On Jan 7, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Monday, January 07, 2008, at 03:10PM, "Adam M. Goldstein" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> On Jan 7, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: >> >>> I was just working with the new file view; it occurs to me that at >>> some point (not to hold up 1.3.13), it might be helpful for users to >>> be able to differentiate between the multiple attached files. For >>> example, I have articles, summaries of articles and books, and >>> tables >>> of contents attached as PDFs. Formerly I created multiple local-url >>> fields to handle this. > > Alex, do you have a lot of references with multiple attachments, or > is it a small percentage? I generally work with references that > will have 1 or 2 attachments at most, so I'm interested in hearing > about problems from others. I'd also like to make sure that it's a / > real/ problem before solving it :). > >>> One way of doing this is by color (a la the Finder's tags). BibDesk >>> wouldn't necessarily even store the information, it might just fetch >>> and show and possibly set (as each icon's background, for instance) >>> colors from the Finder. >>> >> >> It sounds like you might use this, but I personally have never been >> quite able to get the finder's different file types and corresponding >> color coding to work for me. > > It works for me, but I never use it. What do you mean about file > types? I can see how some people might like to display the Finder > label color, but we'll have to think about that. I'm hoping to get > the release out tonight or tomorrow (and likewise hoping we didn't > break anything today). >
I don't mean that the feature is broken; it's just that I have never been able to use it the way it seems to be intended. You can color code your files according to label, so, for instance, once I tried to color code all PDFs that were readings for a class so that they would turn out red in various finder views; and I did this by assigning them a label in the finder and setting that label up so that all of its associated files had the red coloring. But there are only a few colors to use and I always had a hard time putting things in the right categories, so I gave up. ================================= Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS Assistant Professor of Philosophy Iona College -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.iona.edu/faculty/agoldstein/ tel: (914) 637-2717 post: Iona College Department of Philosophy 715 North Avenue New Rochelle, NY 10801 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
