Readwise: tags should be backlinks
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Jonathan Wilson
When readwise highlights are imported into Reflect, they are currently imported as
#tag
. I propose they should be imported instead as
[[tag]]
.Suppose you are reading an article in readwise, highlight some text and tag it with "AI". This gets brought into Reflect as
#AI
.If you want to review everything related to "AI" in Reflect, it's now difficult; searching
#AI
yields only full notes, so you have to go to the note and search the note for AI to find it.If the readwise tag were instead imported as
[[AI]]
, you could go to the "AI" note and review the incoming backlines to get all of the information about AI in one view without having to search.I feel like this fits better into Reflect's model; the
#tag
typically means, "This note is a <tag>", e.g. #person, #company. If I've highlighted a section of text, that entire note in Reflect is not "an" AI, so it seems like backlink should be used.Alex MacCaw
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Alex MacCaw
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Mark Lamb
Ability to choose between the two would be good. Obsidian uses Readwise tags as tags, not backlinks.
Alex MacCaw
Mark Lamb: Sorry, we're gonna pick one or the other. I like keeping things simple and unconfigurable.
Alex MacCaw
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Alex MacCaw
Okay - you guys have me convinced. Sorry for being a curmudgeon
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Simon Summermatter
Alex MacCaw: Thanks. Never mind. We made it on top of the trending list :-)
Daniel Wentsch
I second this. I really don’t like how Readwise sync currently messes up my rarely used Reflect tags.
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Troy Gasnier
Daniel Wentsch: So if you were to categorize something like AI or Hiring, you'd make it a note, not a tag? I think when I moved from Roam to Reflect I didn't catch that this was such a big difference between the two.
Daniel Wentsch
Troy Gasnier: yes, I use tags for a notes type and sometimes it’s status, but usually not in a topical way.
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Satyajeet Pal
Agree with this! Readwise tags seem a lot closer to backlinks in Reflect than tags
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Jamie Edwards
Totally agree with this. Readwise's definition of tags is fundamentally different and broader to Reflect's. Importing Readwise tags as Reflect tags also breaks Reflect and Alex's recommended philosophy around note taxonomy (tagging vs backlinking, etc).
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Simon Summermatter
readwise only knows #tags (and no backlinks). The use of #tags in readwise is therefore broader than in reflect.