I wish I could hang out for an hour with a DT user and see how it goes.
Looks fascinating but complicated. Also, I've seen references to syncing
it across one's machines and devices. Is it possible, easy to do this?
Howie
Jan Erik Moström <mailto:li...@mostrom.pp.se>
August 26, 2016 at 3:54 AM
On 25 Aug 2016, at 18:01, Scott Schulz wrote:
Yes, it's included but you have to find a place where to store the
data. I haven't checked what services they include but I'm using Dropbox.
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Scott Schulz <mailto:swsch...@astrum.com>
August 25, 2016 at 9:01 AM
On 25 Aug 2016, at 11:46, Jan Erik Moström wrote:
Thanks for the review. In DT, is the sync functionality included
with the application? That is, if I buy a version, will it sync to
other copies of that without an additional fee? I am a longterm EN
user, but with their recent price increases, I am considering a move
to OneNote or Notes (and now DT).
S
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Jan Erik Moström <mailto:li...@mostrom.pp.se>
August 25, 2016 at 8:46 AM
On 25 Aug 2016, at 16:38, Howard Wettstein wrote:
Devonthink is similar to Evernote in that you can store notes, pdfs,
etc in a database. But Devonthink takes a different approach than
Evernote.
Evernote is an online service (at least if you want to take full
advantage of the available features) that has clients on a large
number of platforms. EN stores notes etc in HTML format but it can
also "embed" files, photos, etc in those pages. The OCR is pretty,
organization and searching is average, there is good support from
various other apps/services to use EN. From my point of view I think
it works best as a capture device for web pages - I don't like it very
much from a note taking view (the formatting is also troublesome when
working on different platforms). Biggest problem for me is that it
modifies plain text files when they are stored as notes (tabs etc are
removed since the text is stored as HTML), also no Markdown support.
Devonthink on the other hand is a "local app", i.e. there is no cloud
where you store the data instead everything lives on your Mac (more
about this later). You can create any number of databases, you can
organize each database as you like - for example in a hierarchical
fashion (folders within folders). You can store almost any kind of
data in its original form - so a text file stays a text file, a word
file is a word file. Actually, you can tell Devonthink to index files
/outside/ the database which means that you can leave your Word files
as normal files in a folder somewhere on your harddisk but DT will
index them and make them searchable from within DT. DT also contains a
web browser, a very powerful search engine, some "AI" to help you
categorize and find material, etc. It also supports templates and is
highly scriptable/extensible.
Evernote have had the convenience advantage because of the syncing and
the availability on many platforms while DT has pretty much won
everything else except OCR (EN is more convenient).
They both have user interfaces that be considered ... "rough". EN has
an almost flat "learning curve" while DT will surprise you for years
you with functionality that you didn't know existed.
I've used both on-and-off for a long time. And until this summer
Evernote has won because of the convenience aspect, but this summer
Devon Technologies released a new syncing engine together with a new
iOS client ... which makes a huge difference. The convenience
advantage is now gone for Evernote (I'm all macOS/iOS) so I'm now
moving my important stuff to DT - will probably continue to use EN for
sharing documents etc within the family but otherwise I'm going to DT.
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Howard Wettstein <mailto:ho...@ucr.edu>
August 25, 2016 at 7:38 AM
I’m intrigued by comments about Devonthink. Could someone give me a
brief description of the program and how it works? I don’t mean a
technical account, just a short message about how to use it, what it
does, etc. Or a link to where I can find such a descriptions. I’ver
used Evernote for years, love it, and it seems there is overlap.
Thanks.
Howie
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