Now, DEVONthink is more like Mac’s Finder, no matter its advanced functions. It breaks the distinction between context (databases, sidebar on the left, easy to hide) and content (folders/groups and files). This is a different way of interacting with the data.
This isn’t just “this is new” = “this is not how I am used to it” = “I don’t like it”. Now, you have to use it to get to your content. It does have its uses, for selecting databases, i.e., the context, but then being able to focus on the content. The new way of using a fricking sidebar for navigation within a database - actually expanding the folder structure - is just … wrong. Here’s the issue in a picture (doesn’t make that much sense unless you use DEVONthink). A “simple” view on the data is what makes DEVONthink 3.0 currently unusable to me. And judging by the discussion in the forum, they seem to think they should not want a Three Panes View (image blow, the two columns on the right, the rightmost one further separated in top (files) and bottom (content)). But unfortunately, some people at DEVONthink seem to think they know what their customers should want.
#How to use devonthink to go with mac mac
I really want to like the new Mac version, and yeah, I already bought it (so much for blind trust).
#How to use devonthink to go with mac software
Followed by missing features in their latest Mac software release: DEVONthink 3.0. Until they fucked up their iOS version by not calculating how much disk space preview images require in large databases (tens of GBs, apparently). The ease of use, the knowledge where something is (at least, in which database, which you can search separately by name, content, etc.), the easy sync to my iPad (DEVONthink 2 Go companion app), and much more … just brilliant. I keep my files in databases like “work”, “non-fiction”, “fiction”, “rss-feeds”, “notebooks”, and the like. Gene Buckley, President, Sikorsky AircraftĭEVONthink is the fundamental building block of my digital knowledge base. Then get out, go to work and serve the customer! If you want to be smart, be smart in the shower. Don’t try to tell the customer what he wants.
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