Annotations in Finder who are readable for DT3 AND well synced via Dropbox, Google Drive & so

[Greg_Jones]

I’m not familiar with Tagspaces, but years ago I created a hack to do the opposite of what you want to do, I wanted to hide the .plist files in a folder so that they would not be indexed into DEVONthink. I saw from another post here that you use Hazel, so you may want to play with what I created, modifying it to fit your needs. Probably goes without saying, but test on copies of your data to ensure nothing blows up!

There are some other tips on indexing documents in that thread, but note that It was discussing working with DEVONthink 2 and as such, doesn’t apply to indexed documents in DEVONthink 3.

Tip: Accessing/Editing Documents Outside of DEVONthink

Some of the folders that I index into DEVONthink are also used by apps that may add metadata about the documents with .plist files. I don’t want to see these files in DEVONthink, and the apps do not care if the .plist files are visible or not, so I hide them with a Hazel rule. Here is how it works, and as a disclaimer I have never lost any data using these rules, however one should test them first to see how they work in your environment. In this example I am using a folder located at ~/Dropbox…