nextol extracts and formats all marks and notes of a specific ebook on the ebook reader tolino vision 4 HD. It may also work with other models of the tolino product family that use a *.txt file with the same structure to store the notes and marks.
When you mark some text in an ebook on the tolino or take some notes on a marked text, it will store some information about this in a file named notes.txt (at least on the tolino vision 4 HD). You can see the data structure in the sample_data.txt file.
Because tolino stores the data of all ebooks in the same file, this file is very messy. Furthermore, tolino does not sort the data by books but adds new entries at the end of the file. nextol extracts the marks and notes from a specific ebook (but note that nextol removes the bookmarks as they do not give any additional information but where to read next). Then nextol removes redundant data (title, author), shortens the site number hints and removes the given metadata. Then it stores all marks and notes of the chosen ebook in a new text file.
I just created nextol for fun and to improve my programming skills. And of course, I wanted to have less work when extracting the marks and notes from my tolino. As this is my first public project on GitHub I would be glad about suggestions on the code. And of course, if you want to use nextol, too, feel free to contact me on functionality issues. Also, I would be curious to know whether this works with other ebook readers of the tolino product family. For the future (and again: just for fun), I will work with regex to extract the titles and authors from notes.txt in advance. That should avoid some issues with spelling mistakes or problems with the case sensitivity of the title. Also, I think of experimenting with a LaTex export instead of the new *.txt file.