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Readwise highlights sync into Twos as lists, one per source.
Why you'd care
Highlights are the classic write-only archive. Syncing them into Twos puts them where you search everything else, and makes them eligible for memories and spaced repetition.
Before you start
- A Readwise account with highlights in it
- Your Readwise access token
Connect
Add the token in Settings Integrations Readwise. Your existing highlights start coming across within a few minutes, even if you close the page. Sync now brings them in right away.
How often it syncs
About once an hour, Twos checks Readwise for new highlights and adds them. You do not need to open settings or press anything.
Sync now runs a sync on the spot, which is handy right after a reading session. Running it again never duplicates highlights you already have.
A large first import (thousands of highlights) can take a little while to finish in the background. Sync now gets through it faster.
If Readwise stops accepting your token, for example because you generated a new one, syncing stops. Paste the new token in settings to start it again.
What comes across
Highlights, grouped into a list per book or article, with the source as the list name.
Removing it
Remove the token in settings. Lists already created stay, since they are ordinary lists at that point. Delete or archive them if you do not want them.
Going further
It can create a lot of lists. A heavy Readwise library becomes a large number of book lists. Archiving the ones you are done with keeps the Lists view usable. See archive.
Memorize the handful that matter. Syncing everything and memorizing three highlights a week is a better system than syncing and never reading.