Synapse Reads

Reading Sessions — the biggest update yet You can now track your reading time directly inside Synapse. Open any book, tap "Start Reading Session," and Synapse quietly tracks how long you read. When you're done, tap End — you'll see a summary showing exactly how long you read, how many highlights you captured, and whether Synapse found a new connection during that session. Sessions give you a record of every time you sat down with a book. Open the Sessions tab on any book to see your full reading history for it — date, duration, highlights captured, and connections found. Three ways to capture highlights We've rebuilt how you capture highlights. Tap "Capture Highlight" on any book page and choose how you want to save it: Text — type or paste a highlight directly. Fastest for quotes you're already looking at on a screen. Scan — the existing camera flow. Point at a page, select the paragraphs you want, and the text is cleaned up automatically. Voice — new. Hold the microphone button and read the highlight aloud. Powered by Whisper, it transcribes your voice accurately and shows you the text to review before saving. Hands-free highlighting while reading on the couch. All three methods work with or without an active reading session. Smarter connections Flash Insights are now significantly more surprising. The connection engine has been upgraded and now considers both your most closely related highlights and a selection of random highlights from across your library — so connections come from places you wouldn't expect, not just the obvious ones. Reading stats in your profile Open your Profile from the Library screen to see your reading stats — total reading time, current streak, highlights captured, and books read. Everything you need to see how your reading habit is building. Kindle import improvements Uploading My Clippings.txt now correctly fetches cover images and book details for every imported book. Libraries with more than 100 highlights process in the background so the app stays responsive during large imports. After a Kindle import, Synapse now automatically runs a connection check across your new highlights so Flash Insights appear immediately. Book search improvements Search now runs two passes simultaneously — a title-focused search and a broad relevance search — so partial queries like "atomic" find Atomic Habits immediately without typing the full name. Academic papers, journals, textbooks, and publisher stubs are filtered out aggressively. You now see 7 high-quality results instead of 20 mixed ones. Bug fixes and improvements — Session summary card now correctly shows connections found during a session — Kindle upload now triggers connection checks across imported highlights — Highlight source tracking added so you can see whether you prefer scanning, typing, or voice — Fixed cover images showing wrong books for genre-seeded library books during onboarding — General performance improvements throughout