Mark Read/Unread

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I don’t believe there is any way to do this at present–forgive me if there is, but it would be great to add a preference so that the status of any item in the database would only change from unread to read if you’ve had it open for, say, 5 seconds or so, as many email clients now do? Be helpful to at least have this as an option…

thanks!
k.

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If you want to keep an item “unread” then one possibility is to use the keyboard shortcut that toggles the Read and Unread indicators – Command-K. There is also a toggle for Flagged / Not Flagged and Locked / Not Locked. (See Data > Mark). A unread document that is selected becomes read (as you noted) and command-K turns the indicator back on and leaves it on while that document is selected and after you click away.

Try it. I believe it might get you to virtually the same place?


[size=85]The Data > Mark submenu[/size]

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Thanks! Have been doing that already though–it helps, but would be nice to be able to scan through a series of documents, not having actually “read” them, but having opened them, without the state changing (though one can always change it back, as you say…)