I have a markdown that links to a bunch of PDFs located elsewhere in my devonthink library.
These PDFs are stored in a (by journal name, by year, by issue) hierarchy. (This lets me have a searchable fulltext database of publications that aren’t indexed by commercial database providers)
I’m currently trying to track the articles written by one columnist, over a number of years, in many different venues, in two languages.
So, I’ve written up a markdown document, in a totally different section of my database that links to the pdfs (using x-devonthink-item: )
My problem is that the markdown links open up the pdfs in Devonthink, rather than in preview (or any of the other tools I use to process pdfs). Is there any way to override this, or to quickly open up a Devonthink pane view in another program?
This script opens selected text’s Markdown Link formatted Reference URL in the record’s file type’s default app.
What a description
-- Open selected text's Markdown formatted Reference URL in default app
use AppleScript version "2.4"
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions
tell application id "DNtp"
try
set theWindow to think window 1
try
set theSelectedText to selected text of theWindow & "" as string
on error
error "No text selected."
end try
set theUUIDs to my regexFind(theSelectedText, "(?<=\\]\\(x-devonthink-item://)(.*?)(?=\\))")
repeat with thisUUID in theUUIDs
set thisPath to path of (get record with uuid (thisUUID as string))
tell application "Finder" to open file (POSIX file thisPath as alias)
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
on regexFind(theText, thePattern)
try
set theString 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:theString options:0 range:{0, theString's |length|()}
set theResults to {}
repeat with thisMatch in theMatches
set thisMatchRange to (thisMatch's rangeAtIndex:0)
set thisMatchString to (theString's substringWithRange:thisMatchRange) as text
set end of theResults to thisMatchString
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
Hey @pete31, do you think you could help me debug this? I modified your code slightly so that instead of selecting text, it starts by prompting the user to enter an Item Link. It seems like I broke it…
-- Open selected item from Item Link
use AppleScript version "2.4"
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions
tell application id "DNtp"
try
--set theWindow to think window 1
try
--set theSelectedText to selected text of theWindow & "" as string
set theResponse to display dialog "Go to the item:" default answer "x-devonthink-item://" buttons {"Cancel", "Go"} default button "Go"
set theSelectedText to (text returned of theResponse) as string
return theSelectedText
on error
error "Invalid URL."
end try
set theUUIDs to my regexFind(theSelectedText, "(?<=\\]\\(x-devonthink-item://)(.*?)(?=\\))")
repeat with thisUUID in theUUIDs
set thisPath to path of (get record with uuid (thisUUID as string))
tell application "Finder" to open file (POSIX file thisPath as alias)
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
on regexFind(theText, thePattern)
try
set theString 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:theString options:0 range:{0, theString's |length|()}
set theResults to {}
repeat with thisMatch in theMatches
set thisMatchRange to (thisMatch's rangeAtIndex:0)
set thisMatchString to (theString's substringWithRange:thisMatchRange) as text
set end of theResults to thisMatchString
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
The original script expects a Markdown link. In your modified version you changed the input from a Markdown link to a reference URL. You need to change the regex to match your changes (in your case you can simply remove the regex part as it’s not needed if you provide a reference URL as input).
