A little contribution. Kindle actually can’t read EPUB archives, but with calibre application you can covert your EPUB files into mobi files for your kindle.

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

Good to know! Thank you!

@erianne

5 ай бұрын

UPDATE: Kindle now reads epubs easily.

Thanks for the review of the Kindle Highlights plug-in Bryan and the feedback. I’m currently working on functionality to allow you to resync your new highlight and notes. Hopefully it reduces friction in everyone’s workflows. Curious to know what theme you are using. I can see the plug-in isn’t optimised for it. Would be keen to add some tweaks for your theme and others too.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear! I'm using Gruvbox with a ton of custom CSS :)

@stefanhansen5882

2 жыл бұрын

I tried the Kindle plug-in. It worked great, the first time. The second time it didn't sync. :/ Any solution?

Thanks. Great info. Exactly what I was looking for!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Really informative video! Thanks! (off-topic: I really like your new haircut)

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

haha hey thanks! its my usual cut, it just happened to be fresh in this video :)

Great! You can highlight transcripts and download them as txt, CSV, and MD files and text with Glasp as well :)

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! 💭 😸

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

my pleasure :)

Hello! I am absolutely in love with your workflow. Just a general question: is there somewhere an explanation of what the differences are in the steps from lit note -> seedlings -> evergreen note? I know the concept from Luhman where there are fleeting notes and then there are literature notes -> permanent notes. Is the seedling just a pre step to the evergreen note and the evergreen note on top of the seedling fleshes out ideas even further and links to other knowledge? Many thanks! I could implement so much of your recommendations already

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

i have a video on my tags v.s. links strategy :)

This is game changing for me. A snag of the Read Wise workflow for me is that I read many books that are not from the Kindle store and these will not sync to Amazon. They'll only appear in my clippings. So plugin is the path for me. I was manually dealing with that clippings file!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

awesome! Im starting to lean towards the plugin myself for less formatting i need to do :)

@mortimerjazz1180

3 жыл бұрын

So this was going to be my question. Just to clarify, the plugin will actually pull highlights through from books not purchased in the Kindle store, right? Presumably that's also valid for highlights made in the Kindle app (on an iPad for example) and not just a separate Kindle device.

@mortimerjazz1180

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, I've just answered my own question. Unfortunately, the plugin only brings in highlights from books from purchased from the Kindle store :(

@schalomforever

2 жыл бұрын

@@mortimerjazz1180 Good to know! Saved me a lot of time :D

It's true.. I too have one and it's beautiful

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

Aren’t they great!?

great video

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

thank you!

Danke!

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

Bitte! and thank you for the support!

Great video. I assume in your preferred method you wait until you are done with the book to pull into Obsidian? I ran into an issue with the Obsidian Kindle plugin. It would only pull in notes associated with a highlight. Sometimes I would make a note while reading and when I would sync, it would not pull in those unassociated (with highlights) notes. I had to resort to reading the book then pulling everything in via the sync or the old fashioned extraction method by plugging in the kindle and dragging the file out in order to capture the notes. On the plus side, I use hashtags while I read (e.g. #quotes, #concept, etc) this way I can do more with the notes and highlights as soon as I get it into Obsidian. Love that you talk about your ADHD. As a person who fought it most of her life, I can relate to all that you say. Good work!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

yup! i like to do the final dump once im done :) Glad you're enjoying the content! most of my work is reflected through the lens of ADHD because its the ever present thing I have to live with and work through so hopefully my content may be helpful to you :)

Hi Bryan, thanks for the video. Very interesting! I also use the kindle, but also the Tolino ebook reader. Is there also a way to transfer his notes into obsidian?

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

never heard of Tolino! So no idea 🤣

Thank you for another interesting video. Also:

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! and yes! i'll be seeing both wardruna and heilung in concert next year :)

@JeroenBudts

2 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks Awesome! I had tickets for Heilung two weeks ago in Brussels but the concert was rescheduled to the end of this year. And I might be able to see Wardruna this summer as well :) Have fun at the concerts and a happy new year!

5:58 What I discovered on the Kindle is that imported files (pdf and mobi, not epub) do not text flow on the Kindle. What you see is the entire page compressed down onto the small screen making it unreadable.

@BryanJenks

10 ай бұрын

correct, its not ideal, but in many instances it will do but it depends on the files formatting

this works great, thanks for the clear video! Any idea how I can connect this with zotero? Id like to reference my kindle notes and ideally dont want to recreate all notes again on my computer in order to reference them.

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

not too sure about that one but that is a good integration 🤔️

It would be interesting to find a Google play books workflow. It automatically saves all the highlights & notes in Google Docs

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

👀️

I created a little Golang program to parse my My Clippings file to markdown, the thing I found to be bad about the plugin is that it was very irregular. Sometimes it would update, sometimes it would create a whole new page for the same book.

@Gabriel-nm4te

2 жыл бұрын

And then I added it as a cfg into my kindle and every time I connect my kindle to my pc it would start "syncing"

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

niiiiiiice

@ErdosainNueve

2 жыл бұрын

You can share your work please? Thanks

My biggest problem taking notes on kindle is that is not actually a fluid process to write a note on it, it freezes a little bit and has a delay. How do you feel about that? Since its not comfortable to me take kindle notes, and there is a friction to take notes on computer after reading the hole book, I usually highlight while reading but don't actually do anything from that, its so frustrating and i don't know how to make a system that works Love your channel! Cheers from Brasil c:

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

very true, the keyboard interface on kindle is a pain, but you can highlight easily and then on the kindle phone app or on readwise's website you can add comments to your highlights there

Thx for your video, it helps me a lot. But I also got a question while using this method to export my kindle highlight. Those highlights exported to obsidian do not display in order of page location. Is it possible to let them order by page location?

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

strange, mine export ordered by page location by default

This is super interesting and does make me want to get a kindle just so I can do this. But I currently read most of my books on my phone using the Google play store. I wonder if there's something similar I can do.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

i dont do it, but i think you can read your kindle books on a kindle phone app too for portability as well as desktop app so it seems you can read on the go or on any platform you really want so it sounds possible :)

@GinaLuciaReads

3 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks ohhhh interesting. I might have to look into that. Thanks!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

@@GinaLuciaReads my pleasure!

@kurodesuuuu

3 жыл бұрын

Get an Onyx note! (eink screen like kindle)

@GinaLuciaReads

3 жыл бұрын

@@kurodesuuuu I did look that up actually and I'm tempted.

Thanks for the video. My problem is that I don't have a physical kindle. I read my books on the kindle app on my desktop. Is there a version of this that works for the desktop app?

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

if its in the app then there's always using readwise too

Importing from kindle, adds annoying tags like "orange" or "pink" to my notes, they refer to the color of the highlighter used in Kindle. Messes up my graph view. At the moment I need to manually remove these tags. Any ideas how to avoid these color tags? thanks!

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

ive since moved to using readwise to get my kindle notes into obsidian

The main problem I've experienced with my Kindle is it's very difficult to use it to extract deep, meaningful insights out of books. Because there are limits on the number of highlights you can take, and you can't extensively annotate with ease, my kindle highlights tend to just be a collection of fortune cookie style quotes which sound really good but lack context and depth. If I'm going through a book I really want to pull lots of learning points out of (which is most books I read, otherwise what is the point?), I usually use my iPad, which allows me to go split screen with the Obsidian app and take detailed notes as I go along on my smart keyboard folio. I love kindle but not sure that there's any way around this problem?

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

i personally also just dont like the highlights functionality for deep work, and i normally use the kindle primarily for my fiction reading so this resonates ⭐️

You can screen capture on kindle.

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

WAIT WHAT

i suppose this doesn't work with files imported to your kindle externally. I tried using Readwise once but it only gets notes and highlights from books i actually bought on the store.

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

unfortunate, but sounds par the course for an amazon owned product 🤷🏻‍♂️️

Can you download highlights even if they are too long or more than 10% of the book content?

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

I’ve never highlighted more than 10% of a book in a single highlight before so I’m not sure

is there an open source alternative to Obsidian?

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

plenty, but to fully replicate all the features in it, not so much

🐄

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

🐄

and why again aren't you using readwise? I missed it.

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

I am, I think I botched that videos audio and that’s why I don’t have a video on it

@SonDialer

2 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks so why use this method if readwise already does it?

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

@@SonDialer not everyone wants to pay for readwise

Great stuff. One question: now it is possible to download a html file via the kindle app which is called notebook. It contains all kindle highlights from a book. What is the simplest, best way to process this file to Obsidian? I am just working with android (Samsung Tab S4, Samsung 8+) and obviously the mobile app of Obsidian. Any suggestions?

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

ive never done this and dont have any experience with it, even more than the methods shown in this video im using the readwise plugin for this type of thing now, its pretty nice for this

Your text/page size, gamification... yes, just, but the real bookmark moving 'down' the paper stack has been fine. But the highlights and notes is the total wipe out for non-fiction books/texts.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

the notes are nice but id still struggle with using the kindle for many notes on notfiction books easily. maybe the kindle app on ipad with the apple pencil would make annotation of the highlights easier? not something ive played around with too much TBH

@TylerCrowl

2 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks currently reading on an iPad Pro. I’m still working on a workflow with it that’s easy and it’s just not that easy with iBooks. Honestly the hardest part with an iPad even with a paper like screen is screen glare and eye fatigue from screens. Anyways still working that whole situation out. Also Bryan thanks. You’re the reason I’ve been able to learn obsidian. It’s been a huge help in my life dude. I appreciate it 😄

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

@@TylerCrowl there are also some cheap blue light blocking glasses you can get, I use them because Im looking at screens all day1

Any ideas for Kobo kids like me? :D

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

is that a E-ink reader? never heard of Kobo .__.