Readwise-Obsidian export settings
Added 2022-08-04 15:00:01 +0000 UTCHi all! You might have already seen my video on how I use Readwise with Obsidian, but in that video, I only briefly covered my export settings. I've gotten a few messages asking for them, so I thought I would share them here!
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These settings cover how my Readwise highlights are exported to Obsidian. Just like with the sample vault, feel free to change these to suit you better.
Group Files in Category Folders: enabled
(I used all of the default folder names.)
Use Custom File Name: disabled
Use Custom Formatting: enabled
Page title: # {{ title }}
Page metadata
{% if image_url -%}
{% endif -%}
{% if url -%}
URL: {{url}}
{% endif -%}
Author: {{author}}
Highlights header
{% if 'youtube.com' in url %}
{% elif image_url -%}
{% endif -%}
{% if is_new_page %}
## AI-Generated Summary
{{summary}}
## Highlights
{% elif has_new_highlights -%}
## New highlights added {{date|date('F j, Y')}} at {{time}}
{% endif -%}
Highlight
> {{ highlight_text }}{% if highlight_location and highlight_location_url %} ([{{highlight_location}}]({{highlight_location_url}})){% elif highlight_location %} ({{highlight_location}}){% endif %}{% if highlight_note %}
- Note: {{ highlight_note }}{% endif %}
YAML frontmatter
Title: {{full_title}}
Author: {{author}}
Tags: TVZ, readwise, {{category}}
date: {{date}}
Sync notification
- [[{{date|date('Y-m-d')}}]] {{time}} β Synced {{num_highlights}} highlight{{num_highlights|pluralize}} from {{num_books}} document{{num_books|pluralize}}.
{% for book in books %} - {{ book.num_highlights_added}} highlights from {{ book.title }}
{%endfor %}
Comments
Hi Nicole! Appreciate the content and effort you've put into Patreon perks π questions about Readwise settings. Noticed these are different to what you cover in your video or kindle > Readwise > obsidian setup (https://youtu.be/DwgtBGVxHTg?feature=shared&t=188) (timestamp 3:08), there you change URL :: to make it recognisable as a data view param. could you comment on which you actually use and if this is the one why you changed your view on it?
Kristine K
2024-02-25 17:01:49 +0000 UTCHi Robert! Welcome to the PKM community! Happy to have you. I have not made any changes to this since posting it - my Readwise flow has been set in stone and just really consistently useful for the last year.
Nicole van der Hoeven
2023-12-03 13:29:14 +0000 UTCHi Nicole, thank you for posting this and for your excellent content in general! As a new Obsidian user (and a new Readwise user, partially on your suggestion), I thought your ideas in this were clever (esp. moving data to the YAML section). Do you recall if you've made any changes to this in the last 10 months? If so, would you mind re-uploading? I'd like to avoid any hard lessons you may have learned.
Robert Munger
2023-12-03 02:39:04 +0000 UTCHi Angela! I remove the tag after I've processed the note, to kind of "archive" it. Readwise doesn't re-import notes that already exist by default, unless you change that setting to have it do so! :) I tend to just leave the notes in the Readwise folder for that reason.
Nicole van der Hoeven
2023-01-29 19:25:25 +0000 UTCHi Nicole, I have a question: What do you do with the readwise imports with the TVN tag after you looked at them? Do you remove the tag? Do you delete the whole note? (If you delete, wouldn't readwise just re-import it the next time it syncs?) or do you move the imported note out of the readwise folder? Thanks for clarification :-) Angela
Angela Zi
2023-01-28 09:54:43 +0000 UTC
