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I am working on ways to send agenda notes with attachments to my files. I am trying to figure out the best way to do this. Here is what I have tried:

  • RTFD - Exporting with attachments creates an RTFD, but for some reason, the PDF is attached as a JPG of the first page, and the rest of the pages are missing.
  • TextBundle - This works well, but the attachments are renamed based on an internal numeric ID, and the JSON that comes with it does not contain any information to use to recover them. I have written an Automator/Apple Script to at least do some of the work by extracting the files, and then I typically rename them manually.
  • Agenda File - I’m currently working on an AppleScript to extract/reconstruct the notes and attachments, but I haven’t gotten a result I like.

Is there a better way to do this? Am I wrong about the limitations of the above options? Basically, I need to be able to put project/Meeting notes and files into a folder that I shared with others who are not using Agenda (or a Mac at all).

Thanks!

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Attachments are not that well supported in general, unfortunately. Markdown doesn’t have them, which is why we need TextBundle.

The RTFD sounds like a bug. It is probably treating the PDF as an image. I can look into that.

If I were you, I would just give out the RTFD, and include the PDF with it, or embed the PDF file yourself. It’s really the only format that people will be able to easily read. All the others are more designed for importing into some other app.

There is also HTML, but I don’t think it handles attachments at all.

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Sounds good. I will check if I am doing something wrong with the pdfs. Great app and thanks for the response.