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DEVONthink: Why?
fade | Jul 27 2006
I admit. The first time I read through the site introducing DEVONthink, I thought, "WOW! That's awesome! An app that organizes all my files intelligently." Then, after about five minutes of wondering how to convince the wife to give me $80, something hit me. I already have something that will allow me to organize any type of file, whatsover. The search function may not be as great, but it seems to do most of the other things DEVON does. It's my computer, or more specifically my OS. I realized I had this same epiphany after getting over the initial buzz of iPhoto as well. Am I wrong? What is the advantage? I realize that I can cross-categorize, but pretty much any OS out there right now lets me do that to with aliases and simlinks. What am I missing? 4 Comments
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 DEVONthink is at the heart...Submitted by terceiro on November 28, 2006 - 11:43pm.
DEVONthink is at the heart of my system, but I'm a PhD student in English literature and am dealing with thousands of documents. I have both primary and critical sources in my database. For every research project I have done over the past two years, DEVONthink has helped me discover at least one (and at times many) articles I had not previously considered. Or had forgotten. As a scrapbook, DEVONthink is bloated, ugly, and slow. As a notebook, DEVONthink is underwhelming and missing key features. As a research assistant, DEVONthink is without peer. I have seen nothing, anywhere, that can provide me the kind of in-depth, concordant analysis that I get from DEVONthink Pro. I even bought DEVONagent to make it easier to get stuff into DEVONthink. It's sorta like buying Safari, but without bookmarks. Sure, it's a sucky primary browser, but it rocks for getting my research from the interwebs and into DEVONthink. I'd say that DEVONthink isn't for everybody. If you just want a snippet holder, you're smashing a mosquito with a hammer. But if you are doing original research with a lot of literature (technical, literary, or scientific) to review, DEVONthink is your man. Or baby. Or ticket. Or whatever. » POSTED IN:
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