Tutorial: How to Export Web Highlights into Readwise
People Who Would Benefit
Want to export selected sentences on the web articles into Readwise at once.
Use Readwise and want to cite sentences from web articles.
Why Glasp?
1. We don’t disturb your reading experience 💡
What you need is just highlighting sentences you like, which end within two seconds.
You don’t need to copy & paste sentences one by one while reading.
2. Export sentences you want at once 🙌
You don’t need to export the whole article and edit it later. You can export only the sentences you want.
And you can search collect a good collection of web articles and search them easily.
3. You can find like-minded people 📚
We have more than 7,000+ people who are avid readers, critical thinkers, note-takers, and lifelong learners in our community! So, you can find people with who you will learn together.
Things Needed
How to Install Glasp’s Browser Extension and Select Sentences You Want
1. Prepare a desktop and browser (Chrome, Brave, Edge, or Safari)
Glasp works only on Chrome, Brave, Edge, or Safari on the desktop. Firefox is upcoming soon!
Open the Glasp page from the link below.
2. Sign up for Glasp
Click Sign Up (beta), and create an account with Google. After you create an account, you’re taken to the Chrome Web Store.
3. Install the browser extension
Install Chrome, Edge, Brave, or Safari extension.
4. Go to the Home page
Once you installed the extension, you see the Welcome page with the side being opened.
Click the Glasp icon on the sidebar. It takes you to the Home page.
On the Home page, you’re asked to choose your favorite topic, so please do it.
5. Open an article you like, select and highlight sentences you want to export
Open an article and click the icon on the toolbar to open Glasp’s sidebar.
Select any sentences you want in the article. You see a popup showing up, then select any color you want (a red arrow at the left). You will see that the selected sentence is highlighted and added to the sidebar on the left.
After highlighting sentences, go to the Home page by clicking an icon at the top right on the sidebar (a red arrow at the right).
If you couldn’t highlight the sentence, please refresh the page and try it again 🙏
How to Export Sentences into Readwise
1. Go to your profile page by clicking “My Highlights” at the top left
2. Click the Share button and “Export to Readwise”
You can cursor any article you like, so choose the article you want to export.
3. Input the Readwise’s Access Token
If you click
Readwise
on the popup, it takes you to theAccess Token
page on Readwise.After you input the access token, click
Save
.
4. Click the Share button and “Export to Readwise” again
As you did in Step 2, click the Share button and
Export to Readwise
.If it succeeds, it turns into
Exported! View on Readwise
.
5. Click “View on Readwise"
to see the exported sentence
By clicking
View on Readwise
, it opens a page on Readwise.
6. Check exported content on Readwise
See? It’s easy-peasy, right?
Tips
You can export highlights into Readwise through mobile devices, too!
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Thank you for reading! Hope this article helps you understand how to export web article’s highlighted sentences into Readwise with Glasp 😉
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See you next time,
Kei
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