The Best Holiday Gift I Am Likely to Get—New Devon
DevonTechnologies has just released the beta version of DevonThink 2.0. And yes, this is likely the best thing I will get for the Holidays. Whether this says more about me and my geeky/scholarly loves, or about the people who will give me gifts I leave to you. (Actually my brother and I instituted a ban on gifts to anyone who was alive for the Ronald Reagan Presidency, instead we give stuff to charities . . . but I digress). At any rate, I am wonderfully excited about this release, for as much as I use Devon the interface was somewhat lacking and it needed to catch-up with the current informational trends (tagging). I am happy to say that the interface has much improved (it supports coverflow). Devon also says that the search functions have been improved. But, what interests me most about the new features is the side drawer which allows for easily adding information to multiple and separate databases.
December 19th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Amen to that: the new release looks wonderful; I’m anxious to fall in love again with DT. Already, it looks like the upgrade cost will be a no-brainer.
December 19th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
It’s finally here! You mentioned tagging support, but I couldn’t find anything about it on the “new features” listing. (Due to my personal ban on beta software I unfortunately cannot look for it firsthand…) Lack of tagging has been the one thing keeping me from shelling out the dough for Devon, but this would definitely lead to a purchase if added. Any confirmation on your part?
December 20th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Yes! I have so been looking forward to this!
January 19th, 2009 at 4:57 am
The biggest weakness of DT was the awful tagging and staid user interface. There is no new release yet - it’s still a beta.
The UI is improved, but tagging is NOT changed at all. Apparently they haven’t implemented the new tagging features yet.
So, for now I will use Receipt Wallet, Yojmbo, and Evernote to manage my links, pdf files, and scans and hope DT gets its act together to warrant an upgrade payment.
January 20th, 2009 at 1:45 am
I was also pretty excited about the new release and while I really enjoy the new interface, I was very disappointed not to see tagging support. I’ve been using Adobe Bridge to add tags to documents I use for my research and would LOVE to have something like that on DT - a basic list on one side of the tagged words with how many documents are tagged per category.