> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://blog.warrenweb.net/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Read Workflow - URL: https://blog.warrenweb.net/read-workflow/ - Published: 2024-07-30T22:08:56.000Z - Updated: 2025-06-28T21:24:49.000Z - Description: Integrate Arc Browser, Readwise Reader, and Obsidian in this new series of notes. - Author: Doug Warren - Tags: PKM, Workflow Today I'm beginning a series of notes about the read-it-later app Readwise [Reader](https://blog.warrenweb.net/reader/). I focus on how I integrate Reader into my [PKM](https://blog.warrenweb.net/pkm) system using the [LYT](https://blog.warrenweb.net/lyt) ARC framework. My workflow for linked notes uses Reader with my primary apps: [Arc Browser](https://blog.warrenweb.net/arc-browser) and [Obsidian](https://blog.warrenweb.net/obsidian). ## Reader Bring all your digital reading for different content types into an integrated environment where you can import, organize, annotate, and manage what you consume. First, I am creating notes about the [Reader](https://blog.warrenweb.net/reader/) app, and API. This includes examples and screenshots for web articles, EPUB books, PDF documents, email newsletters, YouTube videos, X/Mastodon threads, Kindle and Books highlights, Snipd podcast highlights, and RSS feeds. You can even create and import Obsidian notes or Drafts freeform text directly into Reader (via [Shortcuts](https://blog.warrenweb.net/404/) and [Reader API](https://blog.warrenweb.net/reader-api/)), or even OCR text scans from physical books using the mobile app. ## Read later I explore its many unique features for highlighting and saving content using browser extensions so I can read, watch, or listen to later. Also, I focus on that I will explore integration with [Drafts](https://blog.warrenweb.net/drafts/), [Obsidian](https://blog.warrenweb.net/obsidian/), and [OmniFocus](https://blog.warrenweb.net/omnifocus/) via [Reader API](https://blog.warrenweb.net/reader-api). It can streamline your reading, highlighting, and notemaking processes across online content that you encounter. It serves as a great anti-library buffer between what you consume on the internet and your Obsidian notes. It helps my focus and avoid distractions significantly during my [ARC ideation workflow](https://blog.warrenweb.net/arc-ideation/) as I add, relate, and communicate my ideas as they emerge from sparks and remarks to notes, maps, links, and outputs. ## Arc browser I use a *Read* space in [Arc Browser](https://blog.warrenweb.net/arc-browser/) where I do all my reading. I have Reader in my Favorites, along with folders and tabs with links for major Reader sections. I open [Little Arc](https://blog.warrenweb.net/arc-little-arc) windows whenever I click links in other apps where I read those web pages without impacting my main Arc window with temporary tabs. If it's something I want to read, watch, or listen, I simply tap the *Open in Read* button, and Arc saves it to my Read space. If appropriate, I can use the Reader browser extension to highlight and annotate any web page. ## Reader API The Reader API provides a REST interface to list and create documents in your Reader Library. Also, there is a related Readwise API that offers a way to work with your books and highlights. I will describe these APIs, and include examples for JavaScript, Python, and Swift. Also, I will include Postman collections with requests for checking out the API functions on your Reader Library. ## Integration My notes are created, developed, and published using Obsidian. And they will also be available via Obsidian Publish online. Since [Shortcuts](https://blog.warrenweb.net/shortcuts) has actions that can invoke REST APIs, I will include shortcut examples that use the Reader API along with Actions for Obsidian to demonstrate how to integrate Reader with Obsidian notes in my workflows. I use [Actions for Obsidian](https://blog.warrenweb.net/actions-for-obsidian) extensively for integrating Obsidian with many apps and APIs for my workflows and automation support. ## Swift examples I will develop a Swift application for macOS and iOS with SwiftUI user interface and SwiftData database that uses the Reader API. This will provide an interesting way to explore various Swift features while demonstrating how it can be applied to integrating Reader with Obsidian. ## Publishing notes This is a new effort that I have started in my PKM system using my main Obsidian vault (Ideavese). I have already established a map where I have collected and clustered existing notes that I will refactor while writing about this topics. As I write, link, and develop these notes, they will begin appearing in my WarrenWeb vault; these notes will be available online in a WarrenWeb Notes digital garden for my Plus subscribers. Eventually, these notes will mature and be released on my WarrenWeb website as pages and posts over time. Please subscribe and follow me on this journey.