Yesterday Macworld published a four-mice review of DEVONagent Pro 3.5, written by Joe Kissell. You already know Joe as the author of many excellent Take Control books, among them also Take Control of Getting Started with DEVONthink 2 and Take Control of Your Paperless Office. Joe compares version 3.5 with version 2.3, which he had reviewed back in 2008, and draws the following conclusion: For serious, detailed Web research, especially when you have to find data that’s not accessible in conventional search engines, DevonAgent...
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Reading tip: “Go Paperless with DEVONthink Pro Office”
Heavy-duty DEVONthink user and workflow addict Kerry Dawson wrote a nice piece on his blog dailymacview.com about going paperless with the Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 and DEVONthink Pro Office: Having accomplished all of this and gotten on the road to a cleaner and more organized work environment its time to pat yourself on the back for a job well done. You’ll definitely appreciate having your documents stored in DEVONthink. A cleaner workspace and knowing your documents are all stored together in...
Screencast tip: DEVONthink for Tech Information Management
Already two years online but definitely worth watching: Power user Matthew McCullough shares how he uses DEVONthink Pro Office for easily capturing information from the web for offline use and research. Matthew about his screencast: If you are an IT worker and having a hard time keeping up with the stream of knowledge, give DevonThink a try. I use it to capture a permanent archive of all my RSS feeds, which are typically generated via “favorites” and “stars” from Google...
DEVONthink for historians
Historian and power user Rachel Leow has recently published a thorough review of DEVONthink Pro Office in Perspectives on History. She explains how she uses our software for her research and where the obstacles are when trying to reach the Holy Grail, the paperless office. Rachel introduces us into this conundrum: With the increasing ubiquity of digital archives has come the expectation that we must use them; with rapid advances in search technology has come the requirement that our research...
Article series: How to make your office paperless
Our power user Luc Beaulieu, professor for Physics at the Université Laval and researcher at the Quebec City University hospital, has turned his office completely paperless and shares on his blog how he achieved this, from the hardware and the software (unsurprisingly, DEVONthink Pro Office plays a key role) he uses to his workflow. Working efficiently in the digital world is not as easy as it sounds, in particular as you get more and more files to deal with. Furthermore,...
Chinese blogger reviews DEVONthink
DEVONthink is even used in China. Blogger Wen Dayuan has reviewed DEVONthink for his blog. So if you read Chinese, click here to have a look, or read it in English (translated using Google Translate).
IT Enquirer reviews DEVONthink Pro Office
Erik Vlietinck of IT Enquirer has recently reviewed DEVONthink Pro Office by giving it a try in his personal work environment. Erik also describes how DEVONagent Pro and DEVONsphere Express can be used together with DEVONthink, and links to reviews of these two products, too. DEVONtechnologies products so far are what I would call KM (Knowledge Management) tools for desktop users. You can dump your data in DEVONthink Pro just as with those other apps, but if you want to...
Steven Berlin Johnson talk about his writing process…
… with Neal Thompson and mentions also DEVONthink. Neil about the interview: Steven Johnson (author of “The Ghost Map”) visited a Seattle Barnes & Noble to discuss his latest book, “Where Good Ideas Come From.” I spoke with him afterwards about the rituals and routines of his daily writing life.The key? A big cup of coffee and 500 words a day. Seattle, October 2010 Watch the interview on vimeo.com.
Using DEVONthink as humanities scholar
In the Academic Technology blog Evan Cordulack describes how he uses DEVONthink Pro Office for his research: Its basic features allow me to organize my research in a way that lets me see big chunks of it at the same time from a variety of different groupings and view options. Once the sources are in Devonthink Pro Office, it largely gets out of the way so that I can focus interpreting the sources. The application’s ability to group, tag, and...
Vous et Votre Mac reviews DEVONsphere Express
DEVONsphere Express is the latest addition to our product portfolio. Bernard Le Du from the the French Mac magazine Vous et Votre Mac has reviewed it and honored it with 4.5 out of 5 stars: Une recherche plus intelligent — This “contextual” search tool is very useful for retrieving documents and related data. It is useful for students, researchers, writer of sorts, everyone … If you read French get your copy of the magazine from the publisher.
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