To create a new highlight follow these steps: The book should automatically open to the last page you were on. Visit the Amazon Reader website and choose the book you’re interested in. If you’d like to add more highlights from a text, you can without ever getting up to grab your Kindle. If you choose to delete a highlight it will update across all of your Kindle devices and the note will disappear everywhere. Tap on edit if it’s needed, or delete if that’s what you’re after. The Notecard Box shows on your Kindle screen and you’ll have the option to share, delete, or edit your note. If you need to edit a note, then tap on the number that appears at the bottom right of the highlighted note section. When you’ve finished writing notes, tap Save in the lower right of your notecard.Finally, you can add notes with the on-screen keyboard and note card that appears.Then, the toolbar appears at the top of your highlighted text.To make Notes on your Amazon Kindle, just swipe the area of text that you want to be noted, highlighting it. So, that’s how you can highlight and remove a highlight on your Amazon Kindle. If you come back later and you no longer need certain text highlighted, you can tap on it and choose to delete it, and the highlight gets removed.

If you’d like to undo the highlight right then, tap ‘undo’ in the toolbar that appears.

After you take your finger off the Kindles surface you’ll see a notification telling you that you’ve just made a highlight.

Just drag your finger over the text that you want to highlight.

About as simple as highlighting a physical book, in fact. You can do this for a book or a document you’ve stored on your Kindle, and it’s easy to do. Don't forget to make it executable with chmod +x notionfy.Let’s talk about how you can add a highlight to your Amazon Kindle while you’re reading. Thats why I build a solution for Notion: Install Linuxĭownload the notionfy executable (for linux or default for Mac) and place it in your PATH or run it directly with. There are some solutions for Evernote to sync your highlights ( ), but they mostly focus on the few highlights available online.Īnd the solutions do not work for Notion. This would be super powerful, as you could search through all your highlights you ever took.Īmazon offers access to your highlights on there website, but unfortunately these do only include books you bought on amazon directly. One thing I was unhappy with so far, was that I could not have my highlights from my Kindle on there.

Notion is a great general purpose note taking App and a valid alternative to Evernote.

My kindle notes