Questions on possible use-case in academic environment (law)

[stephenjw]

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when I grow up I will even be able to add an icon to DT

It’s not as adult as you might think . I found the manual a bit delphic (could be my limitations, not the manual). You just need to put the script in the “Toolbar” subdirectory of the “com.devon-technologies.think3” subfolder in “Application Scripts”. If you have the script icon in you DT menu bar:

(1) open your script folder:

(2) put the script in the Toolbar s/d:

(3) quit & restart DT

(4) right click on the grey area of the top bar in DT:

(5) select “Customize Toolbar”

You’ll see a window with a series of icons, including one for the script you just moved or copied into the Toolbar s/d (in my case, the icon named “Test”):

(6) As the instructions say, you drag it onto your DT toolbar.

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the work involved in adding a reference to a specific page of the journal (as you did in your original reply) was less than the splitting + referencing steps.

If it helps, DT takes some of the pain out of splitting files (as Jim pointed out to me in January).

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The simple search (currently) just displays journals sich have the case file ref in them without ordering them by date (which would be the pdf-file date and not the publishing date)

Wouldn’t that no longer be a problem if you are either setting the creation date or a custom metadata date field to the date of the subsequent decision? You can just sort by ascending date. In my Smith v Wilson example above, DT displays all the subsequent cases referring to Smith v Wilson in ascending date order:

Anyway, I think I see your logic. I guess the options are tagging, custom metadata, maybe a smart rule. If it would be useful for you to have an intermediate “bridging” linking note, you might find the Annotations inspector useful. I use it to make notes about cases with links to subsequent decisions to map lines of authority for a particular proposition.