What is unearthed?
Unearthed is a tool designed to enhance the reading experience by transforming Kindle highlights into actionable insights. It automatically syncs with your Kindle account (without requiring Amazon credentials directly) to analyze your reading history. The platform uses AI to surface forgotten notes, identify potential knowledge gaps or blind spots, and generate personalized reflection questions to deepen understanding.
It offers seamless integration with popular note-taking applications such as Notion, Obsidian, Supernotes, and Capacities, allowing users to centralize their reading notes and insights. Unearthed provides features like instant global search across all highlights and notes, AI-powered book analysis including summaries and themes, and personalized book recommendations based on reading patterns. The tool is also open-source, emphasizing transparency and user control over data.
Features
- Automatic Kindle Import: Syncs highlights and notes automatically without storing Amazon credentials.
- AI Book Analysis: Provides summaries, major themes, key takeaways, and reader's perspective analysis.
- Blind Spot Detection: Analyzes reading history to identify knowledge gaps.
- AI Reflection Questions: Generates thought-provoking questions about books and rates user responses.
- AI Key Idea Extraction: Automatically identifies and extracts important ideas from highlights.
- Note-Taking Integration: Syncs data with Notion, Obsidian, Supernotes, and Capacities.
- Global Search: Search across all books, highlights, notes, and tags.
- Book Recommendations: Suggests books based on reading patterns and challenging viewpoints.
- Open Source: Codebase for web app, browser extension, and Obsidian plugin is publicly available.
- Tagging System: Apply tags automatically or manually to books and quotes.
Use Cases
- Rediscovering insights from past readings.
- Deepening comprehension of books through AI analysis and reflection.
- Identifying and addressing gaps in knowledge based on reading history.
- Centralizing Kindle highlights and notes into preferred note-taking apps.
- Finding specific information quickly within a large collection of reading notes.
- Receiving personalized book recommendations.
- Generating summaries and key takeaways for quick book refreshers.
- Overcoming information overload from extensive reading.
FAQs
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What is Unearthed?
Unearthed transforms your Kindle highlights into daily revelations, analyzes reading history, generates insights, and integrates with note-taking apps. -
Is Unearthed free to use?
Yes, there is a free plan with basic features. A premium plan with advanced features is also available for $5/month. -
Is Unearthed open source?
Yes, the web app, browser extension, and Obsidian plugin are open source and available on GitHub. -
How does Unearthed access my Kindle data?
It uses an automatic sync method, likely via a browser extension, which does not require storing your Amazon login credentials. -
Is my data private and secure with Unearthed?
Yes, the tool emphasizes privacy, doesn't store Amazon credentials, and completely removes user data upon account deletion.
