Highlighting while you read
Select text in any Eden reader to save a highlight. Each one becomes a searchable item you can place on a board and connect to its source.
When you read something in Eden and a line stops you, select it. That highlight becomes a first-class item in your workspace: searchable, placeable on any board, and connected back to where it came from.
Highlighting is how you turn reading into raw material. Instead of a passage disappearing the moment you close the tab, it lands in your workspace as something you can find, reuse, and build on.
Highlight anything you read
Open anything in Eden's reader and select text to highlight it. The reader works across the things you save:
- Saved articles and web pages
- Newsletters
- PDFs
- YouTube transcripts
- Social posts and threads
The gesture is the same everywhere. Select the text, and the highlight is saved.
What a highlight becomes
Each highlight is a first-class item, not a note buried inside a document. That means it gets three things automatically:
- It's searchable. Highlights show up in Library search alongside everything else you've saved, so you can find a line by what it says.
- It can become a quote card. Place a highlight on any board and it renders as an editorial quote card: the passage laid out with its source attribution, ready to sit in a swipe file or a project.
- It's connected to its source. Eden links the highlight back to the article, PDF, or post it came from, so you can always jump to the original. Read more in connecting items.
Boost a highlight
A highlight isn't just something you saved. It's a starting point. Boost a highlight to develop the idea further, mine post ideas from it, or pressure-test the thinking behind it. A single line you liked can turn into an outline, a hook, or a counterargument in one step.
One home for every highlight
Highlights you make in Eden's reader live in the same place as the ones you import from Readwise and Kindle. They all collect in the Highlights pane, so your own reading and your imported swipe file sit side by side, searchable together.
Reading saved articles in Eden
Open any saved link or newsletter in Eden's clean reader view, a distraction-free reading surface that turns read-it-later into fuel for creation.
The Highlights pane
One searchable library for every highlight you make in Eden plus the ones you import from Readwise, Kindle, and Snipd, ready to drop onto boards.
Connecting items (backlinks)
Link any item in Eden to any other item, like a note to a PDF or a highlight to a link, and see the connection from both sides to build a web of context.
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