I’ve read a lot on this forum and in the DT user guide regarding Aliases, Tags and WikiLinks… but a solution for my particular situation doesn’t seem obvious yet.
My setup:
• MacBook Pro M2 Max
• DEVONthink 3.9.6
• Automatic WikiLinks turned ON
• Nearly 400 Tags
• 26,000+ Documents
• Imported research material is converted to RTFs to make use of WikiLinks
In my research database I have created tags like:
• pulsars
• radio astronomy
• cepheid variables
• quantum gravity
• distance ladder
etc.
These work beautifully for quick filtering. However, there are numerous astrophysicists and authors I need to cross-reference via WikiLinks from within my documents. For example:
• Vera Rubin
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• Andrea Ghez
• Edwin Hubble
etc.
In an attempt to create this network of links I have been adding their names to the Aliases field of whatever documents reference them. My intention is that whenever I’m reading any document, these people’s names would appear as a WikiLink, which, when clicked, would take me to a list of all other documents where that person is referenced. It appears that’s not possible. Instead of seeing a list of Andrea Ghez’s documents when I click on the WikiLink of her name, it seems to merely point me to one random document where she is referenced.
If I am approaching this incorrectly, would someone be so kind as to set me straight? I simply want to create a network of people I’m researching so that I can quickly access all their works and sources wherever they are cited within my database.
Thanks much!
Phil