Starting at $5/month, Club MacStories includes MacStories Weekly – a newsletter delivered every Friday with a focus on iOS productivity and showcasing new and interesting iOS apps. With a Club MacStories subscription, you’ll gain access to weekly iPad workflows, iOS app recommendations, and other exclusive extras. Get More iOS Productivity Tips and Workflows It was during this meta-research phase 1 that I decided to try DEVONthink To Go again. These include the ability to search different file types with advanced operators as well as a system to reference individual files and folders throughout iOS with local URLs. Looking back at 2016 and the time I poured into organizing and referencing files for my iOS 10 review draft in Scrivener (which I covered here), I realized that neither Scrivener’s built-in file manager nor Documents could meet the basic requirements I have set for this year’s review. Since early January, I’ve been thinking about my larger writing projects scheduled for 2017 and whether Documents can scale as a reference and research tool. In the article, I espoused the flexibility of Documents and its tight integration with Dropbox, noting how Readdle had built the missing iPad file manager with features Apple omitted from their iCloud Drive app. Dropbox and iCloud Drive make it possible to keep the same sets of documents and app libraries synced across devices, but, more importantly, they help overcome iOS’ file management woes through centralized storage spaces.
You can read a little about that version here. Until then, I suspect the iOS version might be a good gateway drug for a potential user. One of these days I will write it up in detail. If you have complex research and retrieval needs, or your simply a ditital pack rat. ICloud Sync for DEVONthink with end-to-end encryption It’s not quite the same as a backup, but certainly can’t hurt. If you already have other sync-store setup, you can either disable them, or consider them redundancy. That means no need to nominate a sync-store name, no mucking around with server addresses or usernames. A user generated encryption key is still required to ensure end-to-end encryption, but there is none of the other rigmarole required for other cloud services.
Setting up iCloud sync for DEVONthink is simple which is the whole point. That was understandable, given iCloud drive hasn’t always had a stellar reputation for package data, but things have changed. The one area it fell down was the lack of iCloud support. It can even be used as a hack for syncing encrypted data to iOS via Dropbox. The iOS version, DEVONthink to Go has been a revelation, both as an advance research tool for iPad and iPhone, but also in terms of advancing the usability of DEVONthink in general.ĭEVONthink’s sync end-to-end encryption is among its best features. This is a great news for a number of reasons, with the most obvious also related to usability. One immediate wish I had for DEVONthink has recently been granted with the addition of iCloud sync.
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And, who knows, those potential users might be needed to ensure the sustainability of software that I would now hate to do without. However, I worry that too many potential users are missing out a powerful application for superficial reasons. One gets a sense the DEVONthink user-base is strong and loyal, and the longevity of the company no doubt owes a lot to the maturity of the software. A little self-preservation has started to inform my desire to see the user interface refreshed. That is not to say I have no desire to see changes to DEVONthink. Once I finally gave function a rare victory over form, it didn’t take long to realise what I had been missing. 2įor a long time a superficial reticence towards the DEVONthink interface kept me away from it. Other tools have come and gone, Eagle Filer is probably the closest thing I have come across to 1, but the more you peel back the layers of DEVONthink the more you you understand why all those nerds were telling you to try it out in earnest. I was an Evernote user for some time, but privacy issues, proprietary document formats, and a variety of other concerns were enough to turn me away. I have tried many other solutions for the problems it solves, with varying degrees of success. I have becme more and more reliant on DEVONthink.
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