I find the Boolean operator very useful, however I was a little disappointed when the words were not highlighted. It allows you to use Boolean operators, and you can search for documents where there is one result that is there, but not another. Searching on DevonTHINK is extremely powerful. Once again, I can generate a document link for these clips and refer to them throughout my database. I can also save the webpage through Instapaper, meaning that they are only the article and look a lot cleaner. I can save the webpages as they are, and view them as if I was on a browser, and I can view them whether online or offline. The web clipping feature that DevonTHINK is pretty powerful, and renders some great results. I do wish that there was some way that I could put images into my notes, but DevonTHINK isn’t really a writing app, it’s more of a research manager. I love using markdown, and it’s especially useful as I can also create plain text and rich text notes if I want to. What really surprised me when I started DevonTHINK up was the fact that I could create text notes in markdown, rich text, plain text or a formatted note. The URL scheme is certainly very powerful, and can come in very handy if you refer to the same document multiple times a day.

I could also create a Workflow that opens the URL, and then save that Workflow as a app icon. This means that I can quickly open it from across my iOS device. For example, I could have a ‘pipelines’ document in DevonTHINK, get the document URL and add it to a URL launcher in Launcher Pro. This means that you can create quick links to specific files in your database. It has a ‘Clip to DevonTHINK’ in the share extension, as well as a document picker allowing you to open files in DevonTHINK in other apps.ĭevonTHINK support’s a wealth of different file formats (click to enlarge)ĭevonTHINK has a very advanced x-callback-URL scheme, and allows you to get individual URLs for every document in the app. DevonTHINK also offers you multiple ways to get your files into DevonTHINK. You can add recordings, PDFs and multiple other files. There are multiple things you can add to a database, from images to markdown text. It’s very flexible, and it’s easy to manage your files in the app. You can create groups in these groups, and so on. In those databases you can create groups, which further organise your files and items.

You can create as many databases as you want, and they appear under the Global Inbox. You can create groups and tasks in this too. This is the default database, where everything you quickly save goes to. When you open DevonTHINK up for the first time, you’ll come across the Global Inbox.

On demand downloading is also available, saving space on your device. The app also allows you to sync your databases, and a great advantage of this is that you can selectively sync individual databases, and also encrypt them with a key if you want. You can still save things into a database without groups, however it’s a lot better organised if you use groups to sort out your files. Databases are the catch all, and then inside of them you have groups. DevonTHINK works in a world of databases and groups.

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