How to Export Kindle Highlights to Notion (2026 Guide)

We’ve all been there: You’re reading a life-changing book on your Kindle, highlighting key insights, and making notes that you’re sure will transform your life or business. But then, you finish the book, close your Kindle, and those highlights are essentially locked in a digital vault.

Amazon’s ecosystem is fantastic for reading, but it’s notoriously "leaky" when it comes to getting your data out. If you want to actually use your highlights—for writing, building a second brain, or just reflecting on what you’ve learned—you need a way to get them into a flexible workspace like Notion.

In this guide, I’m going to show you exactly how to export your Kindle highlights to Notion in 2026, covering everything from the tedious manual methods to the latest automated tools.

The Problem: Why Your Kindle Highlights Are "Trapped"

Amazon makes it incredibly easy to buy and read books, but they don't make it particularly easy to own your highlights. By default, your highlights live in:

1. The Kindle App/Device: Great for reading, terrible for searching or synthesizing across multiple books.
2. Amazon's "My Highlights" Page: A clunky web interface that is difficult to navigate and even harder to export from.
3. My Clippings.txt: A messy text file buried in your Kindle’s file system that records every highlight and note in chronological order, regardless of which book they belong to.

Without a way to sync these to a structured database like Notion, your best insights often go to waste. This is the "Collector's Fallacy"—the idea that just because you've highlighted something, you've actually learned it. True learning happens when you organize, review, and connect those ideas.

Manual Methods: The "Old School" Way

If you only have a few highlights or don't want to use any third-party tools, there are two main manual ways to get your data into Notion.

1. Using My Clippings.txt

Every Kindle device has a hidden file called My Clippings.txt.

• How to do it: Connect your Kindle to your computer via USB. Open the "documents" folder and find My Clippings.txt.
• The Process: Copy the text, paste it into a Notion page, and manually format it.
• The Catch: It’s a mess. The file includes every time you changed a highlight, deleted one, or added a note. You’ll spend hours cleaning up the formatting and separating highlights by book.

2. Copy-Pasting from the Kindle Cloud Reader

You can access your highlights at read.amazon.com/notebook.

• How to do it: Log in, select a book, and manually copy each highlight into Notion.
• The Catch: Amazon often limits how much you can copy at once to prevent copyright infringement, and it’s incredibly time-consuming if you’re a heavy highlighter.

Automated Solutions: Saving Your Time (and Sanity)

By 2026, manual copying should be a thing of the past. There are two primary ways to automate this process.

Readwise: The Gold Standard (with a Price Tag)

Readwise has been the dominant player in this space for years. It’s an incredible tool that syncs from Kindle, Instapaper, Pocket, and more.

• Pros: Extremely polished, handles many sources, includes a daily review feature.
• Cons: It’s expensive. In 2026, a full subscription can cost upwards of $15/month. For many casual readers, that’s more than they spend on books.

KindleSync: The Focused, Affordable Alternative

If you just want to get your Kindle highlights into Notion without the "everything app" complexity or the high monthly fee, KindleSync is the modern solution.

KindleSync was built with a "do one thing well" philosophy. It connects your Amazon account directly to your Notion workspace and keeps your highlights in sync automatically.

Step-by-Step Guide: Exporting Kindle Highlights Using KindleSync

Here is the fastest way to get your highlights into Notion using KindleSync's free tier.

Step 1: Create Your Notion Database

Before connecting the tool, you need a place for your highlights to live. You can use a simple table with properties for "Book Title," "Author," and "Highlight Content." (Tip: KindleSync provides a free template if you want to skip this step!)

Step 2: Connect KindleSync to Notion

Go to KindleSync.app and sign up. You’ll be asked to authorize KindleSync to access your Notion workspace. You can choose to give it access to your entire workspace or just a specific page/database.

Step 3: Link Your Amazon Account

Follow the secure prompts to link your Amazon Kindle account. KindleSync uses secure authentication to fetch your highlights directly from your Kindle Cloud Notebook.

Step 4: Run Your First Sync

Click "Sync Now." KindleSync will scan your library and begin populating your Notion database.

• The Free Tier allows you to sync your most recent books and a limited number of highlights per month.
• The Free Tier lets you sync up to 3 books (with all highlights in those books).
• The Pro Tier (only $2/month) offers unlimited syncs and real-time updates.

Step 5: Organize and Tag

Once the highlights are in Notion, the real fun begins. You can add tags like "To Process," "Life Lessons," or "Research for Project X."

Tips for Organizing Highlights in Notion

Getting the data into Notion is only half the battle. Here’s how to make those highlights actually useful:

1. Use a "Status" Property: Track which highlights you've actually read and reflected on (e.g., "New," "Reviewed," "Archived").
2. Create Custom Views: Use Notion’s "Gallery View" to see your book covers, or a "List View" filtered by category (e.g., "Business," "Philosophy").
3. The "Golden Rule" of Notes: Don't just save the highlight. Add a "My Take" section under each highlight where you explain why it was important in your own words.
4. Relational Databases: Link your Book Highlights database to your "Projects" database. If a quote from Atomic Habits applies to your "Gym Habit" project, link them!

Why I Built KindleSync (The Solo-Dev Angle)

Hi, I'm the developer behind KindleSync. I built this tool because I was frustrated. I loved Readwise, but as someone who primarily reads on Kindle and uses Notion, I couldn't justify paying $100+ a year for features I wasn't using (like daily emails or Twitter syncing).

I wanted a tool that was:

• Simple: Just Kindle to Notion. Nothing else.
• Affordable: A free tier that actually works, and a pro tier that costs less than a cup of coffee.
• Transparent: No venture capital, no "growth at all costs." Just a tool that solves a problem for me and, hopefully, for you.

When you use KindleSync, you're not just using a piece of software; you're supporting a solo indie developer who cares about the reading experience as much as you do.

Conclusion

Your highlights are your intellectual capital. Leaving them stuck on your Kindle is like earning money and never putting it in the bank. By exporting them to Notion, you're turning "passive reading" into "active learning."

Whether you choose the manual route, the feature-rich Readwise, or the streamlined KindleSync, the most important thing is that you start building your digital library today.

Ready to get started? Try KindleSync for free and see how easy it is to bring your Kindle highlights to life in Notion.