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I am not sure what AI could do for us in Bookends. Which features would you consider?


I have a simple answer for this. Organisation. Suggesting static or smart folders, tags, hierarchical folders, and yes, searching, locally on our library and remotely to find new references (and linking ...

The second issue (taking the author of the previous selected reference and using it when creating a new reference) is in 14.0.6. The original issue i haven't noticed since the update. But it is quite rare. I'll update if i see any of the two issues happen again.

Edit: I can confirm that the second ...

When I'm typing information in the Reference record, most of the time I can tab between hinted fields without also confirming the hint (“Editors”, “Journal”, “Date”, etc.) as my intended entry, other times I can't, and the hint text becomes a part of the reference record, which is obviously a ...

Thank you Jon,

Our thoughts are with Serge and his family.
Just adding two links here for aid to Ukraine for those who may have trouble accessing the New York Times website. They've been posted by Leaflet.js (created by Vladimir, an Ukranian developer and responsible for the major developments in ...

Writing XML metadata onto the pdf files of selected references: (you need to install exiftool)


Thanks Dellu. Haven't had the time to look into my script. Sorry.
As Dellu says, unfortunately you need to install exiftool (you can do this through homebrew).
I also update a custom field in ...

Jon wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:28 am Furthermore, this actually strikes me as something DEVONthink should (might) do, because it's a document manager.

Actually, my script is based on one posted on the devonthink forums.

I actually have an AppleScript that changes the author and title metadata on the pdf according to bookends references. I use it for my ereader.
I would recommend just changing file rename format instead though.

I'll see if I can post the script later this week (busy right now).

That sounds great. Looking forward it. I should say, one of the top reasons I stick with bookends is because of how it plays nicely with external apps and doesn't force you into a closed garden.

Hi,

Since we're on the subject of pdf annotations and notes, would it be possible to add a feature to the AppleScript dictionary?

At the moment we can get the bookends notes from AppleScript. It would be great if there was another key to get the (locked) pdf-only highlight text as well. I am using ...

sorry... that's what I meant. it was output as bibtex markup.

It's working perfectly.

I noticed what I would consider a bug though (others may not). One of my references shows up in Jabref with html tags in the title field. I found out this is because the title in Bookends was in rich text and bold (probably copied pasted there from the title field in the pdf ...

As this is a one-way sync, am I right in thinking that any edits of the generated bibtex with an external program will not be changed by Bookends upon subsequent syncs? That would be great for those of use that use Jabref's bibtex cleanup function.

From the release notes:

"Note that Bookends stores the .bib file's alias, so you may rename it or move it to another location on the HD and Bookends will still find it."

That's a nice idea.

I'm obviously in the minority here, but I actually prefer to use the Bookends citations pop up to add references quickly, as it gives me a preview of the actual document and lets me check if I'm referencing the right thing. I have Bookends set up to just insert the cite key or a pandoc version ...

> I had thought the same and agree. I would for example find use to be able to point to AppleScripts that are to run "Before Opening Database" and "Before Closing Database".


A crude way of doing that would be using your AppleScript as a launcher for bookends, and another attached to a cmd-Q ...