. A program for the digital life.
DEVONthink is an information manager that stores, sorts, indexes and manages files such PDF, MS Word, images, Internet links, movies and text files in general.
For those who have ever used Mac OS X, the program will be familiar, since Finder is a kind of focused on the management of information. Technically making DEVONthink is to organize information and create databases with files generated within DEVONthink or external files added to its base. Initially
reminded me Scrivener, however, despite the many similarities and customs purposes seem different. Scrivener is more focused in assisting with your database to the process of writing, while DEVONthink seems to be of more use general.
While the program has different modes, most of the presentations are panels where one of them contains the files (PDF, JPG, TXT, etc..) And another to deploy the file information .
Just drag a file acceptable to the panel to be incorporated into the database. If it is necessary to convert the files to an editable format. For example, Word files, being sent to the database are converted to RTF, with no apparent loss of formatting, allowing editing within DEVONthink.
The word processor allows editing of these with a minimal but acceptable format and for those who like minimalism and work without distractions, is a configurable option that can work with all black screen with green letters of the text without further distraction, no panels, no menu bars, free wallpapers, etc. . Only the text and black background (or the desired configuration)
A welcome feature in the PRO version is optical character recognition (OCR by its acronym in English). When testing this feature, what I did was drag a png image (or jpg)-with text within the image, and ask him to become a PDF text file. This same file can be converted to RTF or TXT. You can also convert an image into text when imported to the database
Web links are navigable and work exactly like a pregnant looking into Safari.
The indexing is pretty good. Find the words with very good speed, but does not seem able to find words that are not exactly equal to the sought. For example, if there is only the word "review" and writes a magazine, can not find the file. However, to find a file it is able to locate related files automatically.
One advantage is that it can be located in a single database all the material for a type of information without having to look in different places photographs, emails, web pages, or movies. Furthermore, the view within DEVONthink allow the material, makes it necessary to launch additional software that is working. In this sense, to test the program we can see that productivity can be increased by making better use of information to have it always present. Although well organized by folders in the computer allows the like, it is also true that it is now possible to achieve the level of integration achieved DEVONthink.
One drawback I see is that information tends to double. For example when you drag a PDF file or QuickTime, it will on the original site and create a copy into the database we are working.
probably journalists, writers, scientists and writers are the most suitable candidates for this program. Although it is possible that could work very well for the exclusive management of digital information without text. Anyway who need to organize themselves to work in the creation of documents or information management can be a good option to try this program that has many more features than enough time to write here.
The program can be obtained at devon-technologies.com
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