How to Sync Your Kindle Highlights with Integrate
Your Kindle is full of highlights you’ll never see again. They’re sitting in Amazon’s cloud, spread across dozens of books, and Amazon has no intention of making them easy to find.
Integrate pulls them out. The browser extension syncs your Kindle highlights into your personal library, where you can search them, organize them by topic, and review them daily. Setup takes about 5 minutes.
What you need
Three things before you start:
- An Integrate account (free at integrate.fyi)
- The Integrate browser extension for Chrome
- A Kindle account with some highlights in it (any Kindle device or app works)
Step 1: install the extension
Go to the Chrome Web Store, search “Integrate,” and click “Add to Chrome.” Confirm the install.
You’ll see the Integrate icon in your browser toolbar. Click it and sign in.
Step 2: open Kindle’s web reader
Go to read.amazon.com/notebook in Chrome. This is Amazon’s Kindle Notebook. It shows all your books that have highlights.
Sign in with your Amazon account if it asks.
Step 3: sync
Once you’re on the Kindle Notebook page, the Integrate extension picks up your highlights automatically. Click the Integrate icon in your toolbar and you’ll see the sync option.
The extension grabs:
- The full highlight text
- Book title and author
- Where in the book the highlight lives
- Any notes you added
Depending on how many highlights you have, this takes a few seconds to a few minutes.
Step 4: check your library
Open Integrate on your phone or at integrate.fyi. Your Kindle highlights are there now, organized by book.
Each highlight becomes a snippet. Snippets are the basic unit of knowledge in Integrate. Once they’re in, the system automatically:
- Suggests topic tags based on what the highlight is about
- Adds them to matching notebooks if you have auto-add turned on
- Queues them for your daily review session
Step 5: keep it going
You don’t need to run the sync manually every time you finish a book. Just visit read.amazon.com occasionally with the extension installed. It catches new highlights and pulls them in.
The simplest habit: after you finish a Kindle book, open the Notebook page once. Done.
Getting more out of Kindle sync
Highlight with intention. Not every sentence needs marking. Go for ideas that challenge how you think, frameworks you want to apply, quotes that stick. Fewer, better highlights beat a wall of yellow.
Use Kindle’s highlight colors. Yellow for key ideas, blue for data, pink for things you want to push back on. Integrate keeps the color information.
Add notes while you read. A short note like “use in presentation” or “connects to X” makes a highlight ten times more useful when you see it again weeks later.
Review daily. This is where the value compounds. Integrate’s daily session shows you a handful of highlights at spaced intervals. Five minutes a day. That’s the difference between reading a book and remembering it.
When things go wrong
Highlights not showing up? Check that you’re signed into the same Amazon account on read.amazon.com that you use on your Kindle device. They sync through Amazon’s cloud, so they need to match.
Extension not detecting anything? Refresh the Kindle Notebook page. The extension needs the page fully loaded before it can read your highlights.
Some highlights missing? Some publishers cap how many highlights you can export. This is Amazon’s restriction, not ours. The My Clippings.txt file on a physical Kindle isn’t subject to these caps, if you want a workaround.
Common questions
Does this work with Kindle Unlimited books?
Yes. As long as the book is still in your Kindle library, highlights sync the same way.
Can I sync highlights I made on my phone?
The sync works through the Kindle web reader (read.amazon.com), not the phone app directly. But all highlights you make on any device sync to Amazon’s cloud, so they show up on read.amazon.com.
Will it sync automatically in the future?
Right now you need to visit read.amazon.com with the extension installed for new highlights to come through. We’re building fully automatic background sync.
Can I import from My Clippings.txt instead?
Yes. Integrate supports CSV import, so you can parse your clippings file and bring it in that way.
Your Kindle highlights are worth more than Amazon lets you do with them. Sync them to Integrate and start using them. integrate.fyi
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