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DEVONthink 3 Public Beta Now Open
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Posted by Chris Thompson
Apr 24, 2019 at 08:54 PM
Finally custom metadata! That was always a weak point in an otherwise solid product. Does anyone know how this will affect DevonThink Mobile (the iOS version)... I can’t seem to find any information on the website about whether v3 can co-exist with DT Mobile.
Posted by Dellu
Apr 24, 2019 at 08:58 PM
Chris Thompson wrote:
Finally custom metadata! That was always a weak point in an otherwise
>solid product. Does anyone know how this will affect DevonThink Mobile
>(the iOS version)... I can’t seem to find any information on the website
>about whether v3 can co-exist with DT Mobile.
The database system is not changed. DT3 uses the same database as DT2. you can go back to use DT2 after opened the database with DT3. The database system is not upgraded means that the mobile DT ios is also unaffected.
Posted by Listerene
Apr 25, 2019 at 08:34 AM
Can’t seem to find the upgrade price, anywhere. Can anyone provide a link?
Posted by Hugh
Apr 25, 2019 at 08:44 AM
I found it by downloading the beta. (From memory) there’s a link under the File menu. There probably other ways.
Listerene wrote:
Can’t seem to find the upgrade price, anywhere. Can anyone provide a
>link?
Posted by Hugh
Apr 25, 2019 at 08:45 AM
I run DevonThink Pro Office. I have thousands of documents in 32 databases, amounting to more than 15Gb of data. I recommend this upgrade, which appears to have been at least five years in the conceiving and making.
For me, the most significant headline among many is the introduction of smart rules. In my DevonThink workflow previously there was a gap. Mine has always been a “scan-and-stuff-away-for-reading-later” approach, which previously meant that the contents of my DT “global inbox” had to be regularly sorted and distributed to my databases, in many cases each file individually by hand. If I failed to do this, the global inbox would grow far too large. And it did.
Now I simply have to add an identifying three-letter Finder tag to any file bound for DTPO, and my collection of smart rules does the rest - posting the file to the correct folder (“group” in DT language) in the correct database. With many other uses, smart rules comprise a simple form of automation that some won’t need or want, but I’m finding invaluable.