Your Comments Aren’t Lost, They’re Just Hiding In The Kindle App

Ever export Kindle Scribe notes and feel lost in a wall of disconnected comments? We walk you through a simple, fast method to anchor annotations back to their exact lines using the Kindle app—so every handwritten thought and typed remark opens in the right place, instantly. No more guessing which paragraph a note belongs to or chasing page numbers that don’t exist in reflowable text.

We start with the root problem: why reflowable formats break positional context on export. Then we show the fix. Install the Kindle app, open the shared file, and look for the small sticky note icons beside annotated passages. Tap to reveal the note in context, or open Notes and Highlights from the three-dot menu to scan every comment and jump directly to its location. If you receive a document by email, use your phone’s share menu to Send to Kindle, wait a moment for it to sync, and you’re ready to review with full context on iOS or Android.

You’ll hear a concrete example from a website review where a note to add a YouTube link appears exactly before “my Facebook,” making the request obvious and actionable. This workflow scales for long manuscripts, collaborative edits, and academic reading. It speeds feedback, reduces errors, and turns that messy export appendix into a navigable, live index. We close with a quick look ahead at ergonomics for writers—simple adjustments to reduce strain and keep your judgment sharp during long editing sessions.

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Chapters

• 0:37 Why Kindle Scribe Notes Confuse
• 1:37 The Best Fix In The Kindle App
• 2:24 Finding Sticky Note Icons
• 2:57 Using Notes And Highlights
• 3:35 Email To Kindle App Workflow
• 4:39 Real Example Walkthrough
• 6:38 Wrap Up And What’s Next

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:20

Hello. Today I'm going to do a very short episode of the podcast on the subject of the Kindle Scribe. So I would I've been asked uh by several people with whom I'm collaborating is there kind of an easy way to match the comments to their uh original place in the text um when you export a Kindle Scribe document, uh, which is a reflowable text. So there are a number of ways to uh do this, but uh the one I like the best uh is the following, and it's what I advise. And this episode of uh the podcast uh will be the same in the audio and the video version. Okay. So when you annotate a reflowable text on the Kindle Scribe and export it, the recipient might wonder how the comments which are sent to the end of the document can be linked to their exact position in the original text. There are several ways to fix this, but the one I like the most is the following. Download the Kindle app to your mobile phone or tablet. Okay, the best way to link comments is by viewing the document that you receive, the exported document that you receive within the Kindle app, as the exported appendix format isn't designed for easy manual matching. Okay, so what you look for in the um once you've uploaded to the Kindle Scribe, you look for the uh sorry, to the Kindle app, you look for the sticky note icons uh uh in the document in the Kindle app. So uh a sticky note icon is just like a little tiny piece of paper and it uh appears next to a place where a comment was made in the original text. So if you tap this sticky note icon, it will display the handwritten or type note in its original context. So you can also do the following. You can go to the notes and highlights section. So you can access all notes through the apps menu, usually a three-dot icon in the upper right, by selecting notes and highlights. This action displays all annotations and highlights, linking them to their specific locations within the book. So suppose you don't have a Kindle device and someone shares a reflowable document or notebook from their Kindle Scribe via email. In that case, you'll receive it as a convertible file. And the quickest way to use your mobile phone to get the document into your Kindle app is as follows. Open the email on your phone or tablet, the same device with the Kindle app installed. Download or save the attachment in the email if needed, tap the file to open it, then tap share or the share icon in your file viewer or email app. Select Kindle from the share options, tap send. The document will upload to your Amazon Kindle library and appear in the Kindle app within a few minutes. So you'll be all set for understanding the uh place of the comments and uh um you don't have to worry about manual matching. So I tried this with my iPhone and uh it worked extremely well. And so I have a whiteboard to show, but don't worry if you if you have listened to the audio version, it's just a screenshot of an uploaded document to the app uh with the sticky note icon, and uh what happens when you touch that icon, a screenshot of that. So um let me get that. So the uh center screenshot is the page I was working on uh with the people um working on my website, and it's very small, but down here under Join My Journey uh is a little blue rectangle, and that's a sticky note. And so I've said to you the sticky note symbol is just before the words my Facebook. And so if you touch that, then the comment comes up uh that I made at this point when I was uh working with the reflowable text, and I complained that they did not include uh my uh YouTube channel in uh my social media. And so this sentence that you see, which is very small, that's all it says. And then when I did notes and highlights, so that's the screenshot on the left, um all the comments, all the comments come up with um with their place uh in the document. So uh so you're all set, and uh you can take advantage of the comments without worrying about the uh the manual matching. So I hope that's helpful for some people. Um uh what I want to do uh in the next few uh episodes is to uh concentrate on ergonomics, which is a very important thing for writers who spend uh hours at their desk. So that will be coming up. In the meantime, don't forget to subscribe, like, and comment. I would love to have comments from you, and uh, if you comment, I will read it. So bye bye for now.