One Idea at a Time

For over 2,120 consecutive days I have reviewed my notes. In that time I have tracked 386 books, collected 16,600 highlights, and reviewed 34,224 of them. This is not a finished system. It is the current state of something I have been rebuilding continuously for six years, and every layer in it exists because the previous version fell short somewhere. Here is how it works, what it actually delivers, and what I am changing next. Part one: the system Capture — Readwise. Everything lands in one place: Kindle, Kobo, email newsletters, Instapaper, X, and anything I type in myself. One rule governs this layer — saving costs nothing and commits me to nothing. Friction at the point of capture is what kills these systems, so there is none. Subscriptions — Readwise Reader. Articles and a subscription list that would otherwise be unmanageable, including more than 170 podcasts. The filter — Hermes. Video was the hardest input to handle. I used Snipd to pull insights out of it, and recently...