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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
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
What's New
Version 2.7.4:
New
- Preferences > General > Labels allows changing the label style (classic, modern or dots).
- Copy Image contextual menu item of movies copies image frame.
- Annotation toolbar item can create lines and arrows.
- Send by Email supports AirMail.
- Highlighting of selected items in various lists.
- Instapaper checkbox of Clip to DEVONthink renamed to Reformat with Instapaper for clarity.
- Creation date and user name are added to PDF annotations.
- Importing Notebooks from Evernote skips already imported notes.
- PDF line annotations.
- Dates of feed items in the future are automatically fixed.
- Web views support FTP on OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
- Recent destinations and favorites in menus display the full path if the name is not unique.
- Drags from applications not implementing "promised files" correctly (e.g., Firefox) are accepted.
- Items duplicated via the contextual or action menu are now automatically selected if possible.
- Switching to sorting by creation/modification/addition date automatically switches to descending sorting.
- Double-clicking on an ".mm" file opens it with Freeplane if Freeplane is the default application for the file.
- Indexing of metadata skips garbage that bloats the index.
- Handling of incompatible Spotlight metadata importer plugins.
- Reloading of windows and views after synchronizing.
- Localizations.
- Reliability and performance.
- Refresh Feeds contextual or action menu command wasn't always available.
- Database favorites containing diacritic characters couldn't be removed.
- Additional imports to shared groups (e.g., "Downloads" or "Emails") in the trash create a new shared group instead of adding to the group in the trash.
- Minor issues in scanner/camera import.
- Minor issues in the Sorter.
- Destination of links in text views wasn't shown in the document's navigation bar.
- First See Also result wasn't always the current document.
- Importing and indexing used internal creation/modification date for unknown file types.
- Image signatures created on Retina displays were not compatible to image signatures created on non-Retina displays.
- Template scripts didn't always use "DNtp" as the application ID.
- Worked around glitches of Quick Look panel on OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
- Minor bugs and glitches.
- Preferences > General > Startup and Preferences > General > Appearance > Colorize icons with labels.
Version 2.7.4:
New
- Preferences > General > Labels allows changing the label style (classic, modern or dots).
- Copy Image contextual menu item of movies copies image frame.
- Annotation toolbar item can create lines and arrows.
- Send by Email supports AirMail.
Requirements
Intel, OS X 10.6.8 or later
Intel, OS X 10.6.8 or later
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| Version Downloads:1,488 |
| Type:Business : Personal Info Managers |
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| Date:27 Mar 2014 |
| Platform:Intel 64 / Intel 32 / OS X |
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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.)
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.)
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D-J reviewed on 29 Mar 2014
For the challenged who give it half a star, that's just bitter childishness, or trolling, or a competitive agenda.
Or it's just that software is smarter than the reviewer.
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burkanov reviewed on 18 Mar 2014
There are hundreds of features, that are barely useable due to the terrible interface, others barely work due to the terrible implementation. Yes, there are users, that find it OK to suffer in order to see this ugly bear dancing. The software is so bad, it's hard to tell what could it be used for. Note taking? There are zillion other note taking apps which offer useable interface, from Evernote to Onenote and so on. Sorting? The functionality is very limited, inconsistent and unpredictable. Searching? The internal structure of even newly created "data base" is stupid organised, that, multiplied to the awful UI you can't find even the data you've imported a second ago. Syncing is a joke - it "syncs" to Dropbox by simply copy-paste everything you have. Each time. Editing, marking, managing data is done by using hundred of different, inconsistent, poorly designed and poorly implemented forms and scripts. Generally, working with DevonThink - it's like working with multiple SAP forms, thrown together by a bunch of teenagers in computer club.
The only good thing DevonThink has - auto classification and auto suggestion.
As in my opinion, DevonThink belongs to the one and only place: trash can.
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You say that you can't find the data you just imported? Duh, it's in the Inbox, the folder choice at the very top of the sidebar. If you missed that simple effort, I can understand your challenges in understanding DEVONThink overall.
DEVONThink and DEVONAgent used together are the most powerful utilities for data gathering and organising on any platform. Bar none.
Yes, the UI design is getting long in the tooth and looks a bit dusty. But it's not that bad yet.
Seems to me you downloaded a copy, played around with it for half an hour, and wrote up your half-star review, burkanov. That low score alone suggests a chip on your shoulder or another agenda, not a measured analysis of a phenomenally crafted software utility.
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The reason why DT is a valuable tool is because it manages information from a wide variety of sources. It lets you browse the contents of filed information sources and compare them against others. For example, my database is full of academic papers. I can highlight citations and then later find one important sentence when I don't recall which PDF it's in or if I want to support a point I'm writing about but I don't recall all the citations I have collected. The Finder can't do this and other info managers can't do it with so many types of sources. It is not helpful—for me anyway—for active documents I'm working on like Word; for this I use Dropbox with cloud support and I can usually recall something based on the doc type and the file name.
Having cloud access to every single file on your computer is not productive—it's trendy. I don't want to work with large amounts of information on my iPhone. I do need mobile access to a lot of my files so I use a laptop.
The interface isn't eye candy like Evernote; but I don't expect this from a tool like this. If you've ever used Bento, DT looks great. It might not fit your personal workflow, but saying it belongs in the trash is misleading and not very fair.
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Cocoanut reviewed on 15 Feb 2014
The feature I want is simple password security, a timed lockout of the app when I get up to eat dinner and forget to hide it from my family's prying eyes. I don't need encryption just a simple cover for my work I can set to a timer such as 3 minutes.
The UI element I really don't like is the Take Note window which is transparent black. This is horribly difficult to read and type in and serves no actual purpose except to look ugly. Please, Mr. Developer redesign the Take Note window to be a nice looking, well formatted standard grey window. Thanks!
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Jimblue reviewed on 11 Jul 2013
i enjoyed reading your well-worded review. very nice, thanks.
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Mdognrdog reviewed on 11 Jul 2013
I bought this package shortly before 2.0 came out, when the developer was offering a 2.0 upgrade for any buyers of 1.x after that date.
That was five years ago; the 2.0 release was in 2008. And several times now, the Devon people have put out some pretty big new features (especially on the Pro Office package, which I don't have), without upping the major release number.
If you're going to spend anything more than $10 or $20 on a piece of organizational/research software, it's nice to know that that "planned obsolescence" is not the developer's strategy.
Aside from that, it's just really good software. I tried a bunch of these products that make information capture and organization easy. Yojimbo's capture is probably easier, but not by very much if you use DevonThink's Sorter. DevonThink can also capture from a lot of different places in your workflow -- browser extension, print-to-PDF dialogue, global Inbox in your Finder, all mean you can capture any time the thought comes to you.
But none of the other information managers out there provide you with anything like the kinds of tools you get from DevonThink for whipping your information into shape once you've captured it. Seriously, there's just no contest. There's an AI for suggesting cross-references and filing/tagging locations, you can auto-file all the stuff in your inbox if you've learned to trust that AI, you can annotate and edit PDFs, HTML, and Rich Text...
It's just flat sick, is what it is.
And, since it's basically morally wrong to keep a guy's stuff in a proprietary database with no way out (and there are information managers that do this), you can export to plain old files-and-folders that mimic your groups/tags, and navigate them through the Finder.
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Devadog reviewed on 28 Mar 2013
I wavered for a very long time before purchasing this app (and have tried most of its competitors). It seems that you do get what you pay for. There are many cheaper products out there but none can match DevonThink in features and performance in my opinion.
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Phaleron reviewed on 11 Mar 2013
Capturing a page from a web-browser (whether as Text, Webarchive, or PDF) is useless, because, except for tags and folders designated as favorite, not all paths in the database are available from the save panel. The same issue is encountered when saving a page via the scripts from the script folder.
Equally frustrating is it's inability to make hyperlinks in a page, because, again, not all paths are available. This was true in Leopard, and it continues to be true in Snow Leopard.
I have for a long time refrained from rating DTP because I really like what DTP does, waiting update after update to see this resolved, but time is up. I will revise my rating as the developer corrects the problem.
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Kihoalu reviewed on 07 Mar 2013
I've tried some of the other suggestions here, but the other apps mentioned don't all do what DevonThink does.
DevonThink is a very good piece of software if you have a little dedication in the beginning of re-organizing your sock drawer or chaos bin. That's the hardest part of getting organized.
DevonThink can help with that. Start tagging data & categorizing & it only gets easier to rearrange as the databas(es) grow.
To make this work best, you need to stay with organizing your data until some structure becomes evident that works for you. If you have that capacity, this is a slick application.
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Rasputinsrevengereloadet reviewed on 02 Mar 2013
DEVONthink Pro Office is the most feature rich of it's kind.
There are no bugs what's or ever only improvements from time to time.
So I guess it's one thing to be on top, but another to stay there!
I'm happy to know that the future will bring me lots of satisfaction with this software and my money was well spend on this (four years ago!!).
Thank you for the great work on this software that I can rely on.
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BamaDawgs reviewed on 04 Nov 2012
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Alas, I can't seem to reinstall DTPros Services, because when I choose "Install Add-ons" from the Help menu, I get the regular dialog box, but when I click "Install" this crashes DTPro beta every single time.
Anyone else have this problem == and anyone else able to get DTPro's Services to be available under Snow Leopard? (I have sent Devon Technologies an e-mail about this.)
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They said:
"just disable the option "Global Inbox in Save Dialogs" in the Install Add-ons... panel"
and sure enough, that did it!
(Of course, with Snow Leopard, you may in some instances have to go to System Preferences/Keyboard/Keyboard Shortcuts and enable the Service you are wanting to activate -- and change the keyboard command, too, if you want, another way-cool feature of Snow Leopard)
Good luck!
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I also hoped DTP would have some tag-based organization, like iTunes, rather than a directory hierarchy (which is broken because there isn't a unique correct hierarchy...)
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I'm in process of building an associated database covering chemical analytical methodologies (both US and EU), statistical and other procedures and issues related to the evaluation of environmental data, sampling methodologies, etc. This may likely grow larger than my main database.
Splitting out the very specific methodological material not only keeps my main database speedier, but keeps the AI features and searches in my main database from being diluted by the specifics in the methodologies database. That's important.
As to organizational structure, personally I've never considered my organization hierarchical.
I approach organization as putting 'clusters' of related content into groups, as well as 'clustering' related groups.
Many of my documents are replicated into two or more groups. Likewise, I often replicate a group into two or more 'clusters' of groups. I will use smart groups to replicate documents for a particular purpose, or replicate results of a search into a new group of related items.
I rarely tag individual documents, as I rely on the combination of grouping, searches and the 'See Also' AI feature to identify material in the process of a research project. DT Pro provides other tricks such as Option-click on a term to see other documents that use that term, Command-/ to initiate a search on a text string, and 'See Selected Text' to provide a list of potentially related documents.
In the process of a project I'll often create rich text notes linking to documents of special interest, or 'mark' them temporarily (I usually clear such marks later) using label or state marking.
Disclosure; I'm the Evangelist for DEVONtechnologies. (12/5/2006, Version: 1.3b)
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