Native Readwise to Tana Export!

[@erinmuur]

Thanks for being the first person to preview this integration! I know a lot of folks are going to benefit :)

[@cortexfuturatools]

Thank you all for your great work on it!

[@vicky__p]

First half - straightforward instructional video about how to link Readwise and Tana: thank you! Second half - how to integrate generative AI to create huge swathes of potentially meaningful ideas from a single quote: MIND IS BLOWN, WHAT IS HUMANITY ANYWAY?!?!?!

[@cortexfuturatools]

heh - great you love it :)

[@jwack]

Readwise seems to have made this the default setup now. I didn't have to change the export settings. Nice job! Thanks for all your content. It's helped me a ton.

[@alanhesketh3766]

Thank you for putting this out - I've been making do with Tana Paste, waiting and wishing for this integration. You have provided some very practical guidance on how to use it and things to avoid (careful with those ReadWise created nodes!) as well as building on the basics with your AI commands. Another great contribution to using Tana.

[@cortexfuturatools]

Thank you Alan!

[@KirbyFerguson]

FANTASTIC!

[@cortexfuturatools]

Great to hear! 🙏

[@mhabib306]

Just grateful for the effort you put here. Thank you.

[@jiangsir666]

Thank you very, very much.

[@cortexfuturatools]

Glad you like it!

[@centerbfd]

I notice that Readwise has incorporated the code you recommend putting into its default highlight code box from the start. That is, if you click "reset," you get the box filled out as you recommend.

[@centerbfd]

Oh, except that you have a #note tag, and Readwise doesn't.

[@anthonychau3097]

Great video, as always Lukas! I've missed your videos while you've been on vacation. Just a quick question - with the "get topics" AI command, are the topics generated completely new ones, or does AI also embed topics already existing in your system? I use your TanaMind setup and just don't want duplicates of #topics in my system.

[@cortexfuturatools]

Hey, thank you! The "Get Topics" AI command is going to re-use existing topics in your system :)

[@anthonychau3097]

Thank you Lukas! Can't wait to try out this integration with Tanarian brain@@cortexfuturatools

[@whatever3043]

This is fantastic. I have integrated this in my Tana Zettelkasten system. Before, I had to enter the topic keywords manually. And on first view, it seems that ChatGPT produces way more keywords (and some really intelligent ones) and thus creates more connections.👍🏻

[@n_spencer]

A few updates I found that might be helpful for others: - When you are configuring the #highlight super tag, the updated place to put the commands is under "AI and Commands," not Advanced. - I had trouble copying and pasting to reference the correct node. I found success instead by going to the destination where you were going to paste, pressing @, and then finding the referenced node. For example, in my first bullet above, to put in a button for the Get Topics, I went into AI and Commands, and under Command Palate, type @ and then select Get Topics. - It was unclear in the video how to get the generated topics auto-labeled as #topics. Here's how: go to your main workspace, click the three dots at the top right, and press open schema; you should see the Topic (s) listed. If you click that and open it, you should see a Supertag option, where you type in #topic. Then when you use the Get Topics button the results will be labeled with #topic

[@carlcasca9037]

Hi Lukas, Thanks for the great video. Is this still the current best practice? When Tana announced the beta last week, they said it has more Readwise integration. But I didn’t see much about what that new integration is? Any thoughts? Thank you.

[@demancey]

Now I need a way to quickly access my notes from my phone then I’m sold !

[@cortexfuturatools]

Ha, we're all waiting for that 😁

[@CurlysCurated]

Great work. The merging crucial! Out of curiousity why did you opt for a command node with topic rather than an AI field? My guess is that the button allows you to apply in on a case by case basic, whereas the field would mean an implicit assumption that you want topics for every quote. Just curious if there was any other reasoning that I was missing. Also, I love the Apply This concept!

[@cortexfuturatools]

That's basically it :) Having a separate command also let's you do the following with an AI field: Instead of {$ for t in highlight_tags %} {{t}} {%endfor %} you can do: {% for t in highlight_tags %} {{t}} | {% endfor %} (notice the pipe character!) And then ask the AI field to turn everything in that field that is separated by pipe characters into individual nodes. That lets you parse all your Readwise tags - but you can only do either (extract all topics OR parse Readwise highlights). I didn't want to make the video more complicated than it already is, so I opted for the version where you get the command node/button but are still free to configure your topic(s) field however you like.

[@noahm2259]

Nice tutorial but RW has updated its interface with Tana recently. Would appreciate if you do a updated one

[@ItzzEvannOfficial]

would be decent if I could actually use this and wasn’t on the waitlist since early may 😅

[@juschenten]

Hi Likas, just connected Readwise to Tana and it works very well so far. But then I realized that photos and graphics are not imported - can this be?

[@juschenten]

Sorry Lukas!

[@m_ashcroft]

oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy

[@cortexfuturatools]

:)

[@jennylynneh]

The Get Topics command is only working 1% of the time all of a sudden.

[@danielenning733]

i realy love tana but sometimes it is so complicated. like this example. you ne a 40min video to explain and setup what other apps do with one click out of the box 🙂

[@cortexfuturatools]

I think that's generally fair, but have you seen the import templates people write for Obsidian? This is a really, really small template compared to that.

[@jennylynneh]

I would hug you if I could.