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1. #DEVONTHINK PRO OFFICE RESEARCH MAC OS X#
2. #DEVONTHINK PRO OFFICE RESEARCH MAC OS#
3. #DEVONTHINK PRO OFFICE RESEARCH PDF#

So if Everything Has Improved, Where’s the Problem? But the point is that the operating system itself is advancing swiftly, and it is catching up in many areas with capabilities that previously distinguished DEVONthink itself.Īnd therein lies a problem, in my opinion. These improvements have nothing to do with OS X.

#DEVONTHINK PRO OFFICE RESEARCH PDF#

To fair, this is not true across the board: PDF management capabilities have been significantly beefed up, for example, as have OCR functions, thanks to a new OCR engine based on ABBYY FineReader.

#DEVONTHINK PRO OFFICE RESEARCH MAC OS#

Interestingly, I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say that many of the improvements to DEVONthink have actually come about as a result of throwing out the previous way of doing things (e.g., the proprietary database, thumbnail generation, etc.) and integrating instead with Mac OS X’s built-in capabilities. In all respects, the 2.0 update is an improvement over the previous version, and in many ways the upgrade is a no-brainer for existing users. And the contents of all those databases are now fully indexed by Mac OS X’s Spotlight search facility, thanks to a move away from the proprietary database structure of past versions: now all documents are stored in their original form as separate files, thus becoming fully visible to Spotlight. Multiple databases can now be opened at the same time, and a universal inbox can be used to collect new documents which can then be farmed out to the various databases. Likewise, documents in a group can be viewed with Mac OS X’s Cover Flow.

#DEVONTHINK PRO OFFICE RESEARCH MAC OS X#

The new version also brings a range of usability enhancements, including the ability to show thumbnail images for all documents types supported by Mac OS X 10.5’s Quicklook. The 2.0 update goes some way toward exposing more power to the user via numerous interface tweaks and whole new additions such as the ‘Sorter’, which provides an ever-present slide-out drawer at the edge of your screen, into which you can drop documents for later automatic filing into DEVONthink. The software has long been criticized for having a steep learning curve or, as I prefer, a steep ‘appreciation curve’ - by which I mean that it’s not that hard to start using in a basic way, but it takes longer to appreciate just what else you can do with it, and how best to take advantage of all the power concealed under the hood. The software is so remarkably powerful that some users, particularly researchers in academia, actually don’t want to tell anyone else about it - they’d rather keep this ‘secret weapon’ to themselves! As far as I’m aware, in terms of this type of capability, nothing else compares to it at anything like this price level, on any platform. Our earlier review of DEVONthink Pro Office version 1.3.2, from DEVON technologies, provides a full run-down of the fairly amazing capabilities built into this free form database: clever artificial intelligence technology automatically analyzes, categorizes, extrapolates and summarizes the documents you drop into it.