I’ve got two records:
“Book: something something”
“I read a book today”
I want to do a search (preferably a smart group) that only returns records beginning with “book”, so it would return “book: something something” but not “I read a book today”.
I don’t think there’s a way to do that from the search panel, but thought I’d check…
I just want to follow up on this and thank you again… I’m finding it absolutely perfect for my needs. I like to keep “thingy lists” in DEVONthink, but as separate entries… so I’ve got things like:
- Book: Writing to Learn
- Course: Learning How to Learn
- Maybe: Live in Italy
- Movie: The Year of Living Dangerously
- Project: new dog fence
And by setting up smart groups, I have instant access to my different “thingy lists”. Pretty cool 
Glad to hear it was useful!