I only recently discovered, in a forum post entitled “File action - smart rules,” that these even exist.
I cannot find any documentation on them. Is there any?
Where have you been looking for this information?
See “Automation” section, page 198 of the outstanding “DEVONthink Manual” or in the applications “Help”.
Take note that your quote mentions “automatically put a file into the year folder” … In DEVONthink you’ll not find that nomenclature. Group is a more proper term that should be used.
There are many posts, as I recall, here in this forum discussing how to to do exactly what you are wanting to do.
In the user manual, section “Automation”. There are chapters on smart rules etc
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The cited forum post was not mine. I was only showing where I first saw the “file” and “move” actions mentioned.
Also, I cited to the wrong post. This was the one where BF used the word “File” — not in the actions, my mistake, but in the search criteria. I was trying to do a negative content search, like the poster here:
I did not understand how the word “File” made the “!” lookahead expression work:
Yes, it’s documented and explicitly mentioned in the Appendix > Smart Rule Events and Actions section of the built-in Help and manual,
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