Tech Tip: Remembering Kindle Highlights
I love my Kindle! I read from it almost daily, and probably read about 50%-60% of the books I read from cover-to-cover on it.
As I read, though, I like to make some highlights. However…what do you do with those highlights once they are done?
I have struggled with that for quite some time, but here is what I am starting to do now. I hope it is helpful to you if you have struggled with this, too.
STEP ONE: Finding the Highlights
Amazon does a great thing in putting all your Kindle highlights in one place, but they make it a bit difficult to find. The best thing to do is to bookmark the page with your highlights, but if you forget to do that, here’s how you can find them.
1. Sign into Amazon
2. Then, in the url bar, type in kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights
Once you are on that page, Amazon shows all your highlights from all your books, starting with the newest ones.
STEP TWO: Archive on a blog
This is an extra step, I know, but it is one that I am doing, because I want to share these resources with others.
So, I created a Tumblr blog called “Resources from Adam Faughn.” Click here to see it, or here to follow it by rss.
If you do this, people who follow that blog will get to see all your favorite quotes. It’s a great way to share resources! Feel free to follow mine.
STEP THREE: Send to Evernote
If you are not using Evernote, you need to! It is the best way I have found to keep up with all the zillions of different things you find, but you don’t know where to keep. I recently crossed over 3000 notes in my account, and I use it to store all sorts of illustrations, sermon ideas, quotes, maps, pictures…and on and on.
I plan to clip my Tumblr posts into Evernote, and since the posts have tags (e.g. family, preaching, Matthew, etc.), they are then already tagged and searchable.
NOTE: One thing that I need to tell you is that I don’t make a ton of highlights. I’m not sure this system would work if you are a very heavy highlighter. But it’s a way I’m trying, and I think it will work.
QUESTION: How to keep up with your Kindle highlights and notes?
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