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DEVONthink Personal - 2.0pb6

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All Time:	(4.1)
Version 2.0pb6:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	2.0pb6
Release Date:	2009-07-30
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 2.0pb6):	350
Downloads (all versions):	38,513
Price:	$39.95

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Product Description:

Everything is digital today. But where to store all these e-mails, PDFs, Word documents, images and multimedia files you accumulate every day? How to organize them, and find the right one when you need it?

DEVONthink is the solution for the digital age, the one database for all your documents. And it's flexible. It adapts to your personal needs. Use it as your document repository, your filing cabinet, your e-mail archive or your project organizer. Collect and organize data from the web for a publication, enrich it with sound and movie files, and export everything as a web site, drag it to an Apple Pages document for publishing in print, or copy it to your iPod.

The Database for the Internet Age: DEVONthink keeps your important data in one database, regardless of where the data is physically located. Integrate both local documents and live content from the Internet to keep all project-related information together. Seamlessly mix local documents, clippings and live web pages.

Your Digital Workplace: DEVONthink is not only a simple database, it's a flexible work environment with powerful management features. It provides you with all the tools you need for effectively working with your documents. Use the integrated RTF editor to write new documents, or open them in a third party application.

Intelligent Assistant: DEVONthink is based on a powerful AI architecture that helps you organize and navigate your information collection. It assists you with filing documents and with finding similar items. Master even huge data collections with a few simple clicks.

What's new in this version:

NEW: Simple PDF annotation functions (highlight, strike-through, underlining); can be added to PDF and main windows. More to come.
NEW: Highlighting, strike-through, and underlinding can be used in editable PDFs and web archives.
NEW: Toolbar button to send selected items by email.
NEW: File > Export > Database Archive exports the verified, optimized database as a Zip archive.
NEW: Tools > Take Note command for quickly taking notes.
NEW: Quick Look toolbar item.
NEW: Optional Zoom To Width toolbar item.
NEW: Copy Page Link contextual menu item for PDF pages, copies a reference to the selected page.
NEW: Show/Hide Groups Dock menu items.
NEW: Columns and sorting options for Width x Height and by Duration.
NEW: Contextual menu items listing groups now show custom icons and are graphically structured.
NEW: PDFs and web archives requested by bookmarklets are generated using a background task for robustness.
Improved: DEVONthink Jot widget completely rewritten, now compatible to all editions and vertically resizable.
Improved: Cover Flow is now both window and database specific.
Improved: Selecting multiple items in split and three-pane views, in search windows uses Cover Flow, too.
Improved: Dragging items from Cover Flow is now (almost) identical to any other view.
Improved: Groups panel uses black HUD style.
Improved: Page toolbar item renamed to HTML.
Improved: Printing of PDFs. Print panel offers options to automatically rotate and to scale pages (like Preview).
Improved: After clicking on a link an eventually modified web archive is automatically saved.
Improved: Comparison settings of search windows are now persistent.
Improved: HTML parser more compatible to bad HTML code.
Improved: SkimNotes framework updated to version 1.1.7.
Fixed: Overwriting existing templates did not work.
Fixed: Clip to DEVONthink bookmarklet saved itself with captured HTML code.
Fixed: Double-clicking on Quick Look panel opened a document externally.
Fixed: Scrolling of PDF documents via drag-and-drop with Command pressed did not work.
Fixed: Error when exporting items without files as templates is logged.
Fixed: Bug in Safari 4.0 preventing modified web archived to be saved.
Fixed: Rare crash while synchronizing indexed files and folders.
Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.
NEW: Optional Reveal and Show In Finder toolbar items.
NEW: Optional Mark Up toolbar item for highlight, strike through or underline the selection.
NEW: Go > Selected Group 'hoists' the main window to the selected group.
NEW: Info panel and views display total size of groups or news feeds.
NEW: Groups and news feeds support sorting by size.
NEW: Shortcut Option-Left/Right expands/collapses all children in outline views whereas Left/Right expands/collapses only the selected item.
NEW: Groups containing unread items are displayed bold and, if desired, show the number of unread items inside the group and its sub-groups.
Improved: Highlight toolbar shows a menu for selecting the highlight color.
Improved: Menu command shortcuts revised and adapted to e.g. TextEdit.
Improved: Tooltips include now the location, the comment and available meta data.
Improved: Info bar of main windows displays location of selected item.
Improved: Action toolbar menu contains also commands to edit smart groups, to refresh feeds and to add/remove groups to/from favorites.
Improved: Invalidate server certificates can be ignored on demand and the site is accessible afterwards.
Improved: Links to remote downloads in RTF(D) and PDF documents are now opened in the default browser.
Improved: Database in use alerts revised; improved alert sheets after network errors.
Improved: Default size for document windows is now the last used size per document type.
Improved: Minimal width of URL, Path and Comment columns reduced.
Improved: Naming of items in Window menu standardized.
Improved: Toolbar item Show Info renamed to info.
Improved: Items in the trash are no longer considered instances or duplicates.
Improved: Widescreen mode is now database- and window-specific.
Improved: Compatibility of preferences panel to buggy third-party hacks.
Improved: Communication with the file system more reliable.
Improved: Updating of Info and Document Properties panels.
Improved: Updating of toolbar search results after selecting different settings in the pop-up menu.
Fixed: Edit > Copy URL was not always enabled for document windows.
Fixed: Selected/Dropped aliases were not resolved while importing/indexing.
Fixed: The name of newly created groups could not always be edited immediately.
Fixed: Preview of split views was not updated after renaming a file and selecting a different item.
Fixed: Automatic links based on MashedWords did not always work.
Fixed: Searching right after verifying and repairing a database did not always return all results.
Fixed: Expansion of groups inside smart groups was not always persistent.
Fixed: Group names containing commas were displayed as multiple tags by the Info panel.
Fixed: Bug affecting word counts of documents with only one word.
Fixed: Internal character count was not always updated after saving a modified document.
Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

Feedback Summary:

Version 2.0pb6:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Who is "Brass Hammer"? - Version: 2.0pb6, 8/8/2009 08:43PM PST

(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)

philosopherdog

Obviously the previous reviewer has a problem. Click on his name and see the drivel he writes. Obviously the dude hasn't used DT. Anyhow, DT is simply the most powerful program on the Mac for researchers. Check out there website and forums and judge for yourself. I personally prefer the Pro version myself.

No confidence from the company - Version: 2.0pb5, 7/30/2009 08:25AM PST

(0 of 3 users found this comment useful)

Brass Hammer

Here is what I think when a company continually puts out one beta after another. The company has no confidence in its product and is trying to pawn it off to the public while being able to fall back on "Hey! We said it was beta!" DEVON: If its any good, release it. If it is junk, stop using the public to do your testing for you.

Too Little Too Late? - Version: 2.0pb5, 6/26/2009 04:14PM PST

(0 of 4 users found this comment useful)

jarlaxle.merc

All the features worth looking at are quickly becoming freely available in other existing technologies, not to mention the handful of necessary features DTP lacks. If I wanted a glorified Finder I'd turn to Path Finder. That said, DTP is hardly even glorified as the Spotlight criteria capabilities are rather sad. Oh well.