Starting today, you will never have to manually copy-paste an article summary, screenshot a quote, or transfer reading notes into your workspace ever again.
We’re excited to introduce native Notion integration and the official Linkwise Obsidian Sync Plugin!
Whether you manage your projects inside Notion or build an interconnected knowledge graph in Obsidian, Linkwise now automatically streams your saved links, AI summaries, and highlighted passages directly into your favorite tools in real time.
Here is everything you need to know about what’s new and how you can use these integrations to supercharge your daily workflow.
The Problem We Just Solved
Most read-it-later apps operate like closed silos. You highlight an article on your phone while commuting, but when you sit down at your laptop to write a research document, plan a sprint, or draft content, those insights are locked away in a separate app.
With our new integrations, Linkwise becomes the active capture engine for your digital workspace:
Zero manual exports: Everything you save and highlight syncs automatically in the background.
Preserved context: You don't just get raw text; you get executive AI summaries, key questions, source URLs, tags, and formatted quotes.
Non-destructive sync: Your personal notes and custom writing are 100% protected and never overwritten.
1. The Notion Integration: An Automated Reading Dashboard
Setting up note-taking databases from scratch is usually tedious. That's why our Notion integration requires zero setup.
You don’t have to build tables, configure properties, or map tags. You create a single blank page named Linkwise, grant access, and Linkwise builds a complete, two-lane workspace for you:
📚 Collections Lane: Each of your Linkwise collections automatically becomes its own structured Notion database. Every link arrives with its title, URL, tags, date saved, source domain, and AI summary.
✍️ Annotations Lane: A dedicated Linkwise Highlights database where your highlights are rendered as clean quote blocks, paired with your personal notes in styled callouts.
Direct Benefits for Notion Users:
Effortless Organization: Create a new collection on your phone, and Notion automatically spins up a matching database on your laptop.
Safe Archiving: Archive or delete a link in Linkwise, and its Notion page is cleanly moved to the trash instead of cluttering your workspace.
Ready for Dashboards: Embed your Linkwise databases directly into your daily Notion planner or project hubs.
2. The Obsidian Sync Plugin: Fueling Your Knowledge Graph
For Markdown lovers and PKM power users, our official community plugin turns your reading into an interconnected, visual knowledge base.
What Makes the Obsidian Plugin Special:
🗺️ Automatic Maps of Content (MOCs): Inside every collection folder, Linkwise automatically creates a Map of Content note (
🗺️). These hub notes link to every article in that collection, creating vibrant, structured clusters in your Obsidian Graph View.🎨 Highlight Color Retention: If you use yellow for key facts and purple for ideas in Linkwise, your Obsidian note mirrors those exact colored left bars and background tints.
📊 Dataview Support: The plugin embeds a
highlight_colorsproperty in each note’s frontmatter, allowing you to run Dataview queries like pulling every pink quote across 40 different articles into a single document.🛡️ The Golden Rule (
## My notes): Everything Linkwise syncs lives at the top of the file. Everything you write below the## My notesheading belongs to you. You can link pages, add tasks, and write drafts—Linkwise will never overwrite your personal notes on re-syncs.
How to Get the Most Out of These Integrations
Here are three simple workflows you can use immediately to get maximum value from your reading:
1. The 10-Minute Sunday Review (Notion)
Open your Linkwise page in Notion at the end of the week. Look through your Annotations database filtered by "Saved this week." Drag the best takeaways, quotes, and summaries directly into your active project boards and weekly task lists.
2. Frictionless Content & Essay Writing (Obsidian)
When starting a new article or technical paper, open Obsidian and search your vault by #linkwise/moc or specific highlight colors. Your research, quotes, and AI-extracted key questions are already formatted as Markdown, ready to be linked directly into your draft with [[wikilinks]].
3. Progressive Note Synthesis
Save an article on mobile during the day and let Linkwise generate the initial summary. Later at your desk, open the note in Obsidian or Notion, review your highlights, and write two quick takeaways under ## My notes on how you will apply the concept to your own work.
🚀 How to Set It Up (Under 60 Seconds)
Both integrations are live now and included with your Linkwise Pro subscription:
To connect Notion: Open the Linkwise App → Settings → Integrations → Connect Notion. Select your empty
Linkwisepage, and you're done! (Read the Notion Docs for full details).To connect Obsidian: Open Obsidian → Settings → Community Plugins → Search for
Linkwise→ Install and enable. Scan the QR code from the Linkwise app, and your vault will sync immediately! (Read the Obsidian Plugin Docs for full details).
Turn your reading into an active knowledge engine today!