A note-taking app loses half its value if you can't get your notes into it.

Readwise is a fantastic platform that automatically syncs notes from various sources such as your Kindle highlights.

When getting started, I found a lot of resources on how to set up Readwise, but there was a tonne of blind spots. How do you take notes on different media, such as YouTube?

These are the best tools I've found for getting notes into Readwise:

Take notes on videos using TubersLab.com.

YouTube is one of the greatest places to learn from niche experts in almost any area you can think of. But how do you remember what you watched?

TubersLab is a free chrome extension that lets you take notes right next to any YouTube video, with timestamps, and screenshots. It has a Readwise integration that works quite well.

Now I use this to take notes on almost every video where I learn something.

Take notes on any website with Hypothes.is.

One of the things I find more and more is that I want to annotate or highlight information on random pages or docs.

Hypothesis is a chrome extension that lets you take notes on almost any webpage. Simply highlight the text, and Hypothesis will let you take save annotate or comment. It works for any webpage and pdfs.

It has become something I use for almost anything I want to remember online.

Take notes on podcasts (on Android) with Momento.fm

I listen to a lot of podcasts. I have a podcast. Podcasts are an amazing learning resource.

Momento for Android is a pretty good app that allows you to quickly capture 30-60 second transcriptions of clips. And it has a Readwise integration! Unfortunately, there were quite a few bugs in the app when I first tried it, so I rarely use it.

Some of the transcriptions that I did take, however, turned out perfectly, and can be great learning prompts when they come up in Readwise reviews.

I've gone back to simply copying a Spotify URL into Roam, and writing the notes myself. Sometimes with timestamps for long podcasts.

I really wish there were something more like TubersLab for podcasts. I actually started watching the Huberman Lab Podcast on YouTube instead of Spotify so I could do this.

If anyone out there has a recommendation, please let me know!

Instapaper.com for Read-it-later and emails

I've yet to receive an invite to the Reaswise Reader app beta 😉 so I'm still using Instapaper for a read-it-later list.

It also happens to be the only good way I've found to capture email content in a form that lets me take and sync notes. Whenever I receive an email from a newsletter that I really enjoy, I'll forward it to my Instapaper Read Later email, and hopefully remember to take notes in there.

I really wish I could use Instapaper directly from inside my email browser, but I use Superhuman and they seem to interfere with each other.

You can get almost anything into Roam with Readwise.

Readwise is an amazing piece of automation for capturing all the learnings you consume to your Digital Garden to grow and flourish.

By enabling it to sync daily, you'll also automatically maintain a list of every resource you've learned from, and the day you did it.

While the system I've got now doesn't cover everything, I'm incredibly happy with the amount of new information I have re-learned thanks to Readwise.