Readwise

What is Readwise?

Readwise is where a lot of readers collect their highlights, the passages they mark in Kindle books, articles, podcasts, and elsewhere, along with the notes they make on them. It's a great place to capture the bits of your reading worth keeping. What it doesn't do is connect those highlights to the rest of what you know. This connection brings them into Fabric, where they join everything else you've saved.

What you get when you connect Readwise

Connecting Readwise imports your existing highlights and annotations into Fabric, and then keeps new ones syncing in automatically as you make them. So the passages you've already curated, and every one you add from here on, land in your Fabric library without you moving anything by hand.

What comes across is your highlights and the notes and annotations you've attached to them, along with the source they came from. The original work itself, the full book or article, doesn't sync, since that lives with the publisher, but the parts you cared enough to mark, and your own thinking on them, do.

The result is that the reading you've distilled down to its best parts stops living in a separate app. It sits with your notes, documents, and everything else, in one place.

Searchable by meaning, alongside everything else

Your highlights get the same treatment as everything else in Fabric. Each one is searchable by meaning, so you can find a passage by describing the idea in it, months or years later, even if you don't remember which book or article it came from or the words it used.

They connect outward, too. A highlight you saved from one book sits alongside the note you wrote on the same theme, the article you clipped, and the highlight from a different author making a related point, because Fabric maps the relationships across your whole library. This is where highlights become more than a list: the passage you marked two years ago resurfaces next to what you're thinking about today. And the AI assistant can work across your highlights, pulling together what you've marked on a topic, comparing how different authors treated an idea, or drawing on your reading to help with what you're working on.

How people use it

Readers building a body of knowledge bring years of Kindle and article highlights into Fabric and find them by meaning, so their reading becomes a resource they can actually draw on rather than an archive they never reopen.

Writers and researchers connect Readwise so the passages they've marked sit alongside their own notes and drafts, and surface when a related idea comes up in their work.

Anyone keeping a commonplace book lets their highlights flow into Fabric and connect to everything else, building the kind of cross-referenced collection of ideas a commonplace book is meant to be.

Lifelong learners keep adding highlights in Readwise and let Fabric make the whole growing collection searchable and connected, so what they read keeps paying off long after they read it.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Readwise connection do?

It imports your existing Readwise highlights and annotations into Fabric and keeps new ones syncing in automatically. Everything synced is searchable by meaning and connected to the rest of your library.

Is it a one-time import or ongoing?

Both. It brings in your existing highlights when you connect, then keeps syncing new ones automatically as you make them, so your Fabric stays current with your Readwise.

What comes across from Readwise?

Your highlights and the annotations and notes attached to them, along with the source they came from. The full original work, the book or article itself, doesn't sync, but the passages you highlighted and your notes on them do.

Are my highlights searchable by meaning?

Yes. They get Fabric's full treatment, semantic search, connections to your other material, and access by the AI assistant, the same as anything else you save.

Can the AI assistant work with my highlights?

Yes. The AI assistant can gather what you've highlighted on a topic, compare how different authors treated an idea, or draw on your reading to help with your work.

How is this different from the RSS Feeds connection?

The RSS Feeds connection captures whole articles from sources you follow as they publish. Readwise brings in the highlights you've already curated, the specific passages you marked and annotated, rather than full pieces. One collects what a source publishes; the other brings in the best of what you've read.

Do my highlights connect to the rest of my Fabric?

Yes. A highlight sits alongside your notes, clippings, and other highlights on the same theme, connected by meaning, so related ideas surface together rather than staying siloed.

Is my data private?

Yes. Everything in Fabric is encrypted in transit and at rest and is visible only to you. The details are in the privacy and security guide and Fabric's privacy commitment.

Does Fabric work with other sources too?

Yes. Readwise is one of many connections. You can also bring in content from Google Drive, Notion, and Gmail, and search across all of it together.