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Export Kindle highlights to Anki
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#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
set -euox pipefail | |
# Go to https://read.amazon.com/notebook and export your highlights as JSON using https://readwise.io/bookcision | |
# | |
# Install http://ankiweb.net/ and the https://foosoft.net/projects/anki-connect/index.html extension. Create a simple front-only card in anki, e.g. | |
# Card template: {{Front}} | |
# Styling: | |
# .card { | |
# font-family: arial; | |
# font-size: 20px; | |
# text-align: center; | |
# color: black; | |
# background-color: white; | |
# } | |
# | |
# Install https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ | |
# | |
# ./kindle2anki.sh <path/to/Kindle.Highlights_book.json> 'Books' '"tag1","tag2"' | |
# Tested on macOS Sierra 10.12.6, jq-1.5 | |
PATH_TO_JSON_HIGHLIGHTS=$1 | |
DECK_NAME=$2 | |
TAGS=$3 | |
cat $PATH_TO_JSON_HIGHLIGHTS | jq --indent 0 'def json2anki(xs): {"action":"addNotes","version":6,"params":{"notes":xs | map({"deckName":'"$DECK_NAME"',"modelName":"Front-only","fields":{"Front":.text | sub("(?<txt>.+),";.txt)},"tags":['"$TAGS"']})}}; json2anki(.highlights)' | xargs -0 -J % curl localhost:8765 -d '%' | |
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