Hacks Creat your own document.

jgumphress · 09-11-2010, 10:47 AM

I'm new to Kindle and sorry if this has been mentioned before.

I use my Kindle DX for church use and keep a lot of notes. I wanted a way to keep these notes on my Kindle for easy access at Church. So I opened my Kindle files on my PC, went to My Clippings, right click on the file, select copy, moved to an open area, right clicked and paste. Then I renamed the file copy as "Notes". I can enter any text there and it is listed on the my Kindle home screen as "Notes".

I can't make changes to the Note file from the Kindle but that is OK for me because I clean up my notes later at home on my PC anyway.

clintbradford · 09-11-2010, 01:34 PM

Cool. Did you have to place that textile in any particular folder or directory on the Kindle? Does it have to have ".txt" as its extension?

The-eBook-Reader · 09-11-2010, 01:57 PM

I stumbled across this site awhile ago that has a download for a notepad that you can use to create and save notes. The notes get added to the My Clippings file in .TXT form for transferring.

http://www.edukindle.com/downloads/

slm · 09-11-2010, 02:43 PM

I haven't tried this is a while but:
put any file containing text and named xxx.txt (where "xxx" is whatever you want) will work.

jgumphress · 09-11-2010, 02:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by clintbradford

Cool. Did you have to place that textile in any particular folder or directory on the Kindle? Does it have to have ".txt" as its extension?

Just add it in the same "Documents" folder with "My Clippings" and all the other books.

Thanks for your question.

jswinden · 09-11-2010, 02:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slm

I haven't tried this is a while but:
put any file containing text and named xxx.txt (where "xxx" is whatever you want) will work.

And you can even rename an html file to *.txt and the Kindle will read it as an html file and display the formatting. Just in case you want to add some formatting to your notes.

09-11-2010, 10:47 AM	#1
jgumphress Connoisseur Posts: 59 Karma: 948 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Arlington, TX Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Creat your own document. I'm new to Kindle and sorry if this has been mentioned before. I use my Kindle DX for church use and keep a lot of notes. I wanted a way to keep these notes on my Kindle for easy access at Church. So I opened my Kindle files on my PC, went to My Clippings, right click on the file, select copy, moved to an open area, right clicked and paste. Then I renamed the file copy as "Notes". I can enter any text there and it is listed on the my Kindle home screen as "Notes". I can't make changes to the Note file from the Kindle but that is OK for me because I clean up my notes later at home on my PC anyway.

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09-11-2010, 01:34 PM	#2
clintbradford Older ... slower ... Posts: 450 Karma: 1924 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Jurupa Valley CA US Device: Kobo, Kindles 2/3/Keyboard/Fire/Fire HD, HDX.	Cool. Did you have to place that textile in any particular folder or directory on the Kindle? Does it have to have ".txt" as its extension?

09-11-2010, 01:57 PM	#3
The-eBook-Reader Groupie Posts: 194 Karma: 4637 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: United States Device: All	I stumbled across this site awhile ago that has a download for a notepad that you can use to create and save notes. The notes get added to the My Clippings file in .TXT form for transferring. http://www.edukindle.com/downloads/

09-11-2010, 02:43 PM	#4
slm Fool Posts: 377 Karma: 3557934 Join Date: Feb 2003 Device: Kindle Voyage, Kindle PW1, Kobo Glo HD, Nook Glowlight Plus ...	I haven't tried this is a while but: put any file containing text and named xxx.txt (where "xxx" is whatever you want) will work.

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