quote

Words worth reading slowly: a book highlight, a line from an interview, a passage someone saved.

A pull-quote or highlight, in a sidebar-rule or statement treatment.

Variants

Set data.variant to one of: sidebar-rule, statement. Picking the wrong one is the most common way a card comes out looking foreign.

• Pick the variant by weight: "sidebar-rule" for a highlight from a longer work, "statement" for a single line that stands alone.

Fields in data

The envelope around data (publisher, label, expiresAt…) is the same on every type: see the envelope.

Craft

• This is the one card built for prose — 15–50 words is the sweet spot. Under 10 looks thin in the display treatment.
• Pick the variant by weight: "sidebar-rule" for a highlight from a longer work, "statement" for a single line that stands alone.
• Attribute it. author alone is fine when the source is obvious; add source when the work is the interesting part.
• No quotation marks in text — the treatment supplies them.
• Trim to the sentence that carries the idea. A paragraph in a quote card is a paragraph nobody reads.
• This is the type readable was made for — set it when the passage is meant to be heard as much as read.

Avoid

• Don't put your own writing here and attribute it to the user — quote implies someone said this.
• Don't use it as a generic text card for notes or summaries; a list or news fits those better.
• Don't include a trailing citation inside text ("— Gaiman, 2012") when author/source already carry it.

Examples

Complete payloads for POST /api/v1/feed/items or the MCP publish_pane tool.

{
  "type": "quote",
  "publisher": "Readwise",
  "publisherInit": "R",
  "publisherColor": "#E94B3C",
  "label": "Daily highlight",
  "data": {
    "variant": "sidebar-rule",
    "text": "Make new mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before.",
    "author": "Neil Gaiman",
    "source": "Make Good Art"
  }
}

{
  "type": "quote",
  "publisher": "Interview Club",
  "publisherInit": "IC",
  "publisherColor": "#15130F",
  "label": "From this week's issue",
  "data": {
    "variant": "statement",
    "text": "We stopped asking what the user wants and started watching what they do at 4pm on a Friday.",
    "author": "Marta Reyes",
    "source": "Head of Product, Linear"
  }
}