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DevonTHINK, how has it helped you?
caseykoons | Jul 12 2006
I've asked y'all on this board for buying advice in the past, and I'm very happy I followed it. (OOP is awesome, I use it everyday). My current quandary is DevonTHINK Pro. I wondering if I should acquire this as I become a graduate student in the Fall. It's very pricey though, so I was hoping that you folks could throw in your two cents about this program and it's alternatives. I looking at Mori in particular as a potential middle-ground. What I'm particularly curious about is smart folders. Does DevonTHINK Pro have a smart-folder like ability? I find that strictly grouping data with one label limits the amount of connectivity, and I confused by the way DevonTHINK uses folders. I, for example, use Mail.app in the following way and love it. All archived mail goes into a folder called "archive" Mail is tagged with MailTags and Smart Folders help to parse them all out. It's fast, easy, and highly adaptive. Messages can exist in multiple contexts. I'm curious if I could get DevonTHINK to work in a similar fashion. Thanks! -Casey 2 Comments
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 Although I agree that DevonThink...Submitted by solidsnot on July 13, 2006 - 7:01am.
Although I agree that DevonThink is a little daunting at first, the more I use it the more comfortable I get with it and, as many others will say, it has no peers when it comes to finding relationships within your documents. Give it enough stuff and it will mine it all and let you know what is related. I use VoodooPad for actual note taking and then export it to HTML and import it into DevonThink. DevonThink is great at building a database and such but, as terceiro pointed out, it's not so good at outlining, note taking, and such. It's strength lies in you putting stuff in there and letting it do its thing. If you are daunted at the price there's BareBones Yojimbo, which I have also used and like but is nowhere near as powerful as DevonThink is for research. On the side, you can import your mail messages into DevonThink for a handy archive. At least that's what their guide says, I haven't actually done it yet. ;) » POSTED IN:
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