#Search pdf text devonthink pro mac#

You chain yourself to the Mac and to DEVON think.

There is also no way to sort tags hierarchically.

Tags use autocompletion, but a nice tag window like the one in Aperture is missing.

You donвЂ™t see it in the Inbox and itвЂ™s only visible if you choose a database but not any folder in it. You can create something in the database itself but it is not in any folder (or group).

Nothing unwieldy (a few GB - which is nothing, even considering that I grew up in a time where 640K was still an issue) but itвЂ™s noticeable. Given that you save the whole database, Time Machine Backups have become larger. The main issues I have with DEVON think are:

A solutions that places the notes in a direction that gets imported when DEVON think is running later would have been better. While the Widget can be used while DEVON think is not currently running, it will start it when you save the note. Unfortunately, the Dashboard Widget vanishes after a note (which makes sense but is inconvenient, if you want to do more than one note). Very convenient if you want to jot down something while working. The Dashboard Widget also allows you to create notes - only as text files.Unfortunately, the sorter vanishes after a note. Pressing enter while having partly written the tag creates a new one with that part.

Tags can also be assigned, although autocompletion works different here. You can also make notes with it, which are also imported into DEVON think, either as text files or rich text files. You can assign any folder (group) to this drawer and when you drag a file onto it, the file gets imported into that folder (group) in DEVON think. The Sorter looks like a bunch of drawers thatвЂ™s on the side of your desktop.There are also two things that are quite helpful - the sorter and the dashboard widget. There are a lot of other things DEVON think can do, including scanning and much, much more. Even when importing huge amounts of files it stayed cool, never going beyond acceptable levels in processor load. While doing all this DEVON think doesnвЂ™t send the processor (and the fans) into breakdown.You can replicate files into different folders (groups) and when you change the content of one of these files, all the other files change as well. DEVON think supports replicants (think file aliases).The search function allows a detailed yet easy search of the content.It makes suggestions where files could be sorted to, it can show documents that are related to the current document regarding the content, and much, much more. Easily the most impressive thing is DEVON think pseudo-intelligence.Very convenient when they are displayed in a smart group. DEVON think identifies duplicates - not regarding the file name (this doesnвЂ™t faze DEVON think and it treats these files differently) but regarding content.Simply give a file tags from multiple projects and they appear in the smart groups of all projects whose tag they have. As a lot of ideas/files/documents belong in different folders/to different projects this is a great way to handle this. The scope can also be defined, from the whole database to specific groups. Smart groups are also possible - similar to smart lists in iTunes - based on anything from file name, to tags, to time/date, etc.You can prevent DEVON think from showing these tags (which I do) and simply use them as folders. Files can be grouped, which essentially assigns the same tag to them but makes it look like they are in the same folder.It will also point out tags that often appear with the ones you have assigned. DEVON think uses autocompletion - once you have used a tag for the first time, the second time you write part of the text DEVON think will make suggestions for autocompletion. Once you have imported files into DEVON think you can work with them, and you can do a lot: Sure, you can import your files into it and it will display them like a directory, but in truth DEVON think is a powerful database that helps you to deal with huge amounts of information, with text files, documents, images, anything.

#Search pdf text devonthink pro mac os#

On first glance, it looks like the Finder of Mac OS X. I have already invested time, effort and money in it and transferred part of my Wiki into it. Unless something unacceptable happens (e.g., losing data), I will continue using it. I have switched from a DokuWiki to DEVON think. I have made a major change in the way I deal with my (now > 9000) ideas. Who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.