Journaling, a simplistic view

Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 21, 2018 at 10:47 AM

DEVONthink has NO proprietary formats for documents. That seems to be an persistent urban legend. Files are stored in DEVONthink as their original files and are never transformed by anyone other than the user.. They can be any format—from .txt to .app to anything more complex. DEVONthink just stores files or indexes externally stored files. Anyone can drag out or export their files from DEVONthink at any time.

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Amontillado wrote:
>>All content must be completely recoverable if the journaling software
>>evaporates.
> >Not sure how you do this with DEVONThink; doesn’t it use a proprietary
>file format?
> >
>>I think it works great, and it might as well be free. After all, if you
>>haven’t installed DEVONThink, you should, and since it’s already there,
>>why not keep a journal in it? :-)
> >The logic is impeccable, that is, unless you are not on MacOS ;)