If this has already been addressed and I missed it, sorry for the duplicate.
I am familiar with the manual way of selecting all documents in a given smart group and then assigning them the proper tag, however, this is cumbersome when pdfs belonging to different smart groups are frequently added.
As such, I am wondering if it’s possible to automatically append a particular tag to each pdf in a given smart group? I suspect this is doable by attaching a folder script to each smart group. More than anything, I lack the scripting know-how to experiment with this.
This tagging seems useful (at least to me) in at least two regards.
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Unless I’m mistaken, you cannot quickly assess the intersection between documents present in two different smart groups without manually creating a new smart group with the combined search criteria. However, if you assign a common tag to all pdfs in a given smart group, you can quickly assess the intersection between documents by selecting both tags in the Tag View.
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Assigning tags to all pdfs in a given smart group provides a means of categorizing/organizing documents that is transferable with the documents themselves. For example, pdf documents that are organized and tagged in Devonthink, can be organized/searched similarly based on those tags in a different program that can filter based on tag name (e.g., a citation manager, I use Bookends).
It’s also possible that tagging pdfs in this manner is a bad idea for reasons other than I’ve considered. In either case I’d appreciate any script ideas or comments that may be useful. Thanks for your help.