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Below is a list of the DEVONthink supplied scripts, segregated by the menu items in the Script menu: Comments: Append Selected Text: Adds the selected text to the comments of the current document. Assemble: Collects the comments of the selected documents and creates a new document listing them. Convert to Tags: Converts the tag contained in the comments field to real tags if the comments field of the selected document contains tags separated by commas. Speak: Speaks the comments of the selected documents. Data: Move Duplicates to Trash: Moves all duplicates of the selected document to the trash. Find & Remove Similar Contents: Finds and removes similar documents. Group With Duplicates: Creates a group with duplicates of the selected documents. Group With Replicants: Creates a group with replicants of the selected documents. Verify & Optimize Databases: Runs a verification on all open databases and optimizes them if they verify successfully. Errors are alerted and logged to Window > Log. Download: Linked Images of Page: Adds linked images of a displayed web page to the database. Images of Page: Adds the images of a displayed web page to the database. Links of Page: Adds links contained on a displayed web page to the database. Download as…: Converts bookmarks to one of these formats: Formatted Notes, HTML Pages, PDF Documents (One Page or Paginated), and Web Archives Edit: Count Characters: Counts the characters in the current selection. Count Words: Counts the words in the current selection. Execute: AppleScript: Executes an AppleScript script. Perl: Executes a Perl script. Shell: Executes a shell script. Export: Listing: Saves a UTF-8 text file containing a text listing of the names of all contents/groups of the current database. Daily Backup Archive: Creates a compressed backup (.Zip) of the current database in `~/Backup`. All backups are include a datestamp in the filename for easy tracking and identification. These can be useful for copying to external media or uploading to a cloud service as a secondary backup strategy. Feeds: Nature -- Hubble News: Downloads the latest Hubble news. iTMS -- Added Albums: Downloads covers of albums recently added to the iTunes Music Store. Format: Body Normal: Formats selected text as "Body Normal". Body Small: Formats selected text as "Body Small". Header Capitalized: Formats selected text as "Header Capitalized". Header Main: Formats selected text as "Header Main". Header Secondary: Formats selected text as "Header Secondary". Source: Formats selected text as "Source". Reset Spacing: Resets the line and paragraph spacing of selected rich text. Images: Copy Info to Comment: Copies basic image info to the comment field. Flip Horizontal / Vertical: Flips the image horizontally/vertically. Rotate Left / Right: Rotates the image left/right. Landscape to Portrait: Rotates only landscape images to portrait. Portrait to Landscape: Rotates only portrait images to landscape. Scale to 1024 pixels: Scales the image to 1,024 pixels. Scale to 200%: Scales the image to 200 percent. Scale to 50%: Scales the image to 50 percent. Import: Del.icio.us: Imports your del.icio.us bookmarks. The descriptions are used to name the imported bookmarks; the notes and the tags are added to the comments. If the keychain does not contain a key for del.icio.us, dialogs pop up allowing you to enter the user name and password. Man Page: Imports a UNIX manual page as a PDF document. Perldoc: Imports the documentation of Perl pages, modules, functions, or programs. Reminders: Add as Event to Calendar: Adds a new event to Calendar linking back to the selected item in DEVONthink. Add as To Do to OmniFocus: Adds the selected item as a to-do item to OmniFocus. Add as To Do to Reminders: Adds the selected item as a to-do item to Reminders. Add as To Do to The Hit List: Adds the selected item as a to-do item to The Hit List. Add as To Do to Things: Adds the selected item as a to-do item to Things.
Note: These are scripts for integrating with external applications. For scripting internal reminder scripts, see the Reminder Scripts section of the chapter about automation.
Rename: Append Selected Text: Appends the selected text to the title of the currently selected item. Replace Text: Replaces a text passage in the titles of selected documents. To Webpage Title: Sets the titles of the selected documents to the names of the web pages pointed to by their URL fields. To Subject: Sets the titles of the selected documents to the subject lines of the email messages if the selected documents are email messages. Sheets: Add Multiple Records: Adds up to 999 empty records to a sheet. Column Sum&Mean Value: Calculates the sum and average of a table column. Row Sum&Mean Value: Calculates the sum and average of a table row. Check sums in last column: Checks the sums in the last column on validity. Tabs: Open Bing: Open a new tab for the Bing search engine. Open Google: Open a new tab for the Google search engine. Open Location: Open a new tab for a location you specify.
Note: The last script does no URL validation, though DEVONthink's dictionary makes it possible to script this too.
Thumbnails: Flip Horizontal / Vertical: Flips the thumbnails of selected documents horizontally/vertically. Rotate Left / Right: Rotates the thumbnails of selected documents left/right. Landscape to Portrait: Rotates only landscape thumbnails to portrait. Portrait to Landscape: Rotates only portrait thumbnails to landscape.
Note: While these scripts work with all image formats including PDF, they should not be used for PDF documents. They will only work on the first page of the PDF and destroy all embedded metadata.
Caching: All scripts in the Scripts menu are cached, meaning their properties are persistent until you quit and relaunch the application or DEVONthink automatically updates the menu, e.g., after adding or removing scripts.