More Devon Videos
The Balcony has another Devon video tutorial posted. This is the first in a series that is geared towards using Devon for research purposes. There is nothing much new in this first video, although it is still worth a look. (I had not realized that you could import the OPML format from MindMap to create a document structure—this is way useful.) What I appreciate about Devon is they have a real sense of how the application fits into workflow, and projects as a whole. This first video spends time setting this up, explaining some of the “pre-steps” that Devon doesn’t necessarily facilitate. And for this “application philosophy” alone the video is worth it. Actually I am waiting for the next steps when they cover the more “nuts and bolts” of using the application for academic purposes.
For PC users, Gideon added this comment recommending OneNote, and Academic Lifehacker has a rundown of other options.
January 21st, 2007 at 9:43 pm
What is the big difference between all the Devons: Pro, Office, Personal?
Which one do you use?
January 22nd, 2007 at 12:19 am
I use pro, you can see this chart which shows the differences. The major differences for me are in Pro the ability to run Applescripts, this lets you automate task easier, import data from the web, work with Devon Agent etc. (Pro also has a concordance and works with Omni Outliner.) And Pro allows you to have multiple databases. In Office, (I haven’t used it so this is just from speculation) the biggest difference is it is designed to be used by several people populating a database (ie office environment) and it handles scanning imput.