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Free (or at least way cheaper) DEVONThink alternative?

I rather like the idea of having a program to manage all my digital crap, since I suck at doing it myself. DEVONThink looks nice, but I just don't have that kind of money. I've been using Journler 2.0, but it's a bit clunky, particularly in how it does entries with tables. Yeek.

Any recomendations?

TOPICS: Mac OS X
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Import or index?

For some time I have been circling Devonthink, trying to find a good way to use it. Thing is, I am not at all happy to commit all my files to Devonthink's closed database, and just dump all my research resources, drafts and finished papers in there. So I tried to use the index function instead - which raises the problem that I have to tag every new file, then add it to the repository on disk, then find it again and add it to the DT database.
Thoughts?

 
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