May 18, 2023 / Files in Documents, 🌁 Images on Board View, Dynamic values in relation filters, Readwise integration

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Awesome, thanks!

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Couple things I’m noticing with the Readwise integration:

  1. It seems to only (see next comment) import “Books” from Readwise dashboard. It would be great if it also could import items from Readwise’s Reader.

  2. Relatedly, I do see an entity in the “Books” database created in the Fibery import for an article that I added a note to in Reader, but did not make any highlights on. This article does not appear in my Readwise dashboard because there are no highlights, but somehow it is being imported to Fibery (the name of the entity in Fibery is a seemingly random string of characters too).

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The Readwise integration should import/sync Highlights and Books (which are the sources of the highlights, which may actually be other things than books!)
I don’t know why you’re not seeing a Highlights database, assuming you ticked it during integration configuration. If not, try re-configuring.

I don’t know why the Readwise dashboard does not display Books for which there are no Highlights.

The integration just uses the info provided by the Readwise API based on the calls ‘Highlights List’ and ‘Books List’. You could check what these are returning in your specific case by using an API test service (e.g. https://reqbin.com/).
If you find that the integration has a mismatch with this, please let us know.
If the output is not what you expect from what you see on your Readwise dashboard, then I guess you need to contact the Readwise people.

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@Chr1sG I think we might be talking about slightly different things, tried to clarify below (primarily for others coming to this convo). I think ultimately I got the answer though.

Understood entities imported from Readwise may not be books. I just put it in quotes to signal that that’s what the name of the Fibery db is after import.

I do see a highlights db, no problem there. Notes are different from highlights: they’re applied to the document itself, not specific elements within the document (those are the highlights). I see now in the Readwise API doc that notes are transmitted in the API, so that explains that.

tl;dr Seems like to import entities from the Reader application that don’t have a highlight or note, Readwise would have to update their API.

edit: There is a Reader API, but it only allows saving Documents to Reader for now. Something to keep an eye on.

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Yep, I only mentioned it for anyone who wasn’t aware - not related to your issue :blush:

Sorry. I jumped to the wrong conclusion.

I get you now. There does seem to be a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde behaviour with Readwise Reader and Readwise dashboard. I’m not sure how they expect users to use them both, but for sync purposes we are limited by the current API capabilities :frowning:

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