Send Those Amazing Tweets To Your Future Self

Do you ever come across tweets that are so well stated, and that resonate so well with you, that you want to see them again (and again) in the future?

Well, it’s easy enough to send those tweets to your “future self” with the right app.

I use the Readwise app to instantly save memorable tweets (as well as highlights from my kindle, and snippets from articles that I find all over the internet). Readwise sends me a daily email, containing a handful of my saved tweets and highlights, so I can re-experience these ideas again, driving the points home, and possibly inspiring me to take action on some front.

Readwise uses spaced repetition to show these tweets and highlights to me on a rotation designed to help me retain them. I can adjust that rotation frequency however I want — to make one tweet show up very often, while others I might not need to see again for a long time.

Of course, you need an account on Readwise, which you can set up in less than a minute, following these instructions. You’ll also need to connect your Twitter account to your Readwise account — which is a snap.

Then, whenever you read a tweet or thread that you want to remember, you can instantly save it to your Readwise account, and it’ll automatically appear in your Readwise app, and show up in your daily Readwise emails.

Once your accounts are connected, there are two ways you can save an individual tweet to Readwise. The simplest is to just reply to the tweet, with the message, “@readwiseio save” (without the quotes).

If you don’t want your reply to show up in the Twitter feed, you can use DM instead — just DM the tweet to @readwiseio.

You can save entire threads (tweetstorms) as well. To save a thread, just reply (on any tweet in the thread) with the message, “@readwiseio save thread” (without the quotes). As with saving individual tweets, you can DM a thread as well.

Here’s how the tweets appear in your Readwise account:

And here’s how your tweets appear in your Daily Readwise Email:

And there you have it — those inspiring or motivating tweets show up in your inbox, to remind your future self, and hopefully nudge you into action.

So, whenever you see a tweet that you want to see again, just save it to Readwise, and it’ll show up soon in your daily Readwise email just like that!

You can setup your Readwise account and connect it to Twitter, all in less than a minute. See the simple instructions here. I hope you find it as immensely useful as I have.

Originally published at https://www.readremember.com.