Sonny Software

Thanks again, the logic is clear to me now.

As I suspected BE and Sente logic are opposite: in Sente nesting searches means drilling down in one's references and narrowing down the results. So it takes a moment to get used to how BE does it.

Best wishes,
Gerben

Thanks very much for the quick reply. [/quote] It's hierarchical. The boolean logic applies to the selected group and its children -- it doesn't apply to the group's parents. I am not sure I understand correctly, please bear with me for a moment. Right now this is the situation: there are two smart ...

I am trying to nest smart groups in smart groups, but in such a way that the nested group only returns results that also abide by the criterium for the "parent" smart group. Example: • I create a smart group for all references with keyword "Germany" • nested inside this smart gro...

I certainly did

Assigned a keyboard shortcut to Global Change > Change Field, worked pretty fast that way.

Best,
Gerben

Thanks for the suggestion. After realizing I had less groups and subgroups than I thought (still around 100) I ended up manually going through all the groups and assigning keywords to the references (after flattening the group hierarchy). Took a couple of hours but worth the effort!

Best,
Gerben

I wonder if there is any way to convert group names (semi)automatically to keywords, if need be by manipulating an export file?

I need to import references into a different system and would like to avoid manually going through all the groups and assigning keywords to the refs.

Best,
Gerben

I find it increasingly difficult to manage my 7000+ database (too many groups and subgroups to maintain a good overview, especially on a 13" Macbook) and started to break it up in smaller topical databases. This is of course perfectly workable except for the moment when you want to do a scan an...

Yes, all is fine, thanks for light speed service!

Same problem here with 10.5.7:
- open upon launch never works
- double clikcing a db the first time gives the error, the second time not
- idem for opening from menu

Gerben

That's quite explicit already, thanks. I understand this might be pretty complicated to implement and that without some strong user demand it's not high on the list. FWYW, I personally think it would be much more than "nice to have" and really makes a difference with managing refs. But I s...

Jon, just wanted to ask, is there any chance this will arrive in the (foreseeable) future? Or is it not in the cards?

I am considering to start using Papers in addition to Bookends so I can used nested collections but of course would prefer to stick to BE and one program.

Best,
Gerben

Just adding some thoughts here: I generally don't mind using several dedicated apps for tasks if they do 'their thing' really well. So while the idea of BE becoming also a note taking app I wonder if it would not be equally fruitful to focus energy on integrating BE with a note taking app like Slipb...

Just one suggestion, use Slipbox: http://www.markusguhe.net/slipbox/

Fine note taking app and very easy linking to BE references

Gerben

Thanks, was afraid of that already.

Gerben

I have one large database containing all my references. I would like to create a topical database now that only contains groups from the 'master' db that are relevant to a particular project I am working on. My problem is that I always add new refs to the master db and would like to keep the topical...