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I'm getting old and my eyes are not as good as they used to be. So I would like to know how to increase the font size for...pretty much everything and anything I see on the screen when I have bookends open: The list of groups on the left, the text in the list of references in the main panel, the tex...

Hi Jon, Thanks for your quick reply (as always). I have a terrible memory, but I could swear that until a few day ago all the references were in black font, regardless of the background colour? Am I just imagining that? And why did all the colours change when I installed Bookends on a second compute...

I set up Bookends on a new Mac yesterday, and now both on the new machine and my old the font for references that have a colour label has turned white (which for me is most of them). I don't know how to make it black again. Any thoughts?

Greg

Hi DrJJWMac, I just prefer to do my annotations in a dedicated PDF viewer. I like the interface better, so it's a personal preference. I really like how Highlights shows the full text both of highlight annotations and anchored notes along the side. And on the ipad, it's a sort of 'split-screen' view...

Ok -- So I was able somehow to make an Applescript that does what I want. I've posted the entire workflow into a new thread here in case it's of any use to anyone:

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[Post is updated with a newer/better applescript, supplied by Bluefrog from the Devonthink forum, modified a bit by me -- 12 April 2022] I thought I would share my workflow with Bookends, Devonthink, and the Highlights app. The aim is to use Devonthink as a sort of ‘hub’ to store my notes on journal...

Ok -- I will see if they can answer the question. In the meantime, really all I want is the name of the attachment in the Notes field, because that would trigger Devonthink to make an automatic link from the attachment name to the attachment record. (And also put the name of the attachment followed ...

It seems this is also the place to ask the following: I understand that the Import References from Bookends function in Devonthink uses the Summary view in Bookends. I've been playing around with the Summary view, including the PDF name and User 20 field. But when I do the Import References, the new...

Hi -- is there a way to run the script so that it doesn't make a new Library folder and duplicate the PDF record in Devonthink? I'd like the Bookends URL to be added to the existing PDF record in the folder in Devonthink that I already indexed.

Thanks,

G

Ok -- I think this works. It's slightly different from what you said, but the principle is the same. 1. I made a static group for Attachments 2. I made a smart group that includes all journal articles, except those in the static group without Attachmeents 3. I made smart groups for each excluded jou...

Ok -- I will try this and see if it works, and let you know one way or the other.

Hi -- I would like to exclude from my smart group references that are in another smart group. I see that I can exclude references from a static group, but not other smart groups. I am searching PDFs for my references, and I have made smart groups for references in journals that I don't have online a...

Dear Jon (if I may), Your instructions have been very helpful. I realised that for Philosopher's Index I DON'T go through Bookends. I just access it as I normally would, through my library. And then simply choose 'save' to export the reference as RIS, when I can then just drag and drop onto Bookends...

Thanks again for such a prompt reply. I will see if I can resolve my issues, based on what you've said, and post any further questions if I have them.

I've worked my way through the Tutorial. It's very helpful. I am still unclear about how to search for citations and get PDFs in a way that is most useful to me. I will try to ask specific questions. I am a researcher in Humanities, so most useful to me are searches on JSTOR, Philosopher's Index, L'...