I would like to rapidly go through my files and add information into the info pane or tag bar, without a mouse. I am taking a few courses and added files to DEVONthink 4 (pdf documents and notes and jpg photos from class). I want to quickly go through and tag each one without using the mouse. Just arrow keys and whatever you offer. Ideally, there is a keyboard combination that will allow me to be inside the tag bar all the time, advancing from one file’s tag bar to the next. Same thing with info panel if that’s an option. I will see the file, enter tag “sociology-301”, and hit the keyboard shortcut that pops me into the tag bar of the next file where I enter “history-314”, etc. I tried to figure this out with manual and perplexity but haven’t found success.
What you want should be Go > Previous Document and Go > Next Document. The default keyboard shortcuts are ⌘Page Up, ⌘Page Down. These let you jump between documents without changing the keyboard focus.
How you enter Page Up/Down depends on your keyboard layout… On smaller keyboards without those dedicated keys, it’s usually mapped to Fn/Globe + Arrow Up/Down, making the shortcuts Fn⌘▲, Fn⌘▼.
You are on to something, but it’s breaking on certain files…for example some yahoo pages that I captured with DEVONthink safari extension (Kind: Web internet location)…but not all yahoo captures, one is working properly like the PNG files. Same experience with the tag bar.
You said tags not Finder Comments.
Also, it’s not broken" as that implies something with a designed function isn’t working. There is no specific function built-in for what you’re doing. The web page is clearly taking focus and that’s not a function of every web page accessed via a bookmark.
@BLUEFROG to be fair, the OP included this (easily missed) sentence:
… And in my experience, Next/Previous Document does keep keyboard focus in the same spot in inspectors – even down to the exact unit in date-time fields. I don’t utilize bookmarks that much in DEVONthink, so I hadn’t encountered a website stealing focus.
@evernote.refugee While a .webloc is technically a file, I generally wouldn’t think of it as one. It is simply a bookmark, a pointer to some internet location. When you open it, the page starts loading in DEVONthink’s internal web browser, executing all the code that entails.
DEVONthink can’t really control how random websites are programmed. Apparently some of them hijack keyboard focus. I’m not really surprised an online search engine would focus your input on the search field. I just tried with DuckDuckGo and Google – same thing.
If this annoys you, you can disable automatic loading of bookmarks in the settings. (Settings > Files > Preview > General)