My workflow to work with Kindle highlights

One feature I’m really looking forward to in Capacities: an integration with Readwise to sync all my Kindle highlights automatically.

I’ve recently been playing with my Amazon Kindle highlights and exported them via email from my iPad. It is a great way to review all my highlights after finishing a book…

Learning new vocab

For my reading in French, this mostly involves unknown vocab, which I highlight in a certain color. Using our AI integration in Capacities, I was able to generate a neat markdown table with the German translation of each word and an example sentence in French. I was amazed at how well this worked and how suited the example sentences were.

Deepening my understanding

For another book, I was more interested in highlighted sections. I did some manual formatting to make them look nice and added toggles to the chapter headings. You can see the result in the screenshot. For me, this is a great way to work through the key sections of a book and deepen my understanding.

Keeping track of key personalities

Whenever I highlight a person using the color blue, I go on to create a person object for my people database. This way, I remember the key personalities involved in a topic and can do further research on them.

Let the AI assistant explain concepts

For example, when I was encountering the Cantillon effect, I asked the AI assistant to briefly explain the concept to me:

While this works already really well, it requires a certain amount of manual formatting. That’s why I am looking forward to a Readwise integration to fully automate this process.

Let me know what you think!