Things 3 Quick Entry with Autofill in DT3
On neither. I tried turning that on on the mac with the odd behaviour, but it made no difference. But since neither mac has full disk access turned on… I’m wondering if a clean uninstall/install of...
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On neither. We recommend enabling it. I’m wondering if a clean uninstall/install of DT3 might be the route here? Reinstallation is rarely the solution and usually just removes important information...
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Storing HTML source and PDF in a record
BLUEFROG: What you’re doing should be using custom metadata. To store the result of converting PDF to HTML? I don’t even get what would be the point of duplicating information like that.
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I don’t understand the point of it either, but if there is a reason I’m missing the data should be stored in custom metadata, not trying to set the source of the document.
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Hello! DEVONthink does a good job distinguishing between rich and plain text when pasting the clipboard to create a new record. But markdown text is also pasted as a plain text document, which we then...
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A way to paste markdown into DT as markdown?
Demogorgon: But markdown text is also pasted as a plain text document, which we then have to convert and then *re-*paste since converting add slashes everywhere (and rightly so). Is there a setting...
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thank you, it worked now. Another question, why is it when the action is “when opening” every time I open that item it resize it? Same thing with “after synchronization” any update to the file it...
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Each event is executed every time it happens and the conditions are fulfilled.
View ArticleDynamic list by date
Is there a way to have a file which shows a list ordered by date which updates itself? Like an agenda list ordered by the date attached to each item. So, there would be a list and each bullet point...
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Dynamic list by date
In theory, one could use an MD document and a script to update it. The hard pard, though, is this unclebarry1: If the dates are changed, items move up and down accordingly. “changed” implies that the...
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I think I’ve worked out how to do it. I’ve got a Sheet which will sort by date. I just can’t figure out how to open an Item Link from it.
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The situation is, I have access to a site that has a history of the work I have done. The current version of the site is due to be shutdown in 12 months time. The replacement won’t contain the legacy...
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Storing HTML source and PDF in a record
FiddleDiddle: Attempt to extract the fields from the PDF. I wouldn’t even know where to start with this. If the PDF contains a text layer, you could try to use a script to access the record’s...
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Storing HTML source and PDF in a record
chrillek: If the PDF contains a text layer, you could try to use a script to access the record’s plainText property and extract the fields from there. May or may not work, depending on the...
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Storing HTML source and PDF in a record
FiddleDiddle: Because the source HTML isn’t great and working out how to extract every field is going to be a significant amount of work Only once, and then it’ll work for 10000 documents. Hopefully....
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Storing HTML source and PDF in a record
chrillek: You’re kind of reading it backwards. source is meant to access the HTML/XML of an HTML/XML record. I can see that as an alternative interpretation. But then I’d expect the field to be read...
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Storing HTML source and PDF in a record
FiddleDiddle: Which makes me think again that it should probably be read-only. Why? Markdown has the plain text property which is very useful to modify MD documents programmatically. source does the...
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On the iPhone and iPad I can open the linked page with a tap. How do you open a linked item from MacBook or desktop?
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