It is ironic that despite reading and writing on Medium for several years now, my notes and highlights from Medium were the last source I was able to bring into my personal knowledge management system. As I have explained in a previous post, I want the long-term storage and organization of my reading to end up in Obsidian, and Readwise plays an important in acting as an intermediary to that goal. Readwise can be used to automatically collect annotations and highlights from certain sources (e.g., Kindle books) and then automatically export this content to Obsidian. Recently, these processes were enabled for Medium.
The process of moving highlights and annotations from Medium to Readwise is relatively easy. The import from Medium option now appears among the Readwise options (first image).
To export automatically, there is an export option for Readwise that sends content to Obsidian. Which of these options you use may depend on what you want to store in Obisidian. If you read a large variety of stories in Medium, you may have a specific focus for Obsidian and prefer to select just that content from Readwise that is consistent with this focus.
Suppose you want to export the additions from a specific imported source. In that case, the stored content in Readwise will appear within the list of imported articles and you then use the inverted caret to reveal the options and select “Export highlights”. A file containing the highlights and notes will be downloaded as a file to your device and you can open this file and add to Obsidian or any other storage tool.
One more comment about the material you have stored in Readwise. Both Readwise and Medium are online tools. You can move from a stored item in Readwise back to Medium. To do this, use the inverted caret that appears at the top corner of a specific item in Readwise and select the “View in Medium” option.
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