![]() ![]() But there are so many stupid little things about it, that I’m not sure if I’m going to adopt it. My knee-jerk reaction is that, if they hired a good UX designer, it could probably be the best app ever created for the mac (no offense Alfred, I still love you). Have you ever considered using DEVONthink for these purposes? I’ve only used the application for a few days, but I have mixed feelings about it. That way, I could place everything in the same receptacle, and apply the same tagging structure to it (everything except OmniOutliner, anyways, which I use for outlining research projects, teaching outlines, etc.). In addition to organizing my PDFs, I also wanted to replace Evernote - which I use for web-clippings - and the Notes app - which I use for short notes on everything. It gets around the complicated Finder folder structures (and the stupid alias/shortcut approach that I use to avoid duplicating PDFs - which comes up a lot because of all the interdisciplinary work that I do). Simply being able to see my tags and fluidly apply and reorganize them is super helpful. ![]() This is what pushed me to consider using DEVONthink Office Pro. While Alfred is great for supplementing Finder, there’s only so much that it can do on this front (searching for and applying variations of tags, etc.). And, I also have a few tags that use as visual cues in Finder for the more important files - and because my eyes are terrible - but I’ve never done much with Finder’s tagging system, in large part, because it’s not built for more complex tag hierarchies (you can’t visualize them easily, they’re a pain to update and reorganize, etc.). Relatedly, have you guys considered using DEVONthink Office Pro to help organize your files? At the moment, I use a pretty intricate series of folders (and aliases/shortcuts where there is overlap). I am still a little surprised that a workflow didn’t already exist for this issue. ![]() Although I’m not sure if I will ultimately adopt DEVONthink Office Pro, I’d love to use Alfred to visualize and correct metadata in PDFs. Prior to testing out DEVONthink, I used to just correct PDFs’ metadata through Adobe Acrobat Pro (one at a time … or through PDF Expert, as I read them). Unfortunately, DEVONthink’s tool for correcting PDF metadata is terrible, so I was hoping to use Alfred. While I have always maintained a pretty simple filename approach for my PDFs (journals, chapters, books, etc.) and corrected their metadata as needed, DEVONthink’s displays made me realize how many old PDFs that I have on my computer that are still a mess. That would help with the metadata and filename issues.įor me, the metadata issue came to head when considering whether to adopt DEVONthink Office Pro. However, that seems to have changed over the last few years, so perhaps I ought to consider taking the plunge. ![]() I just never bothered to adopt a citation manager because they were never well equipped to deal with the style that I most frequently use (Bluebook). To be honest, I’m one of those dinosaurs that still writes his citations out. Set theFiles to POSIX path of linked files of thePubĭo shell script "xattr -w :_kMDItemUserTags '" & plistTagString & "' " & quoted form of fĮdited Octoby for your thoughtful responses! And, sorry for the slow response on my end - family emergency this weekend, but everyone’s in good shape Thanks for the helpful workflow details. Set plistTagString to plistFront & plistTagString & plistEnd Set plistTagString to plistTagString & " " & theTag & " " Set AppleScript's text item delimiters to myTID Set tagList to text items of currentKeywords However, I couldn't figure out how to attach it to an argument correctly (i.e., the input from the user that would be triggered once the file action was triggered, allowing them to input the value for the field, like the author's names), and still get the shell script's syntax to work.įor example, it might look something like the following:Īrg/Vars Utility - save variable with Name "FilePath" and Value That's why I was initially thinking of creating a sperate file action for each field using the EXIFTool. However, I don't always update them at the same time. Yes - In order of importance, I always update the (1) Title and (2) Author fields, and sometimes the (3) Subject and (4) Keyword fields. Are they always the same fields? And what’s their order of importance/the order you’d edit them? ![]()
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