Only after examining the data, laying it out and handling it, can we feel comfortable in reaching complex decisions.” 2 Understanding often emerges gradually from the accumulation of factual detail and from our growing comprehension of the relationships among isolated details. Notes are a process for clarifying thinking and for refining inchoate ideas.Shared notes are a medium, an efficient communication channel between colleagues and collaborators.Notes are records, reminding us of ideas and observations that we might otherwise forget.“Notes play three distinct roles in our daily work:
Here’s a short excerpt defining the importance and use patterns for notes: I’d strongly recommend you read if you’re involved in knowledge work in any way. Mark Bernstein, our guest on the show, wrote a really excellent book on the topic some years ago entitled The Tinderbox Way. 1 But I am already getting off track.Īll this seemed to come to a head this past week, where a podcast I hosted together with Matt Trevithick took up the topic of notes and note-taking. The best way to make this less of a problem is to gently nudge publishers to issue their books on a kindle format. I'll get into the workaround for that later. But some books just aren't available in digital format. Tell application id "2"Īfter this, every time you click on that group in DT, it is synchronized to the disk contents.All this isn’t to say paper copies don't have their uses. Created by Christian Grunenberg on Oct Fri 22 2004. The script is, as I said, included with DT. You then select it and open the information panel (cmd+shift+I) and, where it says “Script”, you select that script. That is: You index a folder, and it appears in DT. It is not a folder action but a script that is to be attached to the group inside DT. There is a script to help with this included with DT. I guess I could use “System Events” to call the menu item, but that seems really cludgy and interrupts keyboard use while the script is running. Although using the menu item “Synchronize” works on an entire group. Seems like you can only call the indicate function on a single record. Can you describe the attached script that would perform that on an entire group? While I can get a reference to the current group in AS, when I try to use the “indicate” function on it, I get an AS error. That would work perfectly (for part of the workflow). Maybe I am misunderstanding you, but you can set it up so that, every time you “activate” (ie, access) a given group in DT, which group has been created by indexing a folder on disk, it gets re-synchronized (updated) automatically. Otherwise, they are pretty similar solutions. Synchronizing would merely adopt what attributes it finds. In the very least, since you know the file names, it seems that using the particular command to indicate each would be best since you c an at the same time specify the record name, and other attributes you may wish to set at the time. I wonder if you indicate each file, and then synchronize, if there is a difference. You can synchronize the folders for step 2, but that seems to be an alternative to indicating individual files. Sounds like you can do everything we discussed above in step 1 with the variety of script alternatives, so that’s a done deal. You really have two steps that don’t mix: (1) obtain DTPO OCR on an externally located file and (2) index newly renamed and placed external files. I didn’t think it was cumbersome, it is the only way you can have your cake and eat it. I know that seems cumbersome, but I do not want to use the DTPO2 internal file structure for long term storage.
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