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Utilities to help when Building a Second Brain in Notion
https://github.com/gma/basb-notion-tools

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Utilities to help when Building a Second Brain in Notion

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gma/basb-notion-tools
• Owner: gma
• Created: 2019-10-24T14:14:32.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-10-24T14:17:38.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-06T01:42:07.635Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 1000 Bytes
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# README

Having taken Tiago Forte's course on knowledge management (called [Building a

Second Brain]) I've started highlighting interesting parts of the books

I'm reading.

Rather than leave these highlights languishing within my ebook reader, I then

import the highlights into a note taking app (e.g. Notion) where I can easily

skim through them, highlight key points, etc.

While Notion are apparently working on an API, it's not yet as easy as it could

be to automatically load this kind of data into it. So while I wait for an API

and a bunch of IFTTT recipes to present themselves, I'm using some little

utilities to help me get by.

So far, the list of supported ebook platforms is short!

## Book highlights from O'Reilly Learning site

O'Reilly provide a CSV file containing all the highlights you've made to

any of the books that you read on https://learning.oreilly.com.

The `oreilly-book` script generates a Markdown file containing the

highlights from a specific book, that can then be imported into a note-taking

app. It was written to get highlights into Notion, but it's just generating

Markdown, so will work with any app that can import Markdown.

Run it like this:

    $ ./oreilly-book "Book Title" < safari-annotations-export.csv > book.md

The "Book Title" string must match the first column in the CSV file for

the book you're extracting highlights for.

[Building a Second Brain]: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com