Using Hyperbolic it is possible to view the linked notes of a parent note. I’m wondering if it is possible to write a Query in Crosstabs as to show the linked notes of a parent note.
Interesting idea! linkedTo() and linkedFrom() are likely key here; you can look them up in TinderboxHelp or aTbRef.
It would help people here if you could describe a little more about the study you want to do.
Queries can help you find the notes, but they are not going to help you create the linkes. You’d want to use action code for teh link createion.
One other consideration, I might be wrong, but I don’t think there is a visual tell in the crosstab view to show link associations.
It would be cool if you could mockup what you’re looking to see.
Yes, but the original poster was asking about links in crosstabs. This isn’t about creating links, it’s about analysis.
Good point. Still, the question is not clear how one would view link associations in Crosstabs.
Thank you for the answer.
I’m collecting a lot of research papers in Devonthink and I copy some of them into Tinderbox. By doing so there is an easily accessible link to the pdf in Devonthink. For some papers that I read in more detail, I copy text and paste it in the Tinderbox note, then I also create a Selection link in Devonthink and paste it. Now I get a link to where the text is in the paper. I use mainly Map view and group papers by topic and visualize the topics by adornments. Papers that are references in a paper I create a link from the “parent” paper. Now I can mark a note and see in Hyperbolic the referenced papers that were interesting enough to paste into Tinderbox. I was contemplating if Crosstabs could give this list of interesting papers and how to write the query.
Crosstabs answers questions about correlation. For example, I might have a collection of notes about computer science papers. Some are from ACM journals, others are from other societies. For some, the corresponding author is from the Western hemisphere, while for others the corresponding author is not. It might be interesting to see whether US papers tend to go to ACM journals.
Query: $Prototype=="A Paper"
Row: $WesternHemisphere
Column: $IsACM
The query limits the notes in the table. Row and Column are attributes of interest; the cross tabs table counts the number of notes in each box.
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