All fields are "searchable" through using Smart Groups. Just hit
command-option-G and you'll be good to go with Annote, Abstract, or any other
field you can dream up. Plus the searches are saved.
Thinking out loud here, perhaps there is some tweak to the UI that could make
this more obvious? Although I don't normally think of it as a paragon of UI,
the Finder does this through having a "search box" and a limited number of
"search what" buttons below it just as BibDesk does... but then it has
additional limits you can set below that and a "save" button, which saves it as
a Smart Search... perhaps in BibDesk, it could save the search as a Smart Group.
-AHM
On 2011-08-07, at 3:04 PM, Christian Pleul wrote:
>
> On 07.08.2011, at 17:54, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Aug 7, 2011, at 08:03 , Christian Pleul wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, if I asked it before and just forgot. Anyway, would it not a an
>>> interesting feature, since I can imagine that people who studying e.g.
>>> research papers use this field to put their notes and excerpts in the
>>> annote field.
>>
>> Interesting, yes, but there has to be a cutoff point. For instance, suppose
>> I'd rather have abstract searchable instead of annote. Who wins?
>
> There can't be a winner. Make the abstract separately searchable is as
> important as the annote field itself. And I think, it is a very important
> point when using BD for e.g. scientific research.
>
>> There are additional problems involved due to the use of Search Kit for
>> searching, as you have to create a separate index for each field that is
>> indexed. Computationally, this will get expensive for larger fields &
>> bibliographies, so you could end up with a beachball on opening a document.
>
>
> Since I am not a programmer, I can to make a statement on this point. But
> when making it possible to search the entire file content as well as skim
> notes, I thought it would make sense (see above) to do this kind of search
> for information which can be inserted directly in BD itself.
>
> Best,
> --
> Christian
>
>
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