Adjust smart rule "Today" - exclude News Feeds

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Hi,
I recently re-visited Eric Böhnisch-Volkmann’s youtube video of his Zoom Meetup with Tinderbox users.
That triggered me to revisit my use of feeds in Devonthink.

I also make extensive use of the smart group “Today”, since this one, for me, makes it the easiest way to rapidly locate a recently added file or whatnot.

Now my recent adding a lot of my feeds to Devonthink obviously caused all these feeds to show up in the “Today” smart group results.
Question:
How do I need to adjust this smart rule to ignore / exclude feeds?
I tried the following, but it does not work.

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How does one exclude?

Thanks for helping out!

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An RSS article is News.
A feed is the source of the news.
Therefore, you’d use Kind is not News.

If you wanted to filter both, hold the Option key and create a subcriterion with Kind is not News and Kind is not Feed.

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That’s a really neat video as well - two of the ultimate experts in DT and Tinderbox demonstrating together - really worthwhile.

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Thanks a ton for answering! I was not aware of the Option key to create compound predicates.

I think this is what you mean?

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A difference I see now is that:

  • before => there were no tags
  • after => plenty of tags (even tags I’m not aware of that I created)

I do remember long time ago there was some setting to convert ?? to tags (from Feeds or News?)

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Yes, that’s correct. And while subcriteria isn’t technically required, it (1) keeps things orderly and (2) is a good thing to know about.

Regarding the tags, disable Settings > RSS > Convert categories to tags.

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