Nimbus Notes

Posted by Hugh
Nov 26, 2014 at 12:18 PM

MadaboutDana wrote:
I KNOW I have more than 2000 items in my main DEVONthink ‘General
>Research’ database. No signs of instability there.

A you’re probably aware, M.A.D. - but other readers may not be - DevonThink “makes a big thing” of its capacity to devour multitudes of documents and not choke, with some users reporting a “library” of tens of millions of words. That is probably its single most attractive selling-point.

For me, however, the idea of a special “container” for documents, separate from although within the normal folder-hierarchy - as DevonThink has - is becoming increasingly outdated. Cloud repositories, the widespread desire to view documents on tablets and ‘phones as well as on the desktop, and tagging within the main folder system are some of the trends that are making it so, at least on the Mac. Because DevonThink can index documents as an alternative to importing them into its container, the software itself is not in danger of becoming obsolete. But some of its competitors may be.