Kobo Highlights

kobobooksnotion

I made Kobo-Highlights because I wanted my Kobo highlights somewhere I could actually use them. Right now it exports to Notion and Markdown.

Installation

Install using the binary of your choice:

curl -L -o kobo-highlights https://github.com/ozmodiar/kobo-highlights/releases/latest/download/kobo-highlights_darwin_arm64
chmod +x kobo-highlights

Kobo Database

You can copy the database from your Kobo device to your local machine first. On macOS, this should be something like:

cp /Volumes/KOBOeReader/.kobo/KoboReader.sqlite ./KoboReader.sqlite

Try It Out

./kobo-highlights --kobo-db ./KoboReader.sqlite --list-formats
Available formats:
  - notion
  - markdown

Export to Markdown

mkdir markdown
./kobo-highlights --kobo-db ./KoboReader.sqlite --format markdown --markdown-dir ./markdown/

After that, the markdown folder should contain one file per book with the highlights inside. Not fancy, but that was the point.