The future of OneNote

Posted by Chris Thompson
Apr 28, 2018 at 11:13 PM

Thanks for the replies… I probably should have been more specific. The DevonThink features I associate with the product are the ability to digest large collections of source documents (PDFs, Word/RTF docs, etc.), index them automatically and perform searches (including proximity operators, e.g., term X close to term Y), and the auto-classification/categorization/like this features (e.g., based on the indexed information, suggestions that this document fits into X, Y, and Z categories in an evolving taxonomy). I find that as a taxonomy gets complicated enough, it’s hard or a lot of work to manually sort information into the right categories.

It supports wiki-like document linking too, but that’s not how I use it. That being said, I definitely suggest that people who are into ConnectedText give TiddlyWiki a try. It’s a pretty powerful system (and someone just announced an actual outliner plugin-in for it last week!) and can do basically everything ConnectedText can. The problem is that you really have to follow the mailing lists to understand its myriad of options and plugins, and I found it a bit exhausting since I’m not a huge wiki-user. But if I was, that would be my go to product these days.

—Chris