thoqbk/kindle-notes

Create flashcards with Spaced Repetition from your notes. Syncing notes and highlights from your Kindle.

Kindle Notes

Simple flashcards and notes extension. Ability to sync with Kindle.

You learn many interesting things every day by researching or reading books but easily forget if do not revise after some time. This extension allows you to:

• create flashcards and notes in simple markdown format
• sync notes and highlights from your Kindle and save them as flashcards
• revise flashcards

I use this extension daily for my long-term memory. Hope it helps you as well!

Feature highlights

• create flashcards and notes in simple markdown format
• sync notes and highlights from Kindle
• Spaced Repetition to revise flashcards
• auto format and generate metadata for books and flashcards
• provide links to open Kindle and Markdown while reviewing a flashcard

Get started

• run command Kindle Notes: Open Flashcards Repo to view books in the repo
• run command Kindle Notes: Study to revise a random book
• (optional) run Kindle Notes: Sync Books, enter email and password to sync from Kindle
• (optional) commit and push to Github

Preview

• create flashcards

• sync notes and highlights from Kindle

Commands

• Kindle-notes: Open Flashcards Repo: to open the flashcards repo in VS Code
• Kindle Notes: Study: study flashcards from a random books
• Kindle Notes: Study This File: study flashcards from the current markdown book
• Kindle Notes: Sync Books: to sync books from your Kindle. Notice that, the extension will ask you for email and password to login to Kindle. The credentials will be kept locally on your machine only.

Format

• Follows CommonMark
• Additional syntax for metadata and side seperator (%%)

---
id: id of the book     <-- auto generated
name: Name of the book
---

##                     <-- starting point of the flashcard
(frontside content)

%%                     <-- seperator between front and backside
(backside content)

<!--                   <-- flashcard metadata. Auto generated
src: kindle
hash: (hash value)     <-- to identify a flashcard in the book
page: 301              <-- page of the notes or highlights in Kindle
-->

##
Next flashcard

Configs

Name	Description	Default Value
Kindle notes: Flashcards Home Path	Path to the flashcards repo directory. Will be asked the first time you use the extension
Kindle-notes: Headless Browser	true to show Chromium browser while syncing notes and highlights from Kindle	false
Kindle-notes: Show Logger	Specify whether the logger UI will popup or not	false
Kindle-notes: Kindle Email	Email using to login to Kindle. Will be asked the first time you use the Sync Books command
Kindle-notes: Flashcards Per Study Session	Number of flashcards in a study session	10

Release notes

v.0.0.7

• Move db.json to tmp folder
• Add action Study this file to editor title
• Add strict when condition for Study this file

v.0.0.6

• Sync note content from Kindle
• Fix: missing flashcardsPerStudySession after sync
• Align flashcard content to the left