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Hi Jon,

I've just tested and can verify that the issue persists in safe mode. I'm entirely unable to change highlight or label colors and everything lags terribly when I unsuccessfully attempt to do so.

Best,
Zach

Hi Jon, Not sure if this was ever resolved, but I can report that I'm experiencing the same issue with selecting new colors for both highlights and labels. The color picker pops up, but then everything in Bookends begins to lag severely and I'm completely unable to change the color--or, rather, all ...

Ok, so I revisited my AppleScript to update for deprecated code, while also attempting to reliably update (rather than completely regenerating) the bib file on each run. I found dealing with the text to be a bit cumbersome in AppleScript, however, so decided to write a Python script that does the bu...

Thanks so much for this @iandol - my year (but especially the last 4 months) has been a bit crazy, which I take to be the general experience, and I haven’t kept up to date with the forum or these scripts. I actually have a few more that I wrote up a while back that I think may be useful for other me...

I think the section giving you problems now is repeat with i in thePath or rather any remaining usage of the variable "thePath" insofar as you no longer create that variable when you remove this line: set thePath to path of attachment items of myItem Those checks were created to make sure ...

If you've seen the previous script I posted to continuously update a .bib file library, you'll know that one of my strategies for this is to use bib2json and jq to return a list of citekeys from my file against which to compare current Bookends references. Now, I only ever create a .bib file for the...

Just another suggestion: I agree that the best course would be to merge your libraries if possible. If not, however, one thing you could do is take the beginning of my script that updates your Bibfile by making a list of its current BibKeys. With that list, you could almost certainly find a handler ...

Glad to see you figured that out, Dellu. Also, sorry to be late on replying again to the previous query regarding exporting from DTPO to currently existing Bookends records. Adding the record to Bookends, then, is pretty simple. What you'd do to move the item is either get the path from DEVONthink a...

Perhaps I misread Will's post as speaking to my own situation, but I'm referring to the visibly selected references in the UI and not to marked references. In my case, it's only a problem with references that are recently added, and then when I rebuild the library it seems to clear up the problem wi...

Yes, I've found this as well. Rebuilding my library seems to temporarily fix the problem, but it returns soon after. It always seems to be references added in close proximity that the "selected publication items" command confuses--i.e. selecting the most recent reference will return data f...

Thanks so much for your help! This doesn't seem to import the actual file from its original path though, does it? (Or should it?) I can add to the attachments field, but this just returns "Can't find file" in Bookends, while the item in the attachment items list is incomplete. Here's part ...

Thanks for clarifying, Jon. I've just looked through the manual and dictionary again and can't figure out how to add an attachment item to a currently existing publication item--at least in a way that will import and rename the file. I can easily add a new publication item, whether via quick add or ...

Jon can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure that there's yet a way to add attachments to existing records using AppleScipt. You might be able to cobble something together by using Finder's library to make the move, but it would likely be finicky and wouldn't, for instance, utilize your Bookend...

There is a "Send to Bookends" script in DEVONthink that can easily be modified to serve the purpose of getting your items from DTPO to Bookends. The one provided is quite basic, but extending it is mostly trivial, especially with Bookends' new scripting library. As for checking whether a r...

I'm so glad you're finding the script useful and were able to modify it to your specifications. You can do a lot of extra things with the script, including sharing tags and labels. I have a Bookends label, for instance, that is intended to specify items I want on hand but don't necessarily want clut...