Apple Books - Import Highlights

Obsidian Apple Books highlights import plugin

Overview

This plugin aims to be a fast, customizable, reliable, and up-to-date solution to import your Apple Books highlights to Obsidian:

• ⚡️ Fast: It takes less than 1 second to import ~1000 highlights.

• 🎨 Customizable: Use Handlebars and Markdown to customize the output of your highlights the way you want. Check the Template variables section in documentation for more information.

• 🦾 Reliable:

  • Import actual highlights with only the metadata you need. No visual noise with the deleted but still exported highlights, or, on the contrary, highlights and notes that make no sense without the context.
  • Back up your highlights before each import to avoid accidental data loss (optional, but recommended).

• 📚 Dataview-ready: The default template creates highlights in a format that is compatible with Dataview, so you can use your highlights in Dataview queries to unleash possible use cases even further (for example, to create a list of books you've read).

• 🔄 Up-to-date: The plugin is updated regularly to support the latest versions of Obsidian, and Apple Books, as well as react to the users' feedback.

What users say

• 💬 Nice work. This is really quick. - cmyplay
• 💬 I just wanted to say that I love your plugin. It’s exactly what I need with no frills. - civilserf
• 💬 Your plugin is super fast and useful! - weslau
• 💬 Love this! great work! - dschense
• 💬 Thanks for sharing this nice plugin - modatwork
• 💬 Thanks for a nice PlugIn - gul-iMac
• 💬 I am very grateful for the plugin you developed, which has made organizing my reading notes much more convenient - JeffreyGH10
• 💬 I've used three or four other methods of keeping my Apple Books highlights and notes updated in Obsidian over the past few years. I'm moving to your plugin, it seems to be the best (fast, dependable, with a user editable template(!!!), and with selective single book importing/overwriting). Thanks for creating and sharing it! - mbarritt
• 💬 Thank you for creating a great, fast plugin! I'm so glad I found it. Thank you for making it so customizable. - banj
• 💬 Thanks for an awesome plugin! - thorbjaelk
• 💬 Excellent plugin! - davidishee
• 💬 Thanks for developing this extension. It suites very nice to my workflow! - camilogarciabotero
• 💬 This plugin is very useful and particularly fast to use - isdamir
• 💬 Thanks for this plug-in. Exactly what I was looking for. - Edouard_M
• 💬 This is an absolutely amazing plugin - dkkb

Try it out

Documentation

• Get Started
• Settings
• Templates and variables

Contributing

Ready to contribute? Check the Contributing guidelines to get started.

Your feedback and ideas are more than welcome and highly appreciated! Join the discussion in:

• Obsidian Forum
• GitHub Discussions