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DEVONthink
Version: 1.9.14 ||
Release Date: 2008-05-05 ||
License: Commercial with demo
(39.95 USD)
DEVONthink is the solution for the digital age, the one database for all your documents. And it's flexible. It adapts to your personal needs. Use it as your document repository, your filing cabinet, your e-mail archive or your project organizer. Collect and organize data from the web for a publication, enrich it with sound and movie files, and export everything as a web site, drag it to an Apple Pages document for publishing in print, or copy it to your iPod.
Tags: information , catalogue , organization , gtd
Opinions:
I've been sometime inspecting DT Pro, Soho Notes and Yojimbo. This last one is the most user friendly and mac of them all, everything appears in spotlight, tags, smart folder, draggeable dock...it's great. however doesn't support subfolders, so if you want to track 4-5 research at the same time, it is useless. Soho is too bloated and DT lacks several functionalities. It has its own commercial database, sometimes it is slowand spotlight cannot index it. Hmm, no perfect research app yet.
Devonthink is an amazing information manager. I've tried StickyBrain and Yojimbo and in terms of power and features, Devonthink has it all.
Note: I use Pro, and the applescripts provided are indispensible
Superb information manager. Has really nice document management capabilities -- great for replacing PageKeeper or PaperPort for switchers.
DevonThink is simply the one piece of software that I would rescue if my computer would ever be in mortal danger.
Simply the best not taking software out there. It combines the best features of Circus Ponies, Yohjimbo, Safari, and Webstractor. The most powerfull feature is the AI for auto-sorting of newly added documents. It is actually better than the user at finding the appropriate group to add it to.