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Use Readwise to Track The Books You Want To Read
How to keep your TBR list in Readwise
I’m a big fan of the application Readwise. Readwise allows you to store, tag, and learn from all the books, articles, and even tweets you read every day. I’ve written a few other articles on Readwise (Making Notes Actionable with Readwise and Roam, Taking Physical Book Notes Digitally, and See Your Booklist in a Timeline with Readwise and Notion). Today, I’m back with a new use for Readwise — tracking your To Be Read list (aka, your TBR).
I’m currently trying to streamline the apps that I use daily to only have a few critical tools in my productivity stack. Within those apps, I’m also trying to use them for the thing or things they are best at. I was previously trying to track my reading list in my task list app and then in Notion. Both were okay but neither kept those notes with my actual book notes which are now stored in Readwise. Regardless of whether I listen to the book, read the book, or even just read a summary of the book on a service like Shortform, those notes go first to Readwise.
I realized that the notes feature of Readwise can actually be used for any type of note. It does not have to be a direct quote from a book, article, or tweet. It can be what that specifically thing made you think about that you want to recall and have…
