![]() ![]() Viewing the overall structure of your database is much like looking at the Finder the interface includes a list view, an icon view, and a column view. You can clone a document, so that more than one entry appears for it thus, the same document can be part of more than one group. So your database is a hierarchy, which you can arrange freely, just as in the Finder. You can also create "groups," which look and behave like folders. To this database, you add entries – you can think of these entries as "documents," and originally for the most part they really are documents, which you’ll probably just drag in from the Finder. The window displays a database, which is initially empty. The View from Here - DEVONthink’s interface is extremely clean and intuitive, and calls for very little comment or explanation. ![]() The storage needs to be central – a single, certain place where you go any time your mind says, "I think we’ve got something about that somewhere…"Įnter DEVONthink, a program that understands the problem and proposes itself as the solution. Internet integration would be nice too, since (as in this case) information often comes in the form of Web pages. ![]() One must be able to see a document’s contents directly, without bothering to open it separately. It can’t be confined to a single type of entity because the information might not come in that form. The storage needs to accept any kind of entity, like the Finder. There needs to be some other way to locate the desired article based on whatever sense of its subject matter occurs to you at the time. But it’s a big pain to open lots of documents or URLs while slogging through my hard disk, and besides, I can have a document open in front of me and still not realize it’s the right one!Ī hierarchy is good, because it groups related things but it’s not enough, because you can’t anticipate what circuitous path of association your brain will be using later when you’re hunting for something. Another problem is that even if I stumble across the right document, I don’t necessarily realize this, because I can’t see inside it unless I open it. Folder and file names alone never lead me to the desired information – especially when I can’t remember what folders I have or how I arranged them in the first place. But, you know, I can never really find documents on my hard disk when I need them. So how was I going to store it so as to be able to find it again? I could save the Web pages as URLs, HTML, PDFs, or Web archives, and keep them on my hard disk. Unfortunately I could also easily picture myself having no idea where I put this information, what form it was in, what I had called it, or even what precisely it was about. (It was an explanation of how the precise DOCTYPE specification in your HTML affects whether a browser displays that page in a standards-compliant manner.) Instantly, I wanted to save this information it was too technical to remember, but I could easily picture myself wanting it for reference later. Last week, a note appeared on TidBITS Talk, containing three URLs pointing to Web pages with information I found especially valuable. In case you’ve forgotten what a snippet keeper is or why you might need one, here’s a case in point. #1622: OS feature survey results, Continuity Camera webcam preview, OWC miniStack STX.#1623: How to turn off YouTube's PiP, use AirPlay to Mac, and securely erase Mac drives.#1624: Important OS security updates, rescuing QuickTake 150 photos, AirTag alerts while traveling.#1625: Apple's "Far Out" event, the future of FileMaker, free NMUG membership, Quick Note and tags in Notes, Plex suffers data breach.#1626: AirTag replacement battery gotcha, Kindle Kids software flaws, iOS 12.5.6 security fix.
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