Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
I can sympathize with the DT developers. They're being asked to
support something that is a) subject to change without notice (Skim's
note format) b) does not have support of a company to ensure future
development and c) would require fair amount of code, at least for
full note display.
Just displaying the notes or adding them to a search index is pretty
easy, but there are some subtleties with extended attributes. For
instance, you'd have to keep a checksum of the EA data itself if you
use a persistent search index, which I assume is what DT does.
BibDesk sidesteps this by rebuilding the index whenever a database is
opened, and observing Skim's save notifications for updates.
Thanks for the explanation concerning things beyond me. Your comments
concerning BibDesk are interesting. I understood Papers were thinking
of integration with Skim, and of course Michael Tsai was ahead of the
game, saw the need and seems to have done a good job with Skim and
EagleFiler. So at least for those of us who don't understand these
things, DEVONthink's apparent lack of response remains disappointing.
Michael
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