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Devonthink to go trial5/28/2023 The syncing works like magic and if I ever want to tidy up some hurriedly iOS-entered text it’s all there ready next time I’m in front of a computer.īut Taio adds just what I’m after. It’s not good, but the glorious thing about Obsidian is that it doesn’t matter much - as long as I can view and edit text, I’m in. Printed files are saved in DT as PDFs.Thanks for the Taio hint! Since I store my Obsidian database in my Box folder for sync, I’ve just been using the built-in editor in the Box app. This is great when I want to save a web page or an emailed invoice. PS One other fave feature of DT is you can print directly *to* it. I’ve reviewed both on Apple Matters in the last 6 months Personally, I reckon DEVONthink alone is a good enough reason to switch to Mac.Īnd if you are a writer, Scrivener is the best writing app out there. My fave feature in both apps is the same – full screen! Love it. I did try using Scrivener for a bit for my Apple Matters writing but fell back to DT because of its information managment capabilities. I use DT for all my writing on Apple Matters before posting it as each article is only 500 to 2000 words. The difference between the two is DEVONthink is an information management application, while Scrivener is writing application.ĭT does allow you to write directly into it – which I particularly like – but once a project gets sizeable (eg 3000 words or more than one chapter), I then move to Scrivener. DEVONthink’s is 150 hours and Scrivener 30 days. You could assign a corkboard to each category from your blog and then brainstorm topics – one with each index card – which could then be expanded upon with examples, illustrations and ideas over time.īoth have free trial versions. Particularly Scrivener’s cordboard/index cards could be useful. Unfortunately there’s no direct or easy way of getting text out of Scrivener onto a blog without copying and pasting and a bit of messing around – otherwise it could well be perfect for bloggers.īoth DEVONthink and Scrivener are great tools for brain dumping information from different sources – something I do a lot of – and I could see either being useful in a day to day way to full time bloggers looking to get themselves organized. My initial reaction to Scrivener is that it’s not as powerful a tool as DEVONthink Pro (and to compare them is probably not really fair) but I’m impressed by both so far and if I were about to start writing a book or some other larger project I’d definitely look to base it around one or the other. Full screen editing is also very nice (a way of being able to fully concentrate upon your writing with no visual distractions). Scrivener has a nice corkboard feature for organizing your different ideas (using ‘index cards’) and I can see myself using it if I were putting together a longer series of posts as it gives you a few different ways of viewing the information you’re compiling. I’m still exploring this (having only just downloaded it) but there are some similarities with DevonTHINK as it gives you the opportunity to import documents, edit them and organize them for exporting in different forms. Again it’s a Mac OSX application and again I can see many applications. The second application that I’ve been testing is Scrivener – a program that has been getting quite a bit of attention in the last few days since it’s 1.0 release. It also lets you export ‘as a website’ which is pretty cool (although I’m yet to do it). There’s still a lot more for me to discover in it – but I’m seriously considering paying for the full version once my 150 hour trial ends.ĭEVONthink is great for web users too – with RSS integration (I’m yet to fully explore it) and the ability to quickly clip information into your database as you surf. One of the most useful parts of DEVONthink Pro is it’s concordance and ability to show you potential links between your different documents. In essence it’s a database of content and I can see many applications for bloggers including the writing of books (as Gina did), having a version of your website on your computer (when you’re offline) or for drafting post. You can import all kinds of documents (including importing parts of and full websites) then organize it in all kinds of different ways for printing or exporting. I found it after a recommendation over at Lifehacker (where Gina talked about using it to write her book) and am quite staggered by it’s power. The first one is DEVONthink (I’ve been testing DEVONthink Pro). While they are not blogging tools specifically they do offer writers some useful resources and for larger writing projects I think both would be invaluable (although you probably wouldn’t use both of them). Over the last few days I’ve been playing around with a couple of writing tools for Mac OSX users that are really excellent.
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