Comments on: Zotero and DEVONThink

By: Muninn

Muninn — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:06:11 +0000

Hello everyone.

Although the script continues to work fine for me, there appears to be a few minor problems with the way it handles some titles. I would love to have someone more skilled in AppleScript give the script a good going over.

Please post further comments over on the DEVONthink forum posting for this, where I have pasted a full text version of the script and hopefully we can catch the attention of some of the skilled scripters there:

http://www.devon-technologies.com/scripts/userforum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=11502

Lucas: In addition to finding a text version at the above posting, the downloaded script can be opened if you open it from within AppleScript editor or drag/drop it on AppleScript editor, as opposed to double clicking it.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:47:19 +0000

Hi, I’m told that the script’s been saved in “read only” mode, so I can’t open it in Editor in order to change the variables. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!

By: K. M. Lawson

K. M. Lawson — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:17:49 +0000

Thanks – I have had reports it doesn’t handle a few characters well at all, such as colons. This should be relatively easy to fix in the script but I am a bit short of time at the moment.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:47:49 +0000

Hi – I’m having the same problem as Jonathan above. Thanks for offering this, will be a great help.

Jon

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:36:52 +0000

This is a terrific idea — and should, in my opinion, be integrated into DevonThink — but there seems to be a problem in the 1.6 version of the script. I’ve got it configured and running without errors, but it stops after importing the title of the first record. It looks like a colon is causing the problem — the title of the record is “An Introduction to Design and Culture: 1900 to the Present” and I’m getting one group and one record, both titled “An Introduction to Design and Culture”. The log file reads as follows:

CREATED group: /From Zotero 2/_All/An Introduction to Design and Culture/
CREATED file: /From Zotero 2/_All/An Introduction to Design and Culture/An Introduction to Design and Culture

and that’s it.

Any ideas on where to look for a solution? I’m not an AppleScript expert but my guess is that a delimiter or string type needs to be tweaked.

Thanks a million! I’m very excited to get this working.

By: Don Blohowiak

Don Blohowiak — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:49:05 +0000

Thanks! Can’t wait to try this. Integration of Zotero with DEVONThink would be scholarly nirvana!

I find DT to be simply amazing. It finds so many things, and the previews of all those various file formats is so darned helpful.

BUT I sure miss having my Zotero data (refs, abstracts, notes) in the DT database.

My cheat has been to periodically create a Report of all my refs in the Zdb. But I have nearly 2K refs now, so that is a big job and file…

BTW, I’ve given up on Collections. I find that I wasn’t faithfully updating the allocation of refs to them. And the Zotero Find feature is so good anyway that I really didn’t feel the need.

Appreciate your effort and generosity.

Don
PhD student (proposal stage)
Human Development