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Only negatives: data is only in one place (doesn’t sync to multiple devices like EverNote – and no DropBox doesn’t count).

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So… not the full post on DevonThink that I intended to create but this is a good potted summary of what matters to me.

It’s designed to make the digitization process as smooth as possible and even uses artificial intelligence to organize your documents.

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While it make take some time to learn how to unleash DevonThink’s powerful potential, the time can be worth it for users interested in truly taking the paperless plunge in their offices. DEVONthink is the one-stop, comprehensive solution for all your document and information management needs on the Mac and iOS. DEVONthink Pro (formerly DEVONthink Pro Office) is a dedicated personal document management software for Mac made specifically for macOS. I am also exploring the RSS feeds from journals more, but they do seem very useful as the magic-hat will tell you if there are new publications (within reason) related to your topic area. DevonThink is a fine file management app that offers easy to use, paperless databases for power users or businesses. The magic-hat searching is quite useful once you build a bit of a database up of papers – click the magic hat and you’ll see papers and quotations the AI thinks are relevant inside your database. It is in fact quite amazing some of the things that can be done with DEVONthink and is well worth spending the time looking at the tutorials.“p299 para3 Jones & Huntley (2006) provide a theoretical basis for the anomalous findings of Blake & Waldron (1976).” That way when you do your search if you have multiple quotations from the same source you can see them in order and, perhaps a little, context. Oh – for quotations, I tag it with the original paper, tag the quotation with any relevant keywords, and put the page order/para order in the title of the quotation (e.g.

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I have two folders – one for the original PDF documents, and another for quotations (I copy the quotation out of the PDF with page and paragraph reference, and put that in a comment when I cite it in my phd thesis).

I use smart folders to search quickly for the tags etc that I want (created several smart folders that you just double-click and edit the search criteria e.g.

Full text indexing of the OCRd PDF (and the fact that you can then copy the OCR’d text out of the PDF into a separate ‘quotations’ folder.

Seamless working with Preview so I can immediately open up a PDF and annotate it (highlights) straight into the database (saves back to where Devonthink does.

Tagging of documents (I tag by author, journal, year, keywords, and reference ).

This is an interim short post on DevonThink and why I replaced Evernote with DevonThink on the Mac.īut just a quick note to say that I do use DevonThink a lot in managing my phd research. On the details on how to use it and manage information. Well I have been promising for a while to write a blog post on DevonThink.

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