DEVONthink 3.5
A universal inbox for every kind of data
$99–$499 From DEVONtechnologies, devontechnologies.com Needs macOS X 10.11 or later
DEVONthink is a universal inbox for every kind of information, enabling you to store, find, and reuse any kind of content.
If you’re already a DEVONthink user, version 3.5 brings an updated sidebar, more options for automating repetitive tasks, syntax coloring for Markdown, better web page capture, and improved performance and stability.
DEVONthink comes in three versions: Standard ($99), Pro ($199), and Server ($499). Server is for teams, and Pro takes the Standard edition’s features and adds OCR for scanning documents, the ability to automatically stamp and number documents, email archiving, custom metadata, and item grouping.
There are lots of ways to get data into DEVONthink. You can import or link to external files and folders, but you can also pull data from Notes or Evernote, browser bookmarks and (in the Pro version) scanned documents, UNIX mailboxes, websites, and Bookends references.
There are browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox, but not Safari: security changes in macOS X Catalina mean that traditional browser extensions no longer work in Apple’s browser. Instead, DEVONthink provides a range of bookmarklets you can add to your
Favorites bar to save the selected page as PDF, text, HTML, an archive, or a bookmark. It also puts a collection of capture tools (text, audio, video, screenshots, and web content) and a menu of scripts to the menu bar.
DEVONthink also adds several contextsensitive options to your Mac’s Services menu. These enable you to take a selection and take or add to a plain or formatted text note, create a summary, create a Markdown document or, in Safari, capture the page as a web archive.
Once the data’s in you can convert, annotate, organize and classify with folders, tags, star ratings and automatic categorisation. And you can export data in its original format or as OPML, PDF, RTF, text, Word, as a website, or as a template.
THE BOTTOM LINE. An exceptionally powerful information storage and retrieval system for power users who need to combine a lot of analogue and digital data. CARRIE MARSHALL