ive spent too much time before coming here to ask. ive changed database properties and my tags are not excluded.
ive also made sure that finder has the extra tags deleted.
can someone help me try to only make the conversion of my hashtags to tags for inside .md files ONLY. I don’t want the title names nor group names to become tags. I have already turned off those options in the settings. for some reason they still are created even when I pick the “convert hashtags to tags”
these are indexed files that I tag inside obsidian.
Not sure whether there’s already a script for this but this one does what you want
-- Convert hashtags found in a Markdown record's text to tag
use AppleScript version "2.4"
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions
tell application id "DNtp"
try
set theRecords to selected records
if theRecords = {} then error "Please select some records"
show progress indicator "Creating Tags from Hashtags... " steps (count theRecords) as string with cancel button
repeat with thisRecord in theRecords
set theType to (type of thisRecord) as string
if theType is in {"markdown", "«constant ****mkdn»"} then
step progress indicator "... " & (name of thisRecord) as string
set theText to plain text of thisRecord
-- I didn't use a lookbehind assertation as it's probably better to remove the # afterwards in AppleScript
set theHashTags to my regexFind(theText, "\\#(.*?)(?=\\s|$)")
set theHashTags_clean to {}
repeat with thisHashTag in theHashTags
set thisHashTag to thisHashTag as string
try
set thisHashTag_clean to characters 2 thru -1 in thisHashTag as string
set end of theHashTags_clean to thisHashTag_clean
end try
end repeat
set tags of thisRecord to (tags of thisRecord) & theHashTags_clean
end if
end repeat
hide progress indicator
on error error_message number error_number
hide progress indicator
if the error_number is not -128 then display alert "DEVONthink" message error_message as warning
return
end try
end tell
on regexFind(theText, thePattern)
try
set aString to current application's NSString's stringWithString:theText
set {theExpr, theError} to current application's NSRegularExpression's regularExpressionWithPattern:(thePattern) options:0 |error|:(reference)
set theMatches to theExpr's matchesInString:aString options:0 range:{0, aString's |length|()}
set theResults to {}
repeat with aMatch in theMatches
set theRange to (aMatch's rangeAtIndex:0)
set theString to (aString's substringWithRange:theRange) as text
set end of theResults to theString
end repeat
return theResults
on error error_message number error_number
activate
display alert "Error: Handler \"regexFind\"" message error_message as warning
error number -128
end try
end regexFind
this works! however, only if you select the file itself, im trying to do it by indexed groups.
is there a way to allow #/_speakers to be known as a nested tag under
# ? for some reason DEVONthink doesnt recognize it as a parent tag nor does it allow it to be a tag at all
It’s only possible to use a modified version of the script if you create a script library as it’s not possible to use the previous script from within a Smart Rule.
Save this script to /Users/USERNAME/Library/Script Libraries/ (might be necessary to create this folder) and name it exactly Script Library - regexFind.scpt
-- Script Library - regexFind
use AppleScript version "2.7"
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions
on regexFind(theText, thePattern)
try
set aString to current application's NSString's stringWithString:theText
set {theExpr, theError} to current application's NSRegularExpression's regularExpressionWithPattern:(thePattern) options:0 |error|:(reference)
set theMatches to theExpr's matchesInString:aString options:0 range:{0, aString's |length|()}
set theResults to {}
repeat with aMatch in theMatches
set theRange to (aMatch's rangeAtIndex:0)
set theString to (aString's substringWithRange:theRange) as text
set end of theResults to theString
end repeat
return theResults
on error error_message number error_number
activate
display alert "Error: Handler \"regexFind\"" message error_message as warning
error number -128
end try
end regexFind
Create a Smart Rule that searches Markdown records, this new script doesn’t check for the record type as it’s unnecessary in a Smart Rule.
-- Smart Rule script - Convert hashtags found in a record's text to tags (and create nested tags)
on performSmartRule(theRecords)
tell application id "DNtp"
try
repeat with theRecord in theRecords
set theText to plain text of theRecord
-- I didn't use a lookbehind assertation as it's probably better to remove the # afterwards in AppleScript
set theHashTags to script "Script Library - regexFind"'s regexFind(theText, "\\#(.*?)(?=\\s|$)")
set theHashTags_clean to {}
repeat with thisHashTag in theHashTags
set thisHashTag to thisHashTag as string
try
set thisHashTag_clean to characters 2 thru -1 in thisHashTag as string
if thisHashTag_clean does not contain "/" then
set end of theHashTags_clean to thisHashTag_clean
else
create location (("/Tags/" & thisHashTag_clean) as string) in (database of theRecord)
set end of theHashTags_clean to (item -1 of my tid(thisHashTag_clean, "/"))
end if
end try
end repeat
set tags of theRecord to (tags of theRecord) & theHashTags_clean
end repeat
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
end performSmartRule
on tid(theInput, theDelimiter)
set d to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to theDelimiter
if class of theInput = text then
set theOutput to text items of theInput
else if class of theInput = list then
set theOutput to theInput as text
end if
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
return theOutput
end tid
what do you mean? the emoji for me means religion. which tells me that all of my files with that tag # are religious. I don’t need words or letters with my emoji to tell me what it is.
in the obsidian program I use, this makes complete sense to do it this way for myself (my second brain).
@pete31 :
I do hope it´s permissable to jump into this thread.
background / motivation : I came here bec I am trying to find a solution to the problem that in DT the hashtag to tag conversion doesn´t allow for special characters in hashtags.
– now I need them bec
for me it´s a way to simulate tag hierarchy w/in the flat #-hashtag-‘system’ /-syntax
this becomes even more prevalent as some top-notch applications working around markdown are by now allowing (‘using’) these ‘non-standard’ hashtags as ‘standard’ (Bear, Diarly, NotePlan,…)
now: I tried using your scripts, Pete, in the hope / understanding they might allow for this kind of conversion spanning hashtags including special characters. got all done as you described but then received an error message from DT:
» „script “Script Library - regexFind” does not understand the message „regexFind“« (my translation from german)
so my two questions:
would your script (or any other?!) allow for this kind of conversion of ‘non-standard hashtags’?
… how can I make it work :-}
– thx a load in advance!
(would be really help the future-proof(er) chronicling of my life :-D)
Just a note: Future-proofing is best done by using standards, not special cases or implementations, i.e., ”App X does this; App Y does that”. You should carefully consider this.
No idea why but now I got the same error. When I tested before posting the scripts for @obadiahcruz it worked immediately, however now it was necessary to restart DEVONthink. Afterwards it works as expected.
The regex considers everything from # up to before the next whitespace (or end of text) as a hashtag. There are no limitations.
I’ve added a line that creates nested tags if necessary.
Thanks Jim.
I was aware I´d trigger deep thinking when typing ‘future-proofing’ in times of earth collapse. I had second thoughts myself the very moment
you are right to flag, what I was really going at was a certain scope of ‘future-proofing’ here.
I think by biography you are one of the people painfully aware that the search for a consistent metadata system between/above all the existing tools and metadata-systems is quite a recipe for pain, always and anyways.
– for me it is already a next-level proofing if I can get my lifelog in some usable form backuped via MD-files into DT – which I hope/conceive to be around for a while…
– but you are right, my prosumer approach really is some compromise btw. ‘universal standards’ (we know by now they can break down very easily these times) and my medium-term tool-ecology (relying on tools like Bear etc.) plus – my take of – the ‘soft-standards’ they set…
… and who knows what happens to the world once DT isn´t around anymore? or all those precious frogs inhabiting our planet now… maybe Archive.org will put some servers into space…?!
– but back to practicals: your thoughts are appreciated; and on a (certain) higher level you are surely right to flag this!
actually adding into this Christian Grünenbergs hint on the feasability of hashtag-hierarchies in DT, I might put this under some reconsideration (– though I do not know yet if this works with the envisioned Diarly - DT pipeline… and all the other apps I need in this…)
so thx!!
I think it´s my deep rooted ignorance (and semi-aversion) of scripting – but somehow DevonThink picks up on my bad energies, and still gives me the same error message.
I have
retried with a new copy of the script (just to be sure)
checked that I use correct naming of file (‘Script Library - regexFind’)
… any karmic hint or help you canpossibly spare with me on this one?
hello! just saw this. glad to help in the time of need! so what I did was create the script from scratch using apples built in script editor. and then manually added it into
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