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Real Name:Michael Walker 
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EagleFiler
Jun 3 2009
*****

MRCRWALKER  Eaglefiler is a terrific app. for organizing the thousands of documents and thousands more other types of files on my Mac.

I have tried virtually all of the document management apps available (e.g. DevonThink, Journler, YoJimbo, etc.) and they are all different, but the two seriously functional apps in this group are DevonThink (DT) and Eaglefiler (EF). Two things made me choose EF over DT Pro:

1) EF can handle many more types of files than DT can, and

2) it doesn't store the docs it handles in an SQL database that can't be accessed from the Finder (like DT). The latest version of DT can "index" files rather than copy them into its database, but DT doesn't perform very well if you try to "index" a significant quantity of docs (the developer admits the indexing function wasn't designed to be the primary means of bring files "into" DT).

DT Pro Office, as a suite, has more features than EF, but most of those are already easily handled otherwise in my case, and of course it's more expensive. Although I'm still learning EF, it does seem that the "AI" searching and auto-indexing of DevonThink are superior to the search functions in EagleFiler, which are themselves far superior to the functionality of Spotlight. But what both apps can do, EagleFiler tends to do them better. Add to that the two points above, and Eaglefiler was the winner for my own needs.  
(Version 1.4.6)

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EagleFiler
Jul 28 2009

SJK  Your comparison appears to have been with DEVONthink v1; v2 (public beta available) supports more files and stores them in their native formats. And no DEVONtechnologies software has ever used SQL databases.  
(Version 1.4.7)

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