In this 20-minute video demo + interview, Readwise Reader co-founder Daniel Doyon talks about how he uses Reader, what it's useful for, and why there was a need for the product given the stagnation of other services like Instapaper and Pocket.
Read the full Wonder Tools post about Reader at wondertools.substack.com/p/re...
Full transcript of this interview: www.craft.do/s/tV8DPawNQZUYSA
00:00 Exploring Readwise Reader with Co-Founder Daniel Doyon
00:30 How Reader improves upon read-it-later apps like Instapaper and Pocket
01:23 What you can read within Reader
01:42 Reader is built for power users
02:20 New feature - Ghostreader - enables GPT-3 AI-generated notes
03:00 You can customize your reading experience
03:20 You can read offline and on whatever platform
03:40 Instapaper and Pocket aren't adding features consistently any longer
04:12 How Daniel uses Reader, starting with a morning Daily Digest
05:40 How Daniel uses Reader to quickly grab reference materials
06:42 Why Daniel prefers reading non-fiction books in Reader over Kindle
09:00 How Reader helps reframe content overload with new workflows
10:18 How to use Triage mode with Reader for an Inbox Zero approach
11:50 Demonstrating how Reader can summarize an article using AI
13:25 What Reader has been focusing on, and what's ahead
14:35 Going deeper for readers with core features
15:27 Demonstrating how to highlight KZread videos in Reader
18:30 Reader as a tool for anchoring reading in one spot rather than context-switching
19:22 Reader aims to Democratize the tool so it's easy for anyone to use