Screvi: A Readwise Alternative

If you're like me, you love reading, highlighting, and writing down notes, only to find that most of those insights end up forgotten, or I have no idea where I saved them.

That's why Screvi exists:

It's a system designed to collect all your reading highlights and to turn them into something you'll actually use and learn from.

Your Personal Knowledge Hub

Your reading highlights and ideas deserve to be revisited and reflected upon, not forgotten in your Kindle or notebook.

Screvi takes these highlights and organizes them into one central hub. And then gives you tools to learn from them and export them elsewhere.

Import all your Readwise highlights and try it for free at screvi.com.

Key Features:

Sync Highlights from eBooks: Import your Kindle, Kobo or Apple Books highlights. View Integrations
Imports: Import directly from Readwise, Twitter Bookmarks or Popular Highlights.
Semantic AI Search: Quickly find connections between your notes and highlights. Even if if you don't remember exactly how it was written.
Capture Physical Book Highlights: Take a photo of a book page and screvi will automatically detect and extract the highlighted parts.
Web Highlighting: Save important passages from any webpage
Daily Review: Review your highlights and notes every day, Anki Style, to keep them fresh in your mind.
YouTube Transcripts: The Screvi extension adds a transcript viewer next to a YouTube video, from which you can save highlights.
Transcribe Audio Notes: Use voice-to-text to add highlights or thoughts. or when reading a book out loud.

Screvi vs Readwise

I've been a fan of Readwise for years. It's a fantastic tool, but its focus has shifted towards their Reader app, and the original 1.0 app has seen little in terms of updates. Its UI/UX feels outdated, the highlight viewing experience is lacking, and the search feature is basic.

Screvi fills that gap and offers a more modern, feature-rich experience. It's focused exclusively on being your modern digital commonplace book and highlight manager.

If you're an existing Readwise user, you can import all your existing highlights and give Screvi a try, for free.

Also, for a limited time, Screvi is running a lifetime deal, which is perfect for those of you who can't be bothered with yet another subscription.

Note: Screvi can be Readwise 1.0 Alternative (Highlight Manager), not Readwise Reader (Read-it-later app)

Replace Your Doom Scrolling Habit

Instead of wasting your time scrolling through social media, you can use Screvi's mobile app and read through all your past highlights instead.

Stories: Your daily review and latest highlights show up as stories, just like instagram.
Feed: You can scroll through your highlights in a social-media like feed.
Search: Quickly find the highlight you're looking for, with semantic search.
Physical Book Highlights Take a photo of a book page, highlight the parts you want to highlight, and Screvi will save it.

Daily Review

On the mobile apps, Screvi offers a daily review feature, which is perfect for those of you who want to make the most of what you read.

It's based on a Spaced Repetition algorithm, which is a proven way to keep information fresh in your mind.

For each highlight, you're in control: You decide if you want to see it more often, less often, or not at all.

The algorithm intelligently adapts to your choices, resurfacing each highlight exactly when you need to review it, ensuring optimal retention with minimal effort.

You can also customize your preferences and opt-in to receive daily emails featuring your personalized highlights.

The Power of AI Semantic Search

One of Screvi's main features is its semantic search.

Unlike traditional keyword search, semantic search understands the context and meaning behind your queries.

This means you can find highlights based on themes, ideas, or even vague recollections of the content.

For example:

if you're working on a project and you want to pull up all the highlights related to "productivity", you can simply search for "productivity" and Screvi will return all the book highlights, tweets or web highlights you've saved related to it.

Even if they don't directly mention the word "productivity".

Community-Driven Development

One of the unique aspects of Screvi is its community-driven roadmap.

Users have direct input into the app's future. Your feedback shapes what comes next, making Screvi a tool built by the community.

Up next:

Notion and Obsidian Export: Sync your highlights with your existing second brain system.

You can view or add any feature requests here: Feature Requests

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