Sonny Software

Is there an opportunity to create smart folders on MacOS Bookends that are filled with reference that do not have a specific keyword in it? I wasn't able to get it done.

If not, will it be available in a future update? Thanks and happy holidays.

Yes. Choose "were field is empty" from the popup menu after the Text popup menu.

Jon
Sonny Software

That only gets me the references with no keywords?

Let me illustrate the setup, I am doing a systematic review and presently deleting duplicates. I have used the keyword 'Duplicate" for all references that are duplicates, as detected by Bookends.

I now need to have a Smart Folder with references that do not have the keywords 'Duplicate', so my research assistants can start working on the non-duplicate references.

As a work-around, I have now colour-labelled the references with the keyword 'Duplicate' and then created a Smart Folder than does not have that colour-label

That works, but I can imagine I would be needing smart folders that deal with the absence of specific keywords as there are only so many colour labels. No rush with the reply, I am signing off for the X-mas break

Hello GJPhD,

I am signing off for the X-mas break

This caught my attention. Why are you signing off ??????

As far as I understand, this just brings you unnecessary trouble. You then have to sign in again (that is, entering a password or an email address again.) Why would anyone want to do that ??? Just wondering…

Sorry, I misunderstood. This smart sql search should work:

keywords is NULL or NOT keywords regex '(?im)duplicate'

If you want to find references that *have* keywords but not the keyword 'duplicate', you'd use just the second half

NOT keywords regex '(?im)duplicate'

Jon
Sonny Software

Works like a charm, thanks for the help!