This week I came across this plugin to get your Kobo highlights directly from your device and sync them to Obsidian. As of this writing you need to install BRAT to get it installed because it wasn’t in the official Obsidian repository for plugins yet.

To use this plugin look in your .kobo directory for KoboReader.sql file. Copy it’s path and you’ll need to paste it into the settings for the plugin. There are some settings around the formats you can change, but I left pretty much everything default.

So far no source of Kobo highlights has given me a location like you get with Kindle highlights, but you can always use a full text search to find the content and verify it if you need to.