Updating webarchives

[pete31]

@mksBelper

Maybe I need to start choosing between:

1. webarchives
2. PDFs
3. Bookmarks

according to circumstance?

Yes, that’s definitely a good idea. I always decide based on importance, appearance of a capture method’s result and whether the content could be found somewhere else in case the URL might become unavailable.

If you don’t need a whole site there’s always the option to capture the selected part of a site as webarchive. To do so

• use menu Safari > Services > DEVONthink: Capture Web Archive
  (You can assign a shortcut in System Preferences > Keyboard > App Shortcuts)

or

• drag the selection onto DEVONthink’s icon in the dock

@mksBelper

Do you still have that script, please, Pete?

Here’s a new one:

Script: Convert record to bookmark, save record’s text in bookmark’s comment and inherit properties

@mksBelper

As a relative newcomer to DT, am I correct in thinking that a completely new test database is 100% separate and independent from the one I have now: I don’t want to compromise preferences, script locations, settings etc in any way?

That’s correct.

With a test database there’s only one thing you should never do:

• Do not duplicate indexed records into a test database

Duplicating indexed records into another database does not create a new file in the file system. It only creates a new record that’s pointing to the same file in the file system as the other duplicate. This means if you alter a duplicated indexed record in the test database you also alter the indexed record in the other database - because they are the same file.