Creating markdown documents?

DEVONthink Automation
1

Hello,

the following code creates a document test.md, which is shown with the wrong icon but with a type “Markdown” and which opens in the configured external Markdown editor. However, the icon is wrong and the content is not displayed in Devonthink. I looked in the Applescript library but there does not seem to be a special type “Markdown” which I can use for creating Markdown documents.

What is the correct way to create a Markdown document via Applescript?

tell application id "com.devon-technologies.thinkpro2"
	
	set theDatabase to inbox -- the global inbox
	set theDestination to incoming group of theDatabase
	set newDoc to create record with {name:"Note.md", type:unknown, source:"#"} in theDestination
	set newPath to the path of newDoc
	set newFile to POSIX file newPath as string
	tell application "Finder" to open newFile
	
end tell

Bye,
Oliver

2

There’s no AppleScript support for Markdown yet, another approach is this one:

tell application id "com.devon-technologies.thinkpro2"
	set theRecord to create record with {name:"Test", type:txt, content:""}
	set name of theRecord to "Test.markdown"
end

Note: Renaming a plain text item updates the file’s extension too if the new name has a valid extension.