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Export your notes and cite your sources

How to export highlights and notes to Markdown, Obsidian, Word, PDF, Anki, CSV, JSON or BibTeX, and copy quotes with APA, MLA or Chicago citations.

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You can export the notes of one book, a selection of notes, or every note in your library to a file. Each exported note carries its quote, your note, the page and chapter, and a citation in the style you choose.

Export notes

  1. Open the export from one of these places:
    • In a book, open the Notes panel and choose Export.
    • In the library, open a book's More actions menu and choose Export notes….
    • In Notes in the library, choose Select, tick some notes and choose Export selected.
  2. Under Format, pick a file type. The formats are listed below.
  3. Under Citation style, pick APA, MLA, Chicago, BibTeX or None.
  4. Under Options, choose what to include:
    • Group by chapter
    • Include links back to the book
    • Include highlights without notes
  5. Under Notes, choose which notes to export: this book, the selected notes, the notes shown after a search or filter, or All books.
  6. Choose Export.

Windows

A save dialog asks where to put the file. When it is done, a message shows how many notes were exported and the file name.

Mac

A save dialog asks where to put the file. When it is done, a message shows how many notes were exported and the file name.

iPhone and iPad

The share sheet opens with the file. Save it to Files or send it to another app.

The export window remembers your choices for next time. To change the starting choices, open Settings, choose Study, and set Default export format and Default citation style under Exports.

Export formats

  • Markdown: a text file that starts with a front matter block (title, author, citation, export date and number of notes), ready for Obsidian and Notion. You can drop it into your Obsidian vault as it is.
  • Word: a .docx document.
  • PDF: a document ready to print or share.
  • Anki: a text file of cloze flashcards. Each highlight becomes a card that hides the quote inside its sentence, with your note and the source on the back.
  • Text: plain text.
  • CSV: a spreadsheet file for Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets, one note per row.
  • JSON: structured data for your own tools.
  • BibTeX: a .bib file for LaTeX and reference managers.

Make flashcards in Anki

  1. Export with the Anki format.
  2. In Anki on your computer, choose File > Import and pick the exported file. It needs Anki 2.1.55 or later.

The cards go to a deck named after the book, under a LuceVoce deck, and are tagged with the colour's meaning. If you export the same book again later, Anki updates the cards it already has instead of adding copies.

To write your own cloze card, put Anki's cloze markup in your note, for example {{c1::mitochondria}}. LuceVoce then uses your note as the card's text and puts the quote on the back.

Copy a quote with its citation

  1. Select the text in the reading view.
  2. Choose Copy citation in the bar, or press C.

The quote is copied in quotation marks, followed by an in-text citation in your Default citation style (Settings > Study > Exports). Paste it into your essay.

Citation styles

  • APA (7th edition)
  • MLA (9th edition)
  • Chicago (17th edition, notes and bibliography)
  • BibTeX

Exports add a citation to each note and a bibliography entry for each book. Citations use the book's title, author, publisher and year, so if they look wrong, fix them first with Edit information… in the book's More actions menu.

Good to know

  • A voice note is exported as its text, like any note.
  • Some books have no printed page numbers, so LuceVoce estimates them. Exports show these as "approx. p. 23", and formal citations leave the page out, since no printed edition has it.
  • A note on a single word, with no highlighted text, is left out of the Anki file unless it holds your own cloze markup, because a cloze card needs words to hide.
  • In CSV files, a cell that starts with = + - or @ gets an apostrophe in front, so a spreadsheet shows it as text instead of running it as a formula.

Related

  • Highlight text and add notesHow to highlight a passage in a named colour, write a note on it or on any word, and find your notes again in the margin and the notes panel.
  • See all your notes in one placeHow to search, filter and edit the highlights and notes from every book in your library, and jump straight to the place where you made one.
  • Import your Kindle and calibre notesHow to bring highlights and notes from a Kindle's My Clippings.txt file or from calibre into the matching books of your LuceVoce library.

Last updated 13 November 2026