Question about sorter behavior

DEVONthink
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I have a couple quick questions about the sorter’s behavior:

(1) When you clip from a webpage, the “body” field stays empty — does it have a purpose? (There’s no mention of it in the manual for web clipping)

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(2) After I clip, the sorter’s interface stays open (see below), requiring a click again to hide it. Is this as designed?

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  1. Any text entered in the body field is stored in the Finder comments in DT3
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  2. It depends on how the Sorter is opened, if you select the menu extra icon manually and add a bookmark it will stay open, if you use the Clip to DT Hotkey or DT browser extension then the Sorter will close after you add the bookmark.
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  1. question for the developers: shouldn’t that field be labeled “finder comments” instead of “body”?

  2. thanks, I see that now.

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The naming is so that the ui is consistent across clipping and note taking.

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Yes but the two fields capture different data, so I find that having the same label for both is confusing. (Especially since “body” means something specific for a webpage.)

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Yes body means something specific if we were talking about html content, however in the context of the Sorter you generating a note of a selected format and therefore a common wording across note creation is preferable.

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I can understand dansroka’s puzzlement as it’s all rather unintuitive.

And why call it “Finder comments”? Any data entered are not actually stored in the real Finder comments (Show in Finder > Get Info).

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Whatever I enter in the DT3’s Finder Comments field is reflected in the “Comments” field when the file is viewed in MacOS finder. Just FYI

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Hmm… that’s strange because it’s not being reflected in the Finder for me. Are we talking about indexed or non-indexed database here? (though maybe that doesn’t matter)…

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Indexed

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Ah I see. So these “Finder comments” I guess are just “comments” in the context of a non-indexed database … ?

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They will become Finder comments after exporting non-indexed items too.