Connect your Kindle highlights

If you highlight as you read on Kindle, those passages are some of the best raw material you have. Connecting Kindle pulls them into Eden so you can search them, boost them, and drop them onto boards alongside the rest of your highlights.

How it works

You connect through the Eden Chrome extension, which securely hands your Amazon reading session to Eden. From there, Eden syncs your Kindle notebook highlights on its own servers. The extension is a one-time courier: it passes the session across, and Eden does the actual syncing in the background.

Connect Kindle

1. 01

   Open the Eden Chrome extension

   Install and open the Eden Chrome extension if you don't have it yet.

2. 02

   Pick your Amazon region

   Choose the Amazon region your Kindle account lives in, then click Connect.

3. 03

   Sign in to Amazon if needed

   If you're not already signed in to Amazon, Eden opens the Amazon sign-in for you. Once you finish, it connects automatically and starts the first sync.

After the first sync, your Kindle highlights appear in the Highlights pane under the Kindle tab, ready to search and send to boards.

Tag highlights from the Kindle itself

Write a note on a highlight and any #tag in it becomes a real Eden tag when the highlight syncs. A note like "the compounding argument #habits" lands as a card tagged habits, with the #habits stripped out of the note text. Eden matches a tag you already have, or creates it if you don't. Only your note is read — hashtags inside the quoted passage are left alone. Full rules are in tagging items.

Sync and plans

• Connecting and manual sync are available on Personal and above — every paid plan. Click Sync now on the Kindle card any time to pull new highlights.
• Automatic daily sync is included on paid plans too, so your library refreshes on its own without you lifting a finger.
• On Free, the connect option is gated. You'll see a prompt to upgrade.

Reconnecting

Amazon sessions expire over time. If the Kindle card shows session expired, click Reconnect to refresh it through the extension. Your already-synced highlights stay put; reconnecting just restores the live connection.

If Reconnect doesn't take, Amazon has stopped accepting the saved session. Open your Kindle notebook, sign out of Amazon and sign back in, then click Reconnect again. Also check the Amazon region on the card matches the site you bought your books from, since Kindle notebooks are per-region.

Managing the connection

Manage Kindle from Settings → Integrations on the Kindle card. From there you can sync manually, reconnect, or disconnect. Disconnecting clears the stored Amazon session and removes your imported Kindle highlights and books. Cards you already saved into a Library are kept, so reach for Reconnect rather than Disconnect when a session expires.