Everything is digital today. But where to store all these e-mails, PDFs, Word documents, images and multimedia files you accumulate every day? How to organize them, and find the right one when you need it?
DEVONthink Personal Edition is a tool designed for the digital age, the one database for all your documents. And it's flexible. It adapts to your personal needs. Use it as your document repository, your filing cabinet, your e-mail archive or your project organizer.
Collect and organize data from the web for a publication, enrich it with sound and movie files, and export everything as a web site, drag it to an Apple Pages document for publishing in print, or copy it to your iPod.
The Database for the Internet Age: DEVONthink keeps your important data in one database, regardless of where the data is physically located. Integrate both local documents and live content from the Internet to keep all project-related information together. Seamlessly mix local documents, clippings and live web pages.
Your Digital Workplace: DEVONthink is not only a simple database, it's a flexible work environment with powerful management features. It provides you with all the tools you need for effectively working with your documents. Use the integrated RTF editor to write new documents, or open them in a third party application.
Intelligent Assistant: DEVONthink is based on a powerful AI architecture that helps you organize and navigate your information collection. It assists you with filing documents and with finding similar items. Master even huge data collections with a few simple clicks.
NOTE: DEVONthink Pro 2.0 PB6 expires December 31, 2009.
Here are some key features of "DEVONthink Personal":
Built-in Artificial Intelligence:
· Classify: Automatically files documents into the most appropriate group
· See also: Shows similar documents
· See selected text: Finds documents similar to a selected test passage
· Topics: Automatically extracts the most important words of a text
· Fuzzy search: Finds similarly spelled words
· Powerful search function: Finds related words, as well as helps broaden or narrow any search
· Intelligent summarize: Creates digests of texts based on the contents of the database
· Concordance: Dig into your knowledge with this powerful analysis tool
· Group documents automatically by content
Integrated Environment:
· Multiple views with an integrated view/edit pane, are available to fit your specific needs and tastes
· Document-oriented web browser with download manager and site sucker
· Powerful cross-links and automatic Wiki links for connecting documents
Transparency:
· DEVONthink never takes data hostage thanks to its flexible import/export architecture
· Spotlight support embeds DEVONthink into your Mac ecosystem
· Index and sync items when integrating external materials
Powerful Workflow Tools:
· Full AppleScript support
· Automator actions
· Folder actions
· Scripts attachable to all items
· Lots of useful example scripts and workflows
Limitations:
· 150 hours of non-continuous runtime for evaluation.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· NEW: PDF annotations. PDF documents can be annotated using new toolbar items similar to Apple Preview and existing annotations can be selected, moved, or edited by double-clicking them. Pressing the Delete key or using Edit > Delete removes the selected annotations.
· NEW: Image editing panel. Double-clicking an image opens the new panel which lets the user change exposure, black and white points, brightness, contrast, sharpness, etc. and choose between a selection of pre-defined filters. Undo/redo and rotating is supported, too. Changes are saves as lossless TIFF.
· Improved: Templates are appended to Data > New menu, support custom icons, and exporting as template exports custom icons, too.
· Fixed: Groups panel and Group selector support all spaces.
· Fixed: File > Export > Database Archive sometimes failed due to bugs in the 'ditto' and 'zip' command line tools. Workaround.
· Fixed: Quick Look panel could have been empty after enabling Cover Flow.