# Smart Group showing all documents with at least one character in the Finder comment
**URL:** https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/smart-group-showing-all-documents-with-at-least-one-character-in-the-finder-comment/86348
**Category:** Tips
**Tags:** devonthink4
**Created:** [February 18, 2026, 7:57am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/smart-group-showing-all-documents-with-at-least-one-character-in-the-finder-comment/86348 "2026-02-18T07:57:06Z")
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### Author:  [@halloleo](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/halloleo)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2026, 7:57am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/smart-group-showing-all-documents-with-at-least-one-character-in-the-finder-comment/86348/1 "2026-02-18T07:57:06Z")
I want to see all documents with at least one character in their Finder comment.
I had a bit of a hard time finding the right value for the `matches` field:
I need to use `?` (the _glob_ symbol for a character) instead! š
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### Author:  [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2026, 8:01am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/smart-group-showing-all-documents-with-at-least-one-character-in-the-finder-comment/86348/2 "2026-02-18T08:01:19Z")
The condition _Item contains Comment_ is the recommended and much more efficient solution in this case.
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### Author:  [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2026, 8:18am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/smart-group-showing-all-documents-with-at-least-one-character-in-the-finder-comment/86348/3 "2026-02-18T08:18:45Z")
P.S:
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### Author:  [@halloleo](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/halloleo)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 12:04am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/smart-group-showing-all-documents-with-at-least-one-character-in-the-finder-comment/86348/4 "2026-02-19T00:04:35Z")
> [@cgrunenberg](#):
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> The condition _Item contains Comment_ is the recommended and much more efficient solution in this case.
Of course! Thanks for this.
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### Author:  [@halloleo](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/halloleo)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 12:23am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/smart-group-showing-all-documents-with-at-least-one-character-in-the-finder-comment/86348/5 "2026-02-19T00:23:00Z")
This looks cool ā but where do I find the Search Assistant?
(I searched the help and the application menus for for āSearch Assistantā, but could not find it. I also had a look at the Chat pop-up window, but nothingās there eitherā¦ IBTW, I have connected the Gemma3 model via ollama.)
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### Author:  [@BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/BLUEFROG)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 1:35am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/smart-group-showing-all-documents-with-at-least-one-character-in-the-finder-comment/86348/6 "2026-02-19T01:35:37Z")
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### Author:  [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 6:52am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/smart-group-showing-all-documents-with-at-least-one-character-in-the-finder-comment/86348/7 "2026-02-19T06:52:01Z")
> [@halloleo](#):
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> IBTW, I have connected the Gemma3 model via ollama.
There are multiple versions of Gemma3, from 270 million up to 27 billion parameters. The smaller ones might be fast but probabily will fail especially in case of more complex tasks like the search assistant.
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### Author:  [@halloleo](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/halloleo)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 3:13am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/smart-group-showing-all-documents-with-at-least-one-character-in-the-finder-comment/86348/8 "2026-03-02T03:13:10Z")
Thanks @BLUEFROG. Found it! š
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### Author:  [@halloleo](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/halloleo)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 3:28am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/smart-group-showing-all-documents-with-at-least-one-character-in-the-finder-comment/86348/9 "2026-03-02T03:28:37Z")
> [@cgrunenberg](#):
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> There are multiple versions of Gemma3, from 270 million up to 27 billion parameters. The smaller ones might be fast but probabily will fail especially in case of more complex tasks like the search assistant.
Thank you. This certainly makes a difference.
I am using `gemma3:latest` which has 4.3 billion params and 3.3GB size.
Would you say, this is sufficient for the Search Assistant? Can you recommend another local model (maybe up to 5GB size)?
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### Author:  [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 7:05am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/smart-group-showing-all-documents-with-at-least-one-character-in-the-finder-comment/86348/10 "2026-03-02T07:05:39Z")
> [@halloleo](#):
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> Can you recommend another local model (maybe up to 5GB size)?
Unfortunately not, I usually test only models with at least 24b parameters.
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### Author:  [@rkaplan](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/rkaplan)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 2:05pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/smart-group-showing-all-documents-with-at-least-one-character-in-the-finder-comment/86348/11 "2026-03-02T14:05:29Z")
I think .\* will include blank items
I believe .+ will find items with 1 or more characters
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### Author:  [@troejgaard](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/troejgaard)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/smart-group-showing-all-documents-with-at-least-one-character-in-the-finder-comment/86348/12 "2026-03-02T17:46:32Z")
DEVONthinkās search operators include different wildcards, but you canāt use actual regex.
In case you missed the first reply:
> [@cgrunenberg](#):
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> The condition _Item contains Comment_ is the recommended and much more efficient solution in this case.