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Over at the DevonThink Forum the folks are talking about ways to easily add URLs to DT and import the corresponding sites into the database. As Ⅰ see it there are these ways to do so efficiently: 1. AppleScript: works fine from within Safari, OmniWeb and Camino (Ⅰ guess), as they are all more or less Cocoa-Apps. 2. Services: Works in all Cocoa-Apps and some Carbon Apps. Just select a URL and hit the corresponding keyboard shortcut (such as „apple‑)“). But this only adds a URL into your „import folder“ 3. Drag & Drop: You can also drag and drop links/URLs from any app to an open DT window. 4. Print the webpage to DT using the PDF services 5. Save the page to a „hot“ folder (with an attached „import to DT“ folder action).

Method 1 and 2 are pretty cool as you can select text on a website and it imports that only into an RTFD document (or text if you wish so), keeping the reference to the current open URL.

Methods 2 and 3 generate URL or „bookmark“ objects in DT that need to be imported separately into the database. Ⅰ believe one could add an apple script to the target folder that would import the page automatically (or add it to the downloads window), although Ⅰ have not seen a way to do so yet. If Ⅰ remember correctly these scripts do not get called when a folder in DT changes (like finder folder actions do), but only when you click/open the folder. So maybe there should be a function within DT for this – „automatically import bookmark’s content“. If you really want so.

Or you can browse from within DT and then add bookmarks, content, pages and whole sites (with the download manager). Although Ⅰ am not quite happy with the dl-manager, Ⅰ prefer a CURL or WGET on the site for this, although for some sites a FUSKER is even better.

What kind of irritates me is that within DT when Ⅰ browse a site that contains links to PDFs these are not loaded and imported – at least this has never happened as expected yet.

Arg, and then there is that weird problem with FireFox not being able to drag images to DT directly, it always inserts the URL of the image instead of the image itself – the only way to get the image there is by making a bookmark and downloading the image directly into DT from within DT.

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