I am still looking for away to move notes created in DraftsApp to DevonThink - reliably and wondering what the current state of play is. I currently have > 1,000 notes in DraftsApp that need to be moved.
DraftsApp using a folder that can be accessed by DevonThink?
Dragging notes or a group of Notes? I tried to drag notes to DevonThink today and that doesn’t work. It feels like dragging to the finder should work.
DevonThink (v4.0b2) has not provided a friction free way to create notes (6 clicks), DraftsApps is brilliant (2 clicks). But DevonThink is my long term - last 15yrs - place to store stuff and find it later..
DEVONthink can reference a folder (by indexing it) or be set up to import from a folder into DEVONthink.
As long as you only want to go one way from Drafts to DEVONthink, then I would create an action to write selected drafts out of Drafts into a folder ready for DEVONthink to consume as Markdown.
This is an action I use to push drafts in Drafts to an Obsidian vault. I have DEVONthink index that Obsidian vault.
I have a bookmarked folder for the vault and I use a safe for filename use version of the title of the draft to name the file it generates. DEVONthink then just keeps itself up to date with everything I have in the vault.
The directory also has lots of DEVONthink actions you can potentially use.
If you want a bi-directional sync then you have a more complex need and would have to use some sort of indexing to ensure you can reimport and overwrite drafts in Drafts safely. E.g. you might use the draft UUID as a file name for the Markdown files being generated, or store that as meta data within the file (e.g. as YAML, or a hidden HTML comment on the last line of the file. The alternative would be to keep a separate structured index like a a phone or address book kind of idea.
Hope something above helps.
I use this action to push drafts to DEVONthink (1 way from drafts to DT)
I also use this one to add bookmarks to DEVONthink:
