Sources & Highlights

Everything in Becoming starts with the passages you mark while reading. Those passages are highlights, and each one belongs to a source — the thing you read, watched, or listened to.

Sources

A source is a single book, article, video, or podcast you’ve brought into Becoming.

Type	Examples
Book	Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, a paper book you photographed or added by hand
Article	A web page you saved — a passage you marked, or the whole page
Video	A YouTube video, with highlights drawn from its transcript
Podcast	Episodes imported from Readwise

Sources come in through many channels. See Importing overview for the full list.

Highlights

A highlight is a passage you marked because it resonated. It carries the text you saved plus where it came from — location, and for videos a timestamp you can jump back to.

Automatic deduplication

Highlights are deduplicated by their content. If you import the same passage twice — say, the same book from two devices — Becoming recognizes it and keeps a single copy. You never have to clean up duplicates.

Notes

A note is your own annotation on a highlight — a thought, a question, or a reminder of why it mattered. Notes you took on your Kindle come in alongside your highlights, and you can add your own at any time.

Popular quotes

Some books show popular quotes — passages that resonated with other readers. They appear in the book’s edition language, auto-translated when the original isn’t available in that language.

A Popular chip marks a quote surfaced from other readers.
A Translated chip appears when the quote was auto-translated into your edition’s language.