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Someone may have a suggestion to export information to Devonthink. W.r.t. extracting annotations from a PDF and directly importing them into DEVONthink, have a look e.g. at the recent "Exporting annotations?" thread in the DEVONthink forums, and see also the scripts linked in that thread.

I'm not sure if tikkari is still looking for a solution but since others may be looking for something similar, I'm posting an AppleScript solution below. The below script will ask you to choose a .json file (which must contain an array of dictionaries with "doi" and "abstract" ke...

tikkari wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 10:06 am Just bought Bookends and learning to use it. Copied articles into Bookends library, but I would like to add abstracts from json file

As JJW notes, it should be doable. Would it be possible for you to upload your JSON file somewhere, or at least post a representative sample?

Thank you so much for the script. You're welcome! In case of Keypoints, I agree that support for annotations made in eBooks would indeed be very nice to have. Unfortunately, this isn't straightforward to implement as—compared to PDF annotation support via the system's PDFKit framework—there's no ma...

The below script extracts metadata for the frontmost Safari page and creates a new Bookends publication with these metadata. The createBookendsPublication() handler shows how a Bookends publication can be created & populated from AppleScript. The script should work well with journal article page...

only refs that change get refreshed in the background. Years ago, I've implemented a sync with a BibTeX file for refbase where found records get appended to a local BibTeX file (if they don't yet exist in that file), and existing records in that file get updated if their modification date on the se...

Papers 3 ceased working for me and none of my attempts to revive it seemed to get it back to a state where I could export all the data successfully. If I understand you correctly, you cannot use an AppleScript-based solution (such as that offered by Bookends or like my script ) since Papers 3 crash...

This script should work similar to yours but uses the newer script implementation : tell application id "com.sonnysoftware.bookends" tell front library window set selectedPubs to selected publication items -- requires Bookends ≥ 13.2.1 if selectedPubs is not {} then set aPub to first item ...

This makes me happy! It's a great example of why scriptability is so useful in a productivity app such as Bookends! It empowers users by giving them lots of flexibility to achieve custom or alternate solutions.

Hi Ryan, I agree it would be useful to be able to set the selected publication item(s) via AppleScript. But currently, the `selected publication items` property of the `library window` class is marked as read only in the Bookends scripting dictionary. I think that the workarounds that you've suggest...

Can you help me to get an apple script that can get me the absolute path of the attachment of a selected reference? Using Bookends 13.2.1 or greater, the below AppleScript code should work: -- Returns the absolute path of the first attachment of the first publication -- selected in the front Booken...

All I can say is that I haven't found a place to write notes that I am happy with. I‘ve had similar problems and I‘m currently developing a tool that will hopefully improve on this situation. It‘s a separate Mac app (https://keypoints.app/, not released yet) that‘s meant to gather all your PDF high...

Hi Phil. Sorry for the late reply, I somehow didn‘t get the post notification. From your description I don’t think you‘ve done anything wrong. I‘m wondering whether the new restrictions with running AppleScripts in macOS Mojave (10.14) somehow cause these issues. In any case, I think that my script ...

iandol wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2019 10:24 am Matthias, even though I won't use this script, thank you for such well documented code; it is really helpful to see well written Applescript examples...

Hi iandol,
many thanks for the kind words! I'm happy the script is useful beyond its original purpose.
Matthias

MjRNeuro wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2019 12:56 am Thank you, this works perfectly!! You've made my transition to Bookends much better.

Hi MjRNeuro,
you're welcome, I'm glad to hear that the script worked for you!
Matthias