Tip for applying two or more color labels to a DT item via MacOS standard symbol/emoji viewer (UTF-8 / unicode)

DEVONthink
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This isn’t the most brilliant of tips, but here it is anyway…

If you require two or more color-labels/“flags” to visually appear on at DT item, I have found the standard unicode symbols for this purpose, to work perfectly well. These are available on the usual MacOS symbol/emoji viewer. As they are treated like text, you can therefore search, for example, for the yellow circle using the “Name contains” operator.

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Bear in mind, this may not work well outside of DEVONthink, especially across filesystems.

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True indeed. It also looks hideous, IMO, but if necessity requires to see two colored “flags” on an item, this seems to work.