The Reading Notes App That Captures What You Actually Want to Remember

Turn your highlights, dog-ears, and half-remembered podcast ideas into a searchable library of insights you use

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30-day refund if it doesn't change how you recall what you read

Every note-taking app on the market hands you a blank page. Notion gives you a database template. Obsidian gives you a graph. Bear gives you a folder. What none of them give you is any guidance on the question that actually matters when you finish a chapter: what from this is worth keeping, and how do I phrase it so it's useful in six months?

A reading notes app that works has to solve the capture problem first. Most tools skip straight to storage, which means you end up with 400 Kindle highlights you've never looked at, a folder of "Book Notes" documents that are really just copied sentences, and a vague sense that you've read a lot but can't point to where any of it went.

Leafmark starts at the moment you close a book or finish an article. It gives you structured prompts, connection surfaces, and a retrieval layer built specifically for reading output. Not for meeting agendas. Not for project wikis. For the person who reads 30 books a year and wants to actually use what they read.

The Hidden Assumption Every Other Note App Makes About Your Reading Workflow

Obsidian, Roam Research, and Logseq all assume you already know how to do literature notes. The PKM community has written thousands of words on Zettelkasten, atomic notes, evergreen notes, and progressive summarization. What they don't mention is that learning any of these systems takes months, and most readers abandon them before they work.

The assumption baked into every existing tool is that the method is your job. The app supplies blank boxes; you supply the discipline, the framework, the daily habit, and the ability to distinguish a passing observation from a reusable insight. For readers who consume heavily across books, newsletters, and podcasts, this assumption collapses fast. You end up maintaining a system instead of reading. The capture process becomes more work than the reading itself, so you stop capturing, and the cycle resets every January when you try a new app.

Introducing Leafmark

Leafmark replaces the blank-box workflow with a structured capture layer built around how readers actually process what they consume. Each source gets a dedicated capture flow: prompted for books, clipped for articles, transcribed for podcasts. Connections between sources surface as you add new material, and a retrieval layer lets you search by concept, not just by keyword. The result is a reading library you can navigate, not a folder you avoid opening.

What You Get — $9/month

Guided Book Capture — A prompted intake flow for each book you finish: core argument, strongest evidence, quotes worth keeping, and where the ideas connect to things you already know. Takes 15 minutes. Produces notes you'll actually reference.

Article and Newsletter Clipper — A browser extension that captures the article text, auto-extracts key claims, and drops them into your reading library tagged by source and topic. Works with any publication.

Podcast Insight Log — Paste a transcript or episode link and Leafmark pulls out the claims, names, and frameworks discussed. Pairs with your own annotations so you can add what the transcript misses.

Concept Graph — As your library grows, Leafmark surfaces connections between sources that mention the same concepts, reference the same studies, or take opposing positions. You see where your reading overlaps before you remember it does.

Search by Idea — Type a concept, a question, or a half-remembered phrase and Leafmark returns the relevant notes across every source you've added. The index is built around meaning, so "how habits form" returns relevant notes whether or not those exact words appear.

Book Notes and Highlights App Integration — Import your existing Kindle highlights, Readwise exports, and Instapaper saves. Leafmark structures what you've already collected so you can start with your backlog, not from zero.

Weekly Reading Digest — Every Sunday, a summary of the strongest ideas you captured that week, with prompts to connect them to older material. Keeps your library active instead of archival.

Why $9/month

The readers Leafmark serves have already spent money on this problem. Readwise is $7.99/month for highlight storage and spaced repetition. Notion templates for book notes sell for $20–40 one-time. Obsidian with the right plugins takes a weekend to configure. Leafmark covers the full workflow — capture, connection, and retrieval — for less than any combination of those tools, and it works without configuration.

Who This Is For

You finish books faster than you can process them and feel the ideas fading within two weeks.
You have hundreds of Kindle highlights you've never gone back to read.
You listen to podcasts with good ideas and lose them before you act on them.
You've tried Obsidian or Roam and spent more time on the system than on your reading.
You want a searchable record of what you've read, not a productivity framework to maintain.

The Library Guarantee

If Leafmark doesn't give you a working reading library within 30 days, you get a full refund. Log your first five books or articles, use the search once to find something you'd forgotten, and decide from there. If it doesn't change how you recall what you've read, ask for your money back.

In 60 Days, You'll Have:

• A searchable record of every book, article, and podcast you've processed since joining
• Concept connections you didn't know existed across things you read months apart
• A reference you reach for when writing, arguing, or making decisions
• A system that took 15 minutes per book, not a methodology that took weeks to configure
• Kindle highlights and Readwise exports organized by idea rather than by source
• A weekly digest that keeps older material from going cold

Frequently Asked Questions

How is Leafmark different from Readwise or a book notes and highlights app I'm already using?
Readwise surfaces your existing highlights on a schedule. Leafmark structures the capture process so your notes are worth surfacing. The two tools solve adjacent problems, and Leafmark can import your Readwise export so nothing you've already collected goes to waste.

Leafmark vs Obsidian for readers: which one is right for me?
Obsidian gives you total control and requires you to build the system that makes it work. Leafmark gives you a reading-specific workflow with no configuration. If you want to spend time building a PKM system, Obsidian is the right choice. If you want to spend that time reading, Leafmark handles the structure for you.

How long does it take to process a book in Leafmark?
The guided book capture flow takes 10–20 minutes per book for most readers. You can also do it in pieces: capture quotes as you read, then fill in the summary prompts when you finish. The intake is designed to fit around how you already read.

I have years of unorganized highlights and notes. Can Leafmark help with those?
Yes. Leafmark accepts Kindle highlight exports, Readwise CSV exports, and plain text files. Once imported, the concept indexing applies to your backlog the same way it applies to new material. You don't have to start from scratch.

What it is: A reading notes app that structures how you capture, connect, and retrieve insights from books, articles, and podcasts.
What you get: Guided book capture, article clipper, podcast insight log, concept graph, idea search, highlight import, and weekly digest.
Price: $9/month
Catch: You do have to actually capture your reading. Leafmark structures the process, but you spend 10–20 minutes per book using it.
Guarantee: Full refund within 30 days if it doesn't change how you recall what you've read.
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