Open GitMurf opened 3 years ago
GitMurf
commented
3 years ago Lexane responded but with not much detail. I am going to de-prioritize as I'm not really sure what the specific ask is.
mattwien
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3 years ago Hi @GitMurf,
Maybe some additional information about this (even though I'm not looking for the solution, just want to provide you some details.
If you have books or PDFs on your Kindle that are not bought from Amazon, you won't find the highlights on the Amazon notebook page. In this case all the highlights are stored in a local file on the Kindle called "My Clippings.txt".
It's a very simple text file, where all highlights of all books are stored - as far as I know in the order they were created. So if you read 3 books in parallel, you have a hard time to find all your highlights ;-)
I don't think you can solve this challenge with a Chorme Extension, as you have to access a local text file. But as far as I know there is a tool somewhere available to extract these in a certain structured way (don't remember the name of the tool)
My personal recommendation: don't try to implement it - or it would be a second - compeltely separate - tool.
I'm not sure details but don't want to forget about this.
From here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/web-clipper-highlighter-and-kindle-highlights-notes-extraction-extension/852/43?u=smurfman111
"Just downloaded and started using - this is great, hank you so much!
On the Kindle side, I like that the option exists. Do you think you’ll be working on something starting from document clippings? The Kindle highlights page seems like it only works on books we bought on Amazon, not on our personal documents.
Making a separate thread about Kindle clippings here: Kindle highlights to markdown "