Hello, I’ve been using Devonthink for about 3 weeks and I love it already but haven’t found a way to bookmark my pdf when reading. I know I can do annotations, paste link etc. but that’s too heavy for this purpose. I need something simple and fast. What is the best practice?
My use case is that I read math books where on page X often they refer to a formula/theorem which can be 100 pages back on page Y and I need to quickly jump back and forth between those two pages. Bookmarking page Y would help. I basically need just, say, up to 5 bookmarks to do a smooth reading.
There’s no “bookmark pdf page” feature in DEVONthink.
You could use this script. It creates a bookmark record in the current group. To open a pdf to the bookmarked page use the “Open URL” command.
-- Create bookmark to current PDF page
-- To open a PDF to the bookmarked page use "Open URL"
property revealRecord : true
tell application id "DNtp"
try
if not (exists think window 1) then return
set theRecord to content record of think window 1
if theRecord = missing value then return
set theRecord_Type to (type of theRecord) as string
if theRecord_Type is in {"PDF document", "«constant ****pdf »"} then
set theRecord_ReferenceURL to reference URL of theRecord
set theCurrentPage to (current page of think window 1)
set theRecord_ReferenceURL_withPage to theRecord_ReferenceURL & "?page=" & theCurrentPage & "&?reveal=1"
if revealRecord then
set theRecord_ReferenceURL_withPage to theRecord_ReferenceURL_withPage & "&?reveal=1"
end if
set theBookmark_Name to (name without extension of theRecord) & " - Page " & (theCurrentPage + 1)
set theBookmark to create record with {name:theBookmark_Name, type:bookmark, URL:theRecord_ReferenceURL_withPage} in current group
end if
on error error_message number error_number
if the error_number is not -128 then display alert "DEVONthink" message error_message as warning
return
end try
end tell
Thankyou again, @pete31. Another very useful script. The lack of bookmarking has been one of the few remaining functions that have kept me wedded to Acrobat DC.
I use the “low-techinology-tool” of annotate the current page in a OneNote note, as I use to manage the same PDF in Windows, macOS, iPadOs and Android.
