[FR] overwrite updated highlights

[louis030195]

Sometimes I add tags, edit highlights, edit doc metadata, edit template, etc on readwise and it does not update on obsidian so I regularly have to delete all my obsidian highlights and resync which takes a while (>1200 highlights)

Desired usage:

checkbox in settings "overwrite on update" or something like that, just overwrite old highlights

Thanks ❤️

[TristanH]

Hey @louis030195 -- there's actually already a way to do this, at least on the per-note level. From inside of obsidian, open the note you want to refresh and do the "delete and reimport" command:

But it sounds like you might want a setting to always do this on all updates?

[louis030195]

Yes :)
I am aware of the single note command, but it's not scalable

[tyler-dot-earth]

I would also like this - basically the equivalent of Delete and reimport this document every time a Readwise document has updates rather than simply appending new highlights.

That said.. Having worked with the codebase, I'm not sure how this would be achieved with the current API. I believe that new highlights come in piece-meal from the backend. I think the API would need to support the ability to signal that updated documents should get the full document (eg with a ?reimportIfUpdated querystring param or something)

[TristanH]

We could update the backend to accommodate a setting like this… theoretically :P Yeah it would require a new flag to send to the endpoint which would include all highlights for a document when anything in that document changes, like you mentioned Tyler! Sent via Superhuman ( ***@***.*** )

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