[Share] Set Better Notes Syncing (menu/on closing item/on creating note)

[windingwind]

Description

Set Better Notes syncing by:

• menu or shortcut - set Event to None
• on closing item (finish reading a paper and sync its child notes) - set Event to Close Tab
• on creating note (auto-sync every new note) - set Event to Create Item

Event

None

Operation

Script

Data

/**
 * Set Better Notes Syncing (menu/on closing item/on creating note)
 * @author windingwind
 * @usage See link
 * @link https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-actions-tags/discussions/140/
 * @see https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-better-notes/
 */

if (!item) {
	return;
}

let toSync = [];
if (item.isNote()) {
	toSync.push(item);
}
else if (item.isRegularItem()) {
	toSync.push(...Zotero.Items.get(item.getNotes()));
}

// Filter notes by collection name, so that only notes in this collection will be auto-synced
const FILTER_BY_COLLECTION_NAME = null;

toSync = toSync.filter(noteItem => !Zotero.BetterNotes.api.sync.isSyncNote(noteItem.id))
	.filter(noteItem =>
		!FILTER_BY_COLLECTION_NAME
		|| Zotero.Collections.get(noteItem.getCollections())
			.map(collection => collection.name)
			.includes(FILTER_BY_COLLECTION_NAME));

if (toSync.length === 0) {
	return;
}

const window = require("window");
const PathUtils = require("PathUtils");
const FilePicker = window.require('zotero/modules/filePicker').default;

// Get sync directory

let rootDir = Zotero.Prefs.get("extensions.actionsTags.BNSyncRootDir", true);
if (!rootDir) {
	const fp = new FilePicker();
	fp.init(window, "Choose syncing root directory", fp.modeGetFolder);
	fp.appendFilters(fp.filterAll);

	const rv = await fp.show();
	if (rv !== fp.returnOK && rv !== fp.returnReplace) {
		return;
	}

	rootDir = fp.file;
	Zotero.Prefs.set("extensions.actionsTags.BNSyncRootDir", rootDir, true);
}

await Zotero.BetterNotes.api.$export.syncMDBatch(rootDir, toSync.map(noteItem => noteItem.id));

return `[Sync Notes] Synced ${toSync.length} note items.`;

Anything else

No response

[cs123951]

const FilePicker = window.require('zotero/modules/filePicker').default; may cause error.
I changed to
var { FilePicker } = ChromeUtils.importESModule('chrome://zotero/content/modules/filePicker.mjs');.
It works.

[ulahcherubim]

I happened to have the error you mentioned but after I updated my script with your line, I noticed the notes are not syncing to the directory that I want. How can I choose the directory, do you know?

[cs123951]

Sorry, I am using FilePicker for another usage. I did not use other codes in this script.

[Asstrole]

I happened to have the error you mentioned but after I updated my script with your line, I noticed the notes are not syncing to the directory that I want. How can I choose the directory, do you know?

I had same error and used his fix, but had similar problems you had since the script remembers the first directory you chose.

However, I commented out this line and it now asks for the directory every time (which is what I needed).
Zotero.Prefs.set("extensions.actionsTags.BNSyncRootDir", rootDir, true);

[DH-7488]

I'm trying to sync notes from one Zotero library to two different folders in a single Obsidian vault. I keep seeing the error "Sync Error: TypeError: changes in undefined". Any idea what this means?

[windingwind]

Syncing is one-to-one. It’s not possible to sync to two positions

[DH-7488]

Thanks so much for your reply. I've been receiving an error message: "Sync error: TypeError changes is undefined". I assumed it had to do with this.

**UPDATE: I used the debug log to discover syncing was hung up on a corrupt note. Fixed now. Thanks for creating this awesome tool! **

[Asstrole]

If you still need sync to multiple locations, this will do what you want https://freefilesync.org I've used it for about 10 years to sync enormous amounts of files/folders. Great program GL