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Export your Apple Books notes to Markdown

Apple Books (iBooks) notes to Markdown converter

Export your Apple book (iBooks) notes to Markdown Files

Reads the Books Annotations library on your Mac and exports them, tagged with their respective book title and imported in separate notebooks.

Usage:

Move this script to the top of your personal home directory on your Mac. This is the folder that has your name, which the Finder opens if you click on the Finder icon in the Dock.

To export your notes to MD Files:

  1. Run the following command in the Terminal:

    php ./book_notes_to_md.php

  2. Open the newly created "export"

Uses https://github.com/martinfinke/xcall/pull/6 to handle bear.app bear://x-callback-url URLS

Background: https://jor.is/en/blog/2015/04/22/ibooks-notes-evernote/