Importing from Papers 3

[msteffens]

You’ve already found my " Papers to DEVONthink" script:

Devonthink and Readcube Papers

For the old (native) Papers3 version, I’ve written a “Papers to DEVONthink” script that exports individual note files for all notes & highlight annotations (of all publications selected in your Papers 3 library) to DEVONthink. It also indexes the primary PDF in DT and can transfer many more properties. These exported annotation notes can form a good basis to work with them in DT. That said, AFAIK the new Readcube Papers version doesn’t have the scripting API anymore but maybe there are/will be …

If this script doesn’t work anymore, I could look into updating it (and, as time allows, I may even be able to fine-tune it to your needs). Which macOS & DT versions are you using? And do you actually have any PDF annotations stored in Papers 3, or is it mostly PDFs & publication metadata?

If you also have Bookends (which can integrate with DT e.g. via a special template or via scripting), you may also want to look at my “Papers to Bookends” script. This script exports all publications selected in your Papers 3 library to Bookends (see the script’s Readme on how to facilitate the import of PDF annotations).