Favored "bucket" app - DEVONthink v. Keep-It vs. EagleFiler etc

Posted by Dellu
Jul 5, 2018 at 10:08 PM

Apart from regular note taking, the main advantage of Devonthink is for storing and searching PDF files.
The reason I want to eliminate Devonthink is because I am using Foxtrot for the same purpose.

I find the Searchin in Devonthink less powerful than Foxtrot. I completely rely on Foxtrot for the searching PDF files. There is no point in indexing these files in Devonthink for me. The proximity search I often use (>80% of my search) is useless in Devonthink. Foxtrot does great here.

But, Foxtrot has also a problem: the developers are suckers. They are updating the software every other year and ask the user to pay a hectic price for a new license. Developers of Devonthink is very generous for the license. We have been using Version 2 for ages without paying a penny.