Michael,
Yeah -- the search engine is hit and miss. Glad Eric seems to have fixed it.
Thanks for posting the summary. It's clear there's a lot of folks
struggling with improving the integration.
And I totally agree with your last post on the DT forum.
Michael Singer
Michael,
I'm not surprised you failed to find the threads on the DEVONthink
forums concerning Skim as the site's internal search engine is
decidedly hit and miss. There has been quite a head of steam
building up on those forums from Skim users - almost obviously
because those of us who read a lot of pdfs will be drawn to Skim -
and to DEVONthink as the database. From your post over there Michael
(excellent btw) I expect you've now seen the discussion, summed up
by someone on those forums six months ago writing:
"[DEVONthink] heralding itself as the premier content and document
data manager MUST be able to access text entered in PDF files, both
through Preview and Skim. This is a basic reqirement in this age.
(And I believe EagleFiler can handle this task.) This is one more
example of limited handling of metada"
To save everyone a lot of reading, the consistent DT response over
the last six months has been threefold. First, decidedly sniffy,
unfairly disregarding Skim as a proprietary format. Second, to leave
one assuming 'the developers' are aware and working on a solution
(probably their own alternative), though as someone in their forums
stated, it's been a long, long wait [don't we just appreciate
Christiaan's responsiveness?] and third, the project lead Eric
Boehnisch has just linked to a suggested workflow, an approach that
requires a disciplined, systematic, organised... well lets just say
the no fuss, drag and drop approach to handling Skim pdfs _and_
their notes of BibDesk or Eaglefinder stand as commendable examples
of what is needed, and needed now.
There's clearly a lot of folk like me with a large DT database of
pdf's but not sure how best to integrate with Skim.
<http://www.devon-technologies.com/scripts/userforum/search.php?keywords=skim&search_terms=all&search_forum=-1&search_time=0&search_fields=all&search_cat=-1&sort_by=0&sort_dir=DESC&show_results=topics&return_chars=200>http://www.devon-technologies.com/scripts/userforum/search.php?keywords=skim&search_terms=all&search_forum=-1&search_time=0&search_fields=all&search_cat=-1&sort_by=0&sort_dir=DESC&show_results=topics&return_chars=200
Michael
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