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My question is how to open the files - after you’ve already found them - directly in DEVONthink? Or, put another way, how do you collect all of the Spotlight/Finder-related metadata from a file or folder to then use that information to quickly identify and open the file/folder/group directly in DEVONthink?įor example, if I find “Article 1.pdf” in Finder, how do I quickly reveal it in DEVONthink (from Finder)? By default, it will open in my default PDF reader. I’m already aware of how to use Alfred and HoudahSpot to find files that are indexed by DEVONthink (which is what the Alfred discussion was about in that post). However, I’m looking for a more generic solution. And, it would be very easy to apply any Finder-related solution to them. I assume there has to be an easy way of doing this, instead of trying to manually navigate to it again in DEVONthink? The only reason I raised Alfred and HoudahSpot above is because I can imagine myself wanting to open files (in DEVONthink) from their interfaces, too. If I was viewing the folder “Author 1” in Finder, how could I efficiently open that same folder/group in DEVONthink? Alternatively, if I was viewing “Article 1.pdf” by Author 1 (found in the Finder folder “Author 1”), how could I efficiently go to that PDF in DEVONthink’s interface (instead of Finder). And, within that folder I have other folders for specific authors (e.g., Author 1, Author 2, etc.), which also contain more PDFs. I’m looking for a way to open an indexed file or folder from Finder directly in DEVONthink.įor example, let’s say I’m in Finder, in a folder called “Articles” that is indexed by DEVONthink where I have a ton of PDFs stored for various academic articles. I probably wasn’t clear in my initial question/post. The only solution that I could come up with wasn’t very functional (way too use use-specific, as it assumed a uniform file hierarchy, database, etc.). I tried cobbling together scripts from various forum posts, but each seemed to force a file import. I only mean to use this as an example.Īs you can tell, I’m new to DEVONthink. To be clear, I understand that it’s a lot more complicated than this, given the potential differences in file hierarchy between Finder and the DEVONthink database where the file/folder/group’s info is located. Does anyone have a script for doing this (e.g., to be trigged from the MacOS script menu, services, Alfred, etc.)? By analogy, I was thinking it might operate like DEVONthink’s “Show in Finder” - except now I’d like to “Show in DEVONthink” from an external app. Often when I come across files or folders in Finder, I’d like to quickly open them in DEVONthink (i.e., without slowly navigating to them again in DEVONthink). Does anyone have a script that they can share that will open an indexed file or folder/group in DEVONthink from an external app, such as Finder, Alfred, HoudahSpot, etc.?įor the most part, my databases in DEVONthink are comprised of indexed files and folders/groups.

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