Deep Linking Hook

[jpottsx1]

As a newbie to Hookmark and DTP, could someone direct me how to use this AppleScript?

Does it go into the App section in Hookmark or is it a Script I run from the DTP AppleScript menu?

How does this integrate with with hook
Thanks

[chrillek]

There’s a section on “Automation” in DT’s manual (which you find under the Help menu). It describes the usage of scripts as well.

[darwin]

Is Hook still necessary after the last update, because deep linking is now possible in DT3?

[BLUEFROG]

Hook is used for more than DEVONthink, so I guess that depends on your use of it.

[joe.lafferty]

Resurrecting this very interesting thread as it seems from a Hook YouTube video, it should now be possible to link directly to a page in a PDF opened in DT3 native pdf app.

However… when I try that, the hookmark link is: worldview management for better business_v1.2-edited & upgraded.pdf

and clicking on that link only takes me to the PDF in DT3, it does not open the PDF in DT3 to the correct page.

I tried to link to the page using Highlights App, and when I click on that link it opens the document in the Mac default app ‘Preview’ on the first page.

any suggestions?

[AW2307]

You might want to take a look at this thread @joe.lafferty

Script: Display deep linked PDF page number in Hook link title

Hi, I’ve been experimenting with Hook and came up with a script for enhancing deep links to PDF pages in DevonThink @LucB @cgrunenberg already offered a script for deep linking to PDF pages in this post. By adding this as a custom integration script in the “Get Address” section in the Hook scripting settings, the link leads to the selected PDF page. However, while the link is now a deep link, the page number doesn’t yet show in the link title. [CleanShot 2022-06-18 at 19.34.41@2x] To enabl…

[joe.lafferty]

thanks @AW2307
I’ll check this out.
however while this looks super helpful to automate the page number and make it visible, I’m not sure it will address my problem as the hook link does not seem to be ‘deep linking’ at all. just taking me to the file in DT3, not opening the file in DT’s pdf app, never mind opening it to the correct page!
there seems to be something more fundamentally wrong…

[AW2307]

Did you modify the integration script in the Hookmark settings? The option to modify scripts is only available in Hookmark Pro as far as I know.

The default script doesn’t link to a specific page, so you need to add the one from this post:

Deep Linking Hook

Welcome, @LucB! In case of DEVONthink the x-devonthink-item://<uuid> scheme supports already additional parameters like page (zero-based page number) or time (offset in seconds in audio/video file). Such item links can be copied in the user interface via the contextual menu. Or created via AppleScript like this: tell application id "DNtp" set theWindow to think window 1 if exists content record of theWindow then set theURL to reference URL of content record of theWindow set thePage to cu…

tell application id "DNtp"
	set theWindow to think window 1
	if exists content record of theWindow then
		set theURL to reference URL of content record of theWindow
		set thePage to current page of theWindow
		set theTime to current time of theWindow
		if thePage is not -1 then
			set theURL to theURL & "?page=" & (thePage as string)
		else if theTime is greater than 0.0 then
			set theURL to theURL & "?time=" & (theTime as string)
		end if
		return theURL
	else if (count of selected records) is 1 then
		return reference URL of selected record 0
	end if
end tell