Beyond storage and search-The Value of DEVONthink

[MitchWagner]

I took a look through this forum and found some nice tidbits you wrote here.

If you feel moved to write some notes on how you use DT, I will be grateful to read them.

For starters, what kind of work do you do? What kind of projects and information do you store in DevonThink?

Some of quorm’s greatest DevonThink hits (the reader will want to scroll up and down a bit in these threads):

Does anybody have a DEVONthink-based (mostly) plain text workflow?

What is the “process” or “manipulations” that you want to automate?

DevonThink: how to increase the serendipity?

What did you read that created the expectation that DEVONthink would look at your data and add to your knowledge? Their advertising is somewhat misleading: DEVONthink Help The See Also & Classify inspector is the main interface to DEVONthink’s brain, our built-in AI engine. This engine is analyzing the contents and locations of all documents in your database and making connections between them. These connections can be seen in this inspector pane. I’ve always objected to their use of “AI…

What's your favorite DevonThink feature (other than search and "see also")

Item links (DEVONthink’s custom URL scheme) are important – and I think the real value of them is that they always work because they are UUID based not path based. DEVONthink keeps track of al UUIDs: If the linked document is moved to another database – the item link will find that database and document If the linked document is in a database that is closed – the item link will cause DEVONthink to open the database and document The links work even if the document is trashed. The only way t…

More:

https://talk.macpowerusers.com/search?q=devonthink%20%40quorm

These links are also a bit of a hall of shame of my DevonThink ambivalence.