So interesting! I’ve been trying to figure out my own process and how I want to bring Readwise notes into obsidian. I think I’ve landed on keeping the highlights themselves in Readwise and just linking from the vault.
I kept having the issue of adding notes during my Readwise Daily reviews that would never make it into Obsidian because I’d already imported the highlight.
I just need to figure out how I want to keep track of like a to-do section of things I want to bring in or connections that I’ve noted in Readwise but aren’t in my vault yet.
It’s a more manual process, but these days I find myself seeing the value in friction
I'm a big fan of manual processes for a lot of things, which is one reason I take a lot of analog notes. For me the primary advantage of Obsidian is that it has EVERYTHING, and the search is comprehensive and blazing-fast. I keep my Readwise stuff in a dedicated folder in its "unchanged" form, and periodically do a bulk resync, then make extra copies of things I've changed myself. It ends up making the vault bigger, but I can always filter out different folders if I don't want to see duplicate content.
I'm never "up to date" with getting all the notes I made in Readwise cleaned up and tidy in Obsidian, but they're still useful even in their raw form, and I'm generally okay with reading more than I end up creating with. Everything in its proper season, etc. Sometimes I go months without manually *making* any notes in Obsidian, but the vault is still useful.
So interesting! I’ve been trying to figure out my own process and how I want to bring Readwise notes into obsidian. I think I’ve landed on keeping the highlights themselves in Readwise and just linking from the vault.
I kept having the issue of adding notes during my Readwise Daily reviews that would never make it into Obsidian because I’d already imported the highlight.
I just need to figure out how I want to keep track of like a to-do section of things I want to bring in or connections that I’ve noted in Readwise but aren’t in my vault yet.
It’s a more manual process, but these days I find myself seeing the value in friction
I'm a big fan of manual processes for a lot of things, which is one reason I take a lot of analog notes. For me the primary advantage of Obsidian is that it has EVERYTHING, and the search is comprehensive and blazing-fast. I keep my Readwise stuff in a dedicated folder in its "unchanged" form, and periodically do a bulk resync, then make extra copies of things I've changed myself. It ends up making the vault bigger, but I can always filter out different folders if I don't want to see duplicate content.
I'm never "up to date" with getting all the notes I made in Readwise cleaned up and tidy in Obsidian, but they're still useful even in their raw form, and I'm generally okay with reading more than I end up creating with. Everything in its proper season, etc. Sometimes I go months without manually *making* any notes in Obsidian, but the vault is still useful.