Word frequency counters and some concordancers (a prerequisite for smart text expander = autocompleter usage)

Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 4, 2014 at 04:24 PM

Thanks for the somewhat rambling but interesting summary of concordancing software.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that most standard computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools have powerful concordancing systems built in (although their developers haven’t yet taken the next logical step and made these concordancing systems the core function of the software).

For Mac users, DEVONthink’s fairly basic concordancing system is an excellent alternative. And although the function is fairly basic, the complementary ‘See also’ and ‘Classify’ (including auto-classify) functions turn this information management tool into a very powerful comparative knowledge base. As does the excellent search engine.

Currently my favourite. All the other wannabes (Together, Stache, Yojimbo etc.) have been discarded. DEVONthink rulez!