Anywhere, actually. I’m using Keyboard Macro to attach a source annotation to culled text that I paste into OmniOutliner. But it would also be nice to have metadata attached to selected text that goes into, say, a new DT document.
What does attached mean for you? Appended? An example would probably help.
That would vary depending on the app. In OmniOutliner, the macro adds the source document name into the Note pane attached to the item.
Isn’t Hook https://hookproductivity.com doing what you are asking for?
That’s the problem
I was talking about DEVONthink. It can’t add data to another app without both apps’ devs working together.
Simply attaching the name, URL and Reference URL to selected text can be done with a script.
That’s exactly why I’m using handwritten notes in my process (read something → create a source note with an abstract + create (maybe many) content notes with ideas from the reading, linking to other content and the source note). This slows down the notetaking and the reading of course, but overall I feel taking notes on paper and then retype them into markdown notes in DT is to my advantage. I remember a lot of the stuff I put on my content notes and it happens regularly that I connect two similar ideas from distinct areas in unusual ways.
And the thing is, one has to find a system which works for you only. In my system I don’t need that much outlining, for outlining didn’t work so well for me and is not really suited to what I wanna do. And so on. I love hand written notes and feel they work best for me, but for others hand writing is no option at all.
You have to try lots of stuff to see what suits you and what makes you work constantly with your own workflow and what does not help there. And if you find something that works for you, stick with it and don’t always test new systems soo much of the time, because at one point it’s not about the Zettelkasten system anymore, it’s about the content you put in it.
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