DEVONthink 4 -- now in public beta

Posted by Amontillado
Apr 4, 2025 at 03:30 PM

Something was definitely amiss, which is a shame.

EagleFiler, if I understand correctly, is a database used to reference regular files on your filesystem. DT is the same thing, really.

If you go to a document, right click, and choose “reveal in Finder” you’ll see the document is still a regular file. You can edit it with any editor you want, which will just be opening a file in the filesystem, not hooking through Devonthink.

That’s not the right way to use an external editor because Devonthink won’t update itself, particularly the file checksum it maintains to verify files aren’t damaged.

satis wrote:

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>Amontillado wrote:
> >>I’m surprised text editing can be affected by database size.
> >This was an issue for me with DT1 and got worse in DT2. Severe typing
>lag. One of several reasons (including not needing all the app’s
>features) that I switched to EagleFiler, which I think I’ve used
>since DT3 was released in 2019.
> >(That said, I ultimately gave up on using a shoebox app for writing in.)