A better way to use MobileSync with GoodReader?

[arnow]

@jprint714

Just out of curiosity, how would your script function different than this one (that another DTP forum member suggested)?

The script of 7 August renames entries in a DevonThink database based on their label: it prefixes the names of entries that have the first label with “1_”, that have the second label with “2_” and that have the third label with “3_”

You asked for this on 2 June:

@jprint714

Does anyone know…

(1) If / how to create a script that would atomically apply prefixes that corresponded to certain applied labels (High, Medium, Low priority)?

(2) If / how to create a script that would atomically remove prefixes after labels have been removed?

My snippet of 26 June indicates how to write a script that replicates the entries of a smart group to an indexed group and moves the corresponding files to the external folder. It isn’t a working script, only a sketch.

I posted a working script that replicates entries from three smart groups (‘Label High’, ‘Label Medium’ and ‘Label Low’) to the corresponding indexed groups (‘High’, ‘Medium’, ‘Low’) and moves the relevant files to their external folders in the ‘Replicating to indexed groups by means of AppleScript’ thread in the Scripting Forum.

That script can be used to automate the workflow I suggested on 31 May 2012 21:22:

@arnow

If so, my suggestion is to set up a ‘Sync DT’ group and folder with three subgroups/folders: High, Medium, Low (and nothing else!!!). When it is time for the review open DevonThink, determine what you want to read the next week or so and replicate everything you want to read to the priority groups within ‘Sync DT’, move them to the external folder, sync GoodReader and start reading and annotating. During the next review sync GoodReader, move the files in the priority groups into the database, delete the references of the documents you’ve read and of the documents you no longer want to read, move references that have changed in priority to the priority group where they belong now and replicate references to new documents you want to read from outside the priority group to the priority groups, when you are ready move the files in the priority group to the external folder, sync GoodReader and start reading again. And so on.

and 31 May 2012 23:22:

@arnow

I understood from previous replies that you use priority labels. There is no reason to change that (the nice thing of the suggested workflow is that you can use the existing organization to determine what should be send to GoodReader). You can add the labels in the way you add them now. Create smart groups for the relevant labels and replicate the references from these smart groups to the corresponding priority groups.

The script performs step 3,5, and 6 in the setup of 3 June (perform step 1,2 and 4 before running the script!).

The script doesn’t replicate entries that are already in an indexed group in order to avoid troubles with replicants within indexed groups:

@arnow

if you have two replicants (that is two references to the same file) within an indexed group (let’s say one is in the zoology group the other in the high group) you have a problem because the corresponding file can not be in both the zoology folder and the high folder.

Working with indexed groups is a tricky business and for that reason I suggest experimenting with the workflow as described on 31 May (21:22 and 23:22) and 3 June before starting with the script!

Good luck!