Send Kindle highlights to Notion or Obsidian

Quick answer

Your book highlights belong next to the rest of your notes. Here are the two routes: automatic and manual.

What 125x is: 125x is a web app at 125x.app. You connect your YouTube subscriptions, and it gives you a feed of the latest videos from the channels you follow, each with a summary: a verdict, the 5 key takeaways, and the spoiler, plus Actionable and Lessons tabs with more tips. You read that and decide what's actually worth opening.

Open 125x

Automatic: Readwise to Notion

Connect Readwise to Notion from Readwise's export page. Per Readwise docs, it creates a Readwise database in your workspace and keeps syncing new highlights, adding new books as pages and appending new highlights to existing ones.

Automatic: Readwise to Obsidian

Install the Readwise Official community plugin in Obsidian. Per Readwise docs, it creates a page per book in your vault and appends new highlights, and it never overwrites what's there.

Manual: no extra service

Export the book's notebook from the Kindle app by email, or copy from read.amazon.com/notebook.
Paste into a new note.
Delete the highlights that don't matter anymore. Be ruthless.

A book page template

Title, author, date finished
## 3 things I'll do
## Best highlights
## Related: [[topic]]

Where 125x fits

Lots of authors do long YouTube interviews about their books. 125x summarizes those from channels you follow, and the Lessons tab often lines up with the book's big ideas. Paste them under the book's page. More in book videos.

FAQ: questions people ask

How do I get Kindle highlights into Notion?

Readwise has an official Notion export that syncs Kindle highlights into a Notion database. You can also copy them manually.

How do I get Kindle highlights into Obsidian?

Use the Readwise Official plugin, or paste an exported notebook into a Markdown note.

Do I need Readwise?

No. You can export by email or copy from the notebook page, but Readwise automates the syncing.