Date formats broken in Sonoma?
chrillek: Just a note of caution: leading zeros make the dates sortable. If you don’t need to sort them, you don’t need the zeros either. If sorted by name, of course. But items with dates in the name...
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You’re welcome! Processes like Hazel, AppleScripts, folder actions, etc. don’t trigger smart rules.
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I am sure I’m missing something obvious, but I just can’t see it (obviously, or I wouldn’t be writing this!). I have a mess of text notes, pdf’s Web pages most of which contains some information I...
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kewms: I don’t try to maintain my research database in Scrivener Why not? Do you think Scrivener can’t do that? kewms: and I don’t try to write in DevonThink Why not? You can write very well in DT....
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Gowanee: Why is blockquoted text styled with a thick blue left border and in italics? Simple indentation, relying on the "> " markdown as the visual cue of a blockquoted passage, would suffice, but...
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Nig: What i would like to be able to do is to copy relevant bits from wherever in the database and add them to one document Copy/paste works well for me I would have the “one document” open in a...
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NickLowe: though I don’t think anyone was clamouring for a redesign of the blockquote display. We get input from more sources than these forums
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There is no singular correct way of handling things like this. Everyone has a different perspective on information organization and what is most effective to them. @DTLow’s suggestion of opening a...
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It would be nice if double clicking would open automatically in a new window Links aren’t double-clickable.
View ArticleOpen markdown link in new window?
Ok, how about option-clicking? Cmd + ctrl + clicking? Cmd + shift + ctrl + clicking? Cmd + ctrl + shift + option + clicking? Anything would work as a shortcut, though I leave it to the far more...
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I was going to say the same thing @DTLow said. It sounds like what you want is going to just require the work of copying and pasting whatever you want from each document into the “master” document....
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Nig: What i would like to be able to do is to copy relevant bits from wherever in the database and add them to one document so that I can print out just what i need, not tens of pages with little of...
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Many of the things I currently do with the hundreds of smart rules I have on my system could also be achieved with Smart Groups, but unfortunatly those Groups are still not working on DTTG, so it...
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DrJJWMac: Does DT or DT + (some other app) offer a method to drag + drop content from a DT document to another “collection bin” document (in DT or in the other app) while maintaining a hyperlink back...
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Much obliged. I see also that this approach could be taken to massage the contents on the clipboard into whatever hyperlink syntax might be appropriate to paste elsewhere. – JJW
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FrankT: Why not? Do you think Scrivener can’t do that? Sure. DT does it better. FrankT: Why not? You can write very well in DT. You can even write in TextEdit. If you can’t do that, you can’t write....
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I’m firmly in the “give it some air” camp re the Markdown editor. External editing is a perfectly adequate solution, and so is the customisable preview. But it would be easier for this user just to...
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