Setting up workflow with DTPro, Bookends, & Scrivener

[dayknito]

@sdexter – being new to DT myself, I don’t have anything to say about most of this, except on one point:

@sdexter

I currently have all my tagging of relevant articles in Mendeley and am loath to lose all that data.

It seems like one point of friction here for an integrated workflow is that AFAIK Mendeley doesn’t offer much possibility of integrating with DT (or anything else). I have no experience with BookEnds, but I recently switched from Mendely to Zotero (b/c I didn’t like what seemed to me the increasing lock-in that Mendeley is pushing). I believe I was able to preserve all my tags.

And then, it appears that Zotero can be made to integrate with DT. Again, I have no experience with this, but here’s a thread that seems to suggest that Zotero+DTmay work about as well as BookEnds+DT:

DevonThink and Zotero - wish to script

Forgot the link to Zotfile in the previous post: http://zotfile.com Yeah, you’re asking the key questions. You’ll find many approaches to the problem you’re describing here, on the Bookends forums, and elsewhere on the web. There isn’t really a right answer—the key is to iteratively develop a system without spending too much time on the system, hah. That thread details my approach. In my opinion, there’s no good hierarchy for complicated topics. At the same time tagging can be problematic: htt…

If you are interested in looking more into Mendeley → Zotero, I can probably dig up some links and maybe some of my notes on the transition, if that would help. BTW I only ever annotated PDFs outside Mendely (and now Zotero) – if you’ve been annotating inside Mendely, I’m not sure how the Mendeley → Zotero migration wold go.