![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks for your suggestions mhucka! Given my lack of technical knowledge it sounds like Option 1 might be my best bet if I can figure out how to automate the tagging in Finder. Alternatively, if you use Alfred, it might be possible to use ZotHero as part of a workflow that gets the necessary info. The tool is not ready for public use, but I hope to get it out there soon-ish. I’m using it right now to get the BibTeX citekeys and store them in a custom metadata field. But that’s just speculation.Īs to methods to ask Zotero dynamically, I have actually been working on a general-purpose command-line tool to do that, and even have it working internally. A potential problem with option #1 is that I don’t know whether Zotero’s handling of the storage folder contents will preserve any attributes like tags or other things done to the folders and/or files, or cause problems in Zotero, so there’s chance #1 would be more fragile than option #2. Option #1 would still require a way to ask Zotero about the group membership of any given item found in storage, so both options require a method to do that. This would put the Zotero group name in a field on every Zotero PDF file in DEVONthink, and let you easily do things in DEVONthink (like create smart groups) based on the field value. Then you could (e.g.) create a smart rule that triggers on new additions imported in the indexed folder, runs some code to ask about the group membership of that item, and (e.g.) set a custom metadata field storing the group membership name. Provide a way for DEVONthink to ask (somehow) Zotero about the collection membership of any given item indexed in the storage folder.This would allow you to index all of storage in DEVONthink as usual, and then use a smart group to provide a view on a subset of items by searching for particular tags. For example, the external process could add Finder-level tags to the PDF files inside the various X34Q57FX folders, and different tags could represent different Zotero group names. Use an external (to DEVONthink) process to annotate either the folders themselves, or the files inside the folders (or both).I haven’t implemented any of these myself and don’t know of anyone who has, but based on what I know and have done so far, these seem like they would work: The following are some ideas for possible workarounds. This, in turn, means that from the standpoint of indexing in DEVONthink, it’s impossible to provide DEVONthink with any clue about any given folder’s membership in a Zotero collection. It turns out the X34Q57FX folder names are keys that only have meaning to Zotero. Unfortunately, at this file system level, Zotero does not distinguish or provide any indication at all of which record a folder is associated with: it’s all one homogeneous single-level pile of folders with attachments (PDFs for most people) within them. In the “data directory location”, Zotero creates a folder named storage, which (as you probably noticed if you’re already indexing it) is a pile of subfolders having names like X34Q57FX. ![]()
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