#43

The Kindle Highlights plugin (available in community plugins) automatically syncs Kindle book highlights & notes through connecting with your Amazon account and the developer has also added a new feature for importing from myclippings.txt in the latest update. Working really well for me thus far :slight_smile:

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#44

Not thrilled with this excerpt from the plugin author’s git site-

“….If you choose to sync your highlights via Amazon’s online Kindle Reader, it is important to note that by logging in to your Amazon account via Obsidian your Amazon session becomes available to any other plugin across your vaults until your session expires.”

Would love to hear from talented Forum members or Obsidian Devs if/how this could be mitigated in the Apple sphere. Although, I’m not really suggesting the Devs become the Plugin Police (or am I, :wink:).

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#45

I just installed and used this plug-in by linking to my uploaded My Clippings.txt file that I pulled off my kindle. It worked perfectly. No sync required with my amazon account.

FYI, after installing and enabling the plug-in, I was able to pull up the option to manually upload the My Clippings.txt by clicking the middle bottom of the screen where the status of my kindle sync was presented.

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From there is was very clear what to do

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#46

Fair call. I had to declare the behaviour so as a user you can make the best informed option for you.

Obsidian is an Electron app. In essence, it is running inside a sandboxed browser. Any web session that a plugin may create, is available for all plugins to use. It is currently not possible to limit a session for a particular plugin’s usage.

That said, you have two easy options to work around this to ensure the privacy of your Amazon account:

  1. Logout from the plugin’s settings after every use
  2. Don’t use the online Amazon sync. And instead upload the My Clippings.txt file on your Kindle device
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#47

Great! Thanks for the reply. Will pursue #2!

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#48

Hello, thanks for this tip it is working fantastic! One question though my location links are not clickable as yours look to be…any ideas there?

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#49

Is there any way to create individual .md files for each highlight, rather than for each book, and just have a tag or metadata for those .md files linking them to each book? I’d prefer individual notes per highlight rather than per book.

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#50

Self promotion but I had a little program I wrote and just put it up into www.kindle2markdown.com. It’s easy and quick to use