I’m experimenting with that just this morning. I am writing an article with a group as the document, and then individual groups within the big group as sections of the article, and then individual documents within each group for multi paragraph subsections.
I haven’t gotten to the combining part yet though. Still writing.
@Mitch_Wagner and @Amontillado
It’s possible the simple Tools > Merge command will suffice. Do note when merging files, the order is from top to bottom, so the top item in the selection will be first, then the one below it is the second, etc.
That is exactly what I would expect. Good interface design there!
I had forgotten tools-merge, and there’s something really cool. If you set the sort option to unsorted, you can drag and rearrange the files however you want. Then, tools-merge merges them in that order.
Go back to sort by name if you want, and the unsorted order you set will come back when you go back to unsorted mode.
Nice.
It would be nice to have transclusion working in DT3 (part of the MMD 6), but this can be overcome by letting the files in an indexed folder and then using Multimarkdown Composer ou nvUltra to view them.
This seems to make writing longer essays in DT a task more feasible. As it is right now, you can’t properly view all the parts together if you can’t keep them in different files.
In Scrivener, Ulysses, Tinderbox or Connected Text this would be easy.
Intersting idea - can you expand on how you would do this?
Just to follow up: I played around with export (or Quick Export as it shows up in Ulysses’ menu), and it works, except that the hierarchical structure is lost if you export from “the top-level”.
So if you care about preserving the hierarchical structure, as far as I can tell, you’d have to export individual sheets.
(For most of the stuff I care about though, the top-level export is good enough)
This will be very cool.
Forgive me, complete n00b here. I see how I can save files in the “inbox”, but I’m unclear on how I can save in any sort of folder structure outside that. Is it possible?
‘index files and folders’ was exactly what I was looking for. It’s perfect honestly.
That’s an option to exercise for sure.
When you create a DT database, you can have as many groups (folders) in there as you want.
Also, if you add a folder to your favorites, it will appear as a drag-and-drop destination in the “sorter”.
I think I said all there is to it, but here are some screen caps demonstrating.
Does it help?
Here’s another thing to keep in mind. Devonthink can handle anything you can copy to your disk.
Scrivener files can be stored in Devonthink, and Devonthink will synchronize them to sync stores.
Literature and Latte would probably not endorse the practice. I’ve had no trouble - and I also keep backups.
I loved Ulysses but am not a fan of the subscription model, and like yourself, I found myself preferring a writing database that I could also easily include other items (you can technically include some external files in Ulysses). Also, since DEVONThink is using MultiMarkdown, I find it much more portable. Ulysses has some custom changes to Markdown.
I currently use iA Writer on my iPad, with DTTG as a location source. I use MultiMarkdown Composer + Marked as a previewer. Sometimes I will use SublimeText but Composer is made by the same person that develops MultiMarkdown.
They have a knowledgebase article on the topic, actually:
https://scrivener.tenderapp.com/help/kb/cloud-syncing/using-scrivener-with-cloud-sync-services
which is probably good reading for using an external sync service with pretty much any app. 
Thanks for the link - great advice.
