How to export Kindle highlights to Obsidian, Notion, Markdown or Excel

Updated October 14, 2026 · 7 min read

Short answer: your highlights for Kindle Store books live in the Kindle notebook at read.amazon.com/notebook. You can copy them by hand, or export everything in one go to Markdown (for Obsidian and Notion), CSV (for Excel and Google Sheets) or JSON with a tool like Leafpost. Highlights in personal documents are only in the My Clippings.txt file on your Kindle.

In this guide
  1. Where your highlights are stored
  2. Method 1: the Kindle notebook (manual)
  3. Method 2: one-click export to Markdown, CSV or JSON
  4. Import into Obsidian
  5. Import into Notion
  6. Method 3: My Clippings.txt (includes personal documents)
  7. Export limits you should know

Where your highlights are stored

Method 1: the Kindle notebook (manual)

  1. Open read.amazon.com/notebook and sign in. Outside the US the address is localized, e.g. lesen.amazon.de/notebook or leer.amazon.es/notebook.
  2. Pick a book on the left. Its highlights, colors, locations and notes appear on the right.
  3. Select and copy what you need.

That's fine for one book. For a whole library it's slow, and copying loses the structure (which note belongs to which highlight, locations, colors).

Method 2: one-click export to Markdown, CSV or JSON

Leafpost reads your Kindle notebook in your own browser, with your Amazon sign-in, and saves every highlight and note in the format you choose:

  1. Install Leafpost and open its settings page.
  2. In Kindle highlights, click Load my highlights. The first time, Chrome asks for permission to read your Amazon store's notebook.
  3. Choose the books (all of them by default) and a format:
    • Markdown, one file per book (.zip): ideal for Obsidian and for importing into Notion.
    • Markdown, single file: everything in one document.
    • CSV: one row per highlight with book, author, note, color and location, for Excel, Google Sheets or a Notion database.
    • JSON: for your own scripts.
  4. Click Export.

Nothing is uploaded to any server: the export is built in your browser and downloaded to your computer. Highlight export is a Leafpost Pro feature, free during early access.

Each Markdown file looks like this:

---
title: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
author: "Edgar Allan Poe"
asin: B0EXAMPLE1
highlights: 2
source: Kindle
---

# The Murders in the Rue Morgue
*Edgar Allan Poe*

> The mental features discoursed of as the analytical are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.
>
> — Location 7 · yellow

**Note:** Opening line, worth quoting.

Import into Obsidian

  1. Export as Markdown, one file per book (.zip).
  2. Unzip it into a folder inside your vault, for example Books/Kindle.
  3. The front matter (title, author, number of highlights) works with Obsidian properties and Dataview queries. Re-export any time to refresh.

Import into Notion

Method 3: My Clippings.txt (includes personal documents)

  1. Connect your Kindle e-reader to a computer with a USB cable.
  2. Open the documents folder and copy My Clippings.txt.
  3. Open it in a text editor, or import it into a tool that understands its format.

It contains highlights from books and personal documents read on that device, but not from your phone or tablet apps, and deleted highlights can still appear in it.

Export limits you should know

FAQ

Is exporting my own highlights allowed?

They're your notes on books you own, and the export only reads what Amazon already shows you in the notebook, within the publisher's limits.

What about Readwise?

Readwise is a paid service that syncs Kindle highlights automatically and resurfaces them. If you only need your highlights as files in your own tools, a one-off export is enough.

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