#Devonthink to go tags archive#
#Devonthink to go tags pro#
#Devonthink to go tags professional#
#Devonthink to go tags mac#

#Devonthink to go tags pro#

True, but it’s a one-time cost, not a yearly one! With Evernote increasing its prices to $7 a month, after two years you’ve almost covered the Pro edition. Okay, that’s a lie, I only take notes in my analog journal, but still. By then, I’m over the “quickly, jot that down or I’ll lose it!' pattern. It literally takes a single second to boot, while the Electron-based Evernote app takes its sweet time. Smart Rules that lets you auto-tag, move, rename, …ĭEVONthik is blazingly fast on my M1 MacBook Air.A scriptable interface using AppleScript (not great, but it works).Proper Markdown support, custom CSS, WikiLinks, ….A few things I particularly liked, compared to the Evernote OSX application: Luckily, most features are discrete and the main UI is clean and can be customized to your liking. Of course, if you’re a minimalist, that can also be a bad thing. FunctionalityĭEVONthink has so many bells and whistles that it is impossible for me to list them here. The note database can also be encrypted, although I simply rely on FileVault’s disk encryption instead. Making backups is a simple matter of zipping a single directory, and doing whatever the hell I want with it. With DEVONthink, you can still sync between multiple devices using Dropbox, with client-side encryption. So, I purposely looked for a decentralized solution that does not force me to store my very personal data somewhere else besides on my own hardware. Although that never happened here, it’s kind of scary. Oh, andĮvernote employees can read your notes? I’ve also heard stories of disappearing notes. I don’t want to throw my whole life on “the cloud” anymore - even if it’s encrypted at rest on Google Cloud servers - to which I do not have any key, by the way. The primary reason to quit Evernote was taking back control of my own data. Since then, a few things happened that ultimately made me close my Evernote account for good, and resort to other methods I’d like to explain here. Neither option requires the DevonThink program to be open to work.In 2017, I wrote a practical guide to keeping a journal, which also contained a digitalizing part involving Evernote. Another option is the “clip to DevonThink” extension available to both Safari and Firefox users. One such plugin is the DevonThink dashboard widget, which allows users to input notes quickly. Mail and Microsoft Exchange, as well as other popular Unix-based programs such as Mozilla Thunderbird.Īlthough DevonThink is a full-featured program, it comes with several ancillary plugins that extend its usefulness beyond the actual DevonThink program itself.

#Devonthink to go tags archive#

One of the DevonThink’s other main features is its ability to archive emails through its import program. DevonThink also includes a number of smart groups (you can add others, too) for easy reference as well. The app contains a separate tag browser that makes finding files easier, provided that you tagged them when you imported them, of course.

Tags are also prevalent throughout DevonThink and compliment the OCR scanned documents. The fact that the feature works as well as it does is equally important to its viability in an office setting. Assuming many offices do as I do and scan important documents into a hard drive, the ability to create searchable databases of thousands of physical documents is arguably the most important feature of DevonThink.

The OCR feature is huge for offices seeking to go paperless.

In subsequent testing the OCR feature worked as advertised. After importing the receipt into DevonThink, the OCR feature allowed me to search for the street address of the store and the other text on the receipt as well. The iPhone sales receipt includes information such as the street address of the store where I bought the phone, information that exists only on the scanned receipt and not in the file name or tags associated with the document. To do so, I imported my original iPhone 3G purchase receipt from 2008 into the application.

#Devonthink to go tags mac#

As mentioned earlier, I routinely scan important documents into my Mac so I was eager to test this feature. The primary reason DevonThink can be valuable to paperless offices is its support for OCR, which translates text from scanned documents and PDFs into searchable text. I imported several important files, documents, and PDFs and let DevonThink do the rest using its default settings. I then sorted most of the documents on my Mac accordingly.

#Devonthink to go tags professional#

Although you can create as many databases as you’d like in DevonThink, I created two for review purposes, a personal and a professional database.