# Organizing my reading with Readwise Reader Created: 2023_07_31 00:23 Tags: [[Readwise Reader]] [[PKM]] ![[Pasted image 20231015140349.png| The Reading View]] I absolutely love the Readwise Reader application. It has three key benefits for me: organization, tagging and review. ### Organization ![[Pasted image 20231015140507.png| The List View]] I have thought about for a while how I can go about [[Streaming Information into a PKM System]]. And at the time of writing that, it was all very theoretical without an actual workflow in mind, much less one that was in practice. Readwise on the other hand, gives me the flexibility I need (via tagging) with the ease of use that will actually get me to do it. If you make things easier, you are more likely to do it, per the [[B.J. Fogg Behavior Model]]. I have been using a basic set of tags to organize the things that I read. This is for two reasons, one is fewer decisions (is this software design or software architecture?) and the other is so that when they sync back into my Obsidian vault they will be in a known format. Some examples of tags that I use are: - [[Psychology]] - [[Software]] - [[Advice]] - [[Business]] ### Reading One thing about Readwise is the consistency of reading things all within the same app and format. Every website has a different format, different fonts, banner ads, weird color schemes. Readwise scrapes the content that you actually want and puts it into a distraction-free yet powerful interface. For example, I really enjoy how keyboard driven it is. Normally browsing is very mouse heavy, scrolling, clicking links and so on. Not with Readwise, it allows you to go through its entire website through keyboard shortcuts, want to scroll down a paragraph? Arrow down once. Want to highlight the paragraph? Just hit 'h'. It makes going through articles at a time a breeze, all in a consistent and distraction-free way. I know that it is not quite there yet, but I have even found it to be a pleasure to read e-books within the application. It could use some work on how it handles particularly large e-books and perhaps splitting things into pages, but even just for the keyboard navigation alone, it is worth reading a book on it. ## References -