DEVONthink think can index external folders, so by indexing Zotero’s PDF folder, it’s possible to view PDFs in DEVONthink and use DEVONthink’s excellent PDF reading/annotation interface to mark up the PDF, and have the changes stored directly in the PDF that is kept in Zotero. My approach to using the two has been to put papers always in Zotero first, and use Zotero only to manage the bibliographic data and generate reference data (particularly in bibtex format) everything else, including reading notes and annotating PDF files, I do in DEVONthink. Regarding the direction from DEVONthink to Zotero: I’m sorry to say I’ve only worked on the Zotero to DEVONthink direction. For completeness’ sake, I want to reprise the answer here: I had replied to bnl’s posting of the same question to the Zotero forums then forgot to come back to answer it here too. Zotero - Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share. previous blogpost, I use DEVONthink Pro (DTP) as my Information Management system. Evernote - Bring your lifes work together in one digital workspace. Last, it moves the annotation file to a specific folder so that I can view and open it in Obsidian.Sorry for coming back to this late. Writing with Scrivener, DEVONthink and Zotero by Nikolaj Raahauge.If possible, it then appends a link to the Bookends reference at the bottom of the file.Zotero is a marvelous tool to use for capturing, managing and citing sources but once the notes and sources are in a Zotero library collection, moving them around inside it is a very clunky process. If not, it just creates a blank annotations file Hallas popup: true also uses Zotero popup: true for historical research.If annotations are found, it grabs the summarized annotations and places them in the PDF’s annotations file.It will then run DEVONthink’s Summarize Highlights feature on the PDF.Then, it will place the DEVONthink item UUID in the user20 metadata field of Bookends, and place the Bookends reference ID in the “bookendsID” custom meta data field of the record in DEVONthink.If not, it will prompt you to select the appropriate reference in Bookends (if desired).Check if the file has data in the “bookendsID” custom meta data field.Select a PDF in DEVONthink, then run the script. So, I created a script that does all of the above! Last, I wanted to be able to open and work with these annotation files in It is extremely performant, even with thousands of references, it has a variety of powerful features, and it has excellent macOS integrations (e.g., it is highly scriptable). Bookends is a Mac/iOS reference manager of choice (once you’ve got your references imported). I also wanted to link these files together withīookends. I wanted to extract a PDF’s annotations in markdown (e.g., everything I’ve highlighted or commented on) and add those thoughts automatically to the DEVONthink annotation file for the PDF. However, by default, these two features are separate. This creates a note file specific to whatever file you’re currently viewing so that you can annotate it yourself. DEVONthink also has a built-in annotation feature. For example, its “Summarize Highlights” feature will extract annotations-such as your highlights-from a selected PDF into markdown, RTF, or PDF format. (It might be more useful to extract what I haven’t highlighted, sometimes.)ĭEVONthink is also a great way of engaging with the data you capture about these files. (This is from van der Heijden’s “Scenarios, Strategy, and the Strategy Process”, 1997.) I tend to go a bit overboard on highlighting sometimes.
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