I am looking for a way to script note-taking at the paragraph level. I am new to DevonThink. I have no programming / scripting skills. I am a PhD student trying to finish my thesis in social science.
Scenario: I have ca 4000 docs/pdfs that I’ve collected over the past three 3 years. These vary in terms of quality and depth. The ideas expressed in them are not always coherent or flow, but there might be some good bits at paragraph level. I could of course search/tag everything but I would still need to hunt through each one separately to find the good bits. Also, I assume that DT’s AI capabilities are aided by dividing the docs into smaller pieces.
Solution?: I wonder if anyone has a script (or could easily make one) that creates a note from every paragraph in the doc/pdf, uses the first 50 (or so) characters of the first sentence as the note title, and compiles/merges these into one annotation template so they can be viewed in context in the original doc/pdf (one annotation template per for doc/pdf).
My idea is based partly on this script for importing Skim pdf annotations into DT: complexpoint.macmate.me/Site … think.html . While it works okay with pdfs that are all ready annotated I am looking for something to process docs and pdfs that have yet to be annotated. Also this script creates a seperate note/annotation template, one for each highlight/comment. It would be better if these were all collected/collated onto the same annotation template, one per doc/pdf.
Of course I probably would not want to perform this on all the docs/pdfs but at least 500 or so.
Does this make any sense? I’m grateful for any and all input from those more skilled than I!