Evernote gives you the tools you need to keep your work effortlessly organized:. Write, collect and capture ideas as searchable notes, notebooks, checklists and to-do lists. Take notes in a variety of formats, including: text, sketches, photos, audio, video, PDFs, web clippings and more. Use camera capture to easily scan and comment. Aug 04, 2011 This is optional, of course. However, I store my Kindle notes and highlights in my @Cabinet notebook. I use the book notes tag. Keep in mind that Evernote automatically indexes every word in the note, so you don’t have to repeat key words as tags.

Do you highlight and annotate the heck out of your Kindle books? The highlight and note features in Kindle are fantastic, but there’s not much you can do with the resulting content on the Kindle device itself.

Once your highlights are in Evernote, though, it’s easy to do whatever you want with them. You can:

• Search
• Tag and cross-reference
• Reformat
• Copy out pieces you want to quote (say, in a blog post)
• Back up all your Kindle clippings

Here are 3 simple ways to get your Kindle clippings from your Kindle device into Evernote.

1] Clip from your Kindle page

1. Go to kindle.amazon.com (this address works even for non-US customers) and log in using your usual Amazon information. You’ll be taken to your Kindle account home page.
2. Click Your Highlights from the menu bar at the top of the screen.

You’ll see your most recent highlights at the top. If you scroll down the page, you’ll likely see other notes from other books but it all depends on how many highlights you make.

(Tip: If you’re like me and often keep your Kindle in airplane mode to save battery, you’ll want to turn airplane mode off so your Kindle can sync your notes to the web account. Once your notes are synced, you can turn airplane mode back on.)

From here, you have two options for pulling these notes into Evernote.

Clip with the Evernote Web Clipper …

Assuming you have the Evernote Web Clipper bookmarklet running in your browser, simply clip the notes page the way you would any other web content.

When you open up the resulting note in Evernote, you’ll see that all the information from your Amazon page has been copied over — including the Read more, Delete this highlight, and Add a note notations.

You’ll also discover that if there was more than one book showing on the Your Highlights page, Evernote has clipped them all.

I find the notations clutter up my notes, and I don’t like having to cut and paste to limit a note to one book.

… Or copy and paste

So the other way to get content into Evernote from the Your Kindle page is to copy and paste. With your mouse, highlight just the content you want (one book’s worth, for example) and paste it into a new note.

Oh, but wait! That also copies all the notations, which as I’ve said, I find distracting. So before I paste the content into Evernote, I first paste it into a Word doc and quickly strip the notations.

To do that, use the Find and Replace function. Find all instances of Add a note and replace it with nothing — just leave the Replace field blank. This deletes all Add a note lines. Do the same with Delete this highlight.

As a final step, I adjust the Page Layout by setting the before and after paragraph spacing to 0 and 0.

Then I copy the whole thing into Evernote.

The extra step only takes a minute but if you don’t find the original formatting annoying or you’d like to keep the notations, then feel free to skip all that and paste right into Evernote.

2] Export from ClippingsConverter

ClippingsConverter is a simple, free utility built specifically for exporting your Kindle clippings to other formats. It exports to PDF, Word and Excel and also integrates directly with Evernote.

Set up Evernote integration

1. Once you open your ClippingsConverter account, go to the Settings page and click Configure Evernote. Then click Grant Account Access.
2. You’ll be asked to log into Evernote and authorize the ClippingsConverter app. Click Authorize.

Exporting to Evernote

1. Navigate back to the main page using the Explorer button in the top left of your screen.
2. Click on Export in the menu bar at top right. The drop down shows you the export options. Select Evernote.
3. Choose the export settings you want. I use Content Only as my style to keep things clean. I also specify that I want one note per book, not per highlight.
4. Click the green Start Export button and the app goes to work.

In a few seconds, all of your highlights from all of your books will appear in Evernote with the formatting you specified.

There’s no way to export notes from a single book, but the app is intelligent, so every time you export, it skips everything you’ve already exported and only brings over what’s new.

What’s beautiful about ClippingsConverter is that you don’t get any notations at all, just clean text excerpts of the content you highlighted.

Nice clean notes!

Import Kindle Notes To Evernote

3] Copy and paste from My Clippings.txt

All of your Kindle notes and highlights are stored as a plain text file on your Kindle device.

Export Evernote Notes

1. Connect your Kindle to your laptop using the USB cord.
2. Open up the Kindle, open the Documents folder, then find the file called MyClippings.txt.
3. Open the My Clippings file, copy out any content you want, and paste it into Evernote.

The are two disadvantages to this method. One, you need to have your Kindle connected to your computer. And two, the raw My Clippings file has the most annotation data of any copy method, including a date and time stamp for each highlight. Maybe you like that, maybe you don’t.

I personally consider this method a last resort for copying out notes, but it works in a pinch (if you’re offline, for example).

There you have it. Three super simple ways to get your Kindle highlights into Evernote. Happy reading!

I don't know about you, but there are two things in this world that I can not live without. The first is Evernote and the second is my Kindle. Why? Because Evernote is like my second brain. I save all my important stuff there. Notes, recipes, health goals, shopping lists, you name it. Not only that, all this information can be managed in such a clever way - there really is no excuse for me to ever be disorganized again.

As for my Kindle? It's like my treasure trove full of amazing books, filled with all the kindle highlights and notes I've made with them. And my kindle notes and highlights are very important to me. So it's necessary I have somewhere to back them up, otherwise why bother making them to begin with?

So it should come as no surprise, that I'm a big fan of exporting all my kindle highlights and notes to Evernote.

Thankfully it's easy to do too. And I emphasize E A S Y as there are existing ways already to do this, though they are quite fiddly and not 100% effective.

For example, the Evernote Web Clipper can clip highlights and notes from your Amazon Kindle account, though it comes with some drawbacks. Firstly books have to be selected manually, which I find time-consuming. It duplicates text that has already been exported. Which means if you make lots of highlights like me, you end up re-clipping the same text over and over. Also, the text that is exported, unfortunately comes with all the Amazon notations that surround it - 'Read More', 'Delete This Highlight' and 'Add A Note'

So, using the Evernote Web Clipper to highlight your Kindle Highlights like this:

Results in them ending up in Evernote like this:

The problem with this, as Content Marketer and Publishing Strategist Jennifer Tribe, in her blog Clearprose.com states 'I find the notations clutter up my notes, and I don't like having to cut and paste to limit a note to one book'.

Instead she recommends Clippings.io. She adds, 'What’s beautiful about Clippings.io is that you don’t get any notations at all, just clean text excerpts of the content you highlighted.'

There are definite advantages to the Clippings.io system:

Evernote Notes Disappeared

• No copying or pasting involved
• No duplicates
• Clean text excerpts with no notations
• Works well if you have 1 or 1000's highlights
• It's quick - just a few clicks to export once set up.

Anyway, enough talking. Let's get started.

HOW TO BACK UP KINDLE HIGHLIGHTS AND NOTES TO EVERNOTE USING CLIPPINGS.IO

1. You will need both an Evernote and Clippings.io account. If you don't already have these, they are both very simple to set up and are free.
2. Now you need to introduce the two apps to each other. So in your Clippings.io homepage, click on your account name in the top-right corner. Then choose Settings.

1. Now click Configure Evernote under Integrations.

1. Next choose your Evernote Region

1. Sign in with your Evernote details to authorize Clippings.io. You'll then have the opportunity to confirm access to your Evernote account. (Clippings.io makes it very clear as to exactly what it can access.)

As the message says, you can revoke access at any time. You can also choose the duration: 1 day, 1 week, 30 days, or 1 year.

OK so now that we're all set up, let's start exporting.

LETS START EXPORTING

1. From your Clippings.io homepage, click on Export in the near top-right corner.

Evernote Note To Pdf

1. Click on Evernote. Here, you get another opportunity to change your Evernote settings, such as the inclusion of notes and tags.
2. Click Start Export. When the export is finished, a link will appear which allows you to view your highlights and notes in Evernote.

How To Transfer Kindle Notes To Evernote Free

It's that simple.

Like I said, there are a few ways to transfer Kindle highlights and notes to Evernote, but as far as I am aware Clippings.io is the only solution that will do so automatically, and also, wont duplicate your highlights if you perform multiple imports. In my mind these features are critical if you are planning on exporting your Kindle highlights to Evernote on a regular basis.