R. Mansfield Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 I thought I'd mention that Summerfest 2021 featuring "artisanal software" is currently going on with discounts on a number of Mac-centric apps. Three apps are included that I regularly use and highly recommend: DEVONthink 3 (document management), Mellel (word processor), and Bookends (bibliographic database). I couldn't tell if you actually needed the coupon code or not, but if you do, it's SUMMERFEST2021. A number of other great apps are discounted at the Summerfest link as well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leopold Green Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 Thanks Rick - Mellel is wonderful and I keep meaning to try Devon but am a little worried it is too complicated - how do you find it? I have used Evernote for a long time but found that when you 20K plus notes it slows down to a crawl (on an iMac Pro) which means I have stopped using it - Devon seems to offer a replacement to this? Any advice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Mansfield Posted June 26, 2021 Author Share Posted June 26, 2021 Yes, my path was DEVONthink (DT from here on) to Evernote, and back to DT. I believe you’ll find DT very intuitive, and their documentation is excellent. Initially I switched to Evernote because I could access it on all platforms, and I wanted to be able to get to my content from anywhere. But if you’re talking about PDFs, I’ve never liked how Evernote embeds them instead of keeping them as separate files. Now that DT has capable mobile apps for iPad and iPhone, and all your content can be synced via iCloud, I have found it quite capable for my needs. And the 20,000 notes you mention won’t bog it down. I still do some quick (short) notes in AppleNotes, but for instance, my iOS webinar that I led this past Thursday was in DT. I have tens of thousands of PDFs, including full books I’ve scanned, and DT can find content immediately as you start typing. DT has ABBYY Fine Reader built in allowing you to put a searchable layer on top of any static scanned documents. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leopold Green Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 Thanks so much! Bought and already enjoying sorting through thousands of PDFs (when I stopped using Evernote I stored them in Apple Books which is nice for reading but less so for finding anything) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leopold Green Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 This is an update (and more thanks to Rick) DEVONthink is not nearly as complex as I feared and though I have only processed 450 pdfs etc. with about 10K to go I have every tagging and identifying feature I could ever use - the search within pdfs lightning fast and the display options for webarchives so so so much better than Evernote and on that score I always thought the Evernote web clipper was unmatched but the DEVONthink Safari plug-in is so much better... I wish I had had to courage to swap ages ago... if you have lots of documents/pdfs/clip lots of web pages then DEVONthink is superb! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Henderson Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 I purchased DT3 as well for equipment manuals at work and personal used with studies and such at home, it’s great! One question, are you guys indexing your own file structure from finder or importing everything into the database? Pros and cons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leopold Green Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 I'm putting everything into DT3 which is why it takes such a long time but I figure I will get exactly what I want at the end (and I like a project) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Mansfield Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share Posted July 3, 2021 I put everything into DT3, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Henderson Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Thanks for the input gentlemen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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