That’s it! Feel free to edit the CSS in the Article to HTML for DT using createdocument shortcut to suit your tastes. 2 I’ve reported it, but for now there’s no on-device workaround.
The link targets move around the page and are sometimes not there at all, even though the text looks like a link.
Currently, a bug breaks every link in PDFs created by shortcuts. Why is this step necessary? Why not just make the PDFs within the shortcut? It’s a funny thing.
#HOW TO USE DEVONTHINK TO GO PDF#
It’s pretty simple: HTML to PDF from DEVONsave Smart Rule. convert-tagged items and immediately converts them to a PDF and removes the .convert tag. In DEVONthink on macOS, I’ve set up a Smart Rule that picks up these. Now, I like PDFs, so there’s one more step for me.
Third, it grabs the article body and formats a HTML page with some pre-defined CSS.If it can find the author name and the published date, it adds those to a byline. Second, it looks for some article metadata.(Before it saves it asks you for a comment.) In this case it saves the item to DEVONthink as a bookmark, so that you can deal with it more easily on DEVONthink 3 on macOS. If it doesn’t, the original website isn’t formatted effectively for this purpose. First, it checks whether the item contains article text.If the data is from the web, it sends it to a helper shortcut, titled Article to HTML for DT using createdocumentĪrticle to HTML for DT using createdocument is where the real magic happens:.If the input data is a bit of text, it asks if you want to add a comment to the text’s record in DEVONthink, and then it saves the text to DEVONthink in markdown format.If the input data is a PDF, it asks if you want to add a comment to the PDF’s record in DEVONthink, and then it saves the file to DEVONthink.It receives an input, expecting either something from the web, a PDF, or some text.The DEVONsave shortcut does a few things. It would be nice if there was a way to control all of these settings minutely in order to get your references saved the way you want.įortunately, there is! Based on Federico Viticci’s detailed explorations of DEVONthink’s automation capabilities (and the shortcuts he published in that post), I created the ? DEVONsave shortcut. However, if you’re saving a reading, it often helps to clean up the website’s features (e.g., banner ads or “Can we use cookies?” modals), changing the file format (do you prefer PDF? HTML? .webarchive?), and setting the text layout and font size (size 8 or 10 fonts and two-column views mean a lot of panning, zooming, and scrolling on small screens!) all lead to a better reading experience. In the case of bookmarks or files, this doesn’t really matter-the app probably shouldn’t influence these items anyway. Unfortunately, neither the DTTG clipper nor the URL scheme give you much control over what the resulting items look like. A service like Shortcuts can then be used to customize the data you’re including in the URL scheme, making this option a quick, simple, standardized way of saving content to DEVONthink. To that end, if you want to use the same settings on a variety of imports, DEVONthink To Go supports URL commands ( see page the relevant appendix of the DEVONthink To Go user guide.) For example, you can construct a URL command like x-devonthink://createbookmark?destination=D3BB6ED8-41AC-4A5E-A6A0-7984DC9811B3&location=, and every time you open that command it will create a new Bookmark for the URL in the DEVONthink record with a Universally Unique Identifier ( UUID) of D3BB6ED8-41AC-4A5E-A6A0-7984DC9811B3. Additionally, this menu can be somewhat tedious if you’re using it often. However, that clipper doesn’t provide an option for saving items as PDFs. Open the Share Sheet from any item and select DEVONthink, and you’ll be provided with a clipping interface that gives you many import options. On iOS, the Share Sheet ( ?) is used to get items from one app to another, and DEVONthink is no exception. On DEVONthink To Go ( DTTG), DEVONthink’s iOS and iPadOS (hereafter I’ll just say “iOS”) counterpart, the options are not so endless. macOS’ flexibility makes all of these options easy. You can clip them straight into the app using the Clip to DEVONthink tool, you can save them in your own formats and import them into DEVONthink, you can drop them into a designated file system folder and use Folder Actions to import them automatically. On macOS, users have seemingly infinite options to save new items into DEVONthink. 1 That last use-case is the focus of this article-and the iOS shortcut I’m sharing. Chiefly, it provides a robust repository for everything I’ve ever thought of, done, or found. I use DEVONthink for a variety of purposes.