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DESCRIPTION
DEVONnote is an easy-to-use, intelligent note pad capable of storing and organising plain or rich texts and file aliases. Store and manage your bookmarks in DEVONnote too, browse the Web using the integrated browser based on Apple's WebKit, capture interesting notes immediately or organize webcams. Furthermore, DEVONnote helps you sort in new stuff and supports cross and Wiki-style links.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.0b8:
- Tagging including a (still incomplete) tag view; OpenMeta is supported while importing and exporting files/documents. It is also used when indexing or synchronizing files/documents.
- An alert on startup asks whether the application should be installed in the global Applications folder in case it's not installed in one of the recommended locations for applications.
- Option Preferences > General > Appearance > Colorize icons with label. By default this option is disabled and labels are (more or less) displayed like in the Finder. Enabling this option colorizes icons/thumbnails (including favorites in DEVONthink Pro's sidebar) with the label's color like in previous versions.
- Option Preferences > General > Appearance > Mark duplicates and replicants in color that switches between coloring duplicates and replicants in blue and red instead of marking them with an icon.
- Optional Check/Uncheck toolbar item.
- Preference option Web > Web Content > Zoom text only to enable Safari-4-style zooming.
- Read-only databases (e.g. locked in the Finder, on read-only volumes like CDs/DVDs or with wrong permissions/ownership) and their favorites are marked in DEVONthink Pro's sidebar and in the Database Properties panel.
- Finder labels with same name (preferred) or same color are used while importing/indexing (Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' only).
- Support for .vncloc bookmarks and for 'ilvn' HFS type; support for plain text and HTML/XML file formats defined by third-party applications added.
Improvement:
- Interface section of Preferences, General tab, splitted into Appearance and Interface.
- Polished appearance of dividors, borders, tabs, icon views, column views, PDF thumbnail views, sheet views, drawers, group selector and the icon size slider. Fixes also harmless console messages on Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'.
- Status and file property icons revised.
- Slightly revised background color of highlighting of occurrences to distinguish it from the default highlight colors.
- Data > Mark > As Read/Unread, As Locked/Unlocked, and As Checked/Unchecked combined and therefore the commands toggle now these values (e.g. like Apple Mail)
- The unread icon does not replace the file icon anymore.
- Automatic scrolling added to tabs.
- Data > New > Bookmark downloads and sets the name automatically if no name is entered.
- Double-clicking on items in the icon pane of split views or column views opens them in the same pane instead of opening a new window or hoisting the current window (depending on the preferences).
- Optional pop-up menu to the right of tabs bar includes all tabs now.
- Pressing the Option modifier key while clicking on the URL in a document's navigation bar opens the URL in a new tab if possible.
- Shortcut Option-Tab (now supported by main, search and document windows) supports the tags bar, too. In addition, the new shortcut Option-Shift-Tab cycles through all panes in reverse order. Finally, both shortcuts select the first search result if necessary after navigating to the search results.
- View > Columns > Comment and View > Sort > by Comments renamed to (by) Spotlight Comment to distinguish them from the comment of documents.
- Command Open Link In New Tab added to contextual menus of text views.
- Tab management in general.
- Escape key can be used to cancel renaming of search results.
- Some keyboard shortcuts revised.
- Go > First/Previous/Next/Last Document support visible toolbar search results.
- Number of results of simple smart groups (without using search terms or tags) is immediately displayed in all views including DEVONthink Pro's sidebar now.
- After moving the selected items to the trash, the next item is selected in split and three-pane views.
- Many more minor interface enhancements.
- Recognition of duplicates.
- Advertisement filter.
- Sorting.
- Rebuilding is more reliable.
- Handling of user style sheets.
- Memory management and performance.
Fixed:
- Grouping items selected in the upper right pane of the three-pane view used the wrong destination group.
- Command-D shortcut for 'Don't Save' didn't work on English systems.
- Various pop-up menus (e.g. of search fields, tabs or the Label/Highlight toolbar items) do not contain contextual menu items anymore.
- Count of smart groups wasn't always up to date.
- Temporarily wrong item count of groups after duplicating.
- After setting custom icons for the inbox of databases, the icon wasn't always flushed and therefore usually gone after restarting the application.
- Switching between views or databases does no longer reset/remove additional tabs.
- Rare crash after switching views or databases.
- Localization glitches.
- Minor bugs and glitches.
Removed: Danish localization.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| DEVONnote User Reviews (6 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jan 30 2009 |
ZO219 There is nothing like the Devon products. In the years they've been out, nothing's even approached them. They are constantly under active development by a terrific team of people. I can't explain it well .... the range of features, the capabilities of the apps themselves ... but you can try them and see for yourself!
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 | Apr 30 2005 |
ANONYMOUS DevonNote 1.7 generally works well (new features are nice), but seems to have something of a bug -- freezes after folders/files are deleted, and deletes only show up after quit-and-reopen.
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 | May 1 2005 |
ANONYMOUS According to Devon's Forum for DevonNote, Version 1.7 requires Panther for proper working; then why did its download notice on MacUpdate indicate that OSX 10.2.7 is fine with it?
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| Nov 30 2004 |
SCOTT This is an excellent product. I originally used Sticky Brain, but the recent update left me looking for a better application. I've found DEVONnote to be a perfect replacement. The transition, though not automatic, was fairly simple for my small archive. It's flexible trial period gave me more then enough time to realize it was worth the purchase price. I find myself using it a few times a day. It's folder structure makes it simple to categorize my notes, while it's quick search makes it easy enough for me to find things when I don't have time to sort. There are a ton of features and the with this recent update, the developers seem committed to making this product even better.
(Version 1.6) | |
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| May 4 2004 |
MRANDRE It's too bad this came out after DevonThink, which I bought, because DevonThink has many features I don't use at all. I mainly use it to organize text snippets for my writing, nothing fancy, and that's just exactly what DevonNote does. I might buy it just to salute the tailored fit. That and the VASTLY superior icon. Yes, I am that picky.
(Version 1.0b) | |
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| Nov 4 2004 |
MRANDRE Just thought I would note that I did go ahead and buy the program. This is a lean application that is nothing more than it needs to be. There are a lot of goofy interfaces for this sort of application. DEVONnote gets it just right.
(Version 1.5) | |
| Mar 14 2004 |
NCIANCA I mostly use the regular DevonThink application. DevonNote is a "lightweight" version of DT. Like DT it is a well written application that is suitable for many users who need a simpler scrapbook manager type program. I do feel bad for all the developers of the low-end scrapbook management/notepad type programs because the King (jr) has just moved into their turf.
(Version 1.0) | |
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| Mar 9 2004 |
ANONYMOUS No Unicode Support!!! Can't search Chinese text.
(Version 1.0) | |
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| Nov 5 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Dont write in Chinese & you wont have any problems.
(Version 1.5) | |
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