tl; dr Install plugin. Provide Readwise API key within API settings. Choose "Sync all":

⚠️ Warning: For larger libraries (over 300 books), the browser window may slow down or even freeze during the import process or after the import, during Amplenote's indexing process. What to do if that happens.

The Readwise plugin allows you to keep your Amplenote notebook synchronized with the reading that you have connected with your Readwise account. To get started syncing from Readwise:

1. Install this plugin (i.e., by clicking the "Install" button when you are logged in to Amplenote)
2. Visit your plugin settings (Settings -> Plugins). Click the settings icon on your Readwise plugin to open settings for Readwise.
3. Paste your Readwise API key into the "Readwise API key" field in its plugin settings. You can fetch your Readwise API key from this page on Readwise.
4. Change any other desired plugin settings, for example if there is a specific tag structure you want to use for where your highlights. Save your plugin settings and return to your notes.
5. Open the note that you want to serve as your index for your books. Then hit Ctrl-O or Cmd-O and type in "Sync all".

At this point, you will see that your notebook begins to import individual notes that correspond to books you have read. Each book note will be tagged in the structure you configured in plugin settings. If you choose "Sync all" again later, the plugin will only update highlights for books that have received new highlights since your previous sync.

This individual book notes play host to your full list of Readwise highlights and notes:



Each book will store up to 5,000 highlights you made.

If you make additional highlights within the book after your initial sync, you can run "Readwise: Sync All" again, OR you can visit the book's note directly (all notes will be tagged with the base tag you choose within your plugin settings, or the default "library" tag if nothing) and pick "Readwise: Sync this book" from the plugin choices in the note option menu.

When choosing which highlights to sync in from a book, the "Updated at" time from the book note's "Sync history" section (bottom of note) is used to ensure we don't double-grab books/highlights. If you would like to re-grab the highlights for a book, you will need to delete both the highlight(s) that are to be re-imported, and the "Sync history" update dates.

⚡ Development on this plugin is ongoing. You can follow what's being developed next at its GitHub repo.