Revisiting Devonthink Annotations to Tinderbox

Good work. Also kudos to @PaulWalters for the support. Three additional points on my side to follow-up on the theme:

  • The delimiters is a powerful and quick way of distinguishing different chunks of information. It’s worth clarifying what DT3 actually generates in the Summarize Highlights output ? I tend to use only highlighting + adding comments in the Details pane so have three information elements per highlight to deal with (the highlighted text, the Details text, the page URL). This means the only user defined text input is the Details window in DT3 (which could be used for introducing the tags or keywords and parsed in TB). I don’t use text boxes or other PDF annotation tools.
  • I could be mistaken but the current approach of @satikusala will breakdown if you have two or more highlights per page and would like each mapped into it’s own TB note e.g. the page URL is only provided once in the Summarize Highlights output per page and is not repeated for each highlighted text selection (in Markdown not in RTF).
  • I agree with @PaulWalters that a csv export from DT3 would be the easiest and best way to transfer the info from DT3 to TB. I’ve put in a feature request in the DT3 Forum for this. Hopefully the developer and DT3 community will see the advantage too.
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