Yah, finally, the proximity search is working

[Dellu]

I have been paying for Foxtrot for many years because the proximity search in Dt has been ineffective. Finally, the latest release seems to fix the issue.

Thank you guys.

[halloleo]

Interesting. What do you mean with proximity search?

Also, how did Foxtrott integrate with the documents you have in DEVONthink? Or did you use index folders to access the documents in DEVONthink and Foxtrott?

[chrillek]

Ah, the joys of the forum’s search function:

improve the proximity search

As described long time ago, in [url]NEAR (proximity) search rendered useless?! Any suggestions?] post, the proximity search is really dysfunctional. It has a lot of problems. Right now, I am using Foxtrot to supplement the weaknesses of DEVONthink. I hope you guys will improve it at least of the next major release. I would love to completely rely on Devonthink. the highlighting the search should not be confused by the redundant use of the same term: Mary NEAR/10 John should not find strings l…

[Dellu]

Foxtrot can index DEVONthink’s database. It has the option.

[halloleo]

@Dellu

Foxtrot can index DEVONthink’s database.

Cool. Thanks.

I might look into it. – At the moment I’m using NeoFinder for doing “big” searches over network shares and in backup DMGs. NeoFinder is great for this, but it doesn’t play particularly well with DEVONthink.

[Dellu]

@halloleo

NeoFinder

Interesting.
I never heard of NeoFinder.