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DEVONthink Pro... In today's world, everything is digital. From shopping receipts to important research papers, your life often fills your hard drive in the form of emails, PDFs, Word documents, multimedia files and more. Questions eventually pop up, like where do you store all of this stuff? How do you organize these very different file types, and even better, how do you find the exact file you're looking for the second you need it? It's almost as if you need a second brain just to keep your digital life straight.

DEVONthink is the solution to the digital age conundrum. It is your second brain, the one and only database for all your digital files, be they PDFs, emails, Word docs or even multimedia files. Boasting a refined artificial intelligence, DEVONthink is exceedingly flexible and adapts to your personal needs. And if the files are not digital yet, digitize them with DEVONthink Pro Office.

Use it as your document repository, your filing cabinet, your email archive, or your project organizer; DEVONthink can do it all. You can even collect and organize data from the web for your own use, enrich it with sound and movie files from your hard drive, and then export the finished product as a website or to an Apple Pages document to print, should you so desire. Or copy the content to your iPod! The possibilities are only as limited as your imagination.

DEVONthink Professional Office extends DEVONthink Pro with three additional modules: Pro-grade email archiving, paper capture including optical character recognition, and integrated web sharing (search only.)

The latest non-beta release is available via DEVONtechnologies' website.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.5.2:
  • NEW: Thumbnails in last column of column views have a shadow (Mac OS X 10.5 only).
  • NEW: .scriptSuite, .scriptTerminology, and .strings files are imported as XML files and are displayed using syntax coloring.
  • Improved: The next item is automatically selected after classifying a document.
  • Improved: Web site export creates only one file for multiple identical attachments of a rich text document.
  • Improved: Web views support command Edit > Find > Scroll to Selection (Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher).
  • Improved: Improved retrieval of author from RSS feeds.
  • Improved: Faster and more reliable thumbnailing of QuickTime movies.
  • Improved: AppleScript support.
  • Improved: Minor user interface enhancements.
  • Improved: Localization.
  • Improved: Overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed: Minor problems with importing or indexing plain text files.
  • Fixed: Issues of rich text handling (Mac OS X 10.5).
  • Fixed: Display glitches when switchting from or to PDF or PostScript documents in full screen mode.
  • Fixed: Glitches in thumbnail scripts.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.


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Developer:DEVONtechnologes, LLC
Downloads:14,557
  - Version d/l:600
Business:Personal Info Managers
License:Demo
Date:06 May 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$79.95
RATING
****½
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DEVONthink Pro User Reviews (51 posts)Write A Review
Dec 31 2007

LEV  PS to my previous post -- in response to the earlier reviewer, I haven't had any Safari/web problems with this release.  (Version 1.5)

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Dec 31 2007
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LEV  The main drawback of DevonThink for me (I've used it since it first appeared) has been its refusal to play with Spotlight. This -- because I'm a data slut, never quite sure where anything is -- has meant ≥2 searches for whatever-it-is: one in Spotlight, then one for each DevonThink database whatever-it-is might be in.

This was on the point of driving me away from DevonThink... particularly with Leopard's much-improved Spotlight implementation.

Fortunately, with v1.5, it now plays very nicely with Spotlight. Still no QuickLook, but at least it means that just one Spotlight search can pull up everything.

So once again DevonThink is at the head of the pack. Thank you, Devon Technologies.

I'd give it 5 'features' stars now, if only it offered (a) multiple databases open simultaneously, and (b) tagging, instead of enforcing a folder hierarchy and "replicants". Oh, and Boolean searching -- though the AI "see also" function is magnificent.

Interface looks a bit outdated now, but works. It's much snappier than before. And the learning curve is steep. (Actually, I think I mean "shallow" -- you spend a lot of time getting up to speed. A "steep" learning curve would be e.g. Yojimbo, where you go from Novice to Expert user almost instantly.)

Nor can it import files from some of my most-used applications. Tinderbox and Scrivener I can understand; they are both complex organizational systems -- one XML, the other a package of indexed RTF/D files -- and it would be hard to see how the hell DevonThink would handle their data. But DT's inability to read Mellel or Pages 3 files is a big shame. Not DevonTech's fault, I believe, but outside developers not providing plug-ins.

But all in all, with this update DevonThink is IMO still the leader for heavy-lifting of text-based data.  (Version 1.5)

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Nov 15 2007
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BYAMABE  DEVONthink Pro (DTP) is a great application for archiving and searching data. I use it to store web tutorials and blog posts on topics that I'm researching. Then when I need that information, I can use DTP's powerful search functionality to retrieve the information. DTP even indexes the data in such a way that it can show related information.

The down-side is that with Safari 3 (10.4.11+ and 10.5+) viewing some web archives can cause DTP to crash. This makes the DTP nearly unusable for my purposes. The makers state that it is an Apple bug so have no fix. Whether it is Apple's bug or their bug is irrelevant. DTP is not usable for web research if you have Leopard or Tiger 10.4.11+   (Version 1.3.3)

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Sep 10 2007

BILLD  System-wide contextual menu plugins are more tricky than most people recognize. There are too many bad ones out there already.

I don't have enough fingers on my hands (10) to tick off the number of contextual menu plugins I've had to remove from my computers to eliminate errors they caused.

Contextual menus are included in future plans for DEVONthink, but only if they prove 'clean' enough to avoid creating system errors.

Disclaimer: I'm the Evangelist for DEVONtechnologies.  (Version 1.3.2)

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