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Mendeley Desktop is a Web-based interactive network for posting, editing, reviewing, and critiquing academic research. If you mashed up Facebook and Outlook with some professional networking features, threw in a dash of scientific interaction (think Berkeley's BOINC) and pointed the business end at researchers, you'd probably end up with something very much like this. It indexes and organizes your research, papers, PDFs, and other tools into an easy-to-use interface, but its online features also make it easy to access work posted by other researchers as well as access scientific, medical, and technical databases and sites.Mendeley Desktop requires a free Mendeley account that enables users to share and sync data across multiple computers and mobile devices. The setup wizard let us log in to an existing account or create a new one, which only required a name, e-mail address, and password, though users can enter their research field and status. Clicking the link in the verification email we received opened the main page, the Dashboard, in our browser.
In addition to the Dashboard, tabs let us quickly access My Library, Papers, Groups, and People. The program's toolbar and navigation panel have the familiar feel of a full-featured e-mail client that can sync folders and data with servers and other accounts. For starters, only three toolbar buttons are active: Add Documents, Create Folder, and Sync Library. We clicked Add Documents and browsed to an archive, but it's just as easy to drag-and-drop documents directly into the program for organizing. Copious help is available for newbies, including video tutorials, local workshops (where available; you can always start one, too!) and even Facebook and Twitter accounts where you can ask questions of experienced users. Like other social networking tools, you can use Mendeley to invite colleagues as well as meet new ones and relocate old ones.While we can't cite studies to back it up, we suspect that Mendeley is where a lot of intelligent, highly focused yet widely knowledgeable people (we'll call them 'nerds') hang out and trade extremely esoteric jokes.
But its main purpose is enabling and furthering scientific, academic, and intellectual interaction and cooperation. Like its participants, Mendeley seems more than capable of handling both. Mendeley Desktop is a Web-based interactive network for posting, editing, reviewing, and critiquing academic research. If you mashed up Facebook and Outlook with some professional networking features, threw in a dash of scientific interaction (think Berkeley's BOINC) and pointed the business end at researchers, you'd probably end up with something very much like this. It indexes and organizes your research, papers, PDFs, and other tools into an easy-to-use interface, but its online features also make it easy to access work posted by other researchers as well as access scientific, medical, and technical databases and sites.Mendeley Desktop requires a free Mendeley account that enables users to share and sync data across multiple computers and mobile devices. The setup wizard let us log in to an existing account or create a new one, which only required a name, e-mail address, and password, though users can enter their research field and status. Clicking the link in the verification email we received opened the main page, the Dashboard, in our browser.
In addition to the Dashboard, tabs let us quickly access My Library, Papers, Groups, and People. The program's toolbar and navigation panel have the familiar feel of a full-featured e-mail client that can sync folders and data with servers and other accounts. For starters, only three toolbar buttons are active: Add Documents, Create Folder, and Sync Library. We clicked Add Documents and browsed to an archive, but it's just as easy to drag-and-drop documents directly into the program for organizing. Copious help is available for newbies, including video tutorials, local workshops (where available; you can always start one, too!) and even Facebook and Twitter accounts where you can ask questions of experienced users. Like other social networking tools, you can use Mendeley to invite colleagues as well as meet new ones and relocate old ones.While we can't cite studies to back it up, we suspect that Mendeley is where a lot of intelligent, highly focused yet widely knowledgeable people (we'll call them 'nerds') hang out and trade extremely esoteric jokes. But its main purpose is enabling and furthering scientific, academic, and intellectual interaction and cooperation.
Like its participants, Mendeley seems more than capable of handling both. Mendeley is a research management tool for desktop and Web. Organize your own research library. SHARE with other researchers. DISCOVER new research and trends. Mendeley Desktop is academic software that indexes and organizes all of your PDF documents and research papers into your own personal digital bibliography.
It gathers document details from your PDFs allowing you to effortlessly search, organize and cite. It also looks up PubMed, CrossRef, DOIs, and other related document details automatically. Drag and drop functionality makes populating the library quick and easy. The Web Importer allows you to quickly and easily import papers from resources such as Google Scholar, ACM, IEEE and many more at the click of a button. Collaborate with fellow researchers and share information, resources and experiences with shared and public collections.
Your research team will have easy access to each others papers. Just create a group, invite your colleagues and drag and drop documents in there. This way you can keep on top of what they're reading and discover more about what interests you.Through the Mendeley research network you can connect with other researchers in your field. This opens up a whole new avenue for knowledge discovery. You can view the most read authors, journals and research papers in your field. You can explore by using tags associated with your research area.
By navigating the Web of knowledge available to you, you make some useful contacts along the way too. In addition to that, you can also view interesting statistics about your own digital library.
Amazon has a great reading platform in the Kindle, but sometimes it's not enough.Sometimes I need to take the notes I make in a Kindle ebook and use them elsewhere. Amazon doesn't make it easy for us to do that, but luckily there are other ways.Back in 2015 I needed to export my Kindle notes, so I did some digging and rounded up a few tools which would help me do just that.
The tools range from the simple (copy+paste from a web browser) to the inaccessible (an iPhone app and a Mac-only script).Now it's March 2019, and about half the tools mentioned in the original post are gone. So I have updated the post with corrected info and I've also pruned the tools that have died in the past four years.The available tools have changed a lot over the years. For example, Amazon used to have a site called Kindle.Amazon.com where you could find your note and highlights, see what other people were writing in the margins, etc. Unfortunately, that is gone now.That page was sorta replaced by Read.amazon.com, but not really.
The new page won't let you access all of your notes, and there's no export option, so it's not really that useful for our current goal.Edit: The above statement might not be true. I am double checking.So let's start with the simple trick that still works.Look in the documents folder of your E-ink Kindle and you'll see a file named myclippings.txt. This is a text file of all of the notes and highlights made on your Kindle (but not on the other Kindles or Kindle apps on your account). You can copy this folder to your PC and open it.Boom.
You can now copy and past your notes into other documents, emails, etc. KindleDid you know you can have your Kindle email your annotations to you?
(I didn't until Tom told me.) Amazon will email the notes and highlights to the address on your Amazon account. They will arrive as a PDF and a CSV attached to the email.You can access the export option from the Notes menu which can be found in the 3 dot menu dropdown inside the ebook you're reading. IPad, Android, Kindle FireThe Kindle apps for iOS and Android have a feature which is also not shared by the Kindle Fire tablets.
They have a notebook menu where you can find all of the highlights and notes for an ebook.This menu is accessible from inside the ebook, and one of the things you'll find there is an option to share your annotations by email. Here's what it looks like on the iPad:The notebook menu can be accessed from inside a book, but the way you find it differs between Android, iOS, and the Kindle Fire.On iOS, click the “sheet of paper” icon in the upper right corner. The export button is in the upper right corner of the notebook menu. The exported notes don't look very good, but this trick does let you pull the notes out of even a side-loaded ebook.On Android, click the '3 dots' icon in the upper right corner, and then select the Notebook option from the dropdown menu. You can either create flashcards or export the notes to Drive, by email, or by Android Beam.On the Kindle Fire, open the ebook and press the center of the screen. One of the icons you will see across the top of the screen will look like a piece of paper.
That is the notebook menu, and the export option is in the upper right corner.This nifty little bookmarklet is simple and works great with Chrome. After you install it, you use it be opening one an ebook's highlights page on and then clicking the bookmarklet button.I liked because it worked well with Chrome. With other web browsers, you can save the notes to the clipboard, but with Chrome I also get multiple download options (text, XML, JSON). The latter two options include a link to the note's location in the ebook.When I first published this post, Notescraper was an Apple Script based tool which basically did the same thing as Bookcision.
It copied the notes from a book's highlights page on Kindle.amazon.com and created local file on your Mac. You take notes? Why?I use my tablet and kindle for reading, and the tablet for web/maps/apps too, but when I’m doing research I take notes on scratch paper or I do all the work on a real computer. When I’m reading I am doing it TO READ, not for research.
When I’m researching I’m either handwriting notes on paper/index card to juggle concepts or I’m cutting and pasting to do the same thing. Neither works for me in my reader or tablet, not at all as handy as on a computer. I don’t mark up books either, because I grew up reading library books where writing in the text or the margins was vandalism.So what do you make notes for? Why mark up/make notes in a reader?. I love being able to highlight text, especially for a book I plan to review, but also just to make note of things when I read.
It’s very easy to copy and paste from the highlights area you mention, just using a web broswer. That works great, so long as the book is one I got from Amazon. If I get a book from another source, like Smashwords or Project Gutenberg, and sideload it to my Kindle, or if I send one of my own manuscrpts to my Kindle, then the software treats those items as “Personal Documents” and any highlighting or notes I make are NOT included in the highlights area on the web. It is annoying as hell!I know I could use the myclippings file, but that is more work! I can see why they don’t offer the same feature for randown Word documents, but a properly formatted ebook with the correct metadata should be treated as a book, and not a personal document.Do you know if Amazon has any plans to change this, Nate?. Hi Carmen,I created a python script to format the My Clippings.txt file – it organizes all your notes/highlights into a seperate text document for each book, and formats the quote/note so it looks more presentable than how it is in My Clippings.txt.You can find it here:When you download it, just place Kindle Clippings Parser V1.py into the same directory as your My Clippings.txt.
Then open your terminal app (in Mac, hold Command and hit the spacebar, then type “terminal” and select the Terminal application that comes up). Type “python./”, hit space, and then drag and drop Kindle Clippings Parser V1.py into the terminal, and hit enter.That should run the program, and you should see one file of highlights/notes created per book.Let me know if that doesn’t help. I rather think the simplest option is the one in the attached image.
There’s nothing quite so easy, flexible and kinaesthetically satisfying as scribbling down half formed thoughts or keywords, then doodling a few connecting lines between linked concepts, perhaps adding an explanatory diagram or sketching a small image to serve as an aide memoir.I don’t make notes digitally. I read source text digitally and while I’m doing it, my hand is moving with a mind of its own across a primitive sheet of cellulose, making notes a very human way that no technology has yet managed to improve upon.Perhaps I’m a heretic, posting such a thing on this, of all forums! So when you stone me, make sure you’re using the scrunched up refuse from my waste paper bin! (I recycle it, of course!). So you have your bibliography manager.
Did you know that in most cases you can open up a book’s page online and press a button to include it like the snap of a finger into your bibliography? No fuss, no muss. It’s a great feature offered by Flow. Then you can export your list to a word document and use each listing, as I mentioned above, as a header for your notes. Your reading might be slowed by taking notes while you read, but I found it helped reinforce the information. If you are more comfortable with flagging the page, or dog-earing the corner and highlighting, that is cool too. You might be using a kindle, and you can make notes right on the kindle and export those out.
All of no use if you didn’t buy the book through amazon, apparently.I (proof)read writings of unpublished / amateur authors on a cooperation website but sitting at a computer to do that is not much fun. I want to read on a book-like device and the kindle app is perfect for that. So I annotate on the kindle itself, because 99% of my notes are just highlighting of the text itself, I don’t need to write out my corrections at that point.So the standard procedure is to download the PDF or EPUB version of the document (or highlight/copy/paste from the website into Word), then upload to kindle via, a free service that works amazingly well.Sadly there doesn’t seem to be a way to get the annotations made for documents like this. So, great to make the notes without having to chop down the Amazonian rain forest, but it looks like I still have to transcribe my notes by “10-finger interface” after I’ve finished reading.
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Such a waste of time and effort – the bits are already in electronic format, but now they have to go through an analogue meat connection to get back into electronic format again. My notes/highlights are located on my kindle as “My Clippings.txt”. I found My Clippings.txt by plugging my kindle into my computer via USB. The Formatting of “My Clippings.txt” is pretty bad, so I made a python script that seperates notes by book, and formats everything a bit more nicely.You can find it here:When you download it, just place Kindle Clippings Parser V1.py into the same directory as your My Clippings.txt.
Then open your terminal app (in Mac, hold Command and hit the spacebar, then type “terminal” and select the Terminal application that comes up). Type “python./”, hit space, and then drag and drop Kindle Clippings Parser V1.py into the terminal, and hit enter.That should run the program, and you should see one file of highlights/notes created per book. It seems like some of the other “turbulence” similar to this issue relates to porting Notes in Personal (non-Amazon) documents; and it seems that that is totally NOT supported by Amazon. I can imagine the reason being that they want people to buy Amazon -based or -marketed books. However, do you think it might be possible to induce them to perhaps develop an app that cost more than the normal, but yet would allow book enthusiasts to port &/or author their notes (or even push/pull/share them, like a book club!) wherever they want? I would be willing to pay $100 for such an app, if it lasted with support forever. (Maybe I’m dreaming and should just go rights more fiction!).Thanks much for all your research!.
I think most of these things are obsolete, or at least inferior to what Amazon provides for content purchased from them:– You can export notes directly from at least 7th generation or later Kindles, if it is a book bought from Amazon. An email with notes attachment goes to the account email used to register the Kindle.– On Kindle clippings.txt is required only for sideloaded ‘documents’.
If you use Send To Kindle to store Personal Documents in cloud, then any notes or highlights created for those on a Kindle can be exported using Kindle app for iOS, Android or Fire (via email client on the device).– clippings.txt contains only those notes and highlights created on that particular Kindle. It won’t have those created on a different Kindle or Kindle app.
It’s pretty much useless except for the side-loading use case (which has its following). It is really to be considered a last resort.– read.amazon.com does have all notes and highlights created for books purchased from Amazon (use Search to find the book). If it is Personal Document, then you need to use one of the Kindle mobile apps to export. There’s no export feature on the web site, but it is easy to use copy paste. Someone has probably got a browser extension to export from there.– don’t know what the situation is for the Windows and macOS app – haven’t checked lately. Hey Nate, here’s another service for downloading Kindle notes and highlights to add to your list:Readwise Full disclosure: I am one of the creators and Readwise is a paid service after a one-month free trial. We maintain Bookcision as open source for those seeking a free alternative ?Readwise uses a browser extension to automatically download your Kindle highlights from the cloud, with no effort required on your part.
We also support highlights from side-loaded books and documents through My Clippings.txt.Beyond Kindle, we have integrations with Apple Books, Instapaper, Highly, and Medium (for articles), and a few others. We’re constantly adding more sources.Once synchronized, you can export your highlights in bulk to Evernote or Markdown or you can easily copy one-off highlights for use in writing and elsewhere.Note, however, that downloading and exporting highlights is not our primary purpose: The core of Readwise is that we help you easily and consistently review your highlights, so that you actually get practical use out of them. We do this by resurfacing a “daily review” of your best highlights.Thanks!-d. This has helped me a lot so I want to give back my experience.I’ve got a recent Paperwhite and I take many notes and highlights as I read books bought primarily through Amazon. I do also read the odd pdf book that I send via email to Kindle using the subject line “convert” so it shows nicely in Kindle format.This is great but I can’t get at the highlights/notes that I make in the pdf books like I can via Amazon for the books I buy from them.So the solution is quite easy: I just plug the Kindle into my Mac and navigate to the Documents/My Clippings.txt on the Kindle and there are all my notes and highlights of all books, including the pdf ones. I can then copy and paste them into my external notes as usual.Thanks for keeping this old post going so long!. August 2019: I have been reading, loving and exporting notes from my Kindle Paperwhite for 5 years.Suddenly I am no longer able to highlight phrases or sentences.
I can still highlight a single word, and it comes up with the dictionary. But the phrase or sentence now also comes up with the dictionary, and no other options are possible. I highlight, but cannot select “highlight”.
When I tap the page to save the highlight, it disappears.I love the highlight feature. I often read and export notes, especially when reading in Spanish. I would look for another e-reader if this is no longer supported. I’ve read and highlighted/made notes in many kindle books. However yesterday I tried texpor my notes and highlights from kindle. It ONLY EXPORTED HIGHLIGHTS AND NOTES FROM THE FIRST PART OF THE BOOK. The rest others book just listed the chapter titles.
None of my highlights for the last half of the book are exported to the html dole via small.Is my file too big? (I’m a prolific highlighter and note taker!) Or is there a way to select o my a portion of the book to export at a time? Even if o have to explore it in segments, I just don’t want to lose all of my work.
I’d like to be able to copy my highlights and notes into another app like Evernote or MSWord. Can you help? Thanks in advance!. Nate: Thank you very much.
Great article. I went to my iPad Pro, iOS, went to the notes and clicked on the paper icon. It said Export Notes to Flashcards or Email.
I had to set up the email account. I used Google and used the recommended address (I could not get it to take the addresses I proposed). When I went to Export and picked email, the email client gave me a template with the notes attached. I sent it to my own addresses. When I opened the attached I chose Word as the app to open it with. The notes came through very nicely.Thanks for the leads and, once the email is set up on the iOS device, it is a simple proecess.
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