REQUIRED PROGRAMS: -- Skim -- TextMate (I have alternate code for TextEdit as well) This script offers you a dialog box with two options: (1) insert a Markdown formatted Inline Link to the current page of the pdf you are viewing in Skim at your cursor position in TextMate, or (2) insert a Markdown formatted Reference Link to the page. Either lin…

Insert Markdown Links for current Skim page (Custom URL)

(* INSERT MARKDOWN LINKS OF CURRENT PAGE OF SKIM PDF INTO TEXTMATE

-- created by Stephen Margheim
-- 06 July 2013
-- open source

*)


tell application "Skim"
	
	(* PART ONE:
	Choose your Link
	*)
	
	set number_of_Note3 to (get text for note 3 of page 1 of document 1) as string
	
	--display the dialog box with handler at end of script
	set LinkType to my chooseLinkType({"Reference Link", "Inline Link"})
	if LinkType is 0 then return
	
	
	(* PART TWO:
	Insert your Chosen Link
	*)
	
	tell document 1
		
		--get Skim p#
		set notePage to get index of current page
		
		--get p# printed on the pdf (requires you to manually alter Note 3)
		set theRealPage to notePage + number_of_Note3 as string
		
		--get Custom URL and Title of the pdf
		set CustomURL to get text of note 1 of page 1
		set pdfTitle to (get extended text of note 1 of page 1) as string
		
		--create Reference Link if chosen
		if LinkType is 1 then
			set FinalText to "[" & pdfTitle & " (p. " & theRealPage & ")]: " & CustomURL & notePage
			
			--create Inline Link if chosen
		else if LinkType is 2 then
			set FinalText to "[" & pdfTitle & " (p. " & theRealPage & ")]" & "(" & CustomURL & notePage & ")"
		end if
		
		--insert whichever link type you selected into TextMate
		tell application "TextMate"
			activate
			insert FinalText
		end tell
		
		(* If you don't have TextMate, here's the script for the universal Mac program TextEdit. To alter the code, merely delete or comment-out the TextMate tellblock and uncomment this block:
		*)
		-- tell application "TextEdit"
		-- activate
		-- make new word at end of text of document 1 with data FinalText
		-- end tell 
		
	end tell
end tell


(* HANDLER *)

on chooseLinkType(typeList)
	display dialog "Insert Inline or Reference link to currently viewed page of pdf?" buttons {"Inline", "Reference"} default button {"Inline"}
	if result = {button returned:"Inline"} then
		return 2
	else if result = {button returned:"Reference"} then
		return 1
	end if
	return LinkType
end chooseLinkType