Also note that you can right-click (or control-click) on a group in the list of groups to see a contextual menu where you can toggle between "Show Items Contained in Any Group" (union) and "Show Items Contained in All Groups" (intersection). This is a global setting that controls which publications are displayed in the publications list when multiple groups are selected in the list of groups. This is the primary way that I exploit keywords in BibDesk: via selection of multiple field groups in the groups list.
After selecting multiple groups, I can do a quick search or a database find and replace within the selected groups. Or I can select all the publications in a set of groups and then select a different group instead, and only the subset of the previously selected publications that are in the newly selected group will remain selected. Or, after I have selected all the publications in a set of groups, I can clear the selected groups by selecting the "Library" group (so that all publications are displayed but the previously selected publications stay selected), and then I can make a new group with all the publications that are NOT those selected publications by choosing the menu item "Edit > Invert Selection" and dragging the newly selected publications to a new group for further operations. All of the above permits sophisticated exploitation of keywords. I have very often wished for a separate quick search field in the list of groups that could filter the list of groups in the same way that the existing quick search field filters the publications list. When the list of field groups is very long, it can be time-consuming to scroll through them looking for something. (This would be roughly analogous to Zotero's tags search, which Roberto mentioned, but even without this feature, I have always found BibDesk's ability to exploit field groups to be more sophisticated than Zotero.) Nathan _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
