integrating notes database with pertinent files

Posted by Paul Korm
May 25, 2016 at 11:45 AM

@jimspoon wrote
>So that when issues a query, the results may contain content from a notes database, and content from files, mixed together and organized in any number of different ways.

I have always liked this concept, though devilishly difficult. Results that search “content” of files depends on file type of course. Over here that would be, mainly, plain text, Word, and PDF. On the OS X side, DEVONthink’s so-called “AI” is maybe 60% of the way to @jimspoon’s vision. (It’s not really “AI”—just a proprietary dataset indexing a concordance drawn from document text content.) Though, DEVONthink seems to be on a slow downward spiral—very little advance in features for years and a partially updated UI that when released (if ever) will be nearly a decade in the making.

I think, if hints on the preview forum are accurate, that TheBrain v9 will provide better search of “notes” and attached files.