script for setting first line to Name of Note?

DEVONthink Automation
#1

Does anyone have a script for automatically setting the first line of a Note as the Name of the Note?

I appreciate that one can select the first line and then Set Title As from the contextual menu, but that’s less efficient (to me) than something I can bind to a keystroke.

Before DTP2, in List View, Icon View, and Column View, one used to be able to have a new Note open up immediately for text entry (in the other views, selection of the Name of the Note was the default). On Save, the first line of such a Note would then automatically become the Name of the Note. This functionality has now been lost and I’m looking for some reasonable replacement.

With thanks for any suggestions.

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#2

Select the first line and press Cmd-Ctrl-Option-T (Scripts > Rename > Selected Text)

#3

Thanks for the suggestion, but the functionality I miss is not having to do a thing to name the Note, except Save it.

Next best would be a keystroke that named the completed Note with its first line, simply from within the open Note and without any mousing around; it’s having to select text that has the highest nuisance value.

#4

Well, here’s a super simple script (no error checking, supports only plain/rich texts):


tell application id "com.devon-technologies.thinkpro2"
	set name of content record to paragraph 1 of text of think window 1
end tell
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#5

Just what I had in mind. Many thanks. I knew it had to be simple. :smiley:

#6

Jim,
I pasted your text verbatim into script editor and saved to <DEVONthink Pro 2/Scripts/Rename>

Why is my script not working?

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YOUR TEXT:

tell application id “com.devon-technologies.thinkpro2”
set name of content record to paragraph 1 of text of think window 1
end tell

#7

This is Criss’ script and note what it says…

What type of file are you attempting to use this on?

#8

Hi Jim,
Using on RTf mostly.
It is working now, after restarting DTPO.
However, it will only work on a single file. Not when I select multiple RTFs.
The script I used before worked on multiple files. Lost that one.

How can I get it to rename multiple files?

Thanks!
Joseph

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