I understand the desire to datestamp groups, which I've been doing since I started using BibDesk in 2008. I have over a thousand static groups now and their names all start with (manually created) datestamps, except for a few groups where dates are not needed. So most of my static groups are listed by date in the list of groups. I also have a script that I run periodically that extracts the static groups from my main BibTeX file and lists them in a separate text file so I can search that text file when needed to determine if I have already created a static group that mentions a word.
Figuring out when a keyword was added to a BibTeX entry would be a more difficult problem to solve. Most of the keywords that I add to a publication are added at time of creation. Any keywords that I add later are added to the end of the keywords field. So if I select a keyword field group and sort the publications in it by the date-added field, I see a rough estimate of when keywords were added, since most of the keywords were added when the publication was added to the database. The publication editor in BibDesk features completion suggestions in the keywords field and other fields. I rely on the completion suggestions there to make sure that whatever I add conforms to my existing controlled vocabulary. Roberto wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
