I read a lot, and most of what I read flows through Readwise. If you haven’t used it. Readwise (and its companion app Reader) captures highlights from your Kindle, articles, RSS, and even YouTube transcripts. Everything you highlight ends up in a single searchable library, and emails you a “daily review” to revisit your highlights. If you read, and have trouble remembering what you read, use Readwise. It’ll change you. But I wanted a way to bring the ideas I’ve clipped from readings more accessible during my writing and thinking. Obsidian is my “thinking OS”, and my best solution for this the past several years was syncing highlights as notes in Obsidian. It’s great, but it’s still up to me to figure out how to bring those into my personal “context window” while writing notes. And since we’re now in the era of “personal software,” I decided to build my own plugin to solve this. Surface is an Obsidian plugin that runs semantic search over your Readwise highlights (powered by Readwise’s…
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