Reader

The read-it-later app Readwise Reader is one of the primary apps in my PKM system. I integrate Reader into my PKM system using the LYT ARC framework. My read workflow for linked notes uses Reader with my primary apps: Arc Browser, Drafts, Obsidian, and Ghost.

Overview

Reader brings all your digital reading for different content types into an integrated environment where you can import, organize, annotate, and manage what you consume.

Features

Reader has many unique features that I will explore further

• Quickly save articles to Reader to read later
• Highlight and annotate content on web pages
• Browser extensions for diverse content types
• Distraction-free reading for web pages
• Cross-platform Arc Browser, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari
• Syncing between Readwise and Obsidian
• Import/export capability
• Integration with Drafts, Obsidian, and OmniFocus via 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 can help significantly in the ACE ideation workflow as I add, relate, and communicate from sparks to remarks as my ideas emerge.

Arc Browser

I use a Read space in 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 and other key reading apps like Flipboard, Medium, Substack, Kindle Books, Goodreads, and social media like Mastodon, X (formerly Twitter).

I open 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.

Obsidian

My PKM linked notes are created and developed in my private Ideaverse Obsidian vault, and promoted to my WarrenWeb digital garden when I want to share my content for what I'm thinking, linking, and sharing on my WarrenWeb Notes site via Obsidian Publish for Plus subscribers.

I use Actions for Obsidian extensively for integrating Obsidian with many apps and APIs for my workflows and automation support. And I will also show how I integrate Reader and Obsidian in my workflows.

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 with examples, Shortcuts for Obsidian integration, and developing a Swift application using SwiftUI and SwiftData technologies.

More coming...

First, I am creating notes about the 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 text directly into Reader (via Shortcuts and Reader API), or even OCR text scans from physical books using the mobile app.