Readwise and Reader are excellent tools for highlighting books, PDFs, articles and more.

The Capacities and Readwise integration allows you to selectively import specific documents as Capacities objects.

From here, you can start working with them: Connect it to other notes, add notes, or turn highlights into objects so you can make the most of what you read.

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Readwise and Readwise Reader work together behind the scenes. So everything below applies to both products.

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How it works

Once connected, you can sync your Readwise or Reader documents, along with all its highlights, into Capacities.

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Capacities will not automatically synchronize all your existing documents in Readwise and Reader to your notes. There are two explicit ways to get content into Capacities. You can read why we built the integration that way here.

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1. By adding a “Sync tag” to your document in Readwise or Reader

   All documents in Readwise or Reader tagged with your “sync tag” will get synchronized to Capacities. If you continue adding highlights, the will also get added to Capacities.

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   If you only have one space configured in the integration settings you also have the option to “Auto-import all new content” so you don’t have to manually apply the tag every time for new document.

2. By using the “Import from Readwise” option in Capacities

   You can either search for “Import from Readwise” in the command palette and then search for your document in Readwise or Reader.

   Open the search bar (Cmd P / Ctrl P) > Type Readwise > Click ‘Import from Readwise’ > Search the title > Click to import

   

   Or you can click on the “Import from Readwise” option on the “New” button in your object types you linked to in the settings.

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   Capacities will apply the “sync tag” to your Readwise or Reader documents and will synchronize the document from now on.

The integration is one-way synchronized. Objects and properties get created once in Capacities but not updated afterwards. Highlights from Readwise and Reader will get synchronized but changes to them will not be synchronized.

Any changes in Capacities will not get synchronized back to Readwise or Reader. Capacities is the place where you process your notes. You can do this without affecting your documents in Readwise or Reader.

Connect Capacities to Readwise

Go to Settings > Readwise Integration and click on “Connect to Readwise” to give Capacities access to your Readwise and Reader content.

Configure the Integration

In the integration settings, you can select a set of spaces you want to synchronize content to.

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