The comment field is accessed through the more-info option whenever a file is highlighted in the finder, as any Mac user would be familiar with. The addition of the symbol (ie, would limit the returns to files that have been appropriately tagged rather than any file that includes the word within the text. To do this, you would tag each file with a number of relevant keywords attached to a symbol or * or &) so that later, when searching for related notes keyword searches are possible. With a certain amount of discipline, it is possible to refine Spotlight through the use of keyword tags. I find, however, that Spotlight searches become quickly ponderous.
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In the Mac world, particularly with the advent of Spotlight which allows for full text searching of everything on your hard drive, one may ask why bother with a database program. Using devonthink for historical research: Constructing the DatabaseĭevonThink Pro Office (DTPO) has become my research database of choice.