You can now turn any highlight into a shareable card. Found a line worth sending to a friend, or posting somewhere your bookshelf can't reach? AfterWord generates a clean, branded image of the highlight — book title, author, and the quote itself — ready to share to Instagram, Fable or in your Book Club's group chat!

You can now favorite highlights and tag them with your own labels. Some passages are worth more than a re-read — favoriting keeps the best of what you've highlighted one tap away, and tags let you organize by whatever actually makes sense to you: "productivity," "for the essay," a project you're working on, anything.

Alongside this, there's a new Collections page that brings it all together — see every favorited highlight and browse by tag, all in one place, instead of hunting through individual books. It's the new home base for the highlights you've decided are actually worth keeping close.

You can now add highlights manually. Not every quote comes from an import — sometimes you're reading a physical book, or you just want to jot something down. AfterWord now supports typing in a highlight directly, with the same book-matching and search treatment as anything imported from Kindle, Libby, or KOReader.

You can also add books manually, without waiting on an import. Starting something new and want to capture it as you go, or just adding a book you already know you'll be highlighting? You can create it directly and start attaching highlights right away.

Alongside this, you can now delete books and highlights from your library. Made a mistake during import, added something by accident, or just want to clean things up? You're no longer stuck with it — books and highlights can both be removed cleanly, whenever you want.

The Knowledge Map is here: a visual view of how ideas connect across your reading. We've also done backend work to get the app ready to scale as the beta grows. On the visual side, every crane illustration across AfterWord is now hand-drawn artwork instead of placeholder graphics.

The app has been packaged and sent out to beta testers for the first round of feedback.

You can now import highlights from KOReader and Kindle App, in addition to Kindle. We've also added book matching, so you can correct or update a book's edition by searching title, author, or ISBN if AfterWord pulls in the wrong metadata.

Alongside this, the public landing page is now live.

This past month went entirely into the app's interface. Every core screen has been rebuilt: Home, Library, Highlights, and Search now have a consistent look and feel, and I built out a proper API to support them going forward. No new features this round, but the app should feel noticeably more polished and stable.

Early versions of AfterWord parsed Kindle highlights directly, but as more highlights came in, ingestion and embedding started to get unreliable.

This update reworks how highlights are processed: imports now run as background ingestion jobs, and highlights are broken into chunks before embedding. The result is more consistent processing, especially for larger libraries, and a foundation that scales better as we add more import sources.