11 Matching Annotations
  1. Mar 2022
    1. Not only does inline tagging make it easy to add keywords and categories to your highlights, consistent use will also elevate your reading practice to the next level. Distilling a highlight down to a single keyword or forging an association between a passage and something you're working on are both forms of actively engaging with what you're reading. And actively (rather than passively) reading is essential to getting more of what you want out of books

      Adding keywords isn't just to make finding things easier later on, the act of associating a highlight with a keyword or linking it to a project through a tag elevates your reading to be active rather than simply passive.

    2. In practice, you might not want to type out the full word .probability because typing without a keyboard can be frustrating. To help you type less, we created a shorthand feature. In the example above, you could note the passage .prob instead of .probability. The highlight would initially be tagged prob, but once you rename the shorthand a single time, Readwise will thereafter be trained to automatically convert to all .prob tags to .probability.

      Readwise does tag expansion, use a shorthand tag name such as .prob and rename that in Readwise to .probability and from then on Readwise will expand the tag name from there. If slashes are okay in a inline tag name this would make it easy to expand .question to .annotation/question.

  2. Feb 2022
    1. Simply highlight a passage and add a note beginning with a period (.) followed by a single word or abbreviation (with no spaces).

      To add a tag to an annotation simple use a . followed by a single word to create that tag like .productivity or .InProgress.

      I need to find out if / characters will break it.

    2. Keyword tags can help you quickly recall a passage's content, reference relevant material on a topic of interest, or identify interesting patterns in your thinking. And categorical tags can help you organize your highlights into actionable workflows for later use.

      Interesting way to classify different kind of tags, keyword tags are topical while categorical tags that are associated with automated actions.

  3. Dec 2021
    1. To use inline tagging, simply add the note .probability in addition to the highlight. When it's imported into Readwise, the passage will be tagged accordingly.

      .ReadWise

  4. Sep 2021
    1. Reading at a Higher Level Not only does inline tagging make it easy to add keywords and categories to your highlights, consistent use will also elevate your reading practice to the next level. Distilling a highlight down to a single keyword or forging an association between a passage and something you're working on are both forms of actively engaging with what you're reading. And actively (rather than passively) reading is essential to getting more of what you want out of books

      .tag-why .read-howto

    2. Keyword tags can help you quickly recall a passage's content, reference relevant material on a topic of interest, or identify interesting patterns in your thinking. And categorical tags can help you organize your highlights into actionable workflows for later use.

      .c1 .tag-whyto Use both Keyword and Categorical tags.

    3. inline tagging — the subject of this guide — makes it even easier because adding keywords and categories in the moment is much faster than adding them after the fact.

      .c2

    4. An inline tag is a special note taken while you read that's automatically converted into a tag in Readwise. Tagging in the moment is much faster than tagging after the fact, and once your highlights have keywords and categories, they're much easier to review and reference.

      .tag-howto

    5. An inline tag is a special note taken while you read that's automatically converted into a tag

      Take this idea and apply it across various contexts, there's no reason for it to only be applicable within one specific application

  5. Sep 2020
    1. So how do you use inline tagging to add keywords and categories while you read? Simply highlight a passage and add a note beginning with a period (.) followed by a single word or abbreviation (with no spaces).

      .productivity