DEVONthink is well known for its automation capabilities and to that end comes with many built-in scripts. Below is a list of the DEVONthink supplied scripts available to you.
Script menu
This is a list of the pre-installed scripts in DEVONthink's Scripts menu, presented as they appear in the submenus there:
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.
Check file integrity of databases: Runs a checksum comparison on all items in open databases to check for any discrepancies in the current and stored values. Errors are alerted and logged to Window > Log.
Download:
Linked Images of Page: Adds linked images of a displayed web page to the database.
Open Linked Images in Tabs: Opens a document tab for each linked image in a web page viewed in DEVONthink.
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. There are also versions for creating clutter-free documents as formatted notes, web archives, and PDF documents (One Page and Paginated).
Edit:
Count Characters: Counts the characters in the current selection.
Count Words: Counts the words in the current selection.
Replace text in documents: Enter text to find and replace in plain and rich text documents.
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 each open databases. All backups are stored in ~/Backup and their filename includes a datestamp 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. Note: When using this script with an encrypted database, the database will be compressed in an unencrypted state.
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".
Remove Attachments: Removes attachments from RTFD files.
Remove Links: Removes linked text from the contents of a selected rich text document.
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:
Man Page: Imports a UNIX manual page as a plain text 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 Things: Adds the selected item as a to-do item to Things.
Rename:
Append Selected Text: Appends the selected text to the title of the currently selected item.
Change Case: Change the case of selected text to titlecase.
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.
Thumbnails:
Flip Horizontal / Vertical: Flips the thumbnails of selected documents horizontally or vertically.
Rotate Left / Right: Rotates the thumbnails of selected documents left or right.
Landscape to Portrait: Rotates landscape thumbnails to portrait.
Portrait to Landscape: Rotates portrait thumbnails to landscape.
Smart Item Scripts
These are scripts available to smart items, i.e., smart rules and batch processing. They are divided by the two available actions: Apply Script and Script with Input/Output.
Apply Script:
Add Favicons: Attempts to apply the favicon for a web-based document, e.g., a bookmark.
Add Web Page Image: Attempts to apply a web page's image as the document's thumbnail.
Close All Databases: Closes all open databases except the Global Inbox.
Close All Documents: Closes all document windows.
File Items Using @Destination in Name: If a filename is suffixed with @ followed by a group name, it will be used to file the document into a matching group. For example, a document named Marriott stay@Expenses would be filed in an "Expenses" group. If a group isn't found, it will be created in the Inbox of the parent database.
Reminders - Next Week: Set a reminder for a week from the current time and date.
Reminders - Remove: Remove an applied reminder from the matched item(s).
Reminders - Tomorrow: Set a reminder for the same time tomorrow.
Tags - Add Most Important Words: Adds the top five words from the concordance of the document. Assessed by weight.
Script with Input/Output:
Annotation - Append Text: Gets text from a Set Script Input action and either creates an annotation file with the text or appends it to an existing one.
Annotation - Get Text: Gets the text from an existing annotation file, if one exists.
Checksum: Returns the content hash for the record.
Coordinates: Returns the latitude and longitude from the geolocation data on the item.
Daily Quote: Gets a random daily quote from an English and a German site.
Image Size: Returns the width and height of an image.
Latest News: Returns a random headline from the New York Times or Tagesschau.
Name - First Number: Returns the first number in a record's name.
Name - Last Number: Returns the last number in a record's name.
Text - Lowercase/Uppercase: Returns the text of a Set Script Input placeholder to lower or uppercase.
Text - Random String: Returns a 16 character string of random letters and numbers.
Web Page - Description: Returns the description from the metadata of a web page, if available.
Web Page - Keywords: Returns the keywords from the metadata of a web page, if available.
Zettel-ID: Queries Markdown metadata and returns the value for a Zettel-ID attribute.
