Every Highlight. Where Your Thinking Lives.

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   In Mindly Settings, open Integrations and click Connect on the Readwise row. A field appears for your Readwise access token.

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   Open Readwise in your browser, go to Settings, and copy your access token. Paste it into Mindly and confirm. Mindly tests the connection and confirms within seconds.

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   Choose how often you want highlights to sync. Real time (within minutes of new highlights arriving in Readwise), daily, or manual. Real time is the default and works for most users.

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   Mindly pulls your existing highlights, applies AI tagging by topic and source book, generates summaries on long highlights, and links each highlight to related items in your library. New highlights from your reading apps flow in automatically going forward.

• Highlights that stop being lost

  The Readwise daily email surfaces past highlights, but the highlights themselves still live in a separate app. In Mindly they become part of your one library. The quote you highlighted in March from a book on focus shows up when you are writing about focus in October, without you remembering you read that book.

• Reading into thinking

  Most reading produces highlights and then nothing. The synthesis from book to belief never happens because the highlight lives in one app and your thinking lives in another. Mindly closes that loop: highlights surface when you are writing on the related topic, so the source material participates in the work it should have been informing.

• A book's worth of highlights, summarized

  A book imported from Readwise comes in as a single Mindly item containing every highlight from that book, with an AI summary of the through-line. Scanning what you got from a book months later takes a minute instead of an hour.

• Patterns across your reading

  The mind map shows which books connect to which. Three books on the same topic, highlighted over a year, become a visible cluster. The pattern in your reading (what you keep returning to) becomes visible without you having to articulate it.

• Highlights are full items

  Each highlight imported from Readwise becomes a real, searchable, taggable Mindly item, not a footnote on a book. You can link it, add commentary, or reference it from a note you are writing. It is a citizen of your second brain, not a guest.

• Source preserved

  Every highlight keeps the book title, author, and original location attached. When you reference a quote from your library, the citation is one click away.

• AI links across sources

  A highlight from a book on attention gets connected to your own notes on focus, to a voice memo from a walk, to a Notion page about your work. The connections come from semantic similarity, not manual linking. The synthesis you were going to do anyway happens automatically.

• Real-time sync

  Highlights you make while reading on Kindle, Instapaper, Pocket, or any of the dozens of sources Readwise supports flow into Mindly within minutes. The friction between "I marked this passage" and "this passage participates in my thinking" disappears.

Most people who use Readwise do so because they noticed that highlighting a book and never reviewing the highlights is the same as not having highlighted. Readwise solves half the problem with its spaced-repetition daily review. The other half is that highlights still live separately from the thinking they should be feeding. The integration with Mindly closes that second gap. When you write something in Mindly, the highlights from your reading on the same topic surface automatically. When you save a research note, the relevant past highlights show up in the mind map nearby. The end result is reading that participates in your work instead of just sitting in an archive. That is the actual point of saving anything you read: not the saving, but the using.

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