On Nov 24, 2006, at 5:05 AM, Yojimbo-Talk List wrote:

> On Nov 23, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Terry Harpold wrote:
>
>> Is there an easy way to convert the contents of the Comments field
>> -- which I've been using as more or less a keywords field -- to
>> Tags, say, by an AppleScript that would copy Comments for each
>> item in a database to Tags, then delete the old Comments field?
>
> Not at this time. The current AppleScript support in Yojimbo is
> essentially limited to item creation.

Ouch. That seems to me a serious limitation on the usefulness of
Tags, as it will require me to manually enter them one at a time not
only for newly-added items but for the couple-thousand items I now
have stored.

Two suggestions to help streamline these kinds of activity:

1) Create a preference setting that automatically opens the
Inspector when an item added to the database by (for example)
dragging it to the Drop Dock or the Yojimbo window. That would speed
up the addition of comments & tags.

2) Allow Find & Replace to be targeted to the collection level, so
that en masse replacement/change/deletion of Comments and Tags can be
easily done.

The second feature would tremendously increase the usefulness of
Yojimbo to me.

TH

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Terry Harpold
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Florida

<tharpold@acm.org>
<tharpold@english.ufl.edu>
<http://www.english.ufl.edu/~tharpold>

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