Now we’re at the final way you can get content into DEVONthink To Go, from within the app by pressing the small + sign in the bottom left corner. Adding Content from Within DEVONthink To Go I’ll cover exactly what I did when I talk about capturing content with DEVONthink 3 for macOS in the coming weeks. If you’ve got a way to download a video like this, I’d love to know about it. For this I ended up back on macOS with Downie()] which meant I synced back tho 8GB video file to my DEVONthink To Go library. There has been at least one recent piece of content that I couldn’t find a way to download from iOS, the 2019 WWDC keynote. I do plan to go back and listen to the audio and add timestamps to various parts but that doesn’t always happen as I envision so I want some searchable content right away. One thing I always do to start with audio is to add any text from the page as a comment so that it’s searchable in some fashion. The download dialogue that iCab presents you with From there it’s simply a matter of sharing the file into DEVONthink To Go. Then I can long press on the audio player and iCab will give me the ability to download the file. Then I click the download button which opens up the file in another tab. Let’s use this great interview of Neil Gaiman done by Tim Ferriss as an example.įirst I view the page. Unfortunately this is another place that Safari in iOS 12 falls apart and I have to resort to iCab to be able to click said download button and get the audio file. Unfortunately Google wants you to pay to download them, but there is a helpful shortcut to get around this limitation.īy using the shortcut below with a valid YouTube URL you’ll get an MP4 file that you can import into your DEVONthink To Go library.įor podcasts I want to keep a copy of I’m usually in luck in that most podcast players on the web also have a download button. There are some great video talks out there and many of them are on YouTube. Your PDF will download and then ask you where you want it saved Downloading Audio and Video to DEVONthink To Go This opens up the regular import box with it’s PDF options. Click their button to download the full text PDF and then use the Share Sheet to send the PDF directly to DEVONthink To Go. For most sites that have open research like PubMed this is fairly easy. Importing Research Papers and Files to DEVONthink To GoĪnother thing I regularly import is PDF research papers. While DEVONthink 3 will OCR the PDF’s so that they’re searchable by DEVONthink To Go I like knowing that the comments have data to index as well just in case the OCR doesn’t happen for some reason. I capture the PDF and then copy the book description from the Amazon page and paste it into the comment on the note. To get around this I leverage iOS’s ability to make PDF’s. In Safari on iOS, you get a bit more but still nothing useful. From Firefox on iOS, you get a Bookmark no matter what you choose. I always have problems capturing pages on Amazon to file away books that sounded interesting. Read the comment by Paul on how to do it within DEVON think.Now even with all these options some pages are problematic to capture. You simply copy the script into a text file, save it, open the Scripts folder in DEVON think (there is a Scroll Icon between “Window” and “Help”, select “Open Scripts Folder”, go into the “Scripts” folder in the Finder window, create a subdirectory (e.g., “Tagging”), copy the file there, then you only need to select “Update the Scripts Menu” in DEVON think again.Īfterwards, you can select multiple files, go to the Scroll Icon again, select your script, and enter it. However, John Sidiropoulos from A Digital Workflow for Academic Research has written a great AppleScript that easily allows you to add tags to multiple files even if these files already have tags that are not the same: Add tags to many DEVONthink items at the same time. Might be useful for some purposes, but in many cases (especially if you tag the files later) it is very inconvenient. Great for literature (to_read, read, topics, articles_for_paper_x, etc.), images (subjects, quality, etc., see Aperture for some ideas), video, and much more.ĭEVON think itself has one huge disadvantage regarding tagging - when you want to tag multiples files that already have tags, DEVON think does not allow you to assign tags (instead you get the message “Multiple Selection” in the tag field). Whereas it does not support hierarchical tags (like Sente or Aperture does), it is useful nonetheless. It isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.ĭEVON think has a lot of useful features, one of them is tagging.
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