To come back to this, now that we have support for Finder labels in the recent nightlies. What smart group support for this would be useful?
Note that currently you can add smart groups based on the number of linked files/URLs. Christiaan On 8 Jan 2008, at 5:35 AM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: > Actually, it's not about *visual* differentiation (which I can do), > but differentiation that can, say, be discerned by an AppleScript or a > Smart Folder. (For the record, 4938 refs, 3119 single files, and 304 > > 1 file). > > For example, I put together syllabi with an AppleScript that copies > references and PDFs to a separate directory for easy distribution. The > AppleScript can't tell the difference between a local file that is the > actual PDF and a local file that is a related PDF. But if I could tag > the correct local file (or, much easier, tag the incorrect ones!) then > an AppleScript or a smart folder could do it. My current smart folders > allow me to find articles that don't have PDFs (of the article) > easily; the new architecture doesn't. > > Now, I certainly don't think this needs to be in 1.3.13 (I already > have a workaround for my scripts through script hooks: everything > added to the local-url field is added automatically as a linked file, > and vice versa if local-url isn't yet filled in) I'm partially > thinking out loud about how the current metadata-in-a-file support in > BibDesk (Skim notes!) could be expanded to include tagging files with > other metadata. One way to do it would be to use Finder metadata; > another just to store it in xattrs on each PDF. Of course, that might > take forever to read in, so it might be easier (faster?) to do it > within BibDesk instead. > > -AHM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
