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Readwise to Obsidian

Lately, one of my biggest complaints is that I have setup a beautiful daily periodic notes setup. As I’m using readwise more and more, I wanted to have my quotes displayed in a beautiful format! I’ve put together this code for putting together my images. I’ll add more details sporadically to this post, how it works, and how it looks!

Example of a quote in my new system
Example of a quote in my new system

The repository works in 2-steps tied together by the values in a config file.

Script 1 Creates a local CSV with columns taken from Readwise, and adds two: CommonPlace & Updated.

Script 2 Depending on the presence of Y in each row of CommonPlace & Updated, a note will either be generated in obsidian or updated.

Using a templater template as dedicated by the config file, each note is formatted into a neat quotes callout. Unfortunately, this is a slow script, as templater does not seem to work if the script is accelerated…