Readwise Integration
Connect Readwise and your book and article highlights flow into Mindly automatically. They get tagged, summarized, and connected to your notes and saves, so reading turns into thinking instead of just collecting.
Setup in minutes
What you can do with it
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.
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 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.
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.
How the integration behaves
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why it matters
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.
Common questions
Imports your Readwise highlights into your Mindly library. Each highlight becomes a searchable, taggable Mindly item with the source book or article, author, and original location attached. AI applies topic tags and links highlights to related items in your library.
All of them. Whatever you sync to Readwise (Kindle, Apple Books, Instapaper, Pocket, Matter, Reader, Twitter/X, podcast transcripts, manually added quotes) flows into Mindly through the same connection.
Real time by default, which means new highlights show up in Mindly within minutes of arriving in your Readwise account. You can switch to daily or manual sync from Mindly Settings if you prefer.
You need a Readwise account that has highlights in it. Readwise has its own pricing tiers; the Mindly integration works with any tier that exposes the standard access token (which all current paid tiers do). Free trial accounts also work for testing.
You can add notes, tags, and connections to a highlight in Mindly. Editing the highlight text itself stays in Readwise (or the original reading app) to keep the source faithful. Your additions in Mindly do not overwrite the source.
Imported highlights live in your local Mindly library on your Mac. AI tagging runs on cloud APIs, so highlight text is sent for processing on import and as new highlights arrive. After processing, the highlights sit locally. Read the privacy policy for the full breakdown.
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Download Mindly, paste your Readwise token, and watch every highlight you have ever taken join the rest of your library.
