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by mclearc
Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:52 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Auto-shorten titles to short titles?
Replies: 5
Views: 4486

Re: Auto-shorten titles to short titles?

I rename all my pdfs using BibTeX cite key and title. I would vastly prefer titles to be shortened to whatever appears before a colon or hyphen (I work in philosophy and titles of the form X:Y or X-Y are *very* common). Right now I have to manually put the shorter title into the "Short title&qu...
by mclearc
Thu Nov 08, 2018 7:03 pm
Forum: Bookends for iOS
Topic: Download all attachments from the cloud
Replies: 2
Views: 3678

Download all attachments from the cloud

Is there a way to automatically download all attachments for a library from iCloud? Right now it seems to do it only when I open up a reference. If there is no way to currently do this would you consider adding it as a feature? Thanks.
by mclearc
Wed Aug 08, 2018 12:00 pm
Forum: Looking for import filters...
Topic: philpapers
Replies: 4
Views: 15616

Re: philpapers

Just wanted to add another vote for a Philpapers import filter.
by mclearc
Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:03 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Bookends attachments in iCloud
Replies: 16
Views: 15024

Re: Bookends attachments in iCloud

I’m away from my computer right now so will check later. But I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter whether bookends is running - it is always called as the default app for that iCloud folder. Now it could certainly be that the finder is the problem - but then I don’t understand why it is setting bookend...
by mclearc
Wed Jul 25, 2018 11:36 am
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Bookends attachments in iCloud
Replies: 16
Views: 15024

Re: Bookends attachments in iCloud

Well - the reason I think it has something to do with bookends is that it is only happening with files in the bookends iCloud Drive directory. It doesn’t happen with those files when they are elsewhere. It may well be mostly an iCloud problem - iCloud is buggy. But if there is any info I can send yo...
by mclearc
Wed Jul 25, 2018 11:10 am
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Bookends attachments in iCloud
Replies: 16
Views: 15024

Re: Bookends attachments in iCloud

Thanks Jon. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Bookends several times now. I've also deleted and recreated the Bookends sync folder in icloud. But the problem persists. This is not a problem I see with other folders in icloud (e.g. the PDF Expert folder will open files from the finder in whatever the ...
by mclearc
Tue Jul 24, 2018 10:49 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Bookends attachments in iCloud
Replies: 16
Views: 15024

Re: Bookends attachments in iCloud

Ok- unfortunately it looks like symlinks won't work with icloud. So if you discover a way to house files in the icloud documents directory while being able to (default) open them via spotlight/finder in the correct application I'd love to hear it.
by mclearc
Tue Jul 24, 2018 6:56 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Bookends attachments in iCloud
Replies: 16
Views: 15024

Re: Bookends attachments in iCloud

I've managed to successfully symlink a directory to the ~/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~com~sonnysoftware~bot/Documents folder. I'm just testing this now to see if it syncs correctly with iOS. But this at least resolves the issue of opening PDFs from Bookends in the Mac default PDF viewer.
by mclearc
Tue Jul 24, 2018 6:50 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Bookends attachments in iCloud
Replies: 16
Views: 15024

Re: Bookends attachments in iCloud

Sorry - perhaps I'm not being clear. If I open, via finder or spotlight, PDFs that are not part of the Bookends icloud attachments library they open in the expected default program, in my case PDF Expert. However, if I try and open a PDF via finder or Spotlight that *is* in the Bookends icloud sync ...
by mclearc
Tue Jul 24, 2018 6:10 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Bookends attachments in iCloud
Replies: 16
Views: 15024

Re: Bookends attachments in iCloud

So - iCloud will sync symlinks but due to the bizzare naming conventions involved with icloud sync I'm having trouble. The issue seems to be that I can't symlink the directory of pdf files to ~/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~com~sonnysoftware~bot/Documents in a way that Bookends will recognize. Any...
by mclearc
Tue Jul 24, 2018 5:29 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Bookends attachments in iCloud
Replies: 16
Views: 15024

Re: Bookends attachments in iCloud

Well - what I mean regarding opening the PDF files with the preferences setting you suggested set is that the setting doesn't seem to matter. If I'm trying to open the PDF from the finder or from spotlight it opens with Bookends not PDF Expert.

And I'll give the symlink a try.
by mclearc
Tue Jul 24, 2018 5:04 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Bookends attachments in iCloud
Replies: 16
Views: 15024

Re: Bookends attachments in iCloud

Do you know if iCloud will sync a symlinked directory? That is perhaps one way I could get around this issue.
by mclearc
Tue Jul 24, 2018 5:03 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Bookends attachments in iCloud
Replies: 16
Views: 15024

Re: Bookends attachments in iCloud

Thanks Jon - I have that setting set in preferences. But it doesn't seem to have any effect on PDFs that I try and open outside Bookends (for example, opening a file via alfred has the PDF automatically open in Bookends rather than in PDF Expert).
by mclearc
Tue Jul 24, 2018 4:36 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Bookends attachments in iCloud
Replies: 16
Views: 15024

Bookends attachments in iCloud

I haven't heard anything from Bookends support so am following up on this here... I have my Bookends attachments stored in iCloud to facilitate syncing with Bookends for iOS. All this is fine. But I'm seeing the following strange behavior. On my mac all PDFs are set by default to open in PDF Expert....