Thanks @BradG! I’ve always used the search bar in the toolbar and I didn’t know this other search was even available!
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Ok, I see. Thanks!
Seems like a strange decision to me. At least that it’s not possible to also include a group in the tag view.
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!
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BradG, seriously cool. I didn’t know you could do this. I can think of a lot of uses for this. Many thanks.
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Don’t look elsewhere! Stick with DT. There’s nothing else as good.
Hmmm - did not know about the “Watch me do” option inside Automator!
Very interesting, something to look at in the future!
Happy workflowing – and watch, now that you’ve started, suddenly the possibilities to automate start cropping up everywhere!
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Which iOS note apps work best for this type of annotation? I liked Goodnotes, but I think it copies the DTTG pdf into its own system. I like the idea of automatically updating to DTTG.
Great suggestions about DTPO also! Thank you!
PDF Viewer works really well (and I believe it’s free). When I want something more robust, I use PDF Expert. Both work well with DevonThink.
I think there is a way in settings to set a hotkey combo to print PDF straight to DevonThink. That would simplify this workflow and speed it up. But then you wouldn’t know about “watch me do!”
I think there is a MacSparkyism, mapping the shortcut Cmd+P to print to pdf, so in an app, you press Cmd+P twice (first time to Print, second to Save to PDF), and it’s saved to a pdf. You could do the same with DT, Cmd+P to Print, Cmd+P to print to DEVONthink.
n.b. On my iPad, so some of the wording isn’t correct, but should be conceptually sound.
You read my mind! I was just reading @MacSparky’s post about this. It’s brilliant. I got it working just as he directed. I also added a Command D shortcut for saving the PDF to DevonThink. My workflow just got a lot simpler!!! Convert to Reader View Shift + Option + R then Command P then Command D … Now all with one button! Yay!
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Can anyone think of a way to extracted the created date from web articles before adding them to DevonThink? My button to print PDF to DevonThink is just awesome. Now my only wish is that I wouldn’t have to go back through and manually change the date on every entry. For research purposes, the date is a big deal!
Any really good and up to date video tutorials on Devonthink?
You might want to post this over on the DEVONtechnologies Forums. There are quite a few academic users on that forum and I imagine they have run into the same issue and hopefully solved it.
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Ok, Josh. I’ll try that. Everytime I’ve tried to research something on their forums I get posts that are years old before the DTTG app was updated. I’ve kinda stopped trying at this point, but I’ll give it another shot!
I’ve found the search isn’t great on their forums (I currently have a search set in DEVONagent to search their forums, works great). Make sure you post it, usually if I post someone has found a solution or pointed me in the right direction.
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