Applescripts that ease integration of Bookends reference manager (http://www.sonnysoftware.com) with other applications. They take selected text in any application and paste it into Bookends Pubmed browser, Live-Search, and unique ID search respectively. So you can, for example, find a ref like (Hubel and Wiesel, 1962), select it, search for [Hu…

Search ID-Bookends.scpt

on run
   tell application "System Events"
      keystroke "c" using command down
      delay 0.5
      do shell script "id=$(pbpaste); open \"bookends://sonnysoftware.com/$id\""
   end tell
end run

Search Pubmed-Bookends.scpt

on run
	tell application "System Events"
		keystroke "c" using command down
		
		tell application "Bookends"
			activate
			delay 0.1
		end tell
		
		tell application "System Events"
			keystroke "w" using {command down, shift down}
			delay 0.75
			keystroke "v" using command down
			--keystroke return --uncomment this if you want to search immediately (I prefer to edit text to improve pubmed search)
		end tell
		
	end tell
	
end run

Search Ref-Bookends.scpt

on run
	tell application "System Events"
		keystroke "c" using command down
		delay 0.1
		--we use sed to remove ( ) , . ; @ and et al and uniqueID from a formatted ref and copy it back to clipboard
		do shell script "pbpaste | sed -Ee 's/ et al//g' -e 's/ and//g' -e 's/[\\{\\}\\(\\),\\.;]//g' -e 's/#[0-9]+//g' -e 's/@//g' | pbcopy"
		delay 0.1
		
		tell application "Bookends"
			activate
			delay 0.1
		end tell
		
		tell application "System Events"
			keystroke "f" using {command down, option down}
			delay 0.5
			keystroke "v" using command down
			keystroke return --comment this out if you want to edit text before search
		end tell
	end tell
end run