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Remember what matters. Apply what helps.

Turn highlights from books and podcasts into ideas you remember and actions you take.

ReadThatMatters is a highlight manager and personal learning workspace: keep your book highlights and podcast notes together, revisit them with recall questions, and apply what you learn.

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A source in the workspace, shown with example content: a highlight, your note, and an action to try.

Good ideas are easy to forget — and harder to use.

You underline a line that feels important, nod along to a podcast, and a week later it's gone. Even the ideas you remember rarely turn into something you do. ReadThatMatters gives each idea a second and third look, then a small, concrete way to try it.

Get more from what you read and watch.

Organize book highlights and notes

Add a book, article, or pasted text and save the lines worth keeping. Write your own note on each highlight, tag sources by topic, and search everything in one place.

YouTube podcast notes with timestamps

Add a YouTube podcast or talk and watch it inside the source. Save a highlight at the current moment so its timestamp takes you back to that point later. Transcripts can be pasted in by hand.

Revisit highlights with active recall

Short review sessions ask you to recall an idea before you see it. Rate how it went and the next review is scheduled further out — a simple form of spaced repetition for your highlights. You can write your own questions too.

Turn highlights into actions

Connect an idea to your situation, decide on something small to try, and track it. When you finish or stop, write down what happened and what you would change.

Beta availability

Everything above works today in a private account saved to the cloud, with Markdown and JSON export. Not available yet:

  • Highlights are added by hand — no Kindle, Readwise, or podcast-app import yet.
  • No automatic transcripts — paste a transcript yourself.
  • AI suggestions aren't connected yet.

Frequently asked questions

It's a highlight manager and personal learning workspace. You save highlights and notes from books, articles, and YouTube podcasts, revisit them in short recall reviews, and turn useful ideas into small actions you can track.

All features currently available in the beta are free to use. We may introduce optional paid features in the future.

Books, articles, pasted text, and YouTube videos. You add highlights yourself by typing them or by pasting a passage or transcript and selecting from it. Kindle sync, file import, and automatic transcripts are not available yet.

A review shows a prompt and asks you to answer from memory before revealing the highlight. You rate how it went, and the next review is scheduled sooner or later depending on your answer, so ideas come back at intervals instead of being forgotten in a list.

From any highlight, create an action: what you'll try, why it matters to you, and how you'll know it worked. Mark its progress, and when it's done or dropped, record the outcome.

Only you. Your sources, highlights, and actions are tied to your account. You can export everything or delete your account from the Account page.

Start with one book or one episode.

Free during beta. No credit card required.

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