Informally called DT or DT3, DEVONthink has an iOS/iPadOS product called DEVONthink To Go or DTTG.

What a delight it is to find DT is available on Mac only! After reading this article, I wanted to get DT (and DTTG) so bad:

#paste/glasp

Using DEVONThink for Managing and Annotating PDFs – The Sweet Setup

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• Title: Using DEVONThink for Managing and Annotating PDFs – The Sweet Setup
• Tags: #DEVONthink, #PDF, #iPad, #DTTG, #annotating
• URL: https://thesweetsetup.com/using-devonthink-for-managing-and-annotating-pdfs/

Highlights & Notes

• Using DEVONThink for Managing and Annotating PDFs
• Craft Notes is still one of my favorite new apps of the last four or five years, but it didn’t end up sticking as well as I thought when the real studying began. The immediate issue I ran into: PDFs. Craft can house PDFs and quickly reference a PDF inside a block, but you can’t annotate a PDF in Craft. You can open the PDF inside Preview, but any annotations you make in the PDF has to be re-uploaded to Craft. Overall, Craft was an imperfect solution for reading, marking up, and stuyding 125 PDFs of 30 pages a piece. I needed to find a different solution in a short period of time in early January, and I settled on DEVONThink.
• Once those documents show up on the iPad, I’ve found DEVONThink to Go on the iPad to be a pretty reasonable PDF editor.
• But DEVONThink on the Mac has jumped aboard the same backlinking train as Obsidian, Roam, Craft, and other heralded note-taking and research apps. Inside DEVONThink on the Mac, you can have the app provide a link inside a note to every reference of another file inside DEVONThink. Once the setting is turned on, DEVONThink instantaneously creates the link and allows you to jump back and forth between the connection.

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DEVONthink To Go

After reading this article, I want to get DT (and DTTG) so bad. 🔥

Search

Operators

near
near/n
opt
before
after
?
*
~
AND
OR
NOT

Wow. This is a richer set of search operators than DTSearch! I'm instantly sold on the idea of getting it for Mac. #todo Research its file format support, method of indexing (auto or manual), etc.

Issues

• Auto indexing (https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/automatic-indexing/59382)
  • Conflict with other syncing app, e.g. iCloud, requiring manual indexing

Using it for dictionary, glossary lookup

• Article

Works with Unicode characters

(https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/building-a-word-dictionary-as-devonthink-database/52283/17)

Praises

Anything like DT on Windows?

• Short answer: no. Not even DTSearch (https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/cjoznb/what_are_the_best_software_that_almost_identical/)

DT Praised by Taiwanese podcaster 星箭廣播 (at 33:50)(https://open.firstory.me/story/cl6dx7tda00eg01xjdxv9ansj)

Is DT worth it? (https://brilliantio.com/is-devonthink-worth-it/)

PDF

Editions

Indeed. Here’s a matrix of all editions
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Books

• Joel Kissell - Take Control of DEVONthink 3

![[books/Take Control Of DEVONthink 3-1.11 Joe Kissell.pdf]]