I'd say the rules you can create with macOS alone are about as powerful as those you can create within DT, however the interface in DT is far easier and more consistent. It also adds two further dimensions for classification compared to Finder's folders-and-tags-approach, which are called tags and labels. DT has a automatic classification and see-also-system that is based on text analytics (seemingly something heavily relying on word frequencies and n-grams). With the increased capabilities of Finder and MacOS in general, nowadays, it's a bit harder to justify using DT over just the operating system's capabilities. I do also use it as a digital office backend (every official or commercial letter I get gets scanned into DEVONthink, for easing tax returns or contract management), but that could honestly also be done with Finder alone. I very much like it, as others have pointed out, for research document storage. This post is going to get downvoted so bad. so almost every piece of software on your Mac), have a much shorter learning curve, be the same amount of work, be cheaper, and you'll get some tools (ulysses, hook, hazel), that you can use for other things.įor everything that DT does, there is a purpose built tool that will do it better, be updated more often, and be easier to integrate with something else down the road.

It will work better, integrate with everything that uses Mac files (. Use Hook to to link all the stuff together if you need to, but this is a pro tip. If you want to create logs of what your doing, use something like Ulysses or anything that you like to create text notes in the folder you're using say, to collect tax documents. You have to create groups in DT anyway, so no extra work there (+/- 5 minutes). Tag your documents there (like you have to do in DT), use Hazel to sort stuff into folders. Devonthink is unintuitive, feature-bloated, ugly, and difficult to use. I'm going to bail on this product for good. scanned everything in, tagged everything properly. Used them to file my taxes, my receipts, etc. *No.* I have the Pro version, and have all my personal documents in there.

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