Contrary to a simple file manager like the Finder, it knows about the documents and helps the user to work with them, e.g., by providing assistance with filing new documents, organizing them, and finding the one document that the user needs right at this moment. What general directions do you plan to move the product in?ĮBV: For us, DEVONthink is a data hub, a central repository for all the documents and items one works with on a daily basis. JS: Before I dive into details of some specific features I'd like to ask about, I'd like to start with having you articulate your big-picture vision for DEVONthink development.
There are a few features tucked away in there that I wasn't aware of, features that will help tide me over until the next major release. So, I fired off an email to the company requesting an interview, and DEVONtechnologies' president, Eric Boehnisch-Volkmann, was kind enough to indulge my questions.Įric not only told me where DT is headed, but he also told me some things about the product that I didn't know. My recent flirtations with EagleFiler brought home for me some of the shortcomings in the present incarnation of DT, and it got me wondering where DEVONtechnologies is taking the product. The interface needs an overhaul to make it easier for me to do more of my own organizing and filing for example, tags, smart folders, more views, and better metadata manipulation in general would all be nice. In short, I now spend less time using Google to try to dig up stuff that I've already seen but just can't locate and more time doing actual research and writing.Īs much as I love DEVONthink, it's not without its flaws. So now that all my Ars stuff is in one huge and still growing database, I can go back and find, for instance, the links and documents I used in doing background work on a particular news post, or what presentations I have that relate to a particular company, technology, or topic, and so on. I learned early on that the program doesn't do that much until you just dump everything into one database and start to make use of the search and classification features that it provides.
#EAGLEFILER VS DEVONTHINK TAGS PRO#
I've been using DEVONthink Office Pro for a few months now to organize and mine the massive amounts of information-PDFs, presentations, HTML archives, article drafts, images, notes, emails etc.-that I've accumulated and generated over almost a decade (yikes!) of writing for Ars.
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