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DEVONthink Pro is your essential assistant for today's world, where almost 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
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What's New
Version 2.9.13:
Improved
- Decluttering service works better with pages reporting a wrong encoding, uses HTML5 ARTICLE tags and ROLE attributes to detect the main article, and better cleans up unrelated elements
- Sidebar contextual menu item Copy Item Link renamed to Copy Database Link to avoid keyboard shortcut conflicts
- Clip to DEVONthink menu item moved to Data >
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DEVONthink Pro is your essential assistant for today's world, where almost 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 Web site 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.)
Version 2.9.13:
Improved
- Decluttering service works better with pages reporting a wrong encoding, uses HTML5 ARTICLE tags and ROLE attributes to detect the main article, and better cleans up unrelated elements
- Sidebar contextual menu item Copy Item Link renamed to Copy Database Link to avoid keyboard shortcut conflicts
- Clip to DEVONthink menu item moved to Data > Capture; in addition, this menu item is now available in the action menu of the navigation bar of web views
- File > Update Indexed Items marks indexed items as not pending if a file or folder with the same size and dates exists (e.g., if it was copied or is located on a shared server)
- File > Import > Bookmarks > Google Chrome is more reliable
- File > Import > References from Bookends is compatible to Bookends purchased in the Mac App Store
- Markdown documents can use relative or absolute paths or cross-links in SCRIPT tags
- The URL of the frontmost browser window of Roccat is now captured (e.g., after taking plain or rich notes using the Services menu)
- Updating indexed images, PDF documents, and audio and video files better avoids unnecessary syncs
- Opening links, pictures, and frames in tabs is more reliable
- Slightly faster database verification
- Improved workarounds for the PDFKit framework on macOS Sierra
- Help > Report Bug sets the receiver if Postbox is the default email client
- Updated localization
- Improved overall performance and reliability
Improved (Sync)
- Indexed and pending items are handled more reliably
- More secure encryption of Bonjour connections
- Synchronization remembers whether indexed files on unmounted volumes couldn't be sent and tries to upload them later again
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where dropping links from the latest versions of Firefox created HTML files instead of bookmarks (workaround)
- Fixed an issue where internal Markdown links containing percent escapes didn't work
- Fixed an issue where PDF thumbnailing no longer worked on OS X Mavericks to El Capitan since version 2.9.12
- Fixed an issue where the LINK tag in Markdown documents using absolute paths or item links didn't work
- Fixed an issue where the Move tool (e.g., Edit > PDF Document > Tool) no longer worked
- Fixed an issue where the decluttering service created link titles starting with a space
- Fixed an issue where the decluttering service didn't handle images with URLs containing parameters correctly
- Fixed an issue where the official Dropbox library was not compatible to OS X Mavericks (workaround)
- Fixed an issue where thumbnails could appear with the wrong size on Retina displays (workaround)
- Fixed an issue where updating indexed items could move them to the top level of the database after adding Finder tags if the database option Exclude groups from tagging was disabled
- Fixed an issue where Link To and Insert Link To submenus no longer worked since version 2.9.12
Fixed (Sync)
- Fixed an issue where the synchronization showed error 409 after interrupted Dropbox uploads
- Fixed a rash related to multiple installed copies of DEVONthink trying to authenticate Dropbox
Known issues (macOS Sierra)
- Note PDF annotations can't be opened or expanded
This company has terrible customer service. They offer great software but it is also highly complex. You are going to spend a lot of time in the manuals and asking dumb questions on their forums. But beware, the forums allow far too much “RTFM” type commentaries, “what’s wrong with you”, etc. And that’s from the moderators and the forum experts. I have some genuine learning disabilities as the result of injuries suffered in service to my country (disabled vet). I was really hoping that many of Devon’s products would be very helpful for those of us who struggle to organize information on a daily basis. Unfortunately, Devon people do not suffer fools gladly and I have been suddenly and permanently banned from their forums. Why? No explanation was given after I asked repeatedly. Apparently it was for complaining to Devon customer service about how I was getting treated in the forums.
To add insult to injury, Devons web site boasts about how they won’t bury problems by closing tickets before they are through and how much they value fairness. Don't you believe it. None of these are values that I have seen. My ticket on this issue was closed prematurely and their head guy refused to provide any justification for their actions. Apparently asking too many questions about good netiquette on their forums will get you banned. I can't see using such a complex and important piece of software (it’s about managing all the files on your Mac), and not being able to ask questions about it on an active user forum.
Devon makes great software. I have no argument with that. I have a license for DevonThink Professional Office, DevonAgent, and some others. But learning something with such complex capabilities, having learning challenges of my own, and having such a non user friendly forum, just got to be too much. I have been trying to use Devon products for a couple of years now. Sadly, I probably will not continue with this company barring a sharp reversal in their way of treating customers. Why pay for abuse? Your mileage may vary.
I have rated this software as low as it can go, not because it isn't really smart software but because if you can't get help using it or worse, you are ridiculed and then banned, then why recommend this brand to others? Without ongoing access to good customer service through the user base (forums), my licenses are now pretty much useless. And these software titles from Devon, are not cheap.
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