KokuDoku ロゴ KokuDoku

Move beyond "Just Reading."
Engrave Words. Connect Thoughts.

Snap paper. Sync Kindle. Highlights gathered in seconds.
With the power of AI × KokuDoku, turn your highlights into a timeless source of wisdom.

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"Transcribing from paper is tedious, killing the habit."

"Isolated notes clutter management, hindering deep thinking."

"Hard-earned notes get buried, failing to fuel intellectual production."

We solve the age-old friction of reading notes. Balancing the "ease of capturing notes" with the "joy of utilizing notes." Created by a UTokyo Master's student for fellow deep readers—this is the tool I truly wanted.

Easy Capture,
Thoughtful Review

Supporting everything from input to intellectual production
with versatile features.

Capture Notes

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Instant OCR & Barcode Scan

Digitize text from paper books instantly just by snapping a photo. You can edit the text to fix any errors on the spot. Plus, scan the ISBN to automatically register the cover, title, and author details.

Kindle Highlight Import

Automatically import your Kindle highlights into KokuDoku. Seamlessly manage notes from both paper and digital books in one unified place. (Requires Chrome extension).

Flexible Note-Taking

Record your own thoughts alongside captured highlights, with full search and edit capabilities. Use tags and cross-reference highlights from other books to foster interconnected thinking.

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AI Summaries

Feed your highlights to our AI to generate summary notes optimized specifically for your needs.

Daily Highlight Review

Receive a random selection of past highlights every day. This supports effortless review and sparks serendipity by reconnecting you with old ideas.

Seamless Export

Easily export to your favorite knowledge management tools like Notion and Obsidian. The insights gathered in KokuDoku automatically flow into your existing workspace.

Pricing Plans

¥0
  • checkUnlimited Highlights & Notes
  • checkBarcode Book Scan
  • checkDaily Highlight Review
  • checkFull Text Search
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  • warningOCR & AI Summary (10 uses total)
  • warningKindle Import (Manual only)
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¥900 / month
  • checkUnlimited Highlights & Notes
  • checkBarcode Book Scan
  • checkDaily Highlight Review
  • checkFull Text Search
  • checkExport Capabilities
  • checkUnlimited OCR & AI Summary
  • checkAutomatic Kindle Sync

Today's KokuDoku Builds
Tomorrow's You.

Connect your reading to your thinking.

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What is "KokuDoku"?

"KokuDoku" is a method of close reading advocated by the author Reading Monkey (Dokushozaru) in his book, The Encyclopedia of Self-Teaching (Dokugaku Taizen).

By engraving marks onto the text and annotating it with your own insights, this technique transforms a book from a mere source of information into an "external scaffold" that continuously supports and expands your thought process.

Historically, this has been the foundational training for all who work with words.

This interactive process—layering your own thoughts upon the wisdom of predecessors—turns fragmented information into lifelong intellectual assets, and ultimately transforms the reader themselves.

It allows you to graduate from passive reading where you simply follow the text. It sublimates the act of "reading" into "thinking" and self-cultivation. That is KokuDoku.

Annotations become cues for memory and recall, and with the excerpted words as the core, a 'crystal' grows. (From Dokugaku Taizen)

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Dokugaku Taizen
Dokushozaru

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