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[ga1]

@pete31

Once you’ve set up a Smart Rule with the script I’ve posted there should be no additional maintenance necessary. Did you try that?

I did look at the scripts and started playing. I didn’t want to copy and paste a solution, because I feel like I need to understand it myself. So I got the custom metadata setup and working. My question now is, do I have to run this every time I update a document? Should I change ‘On Demand’ to ‘After Saving’ - is that the best option?

[ga1]

@gg378

I guess one solution could be to offer two kinds of searches “kind: md” and “kind:mdr” for “raw markdown”.

That reminded me of things like InDesign, where you can search on text as well as metadata (fonts, styles, etc) separately.

[pete31]

@ga1

My question now is, do I have to run this every time I update a document? Should I change ‘On Demand’ to ‘After Saving’ - is that the best option?

If you set the Smart Rule trigger “After saving” it updates it automatically. That’s the idea of Smart Rules

[AW2307]

@pete31

And here’s a Smart Rule script

Matching: Kind is Markdown
Event: On Save

I would set Location to only the group (or database) that you need to find links in. Doesn’t make sense to have the markdown source in custom meta data if not necessary. To process existing records run it once manually.

-- Smart Rule -  Write markdown text in custom meta data (to make it searchable)

property customMetadataName : "ggtext" -- name of the custom metadata field for the .md source.

on performSmartRule(theRecords)
	tell application id "DNtp"
		try
			repeat with theRecord in theRecords
				if type of theRecord = markdown then
					set theText to plain text of theRecord
					add custom meta data my trimEnd(theText) for customMetadataName to theRecord
				end if
			end repeat
			
		on error error_message number error_number
			if the error_number is not -128 then display alert "DEVONthink" message error_message as warning
		end try
	end tell
end performSmartRule

on trimEnd(str)
	local str, whiteSpace
	try
		set str to str as string
		set whiteSpace to {character id 10, return, space, tab}
		try
			repeat while str's last character is in whiteSpace
				set str to str's text 1 thru -2
			end repeat
			return str
		on error number -1728
			return ""
		end try
	on error eMsg number eNum
		error "Can't trimEnd: " & eMsg number eNum
	end try
end trimEnd

This is a really useful solution for doing certain searches on markdown documents that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.

Based on the custom metadata field updated with MD contents through the smart rule, I was able to set up a smart group for Markdown items that contain a specific type of cross-link.