NVIVO vs Devonthink

Posted by Dellu
Jul 10, 2017 at 01:58 AM

Luhmann wrote:
I think outliners that support tagging like Outlinely and Dynalist are
>excellent for this purpose. It is a bit of a compromise in that you
>don’t tag words or documents but paragraphs (or items) - but you can
>break up larger blocks of text into sub-items and then tag each
>individually. What is nice is filtering for tags preserves the document
>structure.

The problem with outline softwares is the exact opposite of database softwares like TB and Devonthink. The outliners can filter within a file; but, they cannot filter across files. I am not specifically familiar with Outlinely or Dynalist you mentioned. But, from my experience, outlining softwares work within are limited within a file. If you have to take advantage of their tagging and filtering features, you are going to meed merge hundreds of files: as you need to break down in Tinderbox and Devonthink.