Search Your Highlights and Saved Articles Through Readwise

You can connect Readwise to your muse to search the highlights and saved articles you have collected over years, read your daily review, and export your notes, by asking in plain words.

What it does

Readwise stores two things: highlights, the passages you marked in books and articles, and Reader, where you save articles and documents for later. Connected, your muse reads both. Ask for highlights on a topic and it searches what you marked, not the whole internet. Ask what is in your daily review and it reads that day's set. Ask about a saved document and it opens it with its details, its highlights, and its tags. It keeps your own notes separate from quoted text, so you can tell what an author wrote from what you wrote. It can also check an export's status until it finishes. Reading runs without asking. Every change, such as a new highlight, a bulk tag edit, or an export, asks for your approval first.

How to use it

1. Check the connection in your muse. If Readwise is not connected, the muse gives you a connect link. Sign in once through that link. Never paste a password into the chat.
2. Start with a search you can check: "Find my highlights about sleep," then open one result and confirm it matches what you marked.
3. Ask for the daily review when you want a short reading session: "Show me today's review."
4. When you change something, read the item first. The muse works from the exact record it found, so confirm that record is the right one before you approve a tag, a move, or a new highlight.
5. For an export, ask for it, approve it, then ask for the export status until it reports finished.

What you need

• A muse account
• A Readwise account, with highlights or saved documents already in it for the searches to find

What to watch for

• Search only finds what you saved. An empty result means it was never collected, not that it does not exist.
• If a change seems to fail or times out, do not repeat it right away. Readwise may have completed it. Ask the muse to read the item first, and only then decide whether a second try is needed.
• Highlights are short passages taken out of longer works. If a quote matters, open the source and read it in context before you reuse it.
• The muse prepares, you decide. Approvals are the check that keeps a tidy library from becoming a shuffled one.