Jon Stokes from Ars Technica talked to me about DEVONthink, about the built-in AI, and about where we’re heading. While I won’t say anything about unpublished products or release scheduled, you may find it worth noting that we are actually working on a new product ;-) Read the full interview here.
Even on vacation in the far south of France, the DEVONians don’t let me go. Look what I have found in the local shop that interestingly also sells British food products — anyone any idea why one should do this? Seems we have found a good name for our next product! Now it’s up to you to guess what it will be … … (mehr)
One of our users (thank you, Martin!) posted a few days ago that he notices that on the Author’s Note page (p. 414) in Michael Chabon’s new best seller novel, “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” Chabon writes: “This novel was written on Macintosh computers using Devonthink Pro and Nisus Writer Express.” Chabon won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2001 for his novel “Kavalier & Clay.” As we’ve not sponsored Mr. Chabon for putting us in there, we’re more than honored for the mentioning. If you are interested, here’s a link to his novel at Amazon (no affiliate link, just for quick reference.)
Why-o-ever it may happen, databases can go corrupt. Be it a damaged file system, a system hang, or, Heaven forbid!, a DEVONthink crash. But, no reason to panic. First, run Tools > Verify & Repair. If DEVONthink cannot repair the database or if you are sure that you’ve lost some data, it’s time for the internal backups. By default, DEVONthink keeps two internal backups of the database index files that you can revert to at any time. (mehr)
Innowen from DIY Planner has published a nice review of DEVONthink Pro. She nicely describes how she uses DEVONthink but does also mention the downfalls for her. Here’s her conclusion:
That said, if you need an excellent all-in-one research assistant/personal information manager on your Macintosh system, then DEVONthink is the one for you. It’s fast, reliable, is able to index, cross-reference, search, handles almost all file formats natively and makes coffee for you in the morning (okay, it doesn’t… but DTPro could do that if it wanted to) … (mehr)
This blog is named “The Balcony” and so it’s time to publish a new picture from our lovely town, now that summer is here — in April! See yourself. Not taken from our balcony itself but a nice view on our town center, less than three minutes away from here. (mehr)
Share-It, our online sales agent, has now added PayPal to the available payment options. So if you prefer using PayPal when ordering in our online shop, you can now do so.
With Bookends 9.2 it’s now possible to create links from DEVONthink to an entry in Bookends. Simply drag an ID number of a reference into a rich text document. This creates a special URL that opens the corresponding Bookends reference when clicked. In addition, you can drag the ID into DEVONthink’s groups and documents list which the creates a link document for the reference. DEVONthink Pro Office 1.3.1, DEVONthink Pro 1.3.1, and DEVONthink Personal 1.9.9 add special support for this and name the link document automatically.
We’re not present personally at CeBIT, the world’s largest IT and communications event, held in Hannover, Germany, but Avision is demoing DEVONthink Pro Office at their booth together with one of their high-end document scanners. Come and visit our new friends from Avision in Hannover, hall 1, booth C02!
No Tuesday Tip, but a Wednesday Announcement. We’re proud to tell you that we’ve agreed with the German capture software manufacturer ExactScan to work closer together. Their ExactScan software allows you to connect one of the fast Avision scanners to your Mac and feed scanned documents directly into DEVONthink Pro Office. Just as we already did with the Fujitsu ScanSnap. Avision makes low-end to high-end auto-feeder scanners with scan speeds of up to 100 pages (50 sheets) per minute. So if you’re into serious paper capture, check them out.