Script to create individual Markdown notes from PDF annotations

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@msteffens

I’m planning to write a “DEVONthink Notes To Tinderbox” script next. That script could, for example, take the notes generated by the “DEVONthink Notes from PDF Annotations” script, and create corresponding notes in Tinderbox. The script should transfer all of a note’s important metadata (like label color, flag, rating, tags, annotation deep link, file & note URLs, and custom attributes like citation metadata, etc) and create corresponding Tinderbox attributes. It may even be able to recreate the cross-links between notes as regular Tinderbox links.

I’m thrilled to hear this amazing news—it will definitely help a lot of people!
I must confess that over the past few days, I’ve been experimenting with various ways to integrate DT and TB. My main focus has been on transferring annotations created in DT, along with their metadata, into TB without any loss. However, as someone with absolutely no background in computer science, even with ChatGPT’s help, I’ve been defeated by issues like regex mismatches, the complexity of TB, and inexplicable errors after deep operations on DT using AppleScript—errors whose causes I don’t understand at all.
These challenges have held me back for quite some time. So far, the only process I’ve successfully completed is manually formatting markdown summaries of annotations using the explode feature.

@msteffens

I’m not sure what you mean, could you elaborate? Thanks.

Exactly, this about DEVONthink, a user ask for a function about Exporting highlight colour information in Summarise Highlights, however, up until the current version, it can still only export summaries in a single color.
Through unproductive practice, I found that if the interaction between the two pieces of software were more straightforward, richer, and customizable, the workflow would be much easier to collaborate on, especially in the exchange of certain attributes and navigation between various links.