About a month ago, I was lying on my bed reading Geopolitica dell’intelligenza artificiale (2025, Aresu A.) on my Kindle. I don’t remember the topic covered in that particular chapter, but it was certainly interrupted by one of the hundreds of digressions of the author.
Anyway, as I reached the end of the chapter, I wanted to read my Readwise's daily recap. However, my iPhone was in other room. I didn’t want to get up; I was tired.
I have my Kindle in my hands; I want to read. Why do I still need my phone?
I didn’t get up to get my phone immediately. Instead, I thought a little about my issue. I’m an IT guy and I have AI at my disposal. Is ReadWise hard to replicate? What do I need to build it? Do I have time? How do I send notes to my Kindle? Well, the truth is that it’s not hard to replicate, especially in the AI era. I do not have enough time to write every single line of code, documentation, product specifications, and more, but AI can help me. I can use the technology stack I know very well (dotnet) to iterate quickly and spot AI errors easily.
So, the project began.
A few weeks ago, I’ve released the MVP, a fully working version that allows you to upload all your Kindle highlights and send them back to your Kindle (or email) through a daily or weekly recap like ReadWise does. The entire experience is highly customizable: you can choose the recap frequency and time of the day, the number of the highlights in the recap, exclude books or authors, and adjust the likelihood that a highlight or book is included in the recap. At the moment it supports Kindle and email only, but the plan is to integrate more platforms, as inputs and outputs as well.
I chose the name Relego, coming from Latin word relegere: "to read again", "go over carefully", "review". That reflects the core idea of the project.
Generally, existing platforms provide daily recap via paid subscription on managed SaaS, which also raises privacy concerns. For these reasons, I'm releasing the product for free and self-hostable. Usage guide and source code are available on GitHub.
If you want to try it and provide feedback, feel free to comment on this post or create an issue.
In the near future, next steps include an improved and simpler setup, a landing page, and a more suitable product name. Do you have any ideas? Share them in the comments below!
More info: https://relego.app
