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DEVONnote - 2.0pb8

Note pad, bookmark manager and webcam browser.

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All Time:	(3.8)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	2.0pb8
Release Date:	2009-12-10
License:	Beta
Downloads (this version):	239
Downloads (all versions):	12,982
Price:	$19.95

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Product Description:

DEVONnote is an easy-to-use, intelligent note pad capable of storing and organising plain or rich texts and file aliases. Store and manage your bookmarks in DEVONnote too, browse the Web using the integrated browser based on Apple's WebKit, capture interesting notes immediately or organise webcams. Furthermore, DEVONnote helps you sort in new stuff and supports cross and Wiki-style links.

Key features:

Stores plain and rich texts, text clippings, iChat logs, scripts, SimpleText documents, bookmarks etc.
Supports dynamic Wiki-style links and static cross links
Integrated browser based on Apple's WebKit ("Safari ")
Helps you to sort in new stuff ("Classify", "See Also")
Advanced text editing including highlighting, realtime statistics or display of invisible characters
User-defined labels
Lightning-fast, intelligent search function
Easy-to-user interface providing services and a Dock menu
Supports services (like CalcService, WordService or BlueService)
Supports drag-and-drop in both directions

What's unique:

Im- and exports Finder comments
Imports MS Word documents using Panther or AntiWordService
Stores aliases to local files
Captures contents from the built-in browser
Displays and organises webcams, supports PhotoStickies
Groups or ungroups contents, organises them in hierarchies
Is able to clone contents to multiple groups ("Replicate")
Batch im- and exports data extremely fast
Works flawlessly with huge databases (>200 MB)
Does not need indexing but searches the data faster than the competition
Uses all major features of the operating system

What's new in this version:

NEW: Tagging including a (still incomplete) tag view; OpenMeta is supported while importing and exporting files/documents.
NEW: An alert on startup asks whether the application should be installed in the global Applications folder in case it's not installed in one of the recommended locations for applications.
NEW: Option Preferences > General > Appearance > Colorize icons with label. By default this option is disabled and labels are (more or less) displayed like in the Finder. Enabling this option colorizes icons/thumbnails (including favorites in DEVONthink Pro's sidebar) with the label's color like in previous versions.
NEW: Option Preferences > General > Appearance > Mark duplicates and replicants in color that switches between coloring duplicates and replicants in blue and red instead of marking them with an icon.
NEW: Optional Check/Uncheck toolbar item.
NEW: Preferences option Destination on Import tab.
NEW: Preference option Web > Web Content > Zoom text only to enable Safari-4-style zooming.
NEW: Read-only databases (e.g. locked in the Finder, on read-only volumes like CDs/DVDs or with wrong permissions/ownership) and their favorites are marked in the Database Properties panel.
NEW: Finder labels with same name (preferred) or same color are used while importing/indexing (Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' only).
NEW: Support for .vncloc bookmarks and for 'ilvn' HFS type; support for plain text file formats defined by third-party applications added.
Improved: Interface section of Preferences, General tab, splitted into Appearance and Interface.
Improved: Polished appearance of dividors, borders, tabs, icon views, drawers, group selector and the icon size slider. Fixes also harmless console messages on Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'.
Improved: Status and file property icons revised.
Improved: Slightly revised background color of highlighting of occurrences to distinguish it from the default highlight colors.
Improved: Data > Mark > As Read/Unread, As Locked/Unlocked, and As Checked/Unchecked combined and therefore the commands toggle now these values (e.g. like Apple Mail)
Improved: The unread icon does not replace the file icon anymore.
Improved: Automatic scrolling added to tabs.
Improved: Data > New > Bookmark downloads and sets the name automatically if no name is entered.
Improved: Double-clicking on items in the icon pane of split views opens them in the same pane instead of opening a new window or hoisting the current window (depending on the preferences).
Improved: Optional pop-up menu to the right of tabs bar includes all tabs now.
Improved: Pressing the Option modifier key while clicking on the URL in a document's navigation bar opens the URL in a new tab if possible.
Improved: Shortcut Option-Tab (now supported by main, search and document windows) supports the tags bar, too. In addition, the new shortcut Option-Shift-Tab cycles through all panes in reverse order. Finally, both shortcuts select the first search result if necessary after navigating to the search results.
Improved: View > Columns > Comment and View > Sort > by Comments renamed to (by) Spotlight Comment to distinguish them from the comment of documents.
Improved: Command Open Link In New Tab added to contextual menus of text views.
Improved: Tab management in general.
Improved: Escape key can be used to cancel renaming of search results.
Improved: Some keyboard shortcuts revised.
Improved: Go > First/Previous/Next/Last Document support visible toolbar search results.
Improved: Number of results of simple smart groups (without using search terms or tags) is immediately displayed in all views now.
Improved: After moving the selected items to the trash, the next item is selected in split and three-pane views.
Improved: Many more minor interface enhancements.
Improved: Recognition of duplicates.
Improved: Advertisement filter.
Improved: Sorting.
Improved: Rebuilding is more reliable.
Improved: Handling of user style sheets.
Improved: Memory management and performance.
Fixed: Grouping items selected in the upper right pane of the three-pane view used the wrong destination group.
Fixed: Command-D shortcut for 'Don't Save' didn't work on English systems.
Fixed: Various pop-up menus (e.g. of search fields, tabs or the Label/Highlight toolbar items) do not contain contextual menu items anymore.
Fixed: Count of smart groups wasn't always up to date.
Fixed: Temporarily wrong item count of groups after duplicating.
Fixed: After setting custom icons for the inbox of databases, the icon wasn't always flushed and therefore usually gone after restarting the application.
Fixed: Switching between views does no longer reset/remove additional tabs.
Fixed: Rare crash after switching views.
Fixed: Localization glitches.
Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.
Removed: View > Show/Hide State removed.
Removed: Danish localization.

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

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Download is 1.9.12 – not 1.9.13 - Version: 1.9.13, 3/13/2008 11:20AM PST

Nico Stegeman

Download is version 1.9.12 but not (!) version 1.9.13.

Slooow - Version: 1.9.12, 1/6/2008 11:34AM PST

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BaroqueW

Handling a single rtf file of 740ko (a copy paste of an HTML table containing primarily links) makes DevonNote extremely slow (cannot do anything for a good 10 seconds)...
Good idea otherwise.

Top of its class - Version: 1.7.2, 10/20/2005 08:22AM PST

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OJA

At $20, this has to be one of the best-value shareware programs around. I’m a professional writer and DevonNote serves as my text archive, my research hub, my writing tool and, on occasion, my surrogate brain.

It’s got all the functionality you might expect of a cutting-edge notebook program (basic outlining and word processing, wiki links, file cloning, live stats, excellent Services support, etc) then a whole lot more, including an in-built browser for taking notes from the net or storing/classifying bookmarks. More importantly, it shares the advanced AI functions of its (much pricier) big brother DevonThink, helping you classify your files and then find associations between them (read this NY Times article about DevonThink's AI functions: http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/000230.html).

If you work with a lot of text, you could find yourself living in this application.

Other plus points: an excellent forum, on-going development and virtually no learning curve.