The best way to get newsletters into Readwise

The intake problem

Readwise is an excellent reading and highlighting app. The problem is getting the right articles there. If you use it seriously — highlights, spaced repetition, synced notes — you already know how quickly a good reading list turns into a pile of things you saved and never came back to.

Newsletters are the main culprit. A single weekly newsletter can have ten articles. Save everything to Readwise and the good stuff gets buried. Save nothing and you lose the articles that were actually worth reading. There's no good middle ground inside the email itself.

Triage before you save

Siftdeck sits between your newsletters and Readwise. It fetches articles from your newsletter archive URLs and queues them up for a decision: save to Readwise, mark as read, or skip. Each decision takes a second. The queue drains, and only the articles you've actively chosen reach your reading list.

The difference is meaningful. When everything in Readwise has been deliberately saved, you trust the list. You open it knowing each article is there for a reason — and every highlight you make is from something you actually chose to read.

Tags that keep your inbox organised

When you save an article, you assign tags. Those tags travel with the article into Readwise — so articles land where you'd expect to find them, without any extra sorting after the fact.

Siftdeck suggests tags automatically based on the article URL. You confirm or change them in a second. It takes less time than tagging manually inside Readwise.

Connect in seconds

Copy your API token from readwise.io/access_token and paste it into Siftdeck settings. That's it — saved articles go straight to your Readwise inbox from that point on.

Paste a newsletter archive URL once. Siftdeck detects the issue pattern and fetches new editions automatically as they're published. You don't manage a feed or a list of URLs — you add a source once and it stays current.

If the same article appears in two newsletters you follow, you see it once. Global deduplication means your triage queue stays clean even if your sources overlap.