Replicate notecards to appropriate 'tag' folder

DEVONthink Automation
1

Hi everybody,
waiting (and preparing to) the new tag feature I’m thinking about a script that could automatically replicate the ‘tags’-keywords typed in my notecard-like entry. Pity I’m a scripting dummy :confused:
My notecard template looks like this:

the QUOTE

[the LINK to the bookends entry ]

WRITE HERE PERS. NOTE

keyword1; keyword2; etc.

As you can see I colourcode my personal thoughts in red and the keywords in bold and grey.
The script could work like this:

  1. I select a certain number of records
  2. the script should get all the keywords (colourcoded and separated by a semicolon) of each record
  3. check if in the folder named TAGS already exists a folder named “x”
  4. replicate each record in the appropriate(s) folder
    Is it possible?
    Thanks in advance
    Nestor
2

It’s possible but not trivial assuming that keywords are only defined by their color.

3

Uhm…I see. I’ve kind of 2 thousands notecards like this and would be a pain to ‘recode’ in a different way all the stuff. I thought applescript could ‘recognize’ properties of rich text.

4

The properties are only accessible as long as the rich text is visible in a view/window.

5

I see. And what if I change the template to:

@KEYWORDS: keyword1;keyword2; etc.

Or something alike?

6

That’s possible without requiring rich text or views/windows.