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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 2.0b5: - From this release on all editions of DEVONthink require Mac OS X 10.5 or later. This beta expires July 31, 2009.
- NEW: Properties of RTF/RTFD and PDF documents (except locked and indexed ones) are now editable via Tools > Show/Hide Properties...
- NEW: Comparison options Ignore Umlauts and Fuzzy added to Search window, to toolbar search and to smart groups editor.
- NEW: Tag predicate added to smart groups.
- NEW: Tooltip added to location field of Info panel; tooltips of smart group results include the location, the comment and available meta data.
- NEW: Option to ignore umlauts ignores now all diacritics.
- NEW: Expanded smart groups in three-pane view display number of found items.
- NEW: Attribute icon shows that an item has a comment.
- Improved: Occurrences are now always highlighted blue on yellow.
- Improved: Ranking of search results using wildcards.
- Improved: Selection handling while toolbar search results are visible.
- Improved: Capturing from text views via drag-and-drop or services retains the URL of the original document.
- Improved: It is again possible to begin editing of the comments and URL columns after pressing the Tab key.
- Improved: Revised shortcuts of Go and Format menu to avoid conflicts. In addition, shortcuts for Previous/Next Tab are now identical to Safari 4.0.
- Improved: Tooltips of recent destinations of Move/Replicate/Duplicate sub-menus display location of destination.
- Improved: All attribute icons for external and/or locked items or items with an attached script are now displayed.
- Improved: Slightly revised order of Format menu.
- Improved: Double-clicking search results with the Option key pressed opens them in a new tab if tabbed browsing is enabled. The behavior of Option-double-clicking is harmonized also for all panels.
- Improved: Links to local files in rich text or PDF documents are always opened externally.
- Improved: Go > Previous/Next Instance unhoist the current window if necessary.
- Improved: Highlighting of occurrences of opened Spotlight search results.
- Improved: Items replicated both inside and outside of the trash are again returned by smart groups, can be duplicates and are used by automatic Wiki linking.
- Improved: Recognition of duplicates.
- Improved: Rebuilding retains the original order.
- Improved: English, French, and German Localizations.
- Fixed: Issues of database locking on computers with multiple network interfaces/host names.
- Fixed: Incompatibility to local domains.
- Fixed: Some Wiki links containing multiple numbers did not work.
- Fixed: Tooltips of navigation bar were not always correct.
- Fixed: Some column widths did not adapt correctly.
- Fixed: Locked orphaned files could not be repaired using Tools > Verify & Repair.
- Fixed: Data > Reveal did not always work.
- Fixed: Importing/indexing of certain Word documents was very very slow.
- Fixed: Bugs and glitches.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| DEVONthink Personal User Reviews (26 posts) | Write A Review |
 | 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) | |
| 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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| Nov 30 2004 |
MTB Long time user estatic with new version! The 1.9 upgrade is bloody awesome. This is a great developer and the product is far superior to anything remotely in this category. The product spans so many categories and some which are undefined that any words to describe it fall flat. *Huge* improvements over previous version, which was already excellent.
(Version 1.9) | |
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