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Readwise released an official guide. Still a work in progress.

Welcome to the Ghostreader Guide 📓!

Parameters

A list of the parameters you can use to create custom prompts for Ghostreader 👻 📚.

Selection

• {{ selection.raw }} – Whatever text was selected, focused, or highlighted when you invoked Ghostreader.
• {{ selection.sentence }} – If you had less than a sentence selected (eg just a word), this will expand to the surrounding sentence.
• {{ selection.paragraph }} – If you had less than a paragraph selected (eg just a sentence), this will expand to the surrounding paragraph.

Document

• {{ document.content }} – The full content of the document.
• {{ document.title }} – The title of the document.

Highlight(s)

• {{ highlights }} - The list of highlights of the document.

Other

• {{ central_sentences }} - parameter condenses long documents into key sentences for a succinct summary.
• {{ count_tokens }} - The number of tokens.

More on the "central_sentences" parameter

"The first IF statement checks to see if the document is longer than 1,000 tokens (a token is a language model concept). If it is, then it reduces the document content to the max allowable tokens by extracting an array of key sentences (central_sentences, which uses more AI voodoo magic) from the text and then concatenating them into a single string (join('\n\n')). If it's not too long, then the whole document content is passed." - Daniel Doyon Reader Newsletter #23

Examples 🤔

• List the highlighted content:

{% for highlight in highlights %}
    {{ highlight.content }}

List of Official Ghostreader Prompts:

• Ask the document a question
• Summarize the document
• Highlight the document
• Generate thought-provoking questions
• Generate Q&A pairs based on your highlights