![]() ![]() PS I think I emailed you once about your Bible collection after reading about it on your blog.In this article I want to provide you a basic introduction to how we use DevonThink.įor the uninitiated, DevonThink is a “Smart Document Management” application, that helps you manage your information and helps you go paperless.ĭevonThink is a very complex and customizable program. ![]() (I think the limit with Acrobat is 150 dpi, while DTPO will OCR documents down to 72 dpi.) I have noticed that DTPO will allow the OCR of scanned documents with a lower resolution than that recognised by Acrobat Pro. I was planning to use it extensively (after I had worked through the tutorials/manuals etc ) until I discovered FoxTrot. I cannot comment on using DEVONthink in this way because I haven't used it enough to be able to do so, even though I did acquire it with high hopes of using it after watching the demo videos from the website. You're quite right, I totally missed the point. Wright PDFs and html) go into Bible Study/Theology. Web searches that come up with interesting content (e.g. I put all my purchase receipts in personal expenses, codes in a mac software license classification, bible study accordance folder get my accordance user notes printed as PDF and OCR'd, other accordance stuff, such as forum threads I want to capture, Accordance docs and blog entries, links to Joe's website, etc. Where's all my "Accordance" related stuff? ALL over the place, but searchable from one place. The ability to enable spotlight visibility into DT db content (selectively) is also a new and long overdue feature that is there in v2. ![]() One BIG diff in the newer version of DT is the ability to index existing file systems instead of just pulling them in. You can also make all this available on the web for access via your iphone or another computer. The WAY cool feature here is the OCR piece that allows me to search all this stuff. Receipts for bigger purchases, manuals, conference materials, non-electronic statements, and so on. I capture all paper using the fujitsu scanner (Expensive but SOOOO worth it!). sign offs, milestone commits, technical issue threads, purchase approvals, etc.) I also pull in email that is critical to archival (e.g. I have critical projects that I work on where I leave many things on the file system and index the folder hierarchy in DT. this means that crude scanned paper manual that you download can actually be searched now (can't be done with any other spotlight++ tools out there). One of the essential features I use from DTPO is the ability to take even image PDF files and OCR them. I capture everything from safari I want to keep (the web changes) into DTPO that go into the inbox then use auto classify to push to my folder structure. I put all my paperless statements on a DB that's on an encrypted disk image. The v2 feature of being able to separate out databases is fantastic. And again, I'm curious to know how others might use DEVONthink and Accordance together if that is something that is regularly done.ĭTP Office is a great product. So again, if anyone would be willing to offer some tips for using DEVONthink-especially version, 2, I'd appreciate it. ![]() Yes, but Alistair, surely you can appreciate the fact that since I have now invested in DEVONthink, I will want to learn how to use it, and it wouldn't really be practical to switch to yet another program. Teaching notes usually end up in Pages and in Keynote. I use Scrivener as a basic research layout and organisation/writing tool.Īgain, Scrivener is something that I cannot imagine having to work without, I have found it the best tool for large research and writing projects. I cannot imagine searching texts without it. I have found that it is the best tool for searching a large number of text files.ġ1,990 files is about 30GB, the index is 1.5 GB. It does not duplicate the files but does create its own internal database files (or index) to facilitate fast searching (Spotlight does this too). I can browse the documents inside FoxTrot, launch them in their parent application, or find them in the Finder. It claims to support "300 document types and metadata." It allows me to search through a library of 11,990 (and growing) files, including PDFs, RTFs, DOCs, etc. I stopped using Devonthink and now use FoxTrot Professional Search. ![]()
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