? Open source, data exports, APIs...?

• by elashri on 12/16/22, 5:45 AM

  Reader seems like impressive, The only thing I would like to suggest is maybe adding an RTL support because that would be somehow useful.

• by cschmatzler on 12/15/22, 10:35 PM

  Looks super interesting - don’t have my usual setup nearby so I’ll just ask before checking it out myself: given that you advertise super powerful highlighting, is there a feature that allows exporting/copying single/multiple highlights with proper references to what I’m reading (say, APA style)? That would be a killer feature for me.

• by edwinwee on 12/15/22, 10:42 PM

  YouTube feature is dope, congrats on launch

• by twojacobtwo on 12/15/22, 11:28 PM

  I may have missed it in skimming over the post, website, and github repos, but will this eventually be open source?

  I would love to use such a product, but I only use open source wherever I have the option, and especially with subscription based services.

  Either way, congrats on releasing a seemingly excellent product!

• by c54 on 12/16/22, 2:08 AM

  I've been excited for this product for a while now!

  How do I set up email feeds, especially paid substack feeds?

• by viburnum on 12/16/22, 10:27 AM

  “Loved by founders.” Who cares? I’m not a “founder” or any other kind of boss. Seems smarmy.

• by baby on 12/16/22, 4:36 AM

  Sounds amazing. I might give it a try. For reference, I use pocket, netnewswire, and zotero for pdfs (zotero is a god send). But pocket is a mess, so I end up making lists in hackmd.

  I think it’d be enough for this product to match zotero for me to move to it!

• by pratikch1253 on 12/16/22, 2:50 PM

  Also don’t see a way to search via the tags I created ?? Only the content is allowed ?? So if I create 100 tags and want to see all content on tag1 I can’t ?? I thought this is a very basic feature for such types of app

• by MattDemers on 12/16/22, 3:47 PM

  Would be easier to commit for me if there was a free option or a one-time fee. I know that's a dinosaur, but I can't justify the cost when I can put up with a little friction with Pocket + Joplin + FreshRSS.

• by blondin on 12/15/22, 11:32 PM

  very interesting app! i wish the authors all the best.

  i have collected thousands of unread articles as bookmarks. and they all have the tags "unread" and "article". i remove the "unread" tag on articles i have read. the process of going through my list became tedious. so i wrote a chrome extension that opens a random unread article for me in a new tab.

  the first thing i looked for, when i opened this app, is how to import bookmarks. and it surprised me that the authors overlooked local bookmarks or bookmark files. that's how most people save what they want to read later, no?

  looking forward to seeing that feature.

  thanks.

• by jostyee on 12/16/22, 12:42 AM

  Have been using it for weeks and it’s astonishing, Readwise offers one-month trial so just give it a go, you won’t be disappointed with this feature rich app, especially the GPT-3 powered Ghostreader.

• by webdog on 12/15/22, 11:00 PM

  Just restarted my Readwise subscription.

  * What is the amount of storage provided for users?

  * How is content managed when offline? If/When I start traveling more, there will be times when I like to read without internet access.

• by 727564797069706 on 12/16/22, 6:57 AM

  This looks really cool! I’ve been using Raindrop for a long time.

  Readwise Reader is the first thing I’ve come across that makes me seriously consider switching over. I’m definitely going to try it out.

• by microflash on 12/16/22, 4:10 AM

  It seems your target audience is US and Europe; the pricing clearly reflects that. In India, Pocket costs ₹500 per year (regional pricing) vs Readwise's ~₹670 per month (converted).

• by owlbynight on 12/16/22, 5:51 AM

  Replaced Newsflow recently with Readwise Reader and I'm a big fan so far. I'm only using it for RSS feeds, but I suspect I will be using it for much more than that soon.

• by nbzso on 12/16/22, 1:25 AM

  Nice app.

  There is a place for SaaS apps, no doubt, but somehow in the increasing information hostile environment and official government's positions on fighting the "disinformation, conspiracy and political incorrectness" my hunch moves me to decentralization of processes and future-proof solutions.

  In my use case, this resulted in using the web browser with maximum protection available and creating a specific workflow for bookmarking and research through Obsidian. I can capture any article and directly move it to a specific folder in my vault. Then I can revisit, tag, organize and export it as PDF or HTML.

  If, for some reason, Obsidian ceases to exist, the folder structure and markdown are usable in Emacs/Vim on any operating system.

  Somehow, I don't trust any company which will have any form of access to my reading process. Nothing personal, just privacy.

  P.S. I know, Emacs is an operating system:)

• by skybrian on 12/15/22, 11:49 PM

  Your comment explains it, but the website itself should say what platforms it runs on. The picture shows it running on a laptop but that doesn't explain how it's done.

• by treelanko on 12/16/22, 6:16 AM

  Interesting to see this! I've used instapaper and noticed you guys established what differs between Readwise and instapaper. Curious and looking forward to try it out!

• by smcleod on 12/16/22, 6:58 AM

  Looks interesting, I've been considering breaking out my web clippings from my notes (Bear).

  Does anyone know if it's a proper native app - or is it an electron chrome wrapper?

• by htk on 12/16/22, 12:05 AM

  Interesting app. I'm a heavy user of Voice Dream Reader and Instapaper, but this app has the potential to replace both.

  One question, how do I enable full text justification?

• by Strongbad536 on 12/15/22, 10:00 PM

  Switched over from instapaper and it's been great

• by _HMCB_ on 12/15/22, 11:29 PM

  Reader is awesome. I’m not a Readwise customer but the app experience is effortless. I’m going to subscribe to your service. Great job!

• by pushcx on 12/15/22, 11:17 PM

  Seems unfinished, or maybe it has a really obscure UI. I have an ipad with a couple dozen papers I've downloaded. I signed up, installed the app, and there's nothing there. The "Library" has a single how-to article that explains how keyboard commands work in a different app and that's _it_. There's no way to add articles and no help text. I don't understand why they'd do a public launch of an app that can only read one article.

• by pseingatl on 12/16/22, 11:58 AM

  Pagination in epubs is by scrolling, which is not ideal. Can't figure out how to read page by page.

• by pratikch1253 on 12/16/22, 2:41 PM

  Search is buggy I added two things one video and one article and it can’t search either of them??

• by janandonly on 12/15/22, 10:22 PM

  So basically, a revival of Evernote?

• by paraknight on 12/16/22, 8:34 AM

  Giving your app a try, but it's a bit of a price hike compared to my current feed reader (Inoreader), though seems like it might be an improvement. Do you have any plans to introduce a "lite" tier without the likely costly advanced features (TTS, GPT-3 summaries, etc)? All my sources (RSS, Hackernews, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, h-feeds, newsletters) are already RSS, some through free 3rd party tools (like killthenewsletter and granary.io) so I wouldn't miss those features either.

  As an aside (and maybe this is my inner Unix proponent talking), architecturally it would be much cooler if some of these things were separated into smaller microservice-style products, e.g. a URL that you pass a YouTube URL to and it gives back an "article" with video and transcript. Then you can chain that URL with another that gives a GPT-3 TLDR on top (perhaps even passing your own API key to keep provider costs down/free). Seem like killer use cases for Cloudflare Workers. If in the end everything's RSS, users can have their choice of readers and still have cool features, though of course that would make your product less compelling.

• by fancymcpoopoo on 12/16/22, 1:41 AM

  If everyone is reading and taking notes, why do I need to take notes? Let them do it.

• by JasonFruit on 12/16/22, 2:07 AM

  > …folder of PDFs. Upload yours…

  > Upload EPUBs…

  > …compile [Twitter] threads… inside Reader

  No thank you. I'm sure it's a wonderful app, but I've been burned so many times that falling for it again would be firmly into "shame on me" territory. No more trusting online services for me — I'm in data-hoarder mode now.

• by xz18r on 12/15/22, 10:38 PM

  I use a self-hosted Wallabag and FreshRSS very heavily. Am I the intended audience?

• by asselinpaul on 12/15/22, 11:40 PM

  How does it compare to Matter?

• by paulmorabito on 12/16/22, 4:38 AM

  Would you ever consider a one off purchase rather than a subscription service?

• by yawnxyz on 12/15/22, 10:47 PM

  Whoa this is an amazing reader experience!

  I struggled to find how to change it from dark to light mode for a really long time, then found it hidden within the Aa button which is only accessible after opening a bookmark. Could you please surface that to the main screen?

• by bluishgreen on 12/16/22, 2:47 AM

  Where is the gpt summary feature? I don’t see it on iOS app

• by petemir on 12/16/22, 12:16 PM

  Any type of calibre integration planned?

• by KevinBenSmith on 12/15/22, 11:50 PM

  Congrats on the launch team Readwise! :)

• by wahnfrieden on 12/15/22, 10:10 PM

  FYI the homepage is unreadably dim as I scroll down on iPhone - some bug with the behavior that’s supposed to hide and reveal content as I scroll

• by jyriand on 12/16/22, 9:27 AM

  How is it different from Zotero?

• by ThrowawayTestr on 12/16/22, 12:27 AM

  Pick a better name.

• by jp57 on 12/15/22, 11:16 PM

  Loved by strangely similar looking techbros, but not, apparently, women, black people, old people, or kids.