LEE123  I do not really know what you mean by 'tag browser' but if you are on a note and you click the little 'i' (info) icon a side panel opens up. This panel lets you edit tags, comments and even attachments. I have not played with it much yet though.  
(Version 8.0)

MGER  It would be nice to have a panel pop up, similar to iPhoto, I suppose. But you can see all your keywords in the Tags section of Preferences. At least, that was true with v.7.x.   
(Version 8.01)

CHILTON WEBB  WOW!

You sound a LOT like someone I know!

Could YOU be the user in my forum who spent a lot of energy insulting me, and then had a fit when I removed the insults, leaving behind the bug reports? Could you also be the user by the same name who went through all of my YouTube videos this morning and gave them all one star? Because your writing style is identical, and your timing is impossibly consistent.

So to address yet more insults, you seem to have a problem with me fixing things, which I really don't get. Of the bugs you posted, all of them that you (or anyone) bothered to explain in detail were fixed in this update. See that list of things fixed? Some of those are your bugs. And if you go back to the forums and take a look, where users bothered to post more info, I was able to reproduce the problems, and fix them.

There are a few remaining bugs, but frankly, I have hundreds of users, and only one or two of them are reporting that they can find them. The beta team is now twelve people, and none of them can reproduce any of your remaining bugs.

If instead of criticism, you'd bothered to stick around and explain your bugs in more detail, they'd all be fixed in this version.

-Chilton  
(Version 4.1.1)

CHILTON WEBB  And of those features you claim don't work, how do you think I made the videos showing them in action?  
(Version 4.1.1)

CHILTON WEBB  Another note, each new version has changed the database format a little. Rather than potentially screw up your data (as you imply I do), the app just creates a new database next to the old one. And starting in this version, Conjure will detect the presence of old database files, and it will instruct you on how to update your files.

It never, under any circumstances, damages your old files in any way, and it never has. That's a flat out lie.

-Chilton  
(Version 4.1.1)

JUST A USER  "If instead of criticism, you'd bothered to stick around and explain your bugs in more detail, they'd all be fixed in this version.

-Chilton"

Describes pretty well the develpers attitude towards developing and the users.

The reviews about conjour here have btw. been very consistent and mine is in line with previous reviews.  
(Version 4.1.1)

CHILTON WEBB  Hi,

I'm sorry you've had such a bad experience with Conjure.

I've offered to refund your money a number of times, but your email address does not match any of the registrations I have on file. I would be happy to provide you with a full refund though, if you want it.

For the sake of my other users, I'd really like to find out how you ran into those bugs. There are a growing number of beta testers, and so far, none of them can reproduce any of the bugs that aren't fixed in 4.1.1.

So if you can help us reproduce any of them, or even let me know how you found them in the first place, I will fix them immediately. As evidenced by the versions of Conjure I've posted in the last month, any bugs I can reproduce are fixed within 24 hours. That's not a promise, that's just the average. All I have to do is reproduce them.

Thank you,

-Chilton  
(Version 4.1.1)

JUST A USER  forgot to mention the version number: 2.35

about to de-install...  
(Version 2.34)

JUST A USER  forgot to say that I also tested Zotero but is crashed all the time and I lost several hours of work. I did not actually compare Sente to Bookends, but I was an EndNote user and really hated that program, Sente is fun to use.  
(Version 5.7.5)

LEV  "scrivener (1.5) has a totally lacking implementation of note cards and is totally overrated as a writing app"

"Totally lacking"? "Totally overrated"? This is a totally dumb like sort of totally pointless remark of totally like no like help to totally anyone and I totally wonder why you totally wasted your time making it.

Time to totally like dispute the notion that totally anyone is like totally entitled to his or her opinion. Obviously, totally like not. Dude.  
(Version 2.9.10)

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)

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)

HMURCHISON  LOL

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)