Kindle devices store a user's notes and highlights in a single file called My Clippings.txt. It has content for all books, whether Amazon-purchased or side-loaded. It is a single, flat text file with clippings from all books intermingled, which can make referencing or extracting your clippings difficult.
ClipMark is a very simple nodejs app which
- parses
My Clippings.txt - groups the clippings by book
- sorts clippings by location
- attempts to remove duplicate highlights
- generates a markdown file per book
NB: this only works for physical Kindle devices. Apps on various other platforms do not produce a My Clippings.txt file.
# The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
*28/05/2024 - 02/06/2024*
## Page 9
### Location 131
> Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.
### Location 138
> Happiness? I never saw a dumber word, invented by all those northeastern girls out there.
## Page 13
### Location 191
> The person I’m going to talk about is so dumb that she sometimes smiles at other people on the street.
- nodejs (v18 or later - earlier versions might work but have not been tested)
- the "My Clippings.txt" file from a Kindle device
To run ClipMark, you only require the files in the app folder. Download them, then run:
$> node app/clipmark.js path/to/My\ Clippings.txt
A folder called clippings will be created in the current directory, and a file will be created there for each book that has clippings.
NB existing files will be overwritten.
- git
- nodejs v18+
- typescript (
npm install -g typescript)
$> git clone https://github.com/benrhughes/clipmark.git
$> cd clipmark
$> tsc