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Great, thanks, Jon!

Hiya. I'm trying to make sure that every file added to a particular DEVONthink group becomes a Bookends publication item. Creating a publication item is easy: set newPublication to make new publication item with properties {name: "Some name"} However, I can't figure out how to add an attac...

Copy that, thanks!

Any guesses as to why I'm not getting download arrows in the Bookends browser on what seems like a lot of new papers? Here's two recent failures: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/isj.12311?af=R https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053951720966781 Happy to email support direc...

Found a faster route than the find-replace option: scripting! This is fine. Thanks Jon. tell application "Bookends" tell front library window set selectedPubs to selected publication items if selectedPubs is not {} then set aPub to first item of selectedPubs set publicationAttachments to a...

Alternatively: I know I can use <title>, <doi>, and <pmid> in OpenURL searches—is there a way to use filename or attachment name or something? What I'm hoping for is a way to use the attachment's info in OpenURL search quickly and easily, without having to copy and paste info from the file.

Sadly, 30s x 5-10 times a day makes for a very infuriating experience, so it is a much bigger deal than the workaround you're offering makes it seem!

Thanks for the swift response. It is never garbage for me, because I use a particular process to create the file I'm importing. It would be extremely helpful to just leave it as the PDF, or at least let the user decide if the noisy statement is necessary.

Is there any way to get Bookends to provide a more useful title when it fails to import metadata for a new item? The title field becomes populated with the statement Changing 'Attached file “some file”. Reference metadata not found online.' This is sad, because it makes it hard to use this field in ...

I could see it being field-dependent. I am fairly transdisciplinary, with information systems/management science being the most popular arena of my work. Not only do papers sometimes fail in Bookends's autocomplete, but I also cite non-scholarly references often. I will check out the Alfred workflow...

Thanks, @mjvalente, this is insightful. Believe it or not, I've been using both Zotero and Bookends these days. My approach is... Search phase While searching for materials for a given need: - Find an article - Use the Save to Zotero Safari Extension to clip any scholarly reference into Zotero - Rep...

Thanks, Matthias. Indeed, I had given up and resorted to the two options you describe. This was for a workflow bridging DEVONthink and Bookends. In DEVONthink 3 using custom record metadata of the form (bookendsid#, bookendsid#, bookendsid#, ... , bookendsid#), the script I crafted either opens the ...

What's the best way to select or reveal multiple Bookends references in a script? E.g., given a set of Bookends IDs, is there a way to show all of them in the front library window? The command: set selected publication items doesn't seem to work, and filters/sql searches just return the data in scri...

HTML scraping is what I was guessing, too. At least on the non-scholarly source side. They must also be doing some kind of fuzzy content matching for scholarly PDFs. Zotero often succeeds when Bookends can't autocomplete, but once in a while Zotero fails spectacularly and downloads metadata for the ...

Right, of course, the downwards arrow. Sorry. I should have described the ideal workflow in Bookends. Trouble is, it doesn't appear very often for me. Half the time would be an optimistic guess. Zotero's magic works 95% of the time, even on non-scholarly sources (which I use often). So I guess, is t...