Key-words: open data, open government, fablabs, making, complexity, networked agency, networked learning, ethics by design. I am passionate about increasing people's ability to act (knowledge), and their ability to change (learning). I explore the tools and strategies that help us navigate the networked world. I write about how our digital and networked world changes how we work, learn, decide and organize. Based in the Netherlands, living in Europe, working globally. Tagged kindle, obsidian | 8 Reactions Post navigationīlog In terdependent Thoughts maintained since 2002 by Ton Zijlstra. Image: a screenshot of how highlights from one of my books now show up as notes in a markdown file, using the default template. I never was a heavy highlighter, because of the friction of getting those highlights to a place where I could use them. With one click, upon my first sync I now have about 100 notes with highlights from books I read. a direct upload from my Calibre library). Using myclippings.txt is still the only way to get highlights from a book you did not add to a Kindle through Amazon (e.g. Previously I would either download a CSV through the export notes function on a Kindle device which mails you your notes, or copy the myclippings.txt. Each highlight has a link directly to the highlight in your book, and when I click it opens my Kindle app on my Mac and jumps right to it. You can edit the template for that note, to make sure it includes the information and metadata you want. It then pulls in your highlights into one note file for each book. It connects either to your Amazon account or you feed it your myclippings.txt file from your Kindle device. Today I started using the Kindle highlights plugin. Earlier I mentioned the Z otero plugins to extract PDF highlights and Zotero links into Obsidian. Plugins that help reduce friction to getting my material from other sources into flat markdown files that I then can edit, rework and do with as I see fit. Amazingly useful plugins keep getting made for Obsidian.

Kindle book notes export