My Readwise setup

I love Readwise Reader, and it's my preferred way of processing information on the web. I take a lot of highlights while I'm reading, and I want those highlights to be synced to my Zettelkasten for two reasons:

1. I use my notes as a "second brain" and want my notes to very roughly capture the extent of my knowledge.
2. Processing highlights and incorporating them into my notes corpus is a primitive form of spaced repetition (Effective Spaced Repetition)

While Readwise has great integrations with Obsidian and Logseq, it doesn't natively support automatically exporting highlights to an arbitrary folder of plaintext files.

I've set this up with a cron running every twenty seconds on my DigitalOcean server. It runs this script to add newly seen highlights to my notes repository.

That's it!