[Skim-app-users] iPad sync

[Jan David Hauck]

Hi all,

Besides the instructions here (based on Hazel):
http://macademic.org/2012/12/20/searchable-pdf-annotations-automating-conversion-to-skim-notes/
is there anyone out there who has a working setup for keeping a folder with
pdfs (in subfolders) in sync with iPad (over Dropbox), where annotations
made on the iPad as soon as they are synced with the computer automatically
trigger a script to convert them to Skimnotes?
(I'm mainly concerned about one-way conversion iPad > Computer, and not how
to also convert Skimnotes to regular notes to be seen on the iPad.)
Any hints/suggestions greatly appreciated!

Jan

[Schneider]

Post by Jan David Hauck
http://macademic.org/2012/12/20/searchable-pdf-annotations-automating-conversion-to-skim-notes/
is there anyone out there who has a working setup for keeping a folder
with pdfs (in subfolders) in sync with iPad (over Dropbox), where
annotations made on the iPad as soon as they are synced with the
computer automatically trigger a script to convert them to Skimnotes?
(I'm mainly concerned about one-way conversion iPad > Computer, and not
how to also convert Skimnotes to regular notes to be seen on the iPad.)
Any hints/suggestions greatly appreciated!

https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/atchange.html

Atchange is a perl script that watches one or more files or even a
whole directory and when the date on those changes, it does whatever
you program it to do.

So you could set up an atchange to watch your PDF directory and do
conversions when it changes. You could launch the atchange into the
background when you log in but you may need a locking system to make
sure that any previous processes still running as 'zombies' are
removed.

Tom

Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
Center for Cancer Research
Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory
Molecular Information Theory Group
Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
https://schneider.ncifcrf.gov (current link)
https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link)