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Export your Kindle highlights, organized by book

Upload My Clippings.txt and get your highlights and notes organized by book — Markdown for Obsidian, CSV for Excel, or a Notion import. Nothing is uploaded.

Where to find your My Clippings.txt file

  1. Connect your Kindle with the USB cable

    The Kindle shows up as a regular drive: under «This PC» on Windows, in the Finder on Mac. If it doesn't appear, check the Kindle's screen and tap «Connect» when it asks.

  2. Open the documents folder

    Inside you'll see My Clippings.txt. It's a plain text file where your Kindle records every highlight and note you make in any book — bought on Amazon or not.

  3. Drag it into the box above

    Your highlights appear instantly, organized by book. Nothing travels over the internet: the file is read inside your browser.

Every highlight you ever made, out of the one file your Kindle keeps

Amazon's own notebook page shows you the books you bought from Amazon and quietly omits the rest. Your Kindle keeps a better record: My Clippings.txt, a plain text file in the device's documents folder, where it writes every highlight, note and bookmark you make in any book — sideloaded, emailed, borrowed or bought. This page reads that file where it already is, inside your browser, and gives you back what is in it, sorted by book.

  • Includes the books Amazon leaves out: anything you sideloaded or emailed to the device is in the file, so it is in the export.
  • Reads My Clippings.txt in 12 device languages and every firmware wording since 2009 — mixed-language files included, because a file that old usually is one.
  • Notes are attached to the highlight they annotate instead of floating loose, extended highlights are merged rather than duplicated, and anything the Kindle truncated at the publisher's clipping limit is flagged as such.
  • Exports Markdown (one file per book, zipped when there are several), CSV for Excel or Sheets, and a CSV shaped for Notion's «Import → CSV».
  • Choose which books to export, or copy a single book to the clipboard as Markdown.
  • No account, no Amazon password, no upload: the file is read by the page itself.

Exporting Kindle highlights: the usual questions

Where is My Clippings.txt?

On the Kindle itself. Connect it by USB and open the documents folder — the file sits at the top of it. The guide above walks through it for Windows and for Mac.

Do I have to sign in to Amazon?

No, and that is rather the point of doing it this way. The tools that ask for your Amazon password are reading the notebook page on your behalf; this reads a text file you already have.

Does it include books I did not buy from Amazon?

Yes. The Kindle records highlights from every book on the device, however it got there — which is exactly what Amazon's notebook page leaves out.

Why are some of my highlights cut off?

The publisher's clipping limit: once you have copied a certain share of a book, the Kindle writes a notice in place of the passage. Those entries are flagged in the export rather than silently shortened.

How do I get these into Obsidian, Notion or Excel?

Markdown gives one file per book — drop them into your vault. The Notion CSV goes in through «Import → CSV» and becomes one page per highlight. The plain CSV opens in Excel or Sheets with a column per field.

Can I do this from the Kindle app on my phone?

No. My Clippings.txt exists only on the e-ink devices; the phone and tablet apps keep highlights inside the app and sync them to Amazon's notebook page instead.

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