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Posted by Amontillado
Dec 21, 2017 at 02:59 PM
I guess I should take my own advice and read the thoughtful manual.
If you keep the ‘get info’ window open, it tracks the current selection. The tags listed have drop-down arrows, so you can reveal any tag. The replicants and duplicates dropdown lists all the group instances (not tags, which is consistent). The list of instances is clickable, so from the Get Info window you can follow tags and instances.
In the Go menu, you can go to previous/next instance, and the Data menu has a Reveal command. Reveal is a little curious, because it will always reveal the same instance of a replicated document.
It’s nowhere near as nice as navigating around in TheBrain, but discovering the obvious helps.
My theory about why TheBrain works for me is I suffer Doorway Effect quite a bit (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/).
Sometimes I can leverage the effect. Imagine a new context, like getting to work, and thinking “reset my password.” That will help me remember to reset my password. I think breezing through nodes in TheBrain might be like that. Or I may be quite daft. My kids have been right in the past, they could have hit this nail on its old head, too.
Posted by Larry_in_Bangkok
Sep 10, 2021 at 12:52 PM
Hello.
New poster here, but not new to the concepts.
I never use tags in DEVONthink.
5,000 documents; 0 tags.
Spend no time selecting tags, applying them to documents, or managing them.
I just dump everything into one DEVONthink database and let the software do the thinking.
I’ve been following this “no tags” approach for over five years now.
No problems at all.
Same for categories: none at all.
(Well, really just one category—for a very specialized use.)
Result: minimal time, minimal effort, DEVONthink does all the thinking.
I wonder if any other DEVONthink users are doing this.
—Larry
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