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I have used DEVONthink for ~5 years and decided to stop a month ago.ĭEVONthink was a good choice back in 2016, but now I find it not a good choice compare to iCloud Drive & Notion & Goodnote. Despite all my criticism above, I hope you'll find DT and its companion tools helpful!

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So download it, set aside some time every other day to test it, make lots of notes, get lots of sample documents for the test (classification starts being fun around the 150 document mark, don't play with just 10) and talk to people on their forums, which are quite helpful.

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However, be aware that the time is counted as long as the app is running - which includes components like the 'sorter' being active! I forgot that when, during my trial period, I set the sorter to be automatically launched during startup and to auto-hide. You should definitely take advantage of the very generous trial period that DEVONtechnologies offer. The DT ecosystem has great OCR for scanned documents, but no handwriting recognition. This is not really a problem with DT per se, but rather a problem of relying on the underlying APIs and components of the host OS too much.Īgain, since macOS does not provide a components for it, there is no 'creative' document entry possible - think mind maps, directly editable in DT, or customizable forms.

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This defeats the purpose of a web archive completely: You can't use them offline, say in DEVONthink To Go, and should the source website decide to throw an error on the URL you captured, you won't easily be able to read the archive any more. Similarly, web capture is badly hampered by relying on what macOS provides to developers: the 'web archives' that DT can capture from within any browser are not proper archives in that they will access the source URL when opened, trying to get newer content.

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It makes sense from a coding / integration perspective to use what the environment of your software provides, but that means the editors, especially for formatted notes and Markdown, are hopelessly behind the competition, lacking modern class-based formatting and live preview. The editors for the various note formats that it uses are just the old macOS components that have been there since 10.2 or so. I would not recommend it as (the sole) scientist's lab notebook: In mypersonal opinion and experience, DT is definitely *not* good at capturing new information that is not already in document form. And search, especially combined with the 'see also' / related documents functions, is way ahead of anything that's possible on native macOS. I'd say the rules you can create with macOS alone are about as powerful as those you can create within DT, however the interface in DT is far easier and more consistent. It also adds two further dimensions for classification compared to Finder's folders-and-tags-approach, which are called tags and labels. DT has a automatic classification and see-also-system that is based on text analytics (seemingly something heavily relying on word frequencies and n-grams). With the increased capabilities of Finder and MacOS in general, nowadays, it's a bit harder to justify using DT over just the operating system's capabilities. I do also use it as a digital office backend (every official or commercial letter I get gets scanned into DEVONthink, for easing tax returns or contract management), but that could honestly also be done with Finder alone. I very much like it, as others have pointed out, for research document storage. This post is going to get downvoted so bad. so almost every piece of software on your Mac), have a much shorter learning curve, be the same amount of work, be cheaper, and you'll get some tools (ulysses, hook, hazel), that you can use for other things.įor everything that DT does, there is a purpose built tool that will do it better, be updated more often, and be easier to integrate with something else down the road.

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It will work better, integrate with everything that uses Mac files (. Use Hook to to link all the stuff together if you need to, but this is a pro tip. If you want to create logs of what your doing, use something like Ulysses or anything that you like to create text notes in the folder you're using say, to collect tax documents. You have to create groups in DT anyway, so no extra work there (+/- 5 minutes). Tag your documents there (like you have to do in DT), use Hazel to sort stuff into folders. Devonthink is unintuitive, feature-bloated, ugly, and difficult to use. I'm going to bail on this product for good. scanned everything in, tagged everything properly. Used them to file my taxes, my receipts, etc. *No.* I have the Pro version, and have all my personal documents in there.

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