A Digital Workflow for Academic Research
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All my posts
- Some tools of the trade
- It's all about hyperlinks!
- How to use DevonThink links in a MediaWiki page
- A road map for my blog - The many faces of links
- How to put DevonThink links in Skim notes
- Automated summary creation linked with the source PDF file
- Go from the current PDF page in DevonThink to the same page in Skim
- Open a DevonThink hyperlink directly to Skim
- Automated creation of a LaTeX compatible citation only from Skim! (with hyperlink included)
- How to connect a PDF file inside DevonThink with its record in BibDesk
- How to convert a Mac-Unix style path to a Windows style path from Skim
- How to automatically embed hyperlinks into citations and bibliographical entries of a downloaded PDF document! Part I
- How to automatically embed hyperlinks into citations and bibliographical entries of a downloaded PDF document! Part II
- How to automatically embed hyperlinks into citations and bibliographical entries of a downloaded PDF document! Part III
- How to easily assign shortkeys and gestures to AppleScripts
- The roadmap of my blog on-line in MindMeister
- How to reveal the front Skim PDF document in Finder and in DEVONthink
- How to create correctly the Skim notes which have the DEVONthink links, when you have already annotated the first page of the PDF document
- Latin page numbers, Arabic page numbers and the fifth Skim note
- Go to the written page number of a PDF document
- Automated creation of references with hyperlinks from Skim
- How to create hypermedia notes during your lectures!
- Count the words of a PDF file from Skim
- Delete the duplicate Skim notes
- Recreate the folder and file hierarchy in text form compatible with MediaWiki syntax
- Sync PDF page numbers between Skim's snapshot window and main window.
- Embed AppleScripts in a MediaWiki page
- Create MediaWiki links to local folders and files without any extension!
- Add keywords to many entries of BibDesk at the same time
- Add tags to many DEVONthink items at the same time
- Export Skim notes according to their highlight colors
- Convert DEVONthink tags to MediaWiki categories
- Send DEVONthink tags to BibDesk as keywords
- MediaWiki, Mac and custom URL schemes
- Convert HTML links to RTF links
- Create MediaWiki and RTF links for opening an ePub file with Calibre viewer
- Create MediaWiki and RTF links for opening an ePub file at a specific position with Calibre viewer
- Execute an AppleScript with an AppleScript!
- Create MediaWiki and RTF links to audio and video files of your iTunes library
- Create MediaWiki and RTF links to specific time points of audio and video files of your iTunes library
- Create MediaWiki and RTF links to iPhoto pictures
- Create MediaWiki and RTF links to Evernote notes
- Convert words in MediaWiki page titles to MediaWiki categories
- Count the number of pages of selected PDF files in your DEVONthink database
- Find and replace strings in the names of selected files and folders in Finder
- Create iTunes links with TunesLinker
- Create link to a specific PDF page for ConnectedText using an AutoHotkey script
- Integrate Microsoft Word with DEVONthink
- Create hyperlink to a specific PDF page in Microsoft Word for Windows
- Skim and color codes of highlights
- Create DEVONthink bookmark for the current PDF page
- Create universal indexes for your own books and papers
- About OrganoGnosi
- Wikis in University Teaching and Learning - Richard Buckland
- How to copy the frontmost Skim PDF document to Dropbox and iCloud
- Control the brightness of your monitor with DarkAdapted
- My favorite MediaWiki extensions
- Presentation: Digital Tools for Academic Research
- Send to clipboard the selected text in the browser, the source URL and the current date and time
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In my previous post “Latin page numbers, Arabic page numbers and the fifth Skim note” I described the logic behind the number in the fifth note. Now we can use this information in order to go to the written page number of a PDF document without doing any calculations. This proves quite convenient especially in the case of academic papers in which the written numbers are totally out of sync with the page numbers which are given by Skim.The AppleScript which performs this function is the following:



