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Live search would be terrific, especially if there were a keyboard shortcut (or menubar item) that would allow users to go to a group without the fingers leaving the keyboard.

Thanks so much for your explanations and for all these improvements!

Perhaps another question/request that others may have: Above the Groups pane, there is a possibility for search. In my experience, it doesn't autocomplete, which would be very useful. Also, am I right that if you type in the first letters that are shared by several groups, and then hit RETURN, you ...

Thanks for your help, Jon! I'm not quite getting the Summary settings to work, but the beachballing is now taken care of: smart groups containing Spotlight searches were clearly the culprit here!

Thanks for the reply. That sounds like the explanation: I do indeed have smart groups that are based on PDF tags. I'll be in touch directly about a version that allows me to turn that off.

A couple things to note, however:
1. When an item is selected that is part of a group, and the folder is ...

Thanks for the reply, Jon. I value your commitment to avoiding feature-bloat. Perhaps this is too niche, and better solved with an AppleScript or KM macro. But I do think there's a case to be made, at least for anyone who has more than a dozen groups. Because the highlighting is not visible in the ...

After years of using Bookends, I'm finaling starting to use Static Groups more heavily for organizing my research I now have 100, in 10 folders. But I find myself hunting a lot of groups. What I would love to be able to do is this: I'm in the main view, showing my full library. I select an item and ...

+1 for this. While you're at it: I'm having trouble using AppleScript (or Keyboard Maestro) to access the contextual menu. Below is the AppleScript that ought to work, but it doesn't.

tell application "System Events"
tell application process frontApp
set _selection to value of attribute ...