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Alex Payne makes a case for using the file system on computers, and against "everything buckets" like Journler, Yojimbo, DEVONthink, Together, Evernote. —Rick Cogley ||

From the site: Why Everything Buckets Are Not A Good Idea - Computers work best with structured data. Everything Buckets discourage the use of structured data by providing a convenient place to commingle “structureless” data like RTF and PDF documents. Rather than forcing the user to figure out the rhyme and reason of their data (for example, by putting receipts in a financial management application and addresses in an address book), Everything Buckets cry: “throw it all in here! Search it! Maybe I’ll corrupt my proprietary database, but maybe I won’t and you’ll have the joy of sifting through a mire of RTF documents. Doesn’t that sound great?”

This proposition should not sound great. If you think you’re going to save time in the long run by throwing your data into a big bucket now, then sifting through it later, you are mistaken. There are better ways.

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On the unfortunate loss of focus at Journler, and Doug's consequent "dating" of DEVONthink. —Rick Cogley ||

From the site: Journler was the answer, but as I’ve just learned, unfunded solo developers are very risky. Who else to turn to? Together concerns me because it gags on data sets over a few thousand items. Evernote’s business model is committed to datalocking you into the application, which is intolerable. Yohimbo is a starter tool not a long haul application for a serous user. Lastly the Lit / Citation managers, like Papers, Zotero, Endnote and Sente are indexers, not writer’s base pads.

So yea, DEVONThink. She’s good right now, but I’m lookin’

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Comparison chart of the various DEVONthink editions - DEVONthink Personal, Pro, Pro Office and DEVONnote.

From the site:

DEVONthink comes in a number of flavors tailored to different needs and user types:

* DEVONthink Personal: Home and small office
* DEVONthink Pro: Advanced functionality, office use
* DEVONthink Pro Office: Plus paperless office functionality
* DEVONnote: Basic note taking and organizing

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DEVONthink is a powerful personal information organization tool with artificial intelligence built in. Archive and analyze various pieces of info with this tool. Version 2.0 coming soon, as of Dec 2008.

From their website: "Meet DEVONthink — designed to manage and keep in order all those disparate pieces of information so important to your work or studies. As you become more experienced with DEVONthink and its easy, intuitive interface you will quickly find more exciting ways of using your data."

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