I think this ‘multiple listings in camelcase’ would work, but it is tedious as you say.

I’m dialoguing with a few others on this one and will keep you in the loop

Just to give you a bit more background:
I’m moving across from a Windows program called AskSam – also a freeform database. One of the attractions of DT is not having to fill out fields to do your indexing. However, I’m beginning to wonder whether it might not be a good idea to do something in DT a bit like this – i.e. a ‘field’ for Bible book, another for ‘chapterstart’, another for ‘versestart, ‘chapterend’, ‘verseend’and so on. Logically this should make searching easier, though I’ve still got to work that one out. I guess what I’m aiming at is something like the search on http://www.sermoncentral.com

Any further thoughts?

Thanks

Tim

I have thought that the best way to deal with this is to put multiple verse references in when you are listing a group. In other words, instead of John 5:1-8, you would include John 5:1, John 5:2, John 5:3, John 5:4, John 5:5, John 5:6, John 5: 7 and John 5:8. I think in order for this to work, you’d have to actually make it camelcase. In other words, if you made it John 5:8, then if you searched for Corinthians 5:8, your John 5:8 might pop up. You would need to make each reference run together. John5:8. No space in between.

Then if you wanted to find an article you wrote that included these verses, your search would have to include each reference in one search.

What do you think?

I’m using Devonthink as well & just wondered whether you might have found a good way of searching for Bible references in your Devonthink database.

E.g. I want to find a talk or some notes on John 6:51-18, but I don’t want to find all the docs with just the word ‘John’ in it, and docs on John 6 might be useful, as might docs on John 5-8

Any ideas?

Thanks

Tim

I’m impressed, Bro!