Hi all,
I’d like to generate a number of notes for books and have them use the built-in Reference prototype.
I’m sure I can get a chatbot to arrange the reference data in pretty much any format. But what’s the easiest way to import them into a Tinderbox document from there?
Thanks,
Robert
Do you use a reference manager? For example, ⌘⌥-drag from Bookends automatically imports a reference.
Drags the contain RIS (sometimes called “Endnotes” format) will also be interpreted as references.
Of course, you can use a stamp or OnAdd action to set the prototype of a note
$Prototype="Reference"
I’m embarrassed to say that I haven’t used a reference manager in some time. But maybe I should start using one again.
I’d still have the problem of how to get data into the reference manager though. I can avoid some of the drudgery of data input by prompting a chatbot with something like, “Can you give me a list of Ursula LeGuinn’s books in publication order and format the results in bibtex format?”
It sounds like the easiest path for getting those references into Tinderbox to find a Tinderbox-compatible reference manager that’s good at batch importing references from outside sources. That’s what you’re recommending, right?
Suggest you look at the videos:
Search for reference, Zotero, Bookends, etc.
RIS, which your chatbot will know, can be parsed by Tinderbox. At present, we don’t do anything much with BibTeX.
Should it come to it, BibTeX—having a regular structure—can be parsed nicety by action code. But Tinderbox does a great job with Bookends’s RIS. Bookends is great—I’ve used it for several decades (and the developer is very attentive to users) but a good free alternative is probably Zotero.
OK I copied the list of references in ris format to a file. I dragged it to a Tinderbox document and Tinderbox proceeded to make a very nice set of notes with the built-in Reference prototype. Excellent, thanks!
Oh my goodness, when am I going to find time to go through those videos?!