Collection of books I added today ?
Hi
Is it possible to create a collection of books that I purchased today ? I've tried selecting them all and dragging into the collection but this doesn't work (I just drag one instead of the whole collection). I could also create a rule that says updated "today" but when tomorrow comes .... Is it possible to freeze a collection so that I could use updated today ? Any ideas on this would be appreciated.
Thanks
Dave
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To 'freeze a collection' from a dated update, create the collection, then from within the collection, you could tag them with today's date and use the mytag for a future collection.
From the library, I also believe it is possible to create a collection from your Library search string. But again, you'd have to use a mytag to keep this collection static.
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Thanks Doc. I think I have found a large fly in my ointment :-) LastUpdated doesn't appear to be a valid search field. I've checked with the Wiki and it confirms this :-(. Without that I don't think I can do what I want - unless there is a way of adding personal tags to multiple entries in the library at one time ? I'll investigate tomorrow but Its 1AM in the UK and definitely time for sleep :-) Thanks again for your suggestion
Dave
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Use a collection rule like updateddate:<July 3, 2016>
Other examples:
- updateddate:2016
- updateddate:2016-01-26
- updateddate:20160126
- updateddate:<Jan 2016>
- updateddate:<Jan 26, 2016>
- updateddate:<Jan-May 2016>
- updateddate:<greater Jan 1, 2016>
- updateddate:<less Jan 1, 2016>
Dave
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Dave Thawley said:
- unless there is a way of adding personal tags to multiple entries in the library at one time ?
Dave
Have your Library window sorted by "Last Updated" then with the resourses you want to be in a collection click the top one on the "Type" field highlighting it, scroll down the the bottom one and Shift-Click it. All of them will be highlighted. Then you can put a personal tag on all at once.
You can filter the Library with Dave's updateddate:<July 4, 2016> and they will be the only resources visible making it easier. The problem making a collection rule with updateddate is when a resource is re-updated in the future the collection will then be incomplete.
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Robert Harner said:
The problem making a collection rule with updateddate is when a resource is re-updated in the future the collection will then be incomplete.
Ahh, yes! To maintain the collection of added resources you have to tag them manually.
Robert Harner said:Have your Library window sorted by "Last Updated" then with the resourses you want to be in a collection click the top one on the "Type" field highlighting it, scroll down the the bottom one and Shift-Click it. All of them will be highlighted. Then you can put a personal tag on all at once.
Don't forget to click the Resource Information (i) button after selecting resources.
Dave
===Windows 11 & Android 13
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Ahhh, great. Thanks very much all. Thanks for the idiot instructions as well Dave (press i :-)) - I needed them. This is doing just what I wanted now so thank you
Dave
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