# Bookends notes stream

**URL:** <https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/bookends-notes-stream/9696>\
**Category:** Tips\
**Created:** [April 15, 2010, 10:42am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/bookends-notes-stream/9696 "2010-04-15T10:42:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![jmckeown](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@jmckeown](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/jmckeown)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 10:42am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/bookends-notes-stream/9696/1 "2010-04-15T10:42:09Z")

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Can DevonThink index the Notes Stream that Bookends has? I do not know whether Bookends stores these as files or keeps them in a database.

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**Author:** ![cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cgrunenberg/32/7172_2.png) [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 10:49am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/bookends-notes-stream/9696/2 "2010-04-15T10:49:08Z")

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If they’re files and there’s Spotlight support for them and Bookends is installed in /Applications, DEVONthink 2 should be able to index them.

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**Author:** ![pete\_medway](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@pete\_medway](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/pete_medway)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 11:04am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/bookends-notes-stream/9696/3 "2010-09-28T11:04:10Z")

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In the forum there are various references to indexing Bookends notestreams on DTPO but I can’t find any simple account of how to. jmckeown 's query (Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:42 am) doesnt seem to have been answered by anyone who’s actually done it.

In fact what I’d like is to be able to index a Bookends database so that everything in it, notes, authors, the lot, can be searched. I can index the database but searching produces no results.

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**Author:** ![korm](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@korm](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/korm)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/bookends-notes-stream/9696/4 "2010-09-28T18:07:17Z")

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> [@pete\_medway](#):
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> In the forum there are various references to indexing Bookends notestreams on DTPO

This is the only thread I can find that mentions the note stream. ❓

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> In fact what I’d like is to be able to index a Bookends database so that everything in it, notes, authors, the lot, can be searched. I can index the database but searching produces no results.

BE’s database is binary. All that indexing the database in DTPO does is put a link to the BE database into your DTPO database. DTPO will never be able to read the contents or sort out what’s user data.

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> I can’t find any simple account of how to [index the note stream]

AFAIK, the note stream is inside the database, not external. DTPO won’t be able to see it.

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**Author:** ![pete\_medway](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@pete\_medway](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/pete_medway)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 11:30am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/bookends-notes-stream/9696/5 "2010-10-02T11:30:17Z")

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Korm, many thanks for what is evidently the definitive answer. Ah well, worth asking. Fortunately, BE’s search facility seems to do the job.

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**Author:** ![system](https://devontech-discourse.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/2X/4/4e6ff70c96be2eb307a274d890bba8d71ba671b3.png) [@system](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 11:08am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/bookends-notes-stream/9696/6 "2022-01-21T11:08:24Z")

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