This is not quite correct. The two are basically independent of each other. However, the fact that the Summary panel on the right side can also use the Summary.fmt format in the Formatting Manager to create its summary—if you choose to do so—is a bit confusing. If you do that, then changing the Summary.fmt format in the Formatting Manager will indeed also be reflected in the Summary panel on the right side.
I hardly ever use the summary view in the Summary panel, so it wasn’t until today that I realized that when using the Summary panel on the right side, we have three options. We can use:
- Summary standard view to show only the fields we want to see [in my opinion, the best option]
- We can also use our favorite reference format (MLA, APA, Chicago or whatever) [makes little sense to me]
- or we can use the Summary.fmt in the Formatting Manager [also makes little sense to me]
I would like to remind you that there are also two AppleScripts available for importing data from Bookends into DEVONthink. These AppleScripts can be accessed via the AppleScript menu (in the menu bar). They are called “Put Notes from Bookends into DEVONthink as rft” and “Put Notes from Bookends into DEVONthink as md”.
Yes, I noticed this too. It seems we need to put the previously imported record into the Trash and delete it. Then we can reimport it with the new changes.
And now to a question that hasn’t been touched upon yet. Could you please explain why you want to import data from Bookends into DEVONthink? Why can’t you just do everything in Bookends?
What information exactly is in the Summary.fmt that you are importing?
And what are you going to do with that information (in DT)?
Copy the field order in your Summary.fmt and paste it in your reply.
I’d appreciate any information you can give me on this.