My Digital Note-Taking System

How I use Readwise & Reader + Roam + Otter.ai + MyMind

If you write online, you need a note-taking system. Don’t believe anyone who says otherwise.

What you don’t need is a complicated note-taking system.

I see these online tutorials with elaborate tagging systems and color coding, and it makes my head spin. I find it hard to believe that whoever made those systems truly uses them for longer than a few weeks.

I’ve now been writing online for 18 months, and I’ve been slowly building my digital note-taking practice.

I’m now at a stage where I have a system that works well for me, with a few tools and simple routines I’ve picked up from different sources.

These are my 5 key tools:

• Readwise
• Readwise Reader [Beta]
• Roam
• MyMind
• Otter.ai

Before we jump in: this is not an in-depth guide or explanation of the features of each tool. I am simply going to describe how I use each one and how they interconnect.

📚 Readwise

Readwise is a tool that extracts all your highlights and notes from different platforms and stores them in one…