Master E-Reader Annotations: Export Highlights to Notion & Readwise

📚 Export Kindle/Boox Highlights to Notion + Readwise (So Your Notes Aren’t Trapped)

You know that feeling when you highlight something brilliant… then it disappears into your e-reader like a message in a bottle? 🫠

That’s the problem: e-ink is amazing for reading, but your highlights are only valuable if they leave the device and become searchable, reviewable, and reusable.

This guide shows a clean workflow to export and use your highlights in Readwise and Notion—and how LibSpace makes the whole pipeline effortless by fixing the “getting content onto the device” part.

💡 Why exporting highlights matters (aka “stop wasting your best thoughts”)

Highlights and annotations are compressed insight:

the parts you actually cared about
the parts you’ll want later for writing, research, decisions, strategy, etc.
the breadcrumbs that connect ideas across books/papers/articles

But they only compound if you can:

🔎 search them instantly
🔁 review them regularly
🧩 connect them across sources
🧠 reuse them in writing/projects

If they’re stuck on Kindle/Boox, they’re basically decorative.

🧠 The ideal system: a simple 3-part pipeline

1) Input: get content onto e-ink fast

You want “one click” from browser → e-reader, not “download → rename → email → wait → hope.”

2) Reading: annotate in a distraction-free environment

E-ink helps you read longer and highlight better. That’s the whole point.

3) Extraction + synthesis: export highlights into tools that work

Readwise = daily resurfacing + consolidation
Notion = your structured, searchable knowledge base

This setup makes your reading usable.

🔥 Readwise: the annotation hub (where highlights go to become memory)

Readwise is best at one thing: making sure your highlights don’t die quietly.

What Readwise does well

📥 pulls highlights from supported sources (Kindle is the big one)
🏷️ tagging + organization
📬 daily digest emails to resurface highlights (the killer feature)
🔌 exports to downstream tools (Notion, Obsidian, etc.)

Kindle → Readwise (the easy win)

Create a Readwise account
Connect Kindle/Amazon highlights (Readwise guides you through it)
Wait for the initial sync (first sync can take a bit depending on library size)
Start getting a daily highlight digest

Result: your Kindle highlights become searchable and reviewable immediately.

Boox → Readwise (usually “export then import”)

Boox is more flexible, but less standardized. Common approaches:

export highlights/annotations from Boox as text/PDF
import into Readwise manually (or via supported formats/workflows)

Result: still centralized, just less “automatic” than Kindle.

🗂️ Notion: the long-term knowledge warehouse (where highlights become work)

Notion is where you turn “highlight collections” into:

literature review databases
project research dashboards
topic-based libraries
writing inputs

A Notion database that actually works (minimal but useful)

Create a database called Reading Library with properties like:

Title (text)
Author / Source (text)
Type (select: Article, Paper, Book, Newsletter)
Topic (multi-select)
Status (select: To Read, Reading, Done)
Date Read (date)
Source URL (url)
Highlights (text / long text)
My Notes (text / long text)
Rating (1–5)

Then add views:

📌 “This Week” (Status = Reading/To Read)
🧪 “Research Papers” (Type = Paper)
✍️ “Writing Inputs” (tagged for a project)
⭐ “Best Stuff” (Rating ≥ 4)

Readwise → Notion

Readwise can push highlights into Notion automatically via integration.

Best practice:

Readwise stores the raw highlights
Notion stores your curated “working notes” + project organization

Notion is your system of record. Readwise is your recall engine.

🚀 Where LibSpace fits: the missing front door

Most people obsess over exporting highlights… while still failing at the earlier step:
they don’t consistently get content onto their e-reader, so they don’t consistently annotate.

LibSpace fixes that input problem:

⚡ one-click saving from the browser
📚 fast delivery to e-readers (Kindle and Boox)
🧼 formatting optimized for e-ink (less clutter, better reading)

So your loop becomes: Discover → Save → Read → Highlight → Export → Review → Reuse

Without friction, this actually becomes a habit.

✅ Step-by-step: build the system in under an hour

Step 1: Pick your setup

Best overall: Readwise + Notion
Review-heavy: Readwise first, Notion later
Organization-heavy: Notion + scheduled reviews

Step 2: Connect Kindle highlights to Readwise

Connect account
Sync highlights
Turn on daily digest

Step 3: Create your Notion Reading Library database

Add properties + views
Keep it simple (you can get fancy later)

Step 4: Connect Readwise → Notion export

Map fields cleanly
Decide: one page per source (recommended)

Step 5: Fix your input with LibSpace

Install extension
Save a few real articles/papers you actually want
Verify they hit your device quickly
Read + highlight the same day (momentum matters)

🛠️ Common failure modes (and how to avoid them)

“I highlight everything”

Congrats, you invented noise.

Aim for ~5–10% highlighted per piece
Add a short note on why it matters

“I never review highlights”

That’s why Readwise exists.

Commit to 5 minutes/day on the digest
If you skip a week, your system becomes a graveyard

“My Notion got too complicated”

It always does.

Start with 5–10 topics max
Do quarterly cleanup, not daily perfection

📣 Strong conversion CTA

If your highlights are stuck on a device, you don’t have “notes.”
You have lost opportunities.

Build the loop:

LibSpace to get content onto e-ink fast (so reading happens)
Readwise to extract + resurface highlights (so memory happens)
Notion to organize + reuse insights (so work happens)

Try it for 14 days with real reading—not aspirational reading.
Save the things you actually want to finish. Highlight like you mean it. Export. Review.

If your notes don’t become easier to find and use within a week, dump it.
But if they do… you just turned reading into a compounding asset. 📈