On Apr 3, 2015, at 0:59, Jan David Hauck wrote:
> 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
Adding it as a default field is not really necessary.
> and then added the "Group" group to the sidebar.
Yes, that's what i am talking about, adding a group field through Add Group
Field. Though you can call it whatever you want (though without spaces and
other special characters).
> But isn't that more or less the same like the static groups? Only that it
> writes the folder name to the entry?
It has essentially the same effect, yes, that's what I said. But the point is
that while "Static" is unique and fixed, instead of "Group" you can use
anything you like and you can add any number of them, as if it is a folder.
> 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?
>
More levels is not possible.
> 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?
>
No, we won't abuse the bibtex comments even more than we already do. And
moreover it would not be backwards compatible. The whole point is that while
iTunes defines its own format, BibDesk doesn't.
Christiaan
> 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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