Bookends import -- what am I doing wrong?

[Zyblorg]

Hi devonti18,

Thanks for your interest. Please take a look at this post from another thread, where I explain how I am using Bookends, DT3, and Highlights together in a single workflow.

Integration of DTP3 with Bookends

Here is the post from above with the explanation, but using the better/newer script that Bluefrog posted, with a few of my own modifications. Thank you for that! The new script is at the end of the post. – I made a post on the Bookends forums with the Bookends/Devonthink/Highlights app workflow, once I figured it out (Bookends Devonthink Highlights app workflow - Sonny Software). I’ll post it here too in case it’s of any use to anyone: —> I thought I would share my workflow with Bookends, De…

The TL/DR is that DT3 acts as a hub. The main record in DT3 links to the Bookends record, the PDF, and (this is the crucial part) my annotations of the PDF. I am not crazy about the Bookends annotations UI, so that’s why I prefer to export them into a rtf in DT3. Also, DT3 allows me to do searches of the full text of the PDFs. Having them linked to their record saves me time searching in Bookends. Finally, I can add custom metadata to the DT3 records more easily and with greater leeway than in Bookends, allowing for more specialised smart groups.

Here is a screenshot of a record. Note the links at the bottom of the rtf display in the middle. One is to the PDF of the article (Brémond 2022) and the other is to my annotations rtf (Brémond 2022 Annotations).

If you have any questions, let me know.