We’re certainly not the first to lament the ineffectiveness of reading compared to what it could be with technology. With the right software, we believe this is possible. Helping people to better achieve the objectives that inspire them to read is what defines our mission because, if successful, it would unlock untold amounts of human capital. This might be to expand the boundaries of knowledge through original research to become a more eloquent speaker to inquire into the meaning of life or to simply internalize a memo for work. Reading for betterment can be pleasurable, but pleasure is not the ultimate intent.
#When reading a play the reader has to imagine the software#
Reading for betterment, on the other hand, is where we see the opportunity for software to improve reading by an order of magnitude. This kind of reading actually has been disrupted by technology, most notably by social media which is, at its core, a form of entertainment. This includes reading fictional books, of course, but also most newspapers, magazines, and casual web browsing. Reading for entertainment is any reading where the primary pursuit is pleasure. This kind of works, but what about blog posts? Newsletters? Long-form journalism? Twitter threads? Journal articles?įiction versus nonfiction now seems outdated so we've adopted an alternative dichotomy: "reading for entertainment" versus "reading for betterment". When people categorize books, they typically divide them into either fiction and nonfiction. Let us be clear on what we mean when we use the term "reading" throughout this post. Addressing the complaints above only scratches the surface of what should be possible with software-augmented reading. There's nothing more we can do." Our only option at this point is to craft our own reading experience intended for our high expectation customers.īut this isn't the whole story. There are dozens of other complaints like these and we’re done telling our users, "Tough luck.
The chief complaints we receive these days are about the limitations of the apps upstream from Readwise and, as a layer built on top, we’re not in a position to solve those problems. The simplest explanation for why we're building our own reading app is this is what our users have been asking for!
It connects seamlessly with all your other tools for thought such as Roam Research, Notion, Evernote, and Obsidian. It’s designed with a local-first, cross-platform architecture enabling blazingly fast interactions and full-text search across all of your devices (even offline). It serves both casual and power users, with the flexibility to accommodate a variety of consumer, professional, and academic use cases. It’s made to handle modern and established content alike, from Twitter threads to PDFs, and everything in-between. If you've used Instapaper or Pocket, it's like those except it's built for 2021 and beyond. Today, however, we're excited to announce a huge leap: We've built our own, fully-integrated reading app.Ĭurrently, our reading app (which we refer to as "Reader" for the time being) is a more powerful, more flexible version of the classic read-it-later app. This sounded just as ambitious when we originally wrote it in 2018, but we’ve made some meaningful steps since: thousands of customers, hundreds of millions of highlights, and more. Our mission here at Readwise is to improve the practice of reading through software by an order of magnitude.
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