I did something nerdy today and I’m kinda proud of myself since I’ve never used either of these apps before. I prefer PDFs in DevonThink when possible. Of course, I don’t want all the ads and junk in my DevonThink, so I’ve gotten in the habit of launching reader view in Safari, selecting Print, and then “Save PDF to DevonThink.” I’m happy with the workflow, but I’m not happy with all the clicking around. Sooooo today, I made a button on my MacBook Pro TouchBar to do all that clicking for me!!!
First, in Automator, you will need the following. I couldn’t figure out how to do it any other way than “watch me do,” but it’s working. Here is where I select the option in the print dialogue box to print to devonthink. We’ll need this in the next step once we get to BTT.
In BTT, I did the following:
My Touch Bar currently looks like this. (The PDF to DevonThink is a Safari Specific button in Better Touch Tool):
Feel free to recreate/deconstruct/tell me how to improve this!