Draft articles quoting Kindle highlights and notes
The author saves Kindle highlights and event notes in Obsidian and has Cursor reference them to quote past reading when drafting articles.
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- What they did
- The author uses the Obsidian Kindle plugin to save book highlights as Markdown files, alongside event notes and daily thoughts. In Cursor's User Rules they describe the vault folders and a quoting format, and add a writing-style instruction. Cursor reads the directory directly, with no MCP connection, finds relevant passages and quotes them in drafts. The author then edits.
- How it went
- Cursor found and cited past reading, such as team-related books, and produced a structured draft in the author's style. The output still felt a bit off, so the author edited it substantially.
- Worth knowing
- Initial setup takes some time, and the drafts still need heavy human editing.
Try it yourself with Cursor
My Kindle highlights and event notes are in [Obsidian folder path]. Draft an article on [topic] of about [word count] words, quoting relevant highlights with the book title and author named for each. Mark which notes you used. Finish with one clean draft in [file name] and do not change my source notes.
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