Paperpile2Notion - Use Paperpile + Notion As a Reference Manager

About

When Paperpile stores your PDFs in Google Drive, automatically sync Notion Database with reference's metadata.

How it would look:

Introduction written in Japanese: https://note.com/mybrain_record/n/n42a10a807ae5

Tools

• Paperpile (as reference importer + manager)
• Notion (as reference manager + editor)
• Google Drive (as PDF storage and viewer)
• GAS; Google Apps Script (as sync workflow)

Setup

Paperpile

• Google Drive configuration
• go to Advanced > file pattern settings
  • example: [Journal]_[FirstAuthor]_[LastAuthor]_[year]_[Title]
  • please do not include '[Folder]/' since the code currently doesn't support subfolders

Notion

• Create a page
• Set up properties (e.g. PDF URL, title, year, journal, author)
• Set up Notion API and obtain Token
  • Set up Connections (Allow the integration to access your database)

GAS

• Edit Script Properties
  • Google Drive Folder id: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/{HERE} 
  • Notion Database id: https://www.notion.so/{yourdomain}/{HERE}?v=hogehoge
  • Notion Token: check from "my integrations" of Notion API
• Customize script according to your Database Properties