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Readwise Sync

Consolidate Apple Notes

Book Notes to TheBrain App Import

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Jonathan-Wallace commented Sep 8, 2025

For Readwise Sync, if I added an additional highlight then resynced, it would always double up the highlights (edit, as in it readded all of them not just the new one). So I updated my version of the shortcut to always delete then recreate the note. Annoying that it always asks permission, so I wouldn't have an automated set time for this to run, but as this shouldn't happen often I think its an ok workaround.

Played with attempting an "if this dictionary value doesn't exist in the note, then add then append to note" but couldn't get it working for whatever reason.

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Jonathan-Wallace commented Sep 8, 2025

Just kidding, the deletion did cause an issue after all. Would randomly tell me that locked/shared notes can't be edited so not sure what I did wrong.

Fixed it at the very end of the step two (no image) shortcut:
1. filtered to find the Base note again
2. added: IF body of base note (from above step) does not contain the text we want to append (text var from end of original version), then append that text. Nothing in the otherwise, since we want it to do nothing in that case.

Tested the edits there and seems to work as expected while still adding all highlights in their entirety when creating a new note.

Thanks so much for this! Just decided to use Readwise but was disappointed that the readwise content wouldn't show up in Spotlight search. But now, it can! Best of all the worlds. Full use of readwise features while still retaining a copy of all of it in Apple Notes.

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@Jonathan-Wallace Awesome! I'm glad that it is working out for you. Yep. I love having a backup of my readwise entries that can be indexed by spotlight.

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