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Thanks, Jon, I will! It completely crashes and afterwards, all the groups programmatically created with libraryWindow.groupItems.push(bookends.GroupItem({name:"new group's name"})); are gone. They can be retrieved by "Flatten Groups List Hierarchy", but are then in some previous state (the script ...

The Zotero to Bookends synchronization script now is relatively stable: https://github.com/cboulanger/zotero-sync-bookends

Bookends itself doesn't seem to particularly like being scripted - it sometimes crashes when trying to sync really big libraries (>10.000 items).

Other than that, I am ...

@landol Yes indeed I was also happy to find out that I could avoid AppleScript, but it is sad how little attention JXA seems to be getting from Apple - you almost have to guess everything. Luckily, we now have debugging support with the Safari web inspector , which makes try & error at least ...

Hi, in case anyone's interested: I started working a plugin for https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-sync to allow live synchronization (as opposed to export/import) from Zotero to Bookends:

https://github.com/cboulanger/zotero-sync-bookends

I've tried this before a few years back but the recent ...

Here are two scripts based on the Bookends NodeJS client:

Find missing attachments and put them into the attachment folder (downloading them from iCloud drive locations if necessary):
https://github.com/cboulanger/bookends-api/blob/master/examples/bookends-find-missing-attachments
Set the BibTeX ...

I guess this might be a "if you need to ask, it is not for you"-type of question, but what does this API client do/deliver and how might ordinary people deploy it?

I looked at the project website, but it didn't give elucidation!


This might be an example that is more evident for the "normal ...

I've already posted this in the general forum, but here's probably the more relevant place.

For those who would like to use NodeJS to script Bookends, here's an NPM package that lets you do just that:

https://github.com/cboulanger/bookends-api
https://www.npmjs.com/package/bookends-api

The mocha ...

Jon, of course, you're right that's the more appropriate place -- I will post a note there.

Hi,

Bookends has an AppleScript application programming interface (API) to "remote-control" the application. This way, you can programmatically work with your data, for example, to do exports / imports; search & replaces; etc. or anything that can be automated. I use it to exchange data with the ...

Hi all,

after discovering and being very pleased that version 13 has many useful updates in terms of Apple Script support, I upgraded not only my Bookends installation, but also rewrote my NodeJS Bookends API client:

https://github.com/cboulanger/bookends-api
https://www.npmjs.com/package/bookends ...

Ok, thanks for explaining!

Hi,

this is a feature request: I use a WebDAV server for attachments which unfortunately is not very fast (or it's the connection). So when loading attachment, or also sometimes during other actions, the UI freezes while Bookends is retrieving the attachment. Would it be possible to make access to ...

For the record:

Thank you Jon for implementing full paths for groups. I did not pursue the JXA route because the whole thing is simply to immature (I still don't understand why Apple doesn't make JavaScript a first-class citizen of the development ecosystem). I chose to use a NodeJS-AppleScript ...

HI Jon, it's your software and you set the priorities, so I won't insist. Just one point: I don't think I am the only one who sorts large bibliographic collections into a fairly complex tree of "folders/groups". A lot of work goes into this ordering and it seems generally useful (at least to me) to ...

Hi Jon, just curious: if groups are not modeled as a tree of nodes having distinct ids, how do you create the tree structure?

And as I said: I'd be very happy if you just add the first two events (or others providing such information), to make the group structure readable, not just the group names.