Readest Highlights

Readest stores its library, progress, and annotations locally as JSON. This plugin reads those files and renders your highlights into your Obsidian vault, one note per book, where they can be searched and linked with the rest of your notes.

Docs

• Install
• Settings reference

Commands

Requirements

Desktop Obsidian with access to a Readest Books folder. Readest's built-in sync is the easiest way to collect annotations from other devices into one folder, but any setup that exposes the folder to Obsidian works.

What the plugin accesses

• Readest folder, read-only. The plugin reads library.json and each book's config.json, and never writes there. The folder is set in Settings, and if left empty the platform default is used. Because this folder is outside the vault, the plugin uses Node's fs module to read it.
• Vault, read and write. On re-sync, the plugin matches books to existing notes in your output folder by their readest-hash frontmatter field, then creates or updates notes there.
• No network. The plugin makes no outbound requests.

Disclaimer

Independent community plugin, not affiliated with Readest.