opening Devonthink (DT) folders with quicksilver
synapse12
What I like best about Qs is firing up files and folders very
quickly. I've started using DT for organizing and integrating science
information. I'm starting to second guess my purchase of DT because
there doesn't seem to be a way to open folders in my DT database using
quicksilver. I'm thinking of going back to finder folders for this
reason. Does anyone know a way to integrate Qs with DT in this way or
can anyone recommend an information organizer that is more compatable
with Qs?
Thanks,
Dylan
Rob McBroom
> I'm starting to second guess my purchase of DT because
> there doesn't seem to be a way to open folders in my DT database using
> quicksilver. I'm thinking of going back to finder folders for this
> reason. Does anyone know a way to integrate Qs with DT in this way or
> can anyone recommend an information organizer that is more compatable
> with Qs?
To integrate Quicksilver with Devonthink, you could always [write a new plug-in][1] for it. :)
As for taking advantage of existing software, have you looked at [Yojimbo][1]? I use it and have been pretty happy with it (though I haven’t tried DT and can’t compare them). It’s had a Quicksilver plug-in for many years, which I [updated][3] the hell out of only a few months ago.
[1]: http://github.com/tiennou/blacktree-elements/blob/master/PluginDevelopmentReference/QuicksilverPlug-inReference.mdown
[2]: http://www.barebones.com/products/yojimbo/
[3]: http://github.com/skurfer/blacktree-elements/downloads
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Rob McBroom
<http://www.skurfer.com/>
Jon Stovell (a.k.a. Sesquipedalian)
data in a library package similar to the iPhoto library. You should be
able to add the contents of that package to your QS catalogue easily
enough.
On Aug 3, 11:08 pm, Rob McBroom <mailingli...@skurfer.com> wrote:
> On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:02 PM, synapse12 wrote:
>
> > I'm starting to second guess my purchase of DT because
> > there doesn't seem to be a way to open folders in my DT database using
> > quicksilver. I'm thinking of going back to finder folders for this
> > reason. Does anyone know a way to integrate Qs with DT in this way or
> > can anyone recommend an information organizer that is more compatable
> > with Qs?
>
> To integrate Quicksilver with Devonthink, you could always [write a new plug-in][1] for it. :)
>
> As for taking advantage of existing software, have you looked at [Yojimbo][1]? I use it and have been pretty happy with it (though I haven’t tried DT and can’t compare them). It’s had a Quicksilver plug-in for many years, which I [updated][3] the hell out of only a few months ago.
>
Lvood
I'm also using DevonThink Pro (Office) for storing research
information for my thesis.
Jon is right, the DevonThink database is a "normal" OS X package (you
can open it and see its contents with right click and something like
"show package contents").
If QS can make a catalogue of that package, this should be the easiest
way to access the contents quickly (spotlight can also index and find
the single files in the DT database).
A second way would be (but not necessarily the best one, depending on
your workflow):
With DevonThink you can decide if you index or import the external
information.
I have "only" indexed a great part of it (e. g. all the pdf files with
scientific articles), so their original directory structure is
directly accessible in finder, but I can group and comment them in the
DT database.
The disadvantage of this approach: if you create documents within DT
(which I do to write comments or summaries of papers), they only exist
in the database but not in the indexed folders...
In any case: the Devon Think developers and users are a very active
and responsive "community", so it may also help to have a look in the
forums on devon-technologies.com to see how other people are working
with DT and who uses QS and how.
Martin