alfred-readwise

An Alfred Workflow for your Readwise account

• Motivation
• Setting up
• Basic Usage
• Known Issues
• Acknowledgments
• Changelog
• Feedback

Motivation ✅

• Quickly list, search, and open your Readwise highlights
• Add new highlights to your account through Alfred

Setting up ⚙️

Needed

• Alfred 5 with Powerpack license
• A Readwise license
• Python3 (howto here)
• Download alfred-readwise latest release

Default settings

• In Alfred, open the 'Configure Workflow' menu in alfred-readwise preferences
  • set the keyword for the workflow (default: !r)
  • set the keyword to force refresh (default: readwise:refresh)
  • set the Readwise API token (login into your account, then copy it here)
  • set what to show in results: books, tweets, supplementals, articles, podcasts
  • set refresh rate (in days). Default: 30
  • set 'book' name from highlights entered via Alfred. Default: Highlights from Alfred
  • set search scope:
    • Highlight: search highlight text only
    • Book: search book titles only
    • Both (default): search across highlights and book titles

Basic Usage 📖

Searching your Readwise database 🔍

• launch with keyword (default: !r), or custom hotkey
• standard search will be through highlight text and book titles. Multiple word (fragments) supported
• typing # will prompt a label search which can be added to the standard search, multiple labels supported
  • enter ↩️ will show the highlight in large font and copy to clipboard
  • shift-enter ⇧↩️ will show the highlight in large font and copy to clipboard without closing Alfred
  • command-enter ⌘↩️ will open the source URL if available (typically for tweets)
  • ctrl-enter ^↩️ will open the highlight on Readwise
  • shift-ctrl-enter ⇧^↩️ will open all highlights from that book on Readwise
  • shift alone: Quicklook of your highlight.

Entering new highlights ⭐

• Universal Action: new highlights can be created by selecting text in any app, then launching Universal Actions and selecting Create a new Readwise highlight. The corresponding text will be assigned to a 'book' titled as set in alfred-readwise preferences (default: Highlights from Alfred).

Database refresh 🔄

• will occur according to the rate in days set in alfred-readwise preferences, or...
  • readwise:refresh to force database refresh

Limitations & known issues ⚠️

• None for now, but I have not done extensive testing, let me know if you see anything!

Acknowledgments 😀

• Thanks to the Alfred forum community!
• Icons:
  • https://www.iconarchive.com/show/multipurpose-alphabet-icons-by-hydrattz/Letter-R-violet-icon.html
  • https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/book_3145755?term=book&related_id=3145755
  • https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/podcast_2628834?term=podcast&page=1&position=8&origin=search&related_id=2628834
  • https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/twitter_3670151?term=tweet&page=1&position=3&origin=search&related_id=3670151
  • https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/additional_9710962?term=additional&page=1&position=12&origin=search&related_id=9710962
  • https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/tags_1374863?term=label&page=1&position=19&origin=search&related_id=1374863
  • https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/checkbox_1168610?term=done&page=1&position=18&origin=search&related_id=1168610
  • https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/operating-system_10294204?term=update&page=1&position=30&origin=search&related_id=10294204

Changelog 🧰

• 04-04-2023: version 0.1

Feedback 🧐

Feedback welcome! If you notice a bug, or have ideas for new features, please feel free to get in touch either here, or on the Alfred forum.