Cant get the system to display a notification on the mac when smart rule executed

hi all

i have this smart rule

everything works well but i never get a notification on the mac on the upper right corner, am i missing something? is the display notification option not for the mac?

to also clarify i have DEVONthink turned on in the notification center

thx!

Z

IIRC, it should only show a notification when DEVONthink isn’t the frontmost app. However…

  1. Why wouldn’t you just use display notification from within your smart rule script?

  2. While it’s technically possible to do, it is not recommended to open dialogs, etc. in a smart rule. They’re intended to be more transparent, doing their work quietly in the background.

Why are you using such an aggressive Every Minute event trigger?

Hi @BLUEFROG !

it doesnt seem to show the notification either when DEVONthink is the frontmost app or backgorund app

hmm isnt that what im doing? ie

inside my smart rule? i maybe not understanding fully how this should work, ie the second question is the open dialog part. where do i do that in my smart rule pasted in the 1st post?

im trying to mimic some hazel workkflows to quick process stuff. ie here i am working on a md documet in obsidian and need to generate a link to DEVONthink for videos related to that document. i want the link to become avilable in my clipboard as a i write :slight_smile:
honestly i think being able to push directly from hazel to a speicifc DB/group in DEVONthink would be ideal but i never could get that working :slight_smile:

best

Z

Post your script.

hi again

i assume you mean do export on the smartrule? :slight_smile: is so here it is

https://paste.xinu.at/ZIM/

ZIP the exported .dtSmartRule and post that here. Thanks.

sure here it is
vvid generate link.dtSmartRule.zip (1.6 KB)