Comments on: Quick Paperless Update

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:57:44 +0000

@Eric – I know I’m looking forward tot he new version and hope it comes out in the near future.

By: Eric Boehnisch-Volkmann

Eric Boehnisch-Volkmann — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:52:24 +0000

Hint: We’re working on DEVONthink 2.0 which will handle Word (and Excel, Powerpoint, OpenOffice, Pages, Numbers, Keynote) files just like any other file. No more mess. See here: http://www.devon-technologies.com/scripts/wordpress/?p=378

PS: I am the President of DEVONtechnologies, so I may be biased :-)

By: Arjun Muralidharan

Arjun Muralidharan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:59:08 +0000

Yeah, I’m really looking for a single place to manage everything though, and the Finder seems to work well so far in this respect.

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:32:07 +0000

@Arjun – If you option click on the database and select “show files” you can see all of your files in the filesystem. I agree that DevonThink needs better handling of Word documents.

I think you can use it to manage an existing folder (not in the database), but I haven’t played around with that much. I’m mainly using it for things that come in on paper so I haven’t done much with formats other than PDFs.

By: Arjun Muralidharan

Arjun Muralidharan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:42:25 +0000

Hey Mark,

I recently toyed around with Devonthink, but I didn’t really like the idea that it stored it’s data in some database. I could access the files by showing the package contents of the dtbase file, but when exporting directly from Devonthink, word files were converted to RTF, and it really made a mess.

I’ve now set up a A-Z folder structure which has worked really well in real life and use that.

I’ve also gotten used to quickly filing stuff using Quicksilver to move files around.

By: Joel Falconer

Joel Falconer — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:39:51 +0000

Good stuff, Mark! I had gone paperless when I decided to use paper-based task lists again, but I think paper task lists work so well specifically because it’s the only paper I deal with. Otherwise, I’m still paperless. That one quarter-of-a-page a day is all I use!

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:44:26 +0000

@Steve – No, I’m not. You might checkout 42Tags.com. They seem to be tag based which I think is slightly less effective and I don’t think they have the auto-categorization feature. They do have a free trial. If you try it out, I’d love to hear what you think of it.

By: Steve Neidig

Steve Neidig — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:36:39 +0000

Are you aware of a Windows equivalent to DevonTHINK?