MacLife - USA (2020-09)

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DEVONthink is a universal inbox for every

kind of information, enabling you to

store, Ľnd, and reuse any kind of content.

If you’re already a DEVONthink user,

version 6 .5 brings an updated sidebar,

more options for automating repetitive

tasks, syntax coloring for Markdown,

better web page capture, and improved

performance and stability.

DEVONthink comes in three versions:

Standard ($99), Pro ($199), and Server

($499). Server is for teams, and Pro takes

the Standard edition’s features and adds

OCR for scanning documents, the ability

to automatically stamp and number

documents, email archiving, custom

metadata, and item grouping.

There are lots of ways to get data into

DEVONthink. \ou can import or link to

external Ľles and folders, but you can also

pull data from Notes or Evernote, browser

bookmarks and (in the Pro version)

scanned documents, XNI[ mailboxes,

websites, and Bookends references.

There are browser extensions for

Chrome and Firefox, but not Safari:

security changes in macOS [ Catalina

mean that traditional browser extensions

no longer work in Apple’s browser.

Instead, DEVONthink provides a range

of bookmarklets you can add to your

Favorites bar to save the selected page

as PDF, text, HTML, an archive, or

a bookmark. It also puts a collection

of capture tools (text, audio, video,

screenshots, and web content) and

a menu of scripts to the menu bar.

DEVONthink also adds several context 0

sensitive options to your Mac’s Services

menu. These enable you to take a

selection and take or add to a plain or

formatted text note, create a summary,

create a Markdown document or, in

Safari, capture the page as a web archive.

Once the data’s in you can convert,

annotate, organize and classify with

folders, tags, star ratings and automatic

categorisation. And you can export data in

its original format or as OPML, PDF, RTF,

text, Word, as a website, or as a template.

THE BOTTOM LINE. An exceptionally

powerful information storage and

retrieval system for power users who need

to combine a lot of analogue and digital

data. CARRIE MARSHALL

DEVONthink 3.5

A universal inbox for every kind of data

$99–$499 From DEVONtechnologies, devontechnologies.com

Needs macOS X 10.11 or later

DEVONthink enables you

to store everything in

one place and easily find

it again.

DEVONTHINK 3.5

Incredibly versatile

Exceptionally powerful

A little intimidating

at first

OCR requires the

Pro version

GREAT

Pro customers also get multi–lingual OCR for turning

scanned documents into searchable PDFs.

Tough testing, trusted ratings

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