This script will take the selection in Bibdesk, look for the corresponding PDF file in DEVONthink 3, and sync the metadata. Open your BibTeX file in Bibdesk (a free, open-source bib manager). Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. bib file named using the format key.pdf where key is, of course, the key corresponding to said entry. The main constraint is to have each PDF associated with an entry in my main. I realize I could just rename files using the metadata, perhaps relying on something like Zotero or BibDesk, but that would not work for me. I would then be able to have a view of my library in DEVONthink that would contain author and title information for each entry.ĭoes anyone have any hints on how best to go about doing this? Has anyone dealt with a similar situation? bib file that would then be used to define an alias for the pdf. But perhaps it would be enough to do something like this: For each item in the library, use its title (of the form key.pdf to fetch information from my main. I can imagine, though I’m not yet in a position to implement, a number of sophisticated position. I’d like to find a way of using the metadata to browse through the library of PDFs using DEVONthink. bib file with all the necessary metadata (title, author, publication year, etc.). Thus, for each PDF in my library titled key.pdf, there’s an entry in my main. My library of PDFs contains a number of files all of which are titled using the corresponding citation key in my main. I’m hoping someone here might be able to help. Unfortunately, given my current setup, I’m not able to make most of DEVONthink to browse through my library. I’ve recently started using DEVONthink PRO to manage my library of PDFs.
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