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1) Detect that a PDF has been annotated (already completed) 2) Fire off a script that ... 2a) runs the extract PDF annotations menu using selected references as default ... Set this up by selecting a PDF, running the Extract PDF Annotations menu, and choosing the options that you want for automatio...

You say that the save dialog is not prepopulated with the file name. I'm not sure what you mean. The proposed file name is the library name folloed by "PDF annotations". What do you see? The proposed filename I see is "[Library Name] PDF Annotations" and the default location is ...

Got it. Well, at a first glance it seems to me that the new features are awesome and I am 99% confident that I’ll be able to eliminate Highlights app from my automated workflow. I will have to see how reliably I can use apple script to get BE to generate the Extracted Annotations text file, copy the...

Thank you!

A quick first question: is the new "extract PDF annotations" command scriptable (other than via scripting UI instructions?)

Jon, I've been away from work for a few months (first baby!) and it looks like a lot has changed in the Bookends & PDF workflow "scene". I look forward to exploring what's new and no doubt I'll reach out to you and the forum members here with any follow up questions. Meanwhile thank yo...

Just as a counterweight, I want to note here that I use Bookends precisely because it does NOT require you to use either DropBox or Google Drive in order to sync with iPad. Those are both plagued systems with a terrible history (and, surely, future) with respect to privacy and security. Even disrega...

I briefly saw an advert when I first opened the updated app.
In the settings, it showed that all in app purchases were already purchased (green checkmarks). I pressed “restore purchases” for good measure. Didn’t get any feedback after pressing it, but also have not seen any adverts since.

I am late to this, but I’ll throw in my 2c: I have no interest in this feature. Two main reasons: 1. Zotero has moved to its own proprietary PDF annotation system, which I suspect is (intentionally or not) going to act as a lock-in. If a Bookends client for Zotero is not capable of exchanging annota...

This is terrible — I’m so sorry to hear this. Please keep us updated, Jon.

Recently I've come to depend on publication items having a unique Bibtex citekey assigned to them right away, and even more so on the attachments being immediately renamed on import, so that if the citekey is "@Someone1999" the attachment will be "Someone1999.pdf". On these two n...

Ken -- I wonder if you're still looking for an answer to this and/or using this workflow. I just wanted to say that I am in a similar situation. Recently I have been looking to find solutions for the same problem and, like you, I have come up with Highlights 2 and Hazel as part of my workflow. To my...

In the end I took a couple of days to give myself a crash course in AppleScript -- fun! -- and I've been able to do all of what I wanted and more. Bookends' scriptability has cured me of any latent desire to move to Zotero, so that's good. Thanks!

Thank you. I meant this plug in: https://github.com/stefanopagliari/bibnotes I like it because it gives the option to have a literature note in obsidian for each entry in your library and to one-click non-destructively update any changes in the entire library if, say, you fix some metadata. If you u...

I use Pandoc and have set up macOS launchd to run a script every time the BibTeX file is modified by Bookends (more details here: https://www.sonnysoftware.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=25644#p25644 ). @iandol, thank you for pointing me to using Pandoc to convert .bib into .json, that's turning out to...

Thank you, Jon. I think my confusion about the nomenclature is partly down to the iPad app's interface. The official database Note and the PDF annotations are not labelled, so I hadn't even realized that the both exist on the mobile app until now, when I copied all the PDF annotations into the note ...