The new version also brings a range of usability enhancements, including the ability to show thumbnail images for all documents types supported by Mac OS X 10.5’s Quicklook. The 2.0 update goes some way toward exposing more power to the user via numerous interface tweaks and whole new additions such as the ‘Sorter’, which provides an ever-present slide-out drawer at the edge of your screen, into which you can drop documents for later automatic filing into DEVONthink. The software has long been criticized for having a steep learning curve or, as I prefer, a steep ‘appreciation curve’ - by which I mean that it’s not that hard to start using in a basic way, but it takes longer to appreciate just what else you can do with it, and how best to take advantage of all the power concealed under the hood. The software is so remarkably powerful that some users, particularly researchers in academia, actually don’t want to tell anyone else about it - they’d rather keep this ‘secret weapon’ to themselves! As far as I’m aware, in terms of this type of capability, nothing else compares to it at anything like this price level, on any platform. Our earlier review of DEVONthink Pro Office version 1.3.2, from DEVON technologies, provides a full run-down of the fairly amazing capabilities built into this free form database: clever artificial intelligence technology automatically analyzes, categorizes, extrapolates and summarizes the documents you drop into it. So if Everything Has Improved, Where’s the Problem?Ī Quick Recap, and What’s New in Version 2.0.A Quick Recap, and What’s New in Version 2.0.
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