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DESCRIPTION
DEVONthink Personal... Everything is digital today. But where to store all these e-mails, PDFs, Word documents, images and multimedia files you accumulate every day? How to organize them, and find the right one when you need it?
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.
The Database for the Internet Age: DEVONthink keeps your important data in one database, regardless of where the data is physically located. Integrate both local documents and live content from the Internet to keep all project-related information together. Seamlessly mix local documents, clippings and live web pages.
Your Digital Workplace: DEVONthink is not only a simple database, it's a flexible work environment with powerful management features. It provides you with all the tools you need for effectively working with your documents. Use the integrated RTF editor to write new documents, or open them in a third party application.
Intelligent Assistant: DEVONthink is based on a powerful AI architecture that helps you organize and navigate your information collection. It assists you with filing documents and with finding similar items. Master even huge data collections with a few simple clicks.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.0pb7: - NEW: Quick Look preview of audio files contains play, plause, and mute buttons. Uses Play automatically preference for QuickTime media.
- NEW: Services updated for compatibility with new system services (services appearing in contextual menus).
- NEW: Dock menu uses indentation.
- Improved: Scroll bars in head-up display styles, e.g. the Groups panel, support arrows at top and bottom.
- Improved: Display of icon previews created by Quick Look, e.g. for web archives.
- Improved: Overall compatibility to Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'.
- Fixed: Incompatibility of Apple Mail conduit plugin.
- Fixed: Compatibility issues of OCR and scan functions.
- Fixed: The Image Capture application can use DEVONthink Pro Office again as a target application.
- Fixed: Automator workflows did not work.
- Fixed: Editing of smart groups did not work.
- Fixed: Quick Look panel did not work.
- Fixed: Quick Look based views did not work in full screen mode.
- Fixed: Duplicate Remove Link items in contextual menus of rich texts.
- Fixed: Minor visual glitches.
- Temporarily disabled: Defunct option Global Inbox in Save Dialogs of Help > Install Add-ons panel.
- Removed: Now obsolete services menu in contextual menus of various views.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| DEVONthink Personal User Reviews (27 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 15 2009 |
ABELLE Ideal for storage, video, paper, links, photos, notes, making notes ... very good software.
(Version 2.0pb7) | |
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 | Jul 24 2008 |
ZO219 I read comments such as the one below, recommending something called Little Secrets ... and how about these referrals to Together ... and I think the Mac community doesn't deserve DEVONTech. I am embarrassed for you.
(Version 1.9.15) | |
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| Jul 2 2007 |
This is purely a GUI/interface comment : I like the new Devon ball logo and think that the developers would be wise to use it as DevonThink/Pro etc... application icon ( Just color it differently for each type of release ) and loose the shell design. Please use an interface designer to revamp the application - It is so Home made that it puts a lots of potential users off - Why do so many first time users say it has a steep learning curve ? Because of the ugly interface is confusing and not user friendly. It has zero WOW factor. Look at barebones Yojimbo - It has hordes of pleasant comments and appeals to nearly everyone on first launch. On a GUI scale of one to ten - DEVONthink is a very poor three out of ten.
(Version 1.9.9) | |
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| Sep 8 2007 |
IGAUCHO I actually think the UI is pretty good. Sure it's not as flashy as Yojimbo, but it works just fine. It's not much different from the Finder actually.
(Version 1.9.10) | |
| Sep 25 2007 |
MULTIMAGO I agree to another user about the interface style. The program is great! but the cover is not easy to use, not clear. This program is the best tool for Artificial intelligence but only in the internal engine; The user need to work smoothly! more colours/shapes associations between functions and interface. The short way from my eyes to the imput. however I love DevonThink and I hope for the new interface :)
(Version 1.9.10) | |
| Oct 28 2005 |
RUSSELL UPDATED REVIEW - I've been using Devonthink since version 1.9.1 and I think its a great product. BUT, I have a real issue with SECURITY concerning Devonthink (its non-existant). Finally, I found someone else who offers a very similiar product with a selectable encryption level called LITTLESECRET (also found in MacUpdate). At $9.00 LITTLESECRET does the samething Devonthink does PLUS it offers a peace of mind PassWord Encryption. I wish I had discovered LITTLESECRETS sooner!
(Version 1.9.6) | |
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| Oct 5 2006 |
GRANDDUC That's plain silly: like comparing a rowboat to the Queen Mary.
(Version 1.9.8) | |
| Jul 7 2009 |
DOOBIEXX Russel, those comments are really off. I agree with the user who brought up this argument that these apps such as together and little secrets are as good or better. If you want a really flexible app go with something simple that can do encryption like your mac! mac's has native ways of encrypting items. File Vault of course but turn you can also use disk utility to make an image of where the info is stored and encrypt that vault... You would have to encrypt it so set it up where you have to enter the package to even get to the data and then after that put it where it needs to be. Simple applescript or automator action work. app for just notes that has publish, encrypt, multi-databse, very smart app that lets you configure everythig you want but it is great for users who JUST USE NOTES, although. If there is an image it will copy over to inotepad once in a note do what you want with it. Hope it helps someone.
(Version 2.0b5) | |
| Jun 30 2005 |
T Just noticed that this is a very memory hungry app. Around 50 MB real memory - or sometimes even higher - and 218 MB virtual memory. None of my other apps are this memory hungry!
(Version 1.9.3) | |
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| Jul 28 2005 |
ANONYMOUS It's not that hungry. I find that DevonThink is typically using about 1/10 (yes, one TENTH!) the real and virtual memory that Safari is using. That's maybe indiciating Safari caches pretty aggressively ;-)
(Version 1.9.4) | |
| Jul 28 2005 |
SJK That's minimal, T, compared to DT Pro's memory usage on my iMac G5 with a 200MB database: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND bzz 29280 0.1 -7.4 936288 155920 ?? S 7:38PM 2:17.41 DEVONthink Pro
(Version 1.9.4) | |
| Jun 21 2005 |
T Great app for getting your files (pictures, movies, pdf, text, webarchives) into one database (which is an organiser, viewer and text editor). You can easily create groups and navigate your files and search for them. Filed items can be links or copied to the database folder. Really great. Though I wish that links to files that are packages (files that are in fact folders with files in them) or handled correctly - currently if you import them they show up as folder with files instead of just a link to the file.
(Version 1.9.3) | |
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| Dec 18 2004 |
RUSSELL GLEASON (Later) - Their Q&A support FORUM is outstanding and my earlier comments about the "backup problems" was pre-mature (my fault). This is a must have software program!!!! - RUSSELL
(Version 1.9.1) | |
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| Feb 2 2005 |
DAN SWENSEN Oops, disregard my earlier comment too.
(Version 1.9.1) | |
| Dec 18 2004 |
RUSSELL GLEASON OKay, I gave in a purchased the program. And although the program itself is absolutely brillant, backing up your data and then trying to access that information from another computer cannot be done thus making this program (at this time) very DANGEROUS to use and a absolute nightmare. Your information is store in its own special data base, if your hard drive fails, or if you try to do your work from home you can't access the information you've backed up. It's a time bomb waiting to explode. My take on this is wait until they imporoved upon this program and a 7.0 version is released, then it'll be ready for the market.
(Version 1.9.1) | |
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| Feb 2 2005 |
DAN SWENSEN What? This is simply not true. You want a quick and easy backup solution? Select all your folders, export them. Boom, everything there is saved as .rtf with directory structures intact. Burn all those folders to disk. Want to reinstate them into Devonthink? Import them back. It'll be just like you left it in a couple of minutes. I know because I've had to do it, more than once, to swap a very sizable Devonthink library across two machines. It was easy and painless. I fear this review is FUD.
(Version 1.9.1) | |
| Dec 17 2004 |
ANONYMOUS No ratings issued at this time. Although this program appears to be next to awesome, there is only ONE thing that is holding me back from purchasing this program. You CANNOT encrypt (or lockout) any files to keep unauthorized persons from examining its contents (for example, if a person downloaded your Devonthink Database and then wanted to look at its contents at a later time, what's to stop them?). Security capability is a really big issue for me. Sorry. - Russell
(Version 1.9.1) | |
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| Dec 1 2004 |
KANEAL Brilliant! I've been using it for a very long time and every upgrade makes it better but this one is a quantum leap on an already excellent app. Makes management of heaps of raw data ... manageable.
(Version 1.9) | |
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