![]() (If you’re interested in trying Zotero, check out this post by GradHacker writer Alex Galarza.) Heading into the early stages of dissertation research, I knew I needed to get serious about selecting a tool and sticking with it. To date, I’ve flirted with Zotero, EndNote, and RefWorks, but none of them quite worked for me. Over the past couple of years, I’ve toyed around with different software programs in a half-hearted attempt to get organized. My habit of stashing secondary source literature is almost as bad. ![]() I’m an historian by trade, and like many other researchers, I have a tendency to accumulate messy piles of primary source documents until I forget what I have or can’t locate the proper item when I need it most. My name is Emily, and I’m an evidence hoarder. You can find her on Twitter at or at her blog, dighistorienne. I like to store everything in DEVONthink if I can.Emily VanBuren is a PhD student in History at Northwestern University. The x-devonthink-item:// URLs are amazing. If something is imported into DT, then that link will always find the record even if I’ve renamed it or moved it. Throw something in DEVONthink, sync it to DTTG, paste the item URL anywhere… I can always find the record. It’s amazing, and every application should have that functionality. I do this if I want to use git or dropbox for version control. Indexing is more fragile than importing though, because indexing is based entirely on system path. I’m not sure how well DEVONthink Pro can read and search within Tinderbox files… So if you rename or move the file on disk, DEVONthink loses the reference. This has always been inconsistent for me, it seems like it changes from version to version. As of today (DEVONthink 2.10), DT can search Tinderbox files somewhat effectively. So for example, a section of the Tinderbox XML might look like: movie It appears to only search the contents of tags, which is close to what we want. Script to Export Certain DEVONthink Metadata in a TSV for Tinderbox Import Inter-app workflows How it’ll work with the next version of DEVONthink, I couldn’t say It’s unfortunate that it doesn’t look in the tag, as this means that note $Name won’t contribute to a positive search result – only $Text. “Name” name of the document in the DEVONthink database This script is an extensive modification of a built-in script provided by DEVONtechnologies, and exports the following metadata for selection of DEVONthink records into a tab-separated file (.tsv) that you can drag into a Tinderbox document where a set of notes is created – one for every DEVONthink record in the selection. "Kind" kind of database record - PDF, RTF, etc. ![]() Or, the easiest thing to do is to select records (e.g., documents) in your DEVONthink database and use their Create Table of Contents command from the contextual menu, and import that TOC into Tinderbox. Or, drag notes from DEVONthink to Tinderbox and the name, URL and other metadata will come along. Or, use Tinderbox’s Watch feature to watch a folder in DEVONthink and the name, URL and other metadata will be grabbed. I haven’t yet imported my Tinderbox files into DEVONthinkPro, so I’m not sure how this “improved indexing” will work, and how it affects DTP’s ability to better search in Tinderbox files. I have no idea what the release note refers to, but as far as I can tell DEVONthink Pro Office does what it always did with Tinderbox TBX files: it can find words in the file, but that is rather useless in viewing the note that the word belongs to.įor example, I have hundreds of TBX files indexed in DEVONthink version 2.10.1 (latest as of today) because the files belong to larger projects whose documents are stored in the DEVONthink database. DEVONthink will take me to a section of the file and display: įrame the problem using a new concept 'IT Ecosystem' - what is it? I search for “concept” among those files. Where do I put my general throughout-the-day notes? I suppose the value is opening that note in Tinderbox and proceeding, but otherwise reading raw XML isn’t generally helpful. Daylite (analogous to my personal assistant or secretary).ĭEVONtink Pro Office (my database for all kinds of information = analogous to the filing cabinet that is in my office).I mainly work with the following three tools that I use to collect and relate my ideas, information, data on specific topics, or that I link with each other via URLs (=Hyperlinks).(Information about Daylite can be found here. Tinderbox (analogous to the flipchart that stands in my office for the visualization of thoughts and structures etc.).My own ideas and thoughts are created in Daylite on the basis of notes and linked within Daylite equal to the corresponding topic.
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