Thanks for that recommendation. But it looks like Unison is just a file
synchronizer. I need to convert and synchronize between Skim notes and PDF
annotations as well.
----
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)
> On Mar 5, 2018, at 10:02 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I would look a Unison File synchronization...
>
> el
>
> —
> Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPad Mini
>
> On 6 Mar 2018, 01:00 +0200, Dan Hicks <[email protected]>, wrote:
>> 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
>> ----
>> 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)
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
>> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot
>> _______________________________________________
>> Skim-app-users mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org!
> http://sdm.link/slashdot_______________________________________________
> Skim-app-users mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot
_______________________________________________
Skim-app-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
