Thank you Ken and Christiaan!
Currently I am actually using a system fairly similar to what Ken
suggested, but the other way around, instead of adding a z to finished
projects I add up to three space characters to the beginning of current
projects, depending on their relevance, which moves them to the top.
(I have about 50 folders, number growing)
Now, what Christiaan suggested, I'm not sure if I've completely understood:
So I've added the "Group" field to my default fields and then added the
"Group" group to the sidebar. But isn't that more or less the same like
the static groups? Only that it writes the folder name to the entry?
Or do you mean I create a field called, let's say, "Dissertation" and
another one "Articles" and so forth, and then into these fields I put
"Chapter One" as the value, or the title of the article, etc.? That would
be somewhat of a workaround to selectively hide folders, but here I
wouldn't be able to assign papers just to "Dissertation," let's say.
Also, it would be great to have more than just two levels, i.e., allow for
subfolders of subfolders?
So essentially I'm looking for something similar to how iTunes handles
playlists. iTunes assigns an ID to each playlist, and allows for parent
playlists by adding a key for "parent persistent ID". Since BibDesk uses
(at least to my limited knowledge) a somewhat similar xml structure, is
there really no way to implement something like that in BibDesk too?
Thanks a lot!
Jan D.
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> On Apr 2, 2015, at 20:53, Jan David Hauck 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.
>
>
> No, it is not feasible to allow adding multiple static group (or folder
> groups). What you can do is add multiple group fields, which basically has
> the same effect. A group field acts like a folder, while a value of that
> field in any publication is like a group to which it belongs in that
> folder. You can add publications to such a group using drag and drop, or by
> editing the group field in a publication. To create a new "group" in the
> "folder", use Add Field to add the "folder" field to a publication, and set
> its value to the group
>
> Christiaan
>
>
>
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