First Look at the Official Readwise Obsidian Plugin

A rundown of the official Obsidian plugin from Readwise

Ben Newton
7 min readAug 8, 2021
Example Readwise Note in Obsidian
Example Readwise Note in Obsidian

Readwise has released an official plugin to import your Readwise data into Obsidian. If you’re not using Readwise yet, it’s worth a look. Readwise is one of my favorite iOS apps to come out in a long time. I use it every day. So the possibility of automating the importing of that data into my daily note-taking regimen is big.

What is Readwise?

Simply put, it aggregates all your highlights from your Kindle library, Pocket, Medium, Instapaper, tweets, or even the web, then feeds them back to you in a daily email digest or you can cycle through random highlights via the app. This helps you remember what you read by resurfacing the highlights again and again. Checking my highlights daily is one of the only streaks I have kept out of everything I try to track.

With this new plugin, you can continuously bring in your latest highlights, along with the metadata for books, or articles, or tweets from your Readwise account into Obsidian. From there, you can incorporate the notes into your note-taking workflow.

Plugin Settings

The plugin is available soon in the community plugin section of Obsidian by searching for Readwise Official.

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