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DEVONthink Pro DEVONagent
“Two great tastes that go well together...”
- some beer commerical
What the heck is this?
Powerful database with a sprinkling of artificial intelligence
Powerful Search agent for serious search work
Downloads
http://bit.ly/devonthink_download
http://bit.ly/devonthink_database
Flavors of DEVONthink
DEVONthink Personal
DEVONthink Pro
DEVONthink Pro Office
DEVONnote
The Install
Standard Mac drag and drop install
Optional Widget
Optional Scripts (DEVONthink Pro)
Bookmarklets (for Safari only)
Bookmarklet install highly recommeded
Drag and drop into you Safari bookmark bar
How it Handles Files
Direct Import
Index only
Maintains native file format
Efficient compression
Export Data back out
Data Formats
Local Data
Web Data
MS Office, OpenOffice, iWork, PDF and Tabular data QuickLook compatible
Web Archive, HTML, Bookmarks, RSS feeds
Multimedia and Images files
QT files (mov), audio (mp3, aiff), images (jpeg, tiff, png)
Additional Features of Pro Office
Email import
Direct OCR scanning
Configuring Your First Database
Interface tour
Sidebar
Groups
InBox
Sorter
Navigating your Files
Flexible Columns
QuickLook support
CoverFlow
iTunes, iLife “like” interface
Widescreen view
Groups
Smart Groups
Organizing Data
Duplicates
Replicants
Move To
Use Contextual Menus!
Handling Entries
Web Features
Shareable, Searchable Databases
iPhone Compatible
Pro and Pro Office only
Search, Artificial Intelligence and Semantics
Very powerful search features
Artificial Intelligence features
Classify features
Concordance
DevonAgent
Powerful Web Search
Highly Customizeable
“Agent” features such as automatic searches
Tightly integrated with DEVONthink
Examples of Use
Writer Steven Johnson explains how uses DevonThink to write a book (at BoingBoing blog)
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/27/diy-how-to-write-a-b.html
LifeHacker blog founder Gina Trapani
DevonThink’s Webpage for Examples from Users
http://www.devon-technologies.com/support/academy/portraits/index.html
http://smarterware.org/275/how-to-write-a-book-with-devonthink-pro
Thank You!
Keene Haywood, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin
Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment