Devonthink To Go or Bookends on Tap

Posted by Dellu
Apr 7, 2017 at 04:24 PM

Thank you guys.

I should have listened to your advise. I honestly do not understand how Devonthink would work for syncing and reading. My primary worry is that I don’t import my pdf files: and I index them. Plus, I want the files to be available on the ipad for offline reading (on demand downloading doesn’t work for me).

After some contemplation, I went on to buy the BE on Tap (=BOT). One reason is I love the BE of the mac. it is such an amazing software, I somehow hoped that the same would be the ipad version. Well, it is not.

1) iCloud is the only syncing option: other clouds are not supported
2) even for iCloud, the Pdf doesn’t seem directly download to the ipad. It takes a couple of seconds, even up to minutes to open the pdf. It seems actually to download on demand.
3) using iCloud drive in the mac messes up the default pdf readers. For some reason, Apple forces the *open with* option for the default applications if the file is stored in the iCloud drive. I cannot directly open my pdf files in Preview or Pdf expert. They always open in Bookends. This is not horrible. I don’t like reading in BE: i read in PDF expert.

I end up removing the app—moved back to PDF expert’s cranky syncing system.