How many folders do you have? How many of those are active projects? I organize two ways, both based on the idea that I need <10 or some other managable number of current/active folders:
1) When I'm done with a project, change its name from, for example, "foo" to "z_foo". It moves to near the bottom. Now the list can grow down and I don't care, active folders are at the top. 2) When I'm done with a paper/project, I create a local bibliography that only contains the entries used in that project. I do that with "biber foo.tex --output_format bibtex". This has several advantages: I can now add a local BibTeX file to my git system for that project. That project becomes self-reliant, not needing my global bib file. It doesn't matter if in the future I change my global bib file cite keys, I could still recompile that project. I can now delete that folder from my main bib file. -k. On 2015-04-02 at 14:53, Jan David Hauck <jan.d.ha...@ucla.edu> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I keep on bumping into the problem of how to organize my folders in BibDesk > (i.e., mainly the "Static" folders in the sidebar which I use for different > writing projects/chapters etc.). The ideal would be, of course, subfolders > but it doesn't look as if that was possible. There was a feature request > "#195 allow group subfolders" but it seems to have been postponed till > BibDesk 2 which seems to have been abandoned. > > So what I'd like to ask here, > how are others handling a large amount of different bibliographies for > different projects? > Has anyone found a workaround to get a subfolder-like behavior? > Are you maybe using BibDesk together with some other programs? > Any ideas are greatly appreciated! > > And then, for the developers, is there any way you guys could implement > subfolders in the current BibDesk branch (a "grouping" folders feature or > something)? Since BibDesk lets us show/hide the different categories > (smart, static, keywords etc.) I thought maybe it'd be possible instead of > one "static groups" category to have multiple of those or would that be too > complicated? > > Thanks a lot! > > Jan D. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored > by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all > things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to > news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the > conversation now. > http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/_______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
