Once you have downloaded Devonthink, the next step is sometimes hard for people to conceive. What do I do next? Devonthink need files to help you get the most out of it. Look in your documents folder, and then drag a folder from the finder window and drop it on a Devonthink database window. Give devonthink some time.
Devonthink is working hard behind the scenes so that it can perform miracles of searching later on. As it chews on your folders and files it may complain about some files not having text. Don’t worry. That’s Devonthink telling you that it can’t include that file in internal text search.
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Notice that Devonthink retains the organization of the folder. The top level folder appears in the database window with a triangle to indicate that you can expand the folder to show the second tier folders. Poke around the folder structure it keeps for you. It’s the same as how you filed things. Start arranging the files and directories to be better able to see things. Crete a rich text file in a directory by selecting the directory and clicking on the rich text button on the toolbar. This is the Note taking function of Devonthink.
Type a query in the search box in the database window. It should find files with those words in the file or in the file’s name. This is the search capabilities.
In fact you might want to do the entire contents of your document directory. Play with the database it created. Devonthink does a pretty good job of opening the correct program when you double click on a file that Devonthink did not make.
Right now Devonthink is in 2.0 beta. I think the beta is pretty stable, but that can change as they add the rest of the features they want to add to the program.
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