As described long time ago, in [url]NEAR (proximity) search rendered useless?! Any suggestions?] post, the proximity search is really dysfunctional. It has a lot of problems. Right now, I am using Foxtrot to supplement the weaknesses of DEVONthink.
I hope you guys will improve it at least of the next major release. I would love to completely rely on Devonthink.
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the search should not be confused by the redundant use of the same term: Mary NEAR/10 John should not find strings like “Mary hates Mary”.
You can just look at how the proximity search works in Foxtrot and learn from that.
I just created two documents, one containing “Mary and John” and the other one “Mary hates Mary” but the search term “Mary NEAR/10 John” returns only the first one as expected. Could you send an example document plus the search term to cgrunenberg - at - devon-technologies.com? Thanks in advance!