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Scripting "Add Link..."
FiddleDiddle: Within a PDF I can highlight some text, right click on it. The “Add Link…” option then allows me to link that text to another record. Editing of PDF documents isn’t scriptable so far.
View ArticleImplicit and explicit tags?
I’ve noticed sometimes tags seem to be implicit: e.g. when I have category books with nested tags fiction and non-fiction - sometimes items show up ‘just’ under fiction and non-fiction, but sometimes...
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I seem to remember that if you set up a tagging hierarchy before tagging items, if you use a child tag then the parent tag will automatically be inherited, too. parent child 1 child 2 So ‘child 2’...
View ArticleMore than 2 million research papers have disappeared from the Internet
Yes, my reasons for posting it were I thought it would be of interest to this community and that it reinforces for me that if you have access to a digital version of a paper, then storing a copy for...
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Confusing situation involving trash, replicants, and the info shown in the...
(This is with DEVONthink 3.9.6 on macOS 13.6.4 and DEVONthink To Go 3.8.1 on iPad.) I have a situation where attempting to empty the trash produces the (familiar) dialog Now, I know what this means...
View Article"Today" smart group not working as expected
For a few weeks now I’ve found the “Today” smart group reluctant to stay up to date. It’s often empty when I know I’ve added items today. If I edit the selector to “This Week” and then change it back...
View ArticleMore than 2 million research papers have disappeared from the Internet
For me, many years of curating a PDF library that serves my research interests also unlocks DTs search power in ways that any one online database of millions of articles could never serve, especially...
View Article"Today" smart group not working as expected
This was already reported two weeks ago. The current of DEVONthink is 3.9.6. Please stay current with our point releases.
View ArticleMore than 2 million research papers have disappeared from the Internet
In this context, kudos to the professional societies who have chosen to digitize their archives. I actually referenced a paper from the 1800s in my master’s thesis, and it’s not all that unusual for...
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Any way to replicate the behaviour of the Note Refactor plugin of Obsidian?
It works! Thank you. I’ve set up a command on Better Touch Tools focused on DT3. Alas I’m not fond of scripting, but I see I should dive deeper: I see I could do many interesting things on DT3. Just...
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A new tool for Zotero users
Thank you for this, @mhucka! Would it be possible to add an option to skip files with a value written? I try to run zowie on my Zotero folder, but it never finishes. Every time I get the error below...
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How can I exclude a group from showing up in Globals > Tags?
You clearly have a document selected here…
View ArticleThings 3 Quick Entry with Autofill in DT3
delete things and reinstall. If it isn’t much of a hassle delete DevonThink too then reinstall. preferably do this for both apps at the same time.
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Any way to replicate the behaviour of the Note Refactor plugin of Obsidian?
You need to remember to be specific in your inquiries, especially regarding automation. The details matter. It’s apparent now you’re processing just Markdown documents into other documents, but you...
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Confusing situation involving trash, replicants, and the info shown in the...
I have turned on the preference setting for “Mark duplicates and replicants in color”, and as you can see, none of them are shown in color, indicating that none are considered replicants. Items in the...
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Implicit and explicit tags?
SebMacV: But if you organise and nest your tags after you’ve already tagged items, these won’t automatically be updated (I think! @BLUEFROG will set me straight if that’s not correct). Tags are...
View ArticleHow i can move a document into group with keyboard shortcut?
OK, perhaps I should explain my workflow, and DT may directly support it in a away I haven’t noticed: Typically, reading an email or a web page that I want to save, I hit CMD-P for the Print dialog,...
View ArticleHow i can move a document into group with keyboard shortcut?
Why aren’t you using the browser extension to clip to PDF? And read the Help > Tutorials > Handling Email tutorial.
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