I built a CLI to break my highlights out of Apple Books

Short summary

The author created ibooks_notes_exporter, a Go CLI that extracts highlights and notes from Apple Books' SQLite databases and exports them as Markdown. A recent update adds MCP server support, enabling Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other AI assistants to directly query your reading notes without copy-paste, generating custom summaries or spaced-repetition flashcards. Open-source, installable via Homebrew, no configuration required.

• •Go CLI exports Apple Books highlights to Markdown via direct SQLite access
• •New MCP integration lets AI assistants query your notes directly, not training data
• •Single binary, installable via Homebrew, works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code

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