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Tl;dr: requires kindle and obsidian and money. OP seems to be reading HN on the Kindle with a pay for subscription kindle app, that he sells. Via a free kindle

Tl;dr: requires kindle and obsidian and money. OP seems to be reading HN on the Kindle with a pay for subscription kindle app, that he sells. Via a free kindle to obsidian plug-in for obsidian, these are transferred into obsidian, which is a freemium knowledge management app.

Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
You're correct, I realized subscription details aren't available on 'HN to Kindle' to those who haven't logged in It's 5 USD(parity adjusted for other countries) one time payment for lifetime subscription. Edit: I have added a sentence about the subscription details now.
- Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
  Also 'HN to Kindle' works with Kindle app on phones too, The highlights need to be exported individually for each book but there are wide variety of options available for storing that data on a phone.
Hitton 5y ago
You can read it just as an inspiration. Getting HN to Kindle would be fairly simple - just use a script to download it, basic formatting, convert to mobi and send to email (though OP apparently supports also some kind of category classification, which might not be so simple to set up). But for 5 bucks for lifetime, without needing to have a machine running... Replicating the obsidian plug-in functionality to suit your own note/knowledge management app would be probably even easier. What I don't like is the tagging part - kindles are terrible to type in. And if you want to avoid it by using your phone/tablet, you'd be better to avoid kindle app altogether and do the note taking using browser extension or something.
- Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
  > What I don't like is the tagging part - kindles are terrible to type in. Did you get a chance to try the recent Kindle SW update(> v.5.13.7)? Performance has improved a lot, Tagging (Notes) is smooth due to a surprisingly responsive keyboard. The browser is out of experminetal too. I wrote this comment from a Kindle Oasis 9th gen.
  - Hitton 5y ago
    You are right, it's much better now. I didn't even notice, because I kept avoiding it.
    - Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
      Thank you for taking the time to check it out!

Abishek_Muthian 5y ago

You're correct, I realized subscription details aren't available on 'HN to Kindle' to those who haven't logged in It's 5 USD(parity adjusted for other countries) one time payment for lifetime subscription. Edit: I have added a sentence about the subscription details now.

Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
Also 'HN to Kindle' works with Kindle app on phones too, The highlights need to be exported individually for each book but there are wide variety of options available for storing that data on a phone.

Hitton 5y ago

You can read it just as an inspiration. Getting HN to Kindle would be fairly simple - just use a script to download it, basic formatting, convert to mobi and send to email (though OP apparently supports also some kind of category classification, which might not be so simple to set up). But for 5 bucks for lifetime, without needing to have a machine running... Replicating the obsidian plug-in functionality to suit your own note/knowledge management app would be probably even easier. What I don't like is the tagging part - kindles are terrible to type in. And if you want to avoid it by using your phone/tablet, you'd be better to avoid kindle app altogether and do the note taking using browser extension or something.

Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
> What I don't like is the tagging part - kindles are terrible to type in. Did you get a chance to try the recent Kindle SW update(> v.5.13.7)? Performance has improved a lot, Tagging (Notes) is smooth due to a surprisingly responsive keyboard. The browser is out of experminetal too. I wrote this comment from a Kindle Oasis 9th gen.
- Hitton 5y ago
  You are right, it's much better now. I didn't even notice, because I kept avoiding it.
  - Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
    Thank you for taking the time to check it out!