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DEVONthink PE - 1.7.1

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All Time:	(4.1)
Version 1.7.1:	(4.5)
Selected Version:	1.7.1
Release Date:	2003-08-27
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 1.7.1):	1,125
Downloads (all versions):	38,514
Price:	$35.00

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Product Description:

DEVONthink is the Mac incarnation of the real paperless office. It's a notepad, outliner, scrapbook manager, information manager, freeform database, archive, bookmark manager and image database - your personal �supplementary brain�. Based on our revolutionary DEVONtechnology, DEVONthink is an information manager capable of intelligently storing and organising all types of data, text files, PDFs and images. Put in whatever you want, organise it, let DEVONthink search for it.
Key features: - Stores whatever you like, from texts, images and HTML to URLs - Helps organising your stuff with a built-in, simple outliner - Easy-to-use Finder-like user interface - Super-fast navigation and display of contents - Helps you to sort in new stuff (auto-classify, see-also, keywords) - Advanced text editing including highlighting and realtime word and character count - Lightning-fast, intelligent search function - Built to seamlessly integrate with Mac OS X
What's unique: - Works with much more file formats than all alternatives - Imports and exports huge amounts of data extremely fast - Works flawlessly with huge databases (>100 MB) - Does not need indexing and still searches the database faster than all other freeform databases or scrapbook managers (which are in both, handling and performance, built for small databases) - Stays highly performant even with big databases, i.e. double the size of the database does not mean half the performance - Is built around industry standards and uses all major features of the operating system

What's new in this version:

Toolbar and menu items to launch DEVONagent added
Optional automatic checking for new versions (on startup or daily/weekly/monthly)
Faster initialization and accessing of databases
"Backup & Compress" and "Full compression on quit" optimize database files. In most cases this improves overall performance (e.g. database initialization and accessing contents afterwards are 2-5 times faster)
Caching of some values improves the speed of "See Also", "Classify" and searching (old databases are updated automatically - the more you use them, the faster they'll get)
No more delay after "New with Clipboard" or "Take Plain/Rich Note"
Faster case insensitive and fuzzy search and faster HTML parser
HTML parser supports more ("gb2312", "x-kam-cs" and "koi8cs") and wrong encodings ("mac", "windows" etc.)
Conversion of HTML pages to plain text skips contents of OPTION-tags
"Verify & Repair" command displays file errors separately and is able to repair additional minor problems
DEVONthink remembers the last used image/PDF zoom for browser windows
Minor GUI changes to adapt the interfaces of DEVONagent and DEVONthink
Stability of DEVONkernel framework (fixing some minor inconsistencies on the fly and on startup)
The delay after dropping items from other applications (e.g. the Finder) was a little bit too small
History modified selected view of home group
After switching between list and other views, the icon size slider disappeared or was at the wrong position
HTML parser didn't recognize all META information and therefore sometimes used the wrong encoding
PDF screenshots were marked as "PDF+Text" and blue highlighted very often (due to some useless retrieved "white" string)
Conversion of PDF documents to text could erase external referenced files
If the registration panel appeared on startup, DEVONthink crashed after pressing "Cancel" due to a memory management bug
Minor bug of HTML import
Icon of .dtLink files did not work due to a typo

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.7.1:
Overall Rating:	(4.5)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(3.5)
Ease of Use:	(4.0)	Quality / Stability:	(4.5)	Price:	(4.0)

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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

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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.