Take Control of DEVONthink 3

Find Your Information

One of the biggest reasons to store your stuff in DEVONthink (as opposed to, say, the Finder) is its fast, smart, and flexible filtering and searching. This chapter describes ways to find things in DEVONthink, from simple to complex, including a look at how to Use Smart Groups. It also discusses how to Search Using the Concordance, a specialized way of searching based on the frequency with which words appear in your database.

Use Filters

Early in this book, I talked about how to sort your information in List and Column views (see View as List, the sidebar A Word About Sort Order, and View as Columns). If you have hundreds or thousands of items in a single group or inbox, however, mere sorting might not be sufficient to ...