Hazel – Monitoring Downloads Directory.(Click for a full size image) Downloads from Cisco Rule and tagging.(Click for a full size image) After Moving Directory – a new rule.(Click for a full size image) Inboxing the DevonThink Pro with PDFs.(Click for a full size image)
#TAG WEB ARTICLES DEVONTHINK TO GO PDF#
If the file is a PDF file, then wait 5 minutes so that the Tagging can be completed and saved then move the file into DevonThinkPro.Another rule monitors the CiscoDownloads directory.Then copy the file to the directory “CiscoDownloads” to make it easier to find (for IOS images etc). When a file is downloaded from the website with “” on the URL, then run Tags so I can add tags to the file.
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I’ll summarise the process and you can see how it works from the screenshots: When it sees a PDF file that is downloaded (in this case I have a specific rule for PDFs that are downloaded from a URL). In simple terms, I setup Hazel to monitor the Downloads Folder on my MAC. This section will just show you briefly how this works. Honestly, I can’t say enough wonderful things about Hazel and I hope I can write more about what I use it for. So this improved things but, really, I needed to TAG files as I downloaded them. Tags consists of two parts, a browser that lets you search by Tags: Leap preview and search window.(Click for a full size image)īut you can mark files from the Toolbar by opening the Tag Window: Then dropping a file onto the Tag Window: And entering your tags: Magic Sauce Time I tried a number of different methods over a year or so to get a workflow that I would reliably use. This makes the TAGGING really really important.įor a while I used Leap to work through files but this didn’t work out well. Thus I can slice my search in many ways according to how I have tagged the file. So, know you know that I can mark PDF files by tag. PDF Document Explaining Open Meta – Google Docs PDF Preview Tags and Hazel
#TAG WEB ARTICLES DEVONTHINK TO GO PDF DOWNLOAD#
More on OpenMeta in this PDF file : AboutOpenMeta – PDF Download Where xattr is a Unix file meta attribute that hasn’t been used in many years. The metadata is stored in extended attributes (xattr). The idea of the project is for commercial, open source and in house programs to be able to use OpenMeta for reading, writing and dealing with user defined meta data.
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OpenMeta is an OS X Cocoa Objective – C technology that allows any application to read and or write tags, ratings, etc to any file. Short description from the OpenMeta Tags google project. OpenMeta Tags uses a Unix file feature to add tags to files. This articles continues from My Knowledge Management Process With PDF Files – Part 1 on managing collections of text and PDF files.