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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.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| DEVONthink Pro User Reviews (44 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Oct 17 2009 |
DTRUETT1 This upgrade went way beyond my wildest hopes. I alternated between using DT 1 and SOHO Notes for various collections of PDF files, images, things pulled from Email, etc. Two things made me pull the trigger on the upgrade before I even checked out all of the features: 1. I keep my databases (3) in a folder on Dropbox, so they are available to me from any of my Macs anytime. Having the Sorter and being able to drag something to either the global inbox or a folder I put there is fast, efficient, and reliable. 2. Bookmarklets. Putting a single DT Clip bookmarklet in the bookmarks bar of Safari and OmniWeb is HUGE. Just choose note, bookmark, PDF, PDF paginated, or HTML, add a comment if you like, and choose the folder to put it in for ANY of your databases. Opens DT quickly, so you can confirm it is there and works 100% of the time. This is one fabulous upgrade from a great company.
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 | Sep 3 2009 |
STEVEN GOODHEART After installing Snow Leopard, all my third-party Services, including DTPro 2 beta have disappeared -- I read that this would happen. Alas, I can't seem to reinstall DTPros Services, because when I choose "Install Add-ons" from the Help menu, I get the regular dialog box, but when I click "Install" this crashes DTPro beta every single time. Anyone else have this problem == and anyone else able to get DTPro's Services to be available under Snow Leopard? (I have sent Devon Technologies an e-mail about this.)
(Version 2.0pb6) | |
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| Sep 3 2009 |
STEVEN GOODHEART Just heard back from Devon Technologies -- really fast response! "just disable the option "Global Inbox in Save Dialogs" in the Install Add-ons... panel" and sure enough, that did it! (Of course, with Snow Leopard, you may in some instances have to go to System Preferences/Keyboard/Keyboard Shortcuts and enable the Service you are wanting to activate -- and change the keyboard command, too, if you want, another way-cool feature of Snow Leopard) Good luck!
(Version 2.0pb6) | |
 | Aug 6 2009 |
COOKIE08 if you care to right click on the devonthink data base in your home documents folder open it and all the individual files are held inside the data base which is great as you can move this between computers and use the same set of files. Nothing is lost when you delete the original program sound like you have never used one of the best programs for the mac. Saving web files straight to devonthink keeps there html links so you can go back original site from inside devonthink
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| Jul 30 2009 |
STEVEN GOODHEART This b6 beta has some nice new features...especially the new Reveal/Show and Markup toolbar additions, the new way to hoist, and the new way to expand and collapse the outline. The other improvements/refinement are welcome, but the "big dog" that's still missing for me is the tagging front-end. I really want to get into tagging my info, instead of using the old "Comments" method, and I'm eager to see who DevonThink implemented this. I think the awesome browser bookmarklets (which really allow me to fully use DTPro 2 in the Service-less Firefox as well as Safari and OmniWeb) gives a hint of what the "front end" might finally look like, and I'm eager to give it a go. Otherwise, I'm pleased with the steady progress, even though I'm jonesing for the final product. By the way, this is one of the most bug-free, non-crashing Mac betas I've ever used, and I don't think there's any worry concern about "losing data" with such a great company, anymore than one would worry about investing data in betas of great programs like EagleFiler, MacJournal, or The Hit List, which I've done.
(Version 2.0b6) | |
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| Jul 7 2009 |
JUST A USER stay away, they cannot offer a product, just a beta that will expire and then all the data organisation will be LOST. DO NOT PAY for it if you want the new features, the beta is free, so do not waste your money on the license, it will expire!! If you do not trust me, well, look at their forum! they promise a lot of features but they never come, go for eagle filer instead!
(Version 2.0b5) | |
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| Jul 14 2009 |
IRRADIATED SOFTWARE Your review is fairly narrow sighted. By the developer doing a beta program, they can get critical feedback to shape the product into something the customers desire. It also shows that this product is under active development, so your purchase will not go toward an abandon piece of software. Good software takes a long time to write, especially for small indie companies. If you want stability, you can still buy and use the 1.x version which gives you a free license to 2.0 when it releases. Even 1.x is more capable than most other competitors in this market, but it's also more expensive. Just my 2 cents.
(Version 2.0b5) | |
| Feb 15 2009 |
LEV After using the DevonThink public beta for six weeks or so, I'd have to say it's a great improvement. It's not so much a breakthrough upgrade, but rather lots of incremental improvements which add up to a far better user experience. It's definitely faster; it seems far more nimble; the (not yet fully implemented) "Sorter" makes Getting Stuff In quicker and easier, and the bookmarklets for interfacing between DevonThink and the web work, for me, more satisfactorily than most apps which position themselves as competition. One of the most asked-for enhancements is now working: full Boolean and proximity searches of the database. Before, you had to rely on DT's "artifical intelligence" -- some sort of word-based semantic algorithm -- if you wanted to do more than a simple word- or phrase-search. The AI usually delivered the goods but it's nice to be able to order up a search by hand if needed. You can now have multiple databases open at once. Great. Drag-and-drop between databases hasn't yet been switched on in the beta, but is in place for the release version. The developers have also implemented tagging, but we won't know what that's like until that, too, goes live. Personally I hope it is compatible with tagging-based apps like Punakea or the superb Leap; we will have to see. Given that it uses the Finder to organise its database, rather than copying everything into a proprietary format, there's no reason why it shouldn't be. There are still some things on the wish-list. Of course they are. It would be even more powerful if, for example, it would let the user set up his own list of "synonyms". The Windows app Nota Bene does this, to great effect. You can, for example, tell it that when you ask for things to do with religion, it should look for words from a user-configured list: "Hindu, Muslim, Roman catholic, priest, nun, monk, curch, chapel, synagogue, Rabbi..." etc. Sweet. But, for whatever reason, after trying just about every "bucket" app going, I find with DevonThink 2 beta, I'm sticking with it. It's open all the time. The UI is still a mile away from the (much less powerful) Yojimbo, but DT is engineering-led and I suspect they'd rather have a slightly complex UI than compromise functionality. Definitely a runner. After a long time lagging behind a bit, DT is back in the game, and all the better for it. The 120 non-continuous hours' free trial is generous and enough to explore this very powerful app. Give it a whirl.
(Version 2.0pb3) | |
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| Jan 23 2009 |
XPLICIT The so called "Sorter" doesn't work, imports are not possible. What about creating webarchives by dragging the URL? Doesn't work either. What kind of beta is this? But I like the fact that in some kind of emergency (which can always happen!) you can look into the databases and get files out of there manually. One more thing: 80 bucks - there are cheaper alternatives.
(Version 2.0 pb1) | |
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| Jan 23 2009 |
XPLICIT The sorter doesn't even quit properly.
(Version 2.0 pb1) | |
| Jan 30 2009 |
LEV This is a beta. The developers are perfectly open about the sorter not being fully implemented yet. A number of features aren't up and running. You might want to check the available documentation. (Or you might not. Who knows.)
(Version 2.0pb2) | |
| Jan 10 2009 |
DIGITAL FURY DEVONthink is an OK product, but rather than pay $50, $80 or $150 (depending on version) for an enhanced search engine and a tags implementation using a proprietary database, I would rather use Spotlight - if Apple could improve it - and rely on the native file system and OS X features. I can already create PDFs, RTFs and WebArchives in OS X, and I'm using a Fujitsu S300M with Readiris, to create JPEGs + OCR on my paper documents (with a disciplined directory structure); so the added value of DEVONthink (regardless of version) is sketchy at best for me.
(Version 2.0 pb1) | |
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| Jan 20 2009 |
HMURCHISON This really isn't a review it's a comment. Star ratings should be reserved for those who have used the product and can speak to the pro and con of the application. Not saying your commentary wasn't helpful at the core.
(Version 2.0 pb1) | |
| Jan 30 2009 |
ALEXIUSCA Agreed. If you have a 'disciplined directory structure' you have no business reviewing a program that helps us lazy folk create one!
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| Dec 24 2008 |
GABBLE How do I tag documents imported in the database? The info panel has a Tags field, but I cannot write anything into it (cannot set the cursor inside). The same happens with the document properties window, I cannot write inside any of the fields, "keywords" in particular. Is it a limitation of the public beta version? No indication on their website anywayÂ…
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 | Dec 28 2008 |
JGJONES28 The Upgrader's Guide included in the download lists all the features, including tagging, that are not yet functional in the first public beta.
(Version 2.0 pb1) | |
| Dec 28 2008 |
GABBLE Thank you so much.
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| Dec 17 2008 |
STEVEN GOODHEART Just fyi, DevonThink Professional is on the verge of releasing the beta for the totally revamped Version 2.0....and as a DTP fanboy, I'm really psyched, since the promised features are exactly what I've been hoping for: Multiple databases open at the same time Boolean search operators replacing the current search Smart groups (stored searches) Documents are stored as-is, can be edited externally Support for many common file formats Documents can be linked to from the outside using a URL Overhauled, modern user interface Intelligent tagging support PDF splitting/joining/annotating Global inbox replacing the import destinations chaos Tabbed browsing, viewing, and editing Cover-flow-ish document browsing Much improved RSS feed support Fully overhauled web interface Man, I can hardly wait -- especially for smart groups and tags!!! For those who don't own DTP yet, now would be a good time to buy, because they (and anyone who bought DTP after July 1, 2008) will get the new 2.0 for free, as explained at this link: http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/devonthink2.html Man, I can't wait to get my hands on this beta. They are promising it before Christmas.
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