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DEVONthink: Why?
fade | Jul 27 2006
I admit. The first time I read through the site introducing DEVONthink, I thought, "WOW! That's awesome! An app that organizes all my files intelligently." Then, after about five minutes of wondering how to convince the wife to give me $80, something hit me. I already have something that will allow me to organize any type of file, whatsover. The search function may not be as great, but it seems to do most of the other things DEVON does. It's my computer, or more specifically my OS. I realized I had this same epiphany after getting over the initial buzz of iPhoto as well. Am I wrong? What is the advantage? I realize that I can cross-categorize, but pretty much any OS out there right now lets me do that to with aliases and simlinks. What am I missing? 4 Comments
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 Rather amusingly, I noted that...Submitted by jtice on November 26, 2006 - 1:26pm.
fade;5394 wrote:
Rather amusingly, I noted that one of the first things the manual for DEVONthink does is try to defend itself in comparison with Finder. I guess other people had the same thought I did. I've been having that same thought. I bought a devonthink license too quick because of the 43f discount. Just the concept of indexing all varieties of data in a smart system stimulates my obsessive tendencies. What's not to love? The first indication that my prospect for organizational nervana was in jeopardy was the realization that it doesn't like too many of my files??text files and pdf are about it. Others aren't even candidates unless I'm willing to give up formatting and editing, and manually export keystrokes. If I want to retain formatting/editing and still include it in the database I'll need to keep the original instance. So instead of replacing the documents folder with an all inclusive database I'll end up with parallel systems to synchronize because spotlight and devonthink are not cooperative with one another. That's a hefty price to pay for fuzzy search unless you have a specific need, which I don't. I decided take a fresh look at spotlight/finder. Impressive! Spotlight searches will include network disks as well in Leopard. Finder's keepers. :cool: » POSTED IN:
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