Thanks for these inputs. These are new ways I am learning how to use groups. However I think other ways are worth exploring.
Tag search in Zotero has completion suggestions. I do not see any way suggestions for completion of the search string can be obtained in Bibdesk. Furthermore groups and keyword do not have time information, as it is not stored at all in the dictionary. This prevents any organization (or completion suggestions) based on recent usage of a keyword or addition to a group. This is missing in Zotero as well afaik. I think would be rather useful. On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 6:19 PM Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 14 Sep 2021, at 17:44, nathan.art...@softhome.net < > nathan.art...@softhome.net> wrote: > > > Also note that you can right-click (or control-click) on a group in the > list of groups to see a contextual menu where you can toggle between "Show > Items Contained in Any Group" (union) and "Show Items Contained in All > Groups" (intersection). This is a global setting that controls which > publications are displayed in the publications list when multiple groups > are selected in the list of groups. This is the primary way that I exploit > keywords in BibDesk: via selection of multiple field groups in the groups > list. > > > After selecting multiple groups, I can do a quick search or a database > find and replace within the selected groups. Or I can select all the > publications in a set of groups and then select a different group instead, > and only the subset of the previously selected publications that are in the > newly selected group will remain selected. Or, after I have selected all > the publications in a set of groups, I can clear the selected groups by > selecting the "Library" group (so that all publications are displayed but > the previously selected publications stay selected), and then I can make a > new group with all the publications that are NOT those selected > publications by choosing the menu item "Edit > Invert Selection" and > dragging the newly selected publications to a new group for further > operations. > > > All of the above permits sophisticated exploitation of keywords. > > > I have very often wished for a separate quick search field in the list of > groups that could filter the list of groups in the same way that the > existing quick search field filters the publications list. When the list of > field groups is very long, it can be time-consuming to scroll through them > looking for something. (This would be roughly analogous to Zotero's tags > search, which Roberto mentioned, but even without this feature, I have > always found BibDesk's ability to exploit field groups to be more > sophisticated than Zotero.) > > > Nathan > > > Note that you can now do that. If you do a quick search from the toolbar, > you will see a bar with a + button at the end. If you click it, you can > enter Keywords (or any other field). This will create a filter for that > field that can be used for filtering. > > Christiaan > > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users >
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