> On 14 Sep 2021, at 17:44, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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
Note that you can now do that. If you do a quick search from the toolbar, you will see a bar with a + button at the end. If you click it, you can enter Keywords (or any other field). This will create a filter for that field that can be used for filtering. Christiaan
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