Take Control of DEVONthink 3

Introduction

Recently I was trying to explain DEVONthink to someone who had never used it. I started by saying it’s an information management tool, but that’s pretty vague. So I went on to say that it can hold, organize, and search files (like the Finder, only better); it can edit plain and rich text files (like TextEdit, only better); it can annotate PDFs (like Preview, only better); it can store and present photos, movies, music, and webpages (though, admittedly, not as well as Apple’s Photos, Music, TV, and Safari apps); and that’s just the barest beginning. As I went through this litany of features, I realized that DEVONthink can take the place of a huge number of apps—if I had to, I could do nearly all my work within DEVONthink. It’s that ...