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DESCRIPTION
DEVONthink Pro Office... 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.)
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.0pb8:
- 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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| DEVONthink Pro Office User Reviews (20 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Oct 1 2009 |
ICONZ113 oh my freakin god, this app is off the hook, what was I thinking, evernote, yojimbo, together, devonthink is where its at. Buyign a license without a doubt. plus you wont feel overwhelmed when you have a lot of data archived because the app can handle it, in all those other apps its either impossible to get info out or you have so much stuff its everywhere.
(Version 2.0pb7) | |
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 | Aug 27 2009 |
ROD76 For those of you upgrading to Snow Leopard uncheck all the additions when installing DEVONthink i.e. scripts (those options you get when first installing/updating. Once unchecked DEVONthink operates correctly. Looking forward to the fix!
(Version 2.0pb6) | |
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| Jul 31 2009 |
ILIKETRASH This is best-in-class software. The same is true of each of its less-expensive siblings, DEVONthink and DEVONthink Pro.
(Version 2.0pb6) | |
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 | Jul 30 2009 |
LEE123 What are you talking about. Unless your scanner is broken you can always scan your doc with Epson software and then import into Devonthink at your leisure. There are a dozen ways to use your scanner and Devon in a workflow.
(Version 2.0b6) | |
| Jul 9 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) | |
| Jul 24 2009 |
LEV Well well. And to think I never knew that DevonThink was cobbled together by Silesian elves from old time-expired sheep components which would disintegrate like at the end of Lost Horizon once they'd sucked in ALL YOUR DATA and then you NEVER BE ABLE TO USE IT AGAIN. I thought they were a small but meticulous dev shop which produced a really fine everything-manager of great power, albeit with a slightly crufty front end, and that they were taking a while to make a major integer release. Come on, fella. If you don't have facts, don't print the story. You're just ticking off (and -- it's a legal term -- defaming a company for reasons which are beyond me. And you're also ticking off MU users who don't like being told what to to unless we get good reasons. Come back with good reasons and welcome. For now, hold it right there... (Move along people. Nothing to see here. Move along.)
(Version 2.0b5) | |
| Jul 30 2009 |
Devon Technologies has been around a long time my friend and is well known for those that have looking into tools for research. I check the forums everyday and for the most part they are quiet. Kudos should be given to DT because very few companies allow you to beta test the program at such a level. Hang tight and check it out when its out of beta and I'm sure you'll be happier. DT doesn't ship crappy software.
(Version 2.0b6) | |
| Jul 30 2009 |
VALDIMAR THOR H BERU0 has no idea what this softwere is about. Complete misunderstanding of the whole concept and lack of knowledge about both the softwere and the developers of it. This softwere is well worth every penny and deserves 4.5 stars!
(Version 2.0b6) | |
| Jul 30 2009 |
TOD WICKS Beru is a known troll and constant whiner on the DevonTech forums. He's so wrapped up in this ongoing beta cycle that he even believes his own rants about losing data. It has been shown many times over that the data remain intact and are in fact in readable format (ie PDF, RTF, JPG) and totally accessible through the Finder, even if you decide not to continue with expiring betas. The betas have expiration date, it's true, but there is a very good reason for this: It keeps support overhead down by not having to support older versions once the product ships the final release. Even so, simply setting your computer's clock back a few months will "reactivate" the expired beta should you ever need to extract data (for instance if you ignore the fact stated above about the data being Finder accessible even if DT is no long on your Mac). This guy doesn't know what he's talking about and should be totally ignored just like we do on the forum.
(Version 2.0pb6) | |
| Sep 25 2009 |
BRYANG DevonThink Pro Office is absolutely the best-of-class product with world-class service and support. I have been using the product since before the "Pro Office" version was offered, and my databases have matured and expanded exponentially since then. I have NEVER (repeat, NEVER) lost data when upgrading, even when upgrading to one of the publicly released beta products. The company provides detailed info, warnings, and procedures to guard against loss of any hard-won data when trying out one of their beta products. The improvements and features that still need work are explicity detailed in the docs. The author of the oriiginal comment seems to be, honestly, a whiner without substance. I am still developing workflows to add onto well-established workflows using the 7th beta version of Pro Office 2.0 - this is as I discover features, services, scripts, and automator functionality that truly makes this a unique product that will last for years. Thank you Devon Technologies! And to you, those reading these reviews - I'm sure you've gained enough discernment to see through the spoiled, superficial brattiness of these casual dabblers (sometimes going under the guise of "reviewers") who loves to disparage wonderful solutions.
(Version 2.0pb7) | |
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| Jul 31 2009 |
BILLD Yes, there's a version of DT Pro for OS X 10.4.x. See http://www.devon-technologies.com/support/faqs.php?p=default&cat=19
(Version 2.0pb6) | |
| Apr 29 2009 |
MERRIMAC The new ABBYY OCR engine is excellent and a big improvement over the previous Readiris engine. From what I gather, ABBYY is generally considered to be the top OCR engine, but up till now it wasn't available for Mac. Now, with DEVONthink Pro's new integration of ABBYY, DEVONthink seems to have become the best OCR option available for Mac (other than Acrobat Pro, which I have not tested). Given that ABBYY's OCR software for Windows and Acrobat Pro both costs hundreds of dollars, DEVONthink Pro is a bargain.
(Version 2.0b4) | |
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| Aug 23 2009 |
Does anyone know if the ABBYY OCR engine incorporated with DevonThink will cope with digital photos of books [straightening lines, etc] like the stand-alone version does? I can upgrade from DT personal 1.9 [which I have not in fact used] to 2 for $50, a lot less than buying ABBYY itself [equivalent of $140 in the UK]. Sadly no sign of ABBYY Photoreader for the Mac. Cheers, Colin
(Version 2.0pb6) | |
| Jan 31 2009 |
LORD LIGHTNING Finally I have found sufficient reason to dump Eagle Filer, MacJournal and Together. Some nice chrome would help a lot to make it an even more enjoyable experience.
(Version 2.0pb2) | |
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| Jan 30 2009 |
MAUDLIN This is from the "Upgrader's Guide" on Devonthink Pro Office 2.0pb2 "Due to technical difficulties with the new engine this public beta comes with OCR temporarily disabled. We and ABBYY are working hard on making it work again and will release a new public beta as soon as possible." If you need OCR stick with the previous beta, where it still works.
(Version 2.0pb2) | |
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| Jan 30 2009 |
ANON BUD I've used and loved this app for many years now. When version 2 came out I especially loved the sorter which allows for the quick dropping of anything into a DTP inbox or any one of several user-defined folders from within any application.
(Version 2.0pb2) | |
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