I use the Kindle Reader and make highlights and notes on the books I read. Unfortunately, the Kindle Reader does not provide a way to export these highlights and notes in other ways than HTML. As I use Bear to take notes and to fill my Zettelkasten, I wanted to convert these highlights and notes to Markdown format. This is the motivation behind this project.
It converts the Kindle HTML exports
to Markdown and create a new note with the highlights and notes in Bear.
Clone the Repository, install the dependencies and install the CLI globally.
> kindle2md <path-to-html-file> --tag <my-optional-tag-for-new-book-notes>Feel free to contribute to this project. You can open an issue or a pull request.
Things which would be nice to have:
- handle more languages for the naming of the
noteType. Currently it is only german "Notiz" and "Markierung" - have an easier to customize output format (like reading it from an template file or something)
- configure the tags which are added to the note (currently it is mine: #zettelkasten)
- maybe generalize this script to not only add the markdown to Bear but also to other note taking apps or simply create a markdown file
- create CD to publish the package to the npm registry