nathanb wrote:

My struggle as well. It's like the more engaged you are with a 'task
management' system, the more granular it gets and the harder it is to
keep everything in perspective. It's like trying to make a map of my
forest by cataloging all the tree species and locations, and that just
turns into a rabbit hole where I get lost in the details and make no
progress on a big map.

nice way of putting it. Totally agree.

Now my problem is that I want to manage ALL my info via cloning (files,
tasks, projects etc) but the only software I'm aware of that does
cloning (Ultra Recall, MyInfo, InfoQube, MyBase etc) are all chained to
the desktop. Does a mobile/pc sync exist for a cloning solution. I
imagine maybe DevonThink...unfortunately I'm among the 2.5 people on
this forum NOT in the Apple ecosystem. ;-)

If I were you, I won't bother about the mobile. I have Devonthink both on my mac and ipad. I rarely use the one on the ipad. The whole system of the ipad is inconvenient (the keyboard, the screen, the speed, the applications themselves...so many things that makes the mobile environment not so good for a serious job), I rarely do any serious job on it except for reading epub books (pdf files on occasions).

Furthermore, the ipad version of the Devonthink works only if you are storing your pdf and other resources inside the Devonthink database itself. That itself is a major hurdle for me because I have to use reference managers (Bookends) to manage my PDF files. If I index them, they are not available on the mobile version of Devonthink; If I import them, Bookends will lose the attachments. I have given with the mobile Devonthink.