Zotero collection mounted as file system in the Finder (MacOS)
It would be interesting to be able to mount on the Finder (or other OS file explorer) the Zotero collection.
For example, it would allow to index the mounted files system in DevonThink.
For example, it would allow to index the mounted files system in DevonThink.
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A Zotero library can't map cleanly to filesystem folders because items can exist in multiple collections, which isn't the case for filesystem folders without duplication (or hard links, which aren't really an option).
I would like to have the directory structure accessible. Creating a smart folder is not a bad ideas but devonthink don't let me index those.
What I'm proposing is to expose a virtual file system to avoid problem with duplicate and recreate the Zotero folder structure.
I can certainly index all PDF, but I'm losing the structre. The best would be to have a read-write structure (as a virtual file system) than follow the Zotero one.
Somethings like what can be done with https://osxfuse.github.io/