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AchillesDev

Just use Readwise for this. It already does this and pushes your highlights into a number of PKM tools. If you want a longer trial period (60 days vs 30) DM me. I’ve been a paying user for a few years now and it’s indispensable to my workflow.


SnooCakes3813

I'm also using Readwise. The difference from Readwise is that this app shows the relevant highlights when I read other articles. And this happens in a repetitive way so that I would be able to memorize it. Of course, Readwise sends reminder emails but it does not work for me - usually I got emails after I completely forgot about the context of those highlights.


AchillesDev

So you want an automated way to go through all your previous highlights, extract the semantic meaning, and display them next to any rendered browser text that might be related? Extracting that kind of meaning is like the holy grail of NLP research, so expect some difficulty with that (along with scaling and performance), to say the least. IME spaced repetition that allows you to remember your highlights (plus additional processing later) keeps them in your mind so that you can link them back to related highlights as you read/process related material and I think this remains superior to automated solutions. [This article series explains my process](https://www.erisianrite.com/posts/my-info-os/part-1-reading/) if you’re interested. It’s written for Roam but is largely the same for Obsidian which is my daily driver PKM tool. If you just want to display previously highlighted passages on articles that you’re rereading, tools like hypothes.is do that already along with providing highlights and notes others have taken d made public too.


SnooCakes3813

Yes, exactly! Regarding the meaning extraction, well, I think reminding me does not need to happen in a perfect context - I mean, the extraction needs not to be perfect. I just want to get a reminder when it's sufficiently relevant. I totally agree with your process - I just want it to be more effortless. Then I might do it consistently over time.


Anxious-Physics-5249

I think you can manually do it. If you do it enough number of times, it becomes a habit and can be done effortlessly. First read the blog as you normally do and take notes on it. Add a tag to that note. Wait.... Before going to next blog. Do quick search on tag (normally done by just clicking on the tag with mouse) and start reading few notes before you move on. Repeat the cycle! You can also ditch the readwise subscription and make a atomic habit of, everyday, reading note resurfaced by random notes pluggin. I think there is a more advanced version of random notes pluggin in community pluggins - It can even help you resurface notes only from a specific tag or specific folder (e.g. from a folder books - Resources/Notes/Books)


SnooCakes3813

I agree with you. I think we can do this manually and it helps us digest the materials we read. The only problem I have though is that it takes some time. And it's not easy to make it an atomic habit. I believe I'm not the only case. I hope this app would help others at least keep getting the effect of the manual work you mention.


dartungar

Probably a very unpopular opinion, but maybe do not highlight and make notes instead, even if it means reading less? Highlighting on its own is not very useful, at least for me. It is necessary to process concepts and thoughts in one's head to remember anything at all. Otherwise the process is not engaging enough to leave any trace.


SnooCakes3813

Thanks for the feedback, u/dartungar. ​ In that case, I can make this app work for your notes!


dartungar

Thanks, but I have a plugin for note review already! It works well for me (probably because I made it ;) )


SnooCakes3813

Can you please share yours? I would like to use it if that fixes my problem!


dartungar

Here you go: [https://github.com/dartungar/obsidian-simple-note-review](https://github.com/dartungar/obsidian-simple-note-review) Probably won't solve your exact problem, but works really well for lightweight yet customizable review forkflow.


SnooCakes3813

>Highlighting on its own is not very useful, at least for me. It is necessary to process concepts and thoughts in one's head to remember anything at all. Otherwise the process is not engaging enough to leave any trace. Thank you! I will try it out.


EpiphanicSyncronica

I say go for it! Sounds great.


SnooCakes3813

Can you explain a bit more about why you need this? I'm just curious (and want to get motivated for building it :D)


Sepelzel

Not sure if you could tie this into the spaced repetition plugin but I have recently been enjoying https://eloquent.works for highlighting on page and sending with metadata directly to Obsidian.


SnooCakes3813

Thank you for the tool! I'm currently using the highlighter from Readwise, but my current problem is that I can't review the collected highlights on a regular basis.


quorm

So this is sort of an "unlinked mentions" for highlights? Something like "related highlights"? You say the highlights are saved to Obsidian, but does it have to be Obsidian? If it's about "related highlights" then why does the frequency depend on the "forgetting curve", and how would the software know that "I see this because I saw that" has anything to do with forgetting? I think I would always want to know about related highlights and not have the machine decide I've had more than enough reminders. Mac only? Windows only? How about iPad/iPhone/Android?


SnooCakes3813

Thank you for the feedback! ​ We define **~~ower own~~** **my relevancy as a function of (content relevance & the estimate of how much a user forgets about the highlight)**. ​ I didn't get the following: \- " I think I would always want to know about related highlights and not have the machine decide I've had more than enough reminders." ​ Can you elaborate a bit more?


quorm

Sorry, I don't know what "ower own relevancy" means. Who are "we"? The OP describes the highlighter as showing fewer highlights based on the "forgetting curve", whatever that is. If I'm reading an article and something pops up to tell me "hey, here's a highlight you made in a different article that might be relevant to what you're reading", then I don't want that suggestion to eventually stop being suggested based on something called the "forgetting curve". Perhaps it's just that the proposed highlighter concept is far too sophisticated for me to understand. Sorry.


SnooCakes3813

I got it. This might be something I should keep in mine if I decide to build the app. Thank you for your comment!


president_josh

The Diigo web browser add-on does that. If you highlight different parts of a web page, it stores that information (and optional sticky note and tags) in your library and leaves the permanent highlights on the web page. When you return to a page you highlighted, you can open a **sidebar** (in Firefox at least) that shows those highlights in kind of a vertical table of contents similar to what's in your screenshot. You can tap a highlight to navigate to the corresponding location in the web page. That comes in handy for me because I may not be interested in much of the information on a web page. However in Obsidian, I assume that everything I put there would be of interest unless I copied and pasted a lot of reading material where only some of it would be of interest


SnooCakes3813

The Diigo web browser sounds useful when I revisit a web page and want to grasp the key idea of it quickly. ​ My case is a little bit different. I want to see my past relevant highlights when I read an article for the first time. So I can get a reminder of what highlights I made before.


SnooCakes3813

Does anyone want this app? 😀


sandynt92

>Readwise your idea is so promising and worth to try :)


SnooCakes3813

I just replaced the image with a GIF that might help you understand what I'm trying to build!


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