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DEVONthink Personal - 1.9.4

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All Time:	(4.1)
Version 1.9.4:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	1.9.4
Release Date:	2005-07-28
License:	Update
Downloads (version 1.9.4):	743
Downloads (all versions):	38,516
Price:	$40.00

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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, image database and bookmark manager - your personal supplementary brain. DEVONthink is capable of intelligently storing and organising all types of data like plain and text files, HTML, XML, PDF documents and images. Put in whatever you want, organise it, let DEVONthink search for it.

Key features:

Stores whatever you like, from texts, images, PDF, HTML and XML over text clippings, iChat logs, scripts and Microsoft Word/RTF files to links
Is able to index contents only instead of storing them in the database
Integrated browser based on Apple's WebKit (ï¿‚ï¾»Safari Engineï¿‚ï¾«)
Helps you to sort in new stuff (ï¿‚ï¾»Classifyï¿‚ï¾«, ï¿‚ï¾»See Alsoï¿‚ï¾«, keywords etc.)
Advanced text editing including rulers, highlighting realtime statistics and display of invisible characters
Lightning-fast, intelligent search function
User-defined labels
Dynamic Wiki-style links and static cross links
Built-in outlining capabilities
Easy-to-use interface providing Services and a Dock menu
Supports Services (like CalcService or WordService)
Supports drag-and-drop in both directions

What's unique:

Im- and exports Finder comments
Captures contents from the built-in browser or from Safari
Imports e-mails from Apple Mail
Plays QuickTime movies and MP3 files
Stores aliases to local files
Groups or ungroups documents, organizes them into hierarchies
Works with much more file formats than all alternatives
Batch imports and exports data extremely fast
Works flawlessly with huge databases (>300 MB)
Does not need indexing but searches faster than the competition
Uses all major features of Mac OS X

What's new in this version:

NEW DEVONthink uses the new "unified toolbar & title" look of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, look of horizontal/vertical split view resemble Mail 2.0. Can be turned off in the preferences.
NEW DEVONthink is able to import iChat 3 logs (.ichat files) and imports iChat and Yahoo Messenger logs now as rich text.
NEW It's possible to drag data without file representations (e.g. URLs or clippings) to the Dock icon (Mac OS X 10.4 only).
NEW Possibility to search for items with a specific label and/or state added to seach window.
NEW Option-clicking on words in PDF/PostScript documents opens a drawer showing all documents containing the word, too. Note: Selecting rectangles is still possible by option-clicking and dragging the mouse.
NEW "Go > First/Last Document" menu and toolbar items to go to the first or last document of a group.
NEW Contextual menu commands for capturing frames, pages or web archives and for updating an already captured web archive.
NEW "Set As Title" and "See …" commands as well as Services sub-menu added to contextual menus of PDF views (Mac OS X 10.4.x only).
NEW Print panel allows to print web pages with or without backgrounds and headers/footers (Mac OS X 10.4 only).
NEW Statistics for web archives in the database properties panel.
NEW Support for services using web archives added.
NEW Experimental service "DEVONthink > Capture Web Archive" added. Currently unavailable in most applications as few applications provide web archives to services.
NEW Search windows support rulers.
Improved Faster application launch, faster reloading and updating of views, faster editing of plain texts.
Improved Services menu commands work with Camino now, dragging notes from Shiira stores the URL, too.
Improved Printing of images and list/split/icon views.
Improved Revised default toolbars of document windows.
Improved "View Source" and "Preview Page" commands can be added to toolbar of search windows
Improved "Tools > Toolbar Search..." renamed and moved to "Edit > Find > In Database..." (like in Safari).
Improved "Copy Link" contextual menu command added.
Improved "Move/Replicate/Duplicate To" sub-menus of contextual menus list the complete parent hierarchy.
Improved PDF/PostScript views support the commands "Edit > Deselect All" and "Edit > Find > Jump To Selection" (Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger only).
Improved Synchronized scrolling of PDFs opened in more than one window.
Improved HTML to plain text conversion and indexing of HTML pages.
Improved Conversion of binary .plist files to XML.
Improved Reliability of the recognition of duplicates.
Improved Background colors of views unified.
Improved Accuracy of the size calculation for texts and markup files.
Improved Naming of exported images.
Improved Handling of archived web pages.
Improved Up to four times faster thumbnailing of web archives
Improved Rebuilding retains the sorting mode of groups.
Improved More robust exception handling of Mac OS X 10.3 used.
Improved Trying to open more than 10 items presents a warning.
Improved The startup preference "Open windows that were open on quit" now always opens at least one window.
Improved More reliable writing of setting and registration files.
Improved Revised German and French localization.
Improved Default "Check for Update" interval is now daily.
Improved New registration panel.
Improved Periodic backups also optimize the database if necessary.
Improved DEVONthink uses the standard Unix file locking mechanism under Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to ensure a database is not opened in two instances of DEVONthink.
Fixed Switching views doesn't collapse/expand groups any more.
Fixed Comments of groups were not always exported as Finder comments. Empty groups were not rebuild if the "Optimized Hierarchy" preference was active. Thumbnails and customized icons of non-images are retained while rebuilding.
Fixed Services submenu of contextual menus was not always immediately available (Mac OS X 10.4 only).
Fixed More reliable recognition of command-clicked Internet addresses in text documents.
Fixed Display of PostScript/EPS documents under Mac OS X 10.4.
Fixed DEVONthink uses its own wildcard implementation to circumvent bugs in the Mac OS X Cocoa framework.
Fixed Export of RTF files could fail if the system language was Japanese. Note: Exporting of RTFD files or "File > Export > as Text/RTF/RTFD/Word" were not effected by this bug.
Fixed Minor glitch of Word export.
Fixed Multiple spaces of names were automatically removed.
Fixed Minor bugs and interface glitches.

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.9.4:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(4.0)	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.