Help importing finder comments and tags

mmk22 · 2025-10-22T15:51:27+00:00

I have a whole lot of files that I was initially keeping in Devonthink but now want to import into Zotero. DT makes it easy to export, and the files include Finder tags and Finder comments. However, when I import into Zotero, none of the tags are maintained. I would like to find a way to A. maintain the tags and B. write the finder comments to notes on the reference. is this possibile at all?

dstillman · 2025-10-22T18:21:28+00:00

There’s no native support for Finder tags or comments. It would probably be possible to script something either locally with JS or via the web API, but that’s all I can suggest. (You’d also probably want the tags to apply to created parent items and for the notes to become sibling notes, which also complicates things.)