Summarize PDF Highlights wishlist

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This would be even better =)

22

What would be even better ? :thinking:

23

Mhm, I understood your statement as a plan to allow {== and == as syntax for highlighting. At the moment only text in {== will be show highlighted. But as many other applications uses == this would be great to allow both.

24

DEVONthink 3 supports both CriticMarkup and alternate syntaxes like ==...==. Tools > Summarize Highlights > Markdown retains the used syntax.

25

Oh my… you are right. Don’t know why I thought == won’t work and did not tested it before. My bad.

Besides I’m a bit sad about your decision about the syntax of the summarized highlights. I think visual highlights are only necessary if there is a need to emphasize some words between other text. But the exported .md-file with the PDF highlights only contains those highlights and therefore has no need for visual emphasizing.

26

if it bothers you, you could turn it off with a simple style sheet.

27

But that would disable all highlights with {==. I think I’ll try those scripts first.

28

And it’s amazing. Thank you :slight_smile:

I adjusted the regex a bit to:

(() => {
 const app = Application("DEVONthink 3");
const recs = app.selectedRecords();
recs.forEach(r => {
  const text = r.plainText();
  const newText = text.replaceAll(/\*\s\{==(.*?)==\}/g, "> $1");
  r.plainText = newText;
})
})()

And it is working great :smiley:

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29

Only if you were using a global stylesheet. Which you do not have to.

30

The next release will add a new preference.

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31

Wow, this is great. Thanks :slight_smile:

32

New feature is great :slight_smile: Thanks

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