🧠📖 GPT to Readwise Learning Script

Turn AI-generated insights into structured, recall-friendly highlights in Readwise—automatically!

🌟 What This Does

• ✅ Query GPT-4 Turbo for concise, structured knowledge.
• ✅ Retry before saving if the response isn’t quite right.
• ✅ Send directly to Readwise in a beautifully structured format!
• ✅ Automatically format answers with:
  • 🏷️ Title (for easy search in Readwise).
  • 🔑 Key Takeaways (3-5 bullet points).
  • 🧠 Memory Hook (to reinforce learning with spatial recall).

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🎬 Demo

npm start "What are common mistakes with useEffect in React?"

👀 Example Output

📜 Received prompt: "What are common mistakes with useEffect in React?"
🔍 Sending prompt to OpenAI...
✅ Response received from OpenAI.

📝 GPT Response:
useEffect is commonly misused in ways that lead to performance issues, infinite loops, or memory leaks.

📌 **Optimized Highlight for Readwise:**
🔹 **Title:** Common useEffect Mistakes - GPT Summary  
🔑 **Key Takeaways:**  
- Forgetting the dependency array causes **infinite loops**.  
- Using state updates inside useEffect **without conditions** leads to repeated renders.  
- Not cleaning up event listeners causes **memory leaks**.  
- Placing `useEffect` inside conditionals **violates React’s Rules of Hooks**.  

🧠 **Memory Hook:** Imagine an app that keeps refreshing itself—because `useEffect` is triggering infinitely.  

Do you want to (k)eep, (r)etry, or (c)ancel?

Hit k → 📤 Boom! Sent to Readwise!

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⚙️ Installation

1. Clone the repo 🏗️

   git clone https://github.com/thatguychrisw/readwise-ai
   cd readwise-ai

2. Install dependencies 📦

   npm install

3. Set up API keys 🔑
   • Get an OpenAI API Key → OpenAI API
   • Get a Readwise API Key → Readwise API
   • Create a .env file and add:

     OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key
     READWISE_API_KEY=your_readwise_api_key

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🚀 Usage

Run the script with any knowledge-seeking prompt:

npm start "How do React hooks work?"

📜 What happens next?

1. GPT generates a structured answer (title, key takeaways, memory hook).
2. You review the response before saving.
3. Choose to (k)eep, (r)etry, or (c)ancel.
4. Sent to Readwise for future recall! 📤📚

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🎯 Why Use This?

🔥 Optimized for Learning - Key takeaways + memory hooks = 🚀 recall.
🔄 Retry Mechanism - Regenerate responses before saving to Readwise.
📚 Auto-Formatted - No manual editing needed—just review and save!
⚡ Fast & Easy - Just ask a question and let GPT do the rest.

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🤝 Contributing

Want to improve this project? PRs welcome! 🎉

💡 Ideas:

• Add a web UI for even easier use 🎨
• Support multiple knowledge sources 📚
• Experiment with different GPT models 🤖

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📜 License

MIT License. Use freely, modify, share—just don't hoard the knowledge! 🚀

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💡 Final Thought

"Learning isn't about remembering facts, it's about recalling insights when you need them." 💡

🔥 Now go forth and master React (or anything else) with Readwise + GPT! 🚀📚