I’ve been having trouble organizing my tags and I keep finding duplicates, many of which are empty. I realized that DEVONthink is separating tags based on the database. Why? I think of tags as universal attributes that span all projects and databases. Isn’t this the point?
For example, with my current setup below (database, group, document) let’s say that I want to search for everything related to inhibitor x. If I click on a tag in the left pane, I expected to see all documents with #x throughout all databases. Instead I get three separate tag groups. It seems like tags are acting bascially as groups rather than labels
Research
- protocols
- product sheet for inhibitor x (tagged #x)
Data
- experiments
- experiment using inhibitor x (tagged #x)
Study
- papers
- study using inhibitor x (tagged #x)
Another thing. For a while I had the preferences set to convert keywords to tags when importing documents. This resulted in many unexpected tags that I didn’t want so I deleted the tag groups. But I just found out that if a document in my inbox has a tag and I delete that tag, the document is also trashed!
Can someone please help me understand the best way to use tags? They seem to be functioning different than tags in bear or evernote