Using the new string processing functions to parse Devonthink Summarise Highlights files

[abusch (Andreas Busch)]

Hi @mdavidson,

I managed to solve a very similar problem - with an approach much like what @webline suggested, namely via RegEx. Details will differ, but perhaps this link helps as a starting point:

Search and replace (with RegEx) for each paragraph in $Text?

Many thanks to @satikusala , @mwra , @eastgate and @webline who all helped solve my little problem, namely how to “clean” text pasted from DEVONthink into a Tinderbox note’s $Text. Since many people in the Tinderbox forum use DEVONthink and may also use its annotation feature (the results of which, as you will know, can be be copied and pasted as text e.g. into Tinderbox), I post a few screenshots here. Also, since the format in which you get text from DEVONthink annotations differs from the f…