Years ago, I wrote an AppleScript to synchronize notes between a “master” copy
of a PDF (lives in a designated folder on my hard drive, indexed by Zotero,
Skim notes) and the “Dropbox” copy (lives in a designated folder in Dropbox,
Spotlight comment points back to the master copy, readable on my phone using a
PDF reader, PDF annotations). This script has recently stopped working. Since
I haven’t used AppleScript in like five years, I don’t remember how to navigate
through the garbage fire that is AppleScript’s various file classes (POSIX
files vs aliases vs that colon-separated format vs when you can just pass a
string, etc), and I can’t even build a MWE to diagnose the problem.
So I’m tempted to rewrite the script in bash using the SkimNotes command-line
tool.
But since I’m not super fluent in bash, and haven’t used SkimNotes before, I
thought first I’d check and see if anyone already has a bash script for
something like this use case they’d be willing to share.
Cheers,
Dan
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Daniel J. Hicks
Postdoctoral Researcher
Data Science Initiative
University of California, Davis
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation
and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in
earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation."
-- Susan B. Anthony
Pronouns: Masculine (he/him/his) or neutral (they/them/their)
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