![]() ![]() Let DEVONthink for Mac categorize documents based on how you filed similar documents before. Add data of any kind, regardless of where it came from.ĭon’t fight the information flood alone. Read web pages as if they were local documents.ĭEVONthink Pro scans paper documents and makes them searchable, imports email, and even downloads complete web sites. Many documents can be viewed and edited without opening them in another application. Sync them between your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.ĭEVONthink keeps all your documents in easy-to-backup databases and presents them to you in a variety of ways. Have them automatically analyzed, connected, and filed. Collect, organize, edit and annotate documents of any kind. I good start for the developer Xengobi.Focus on your work and let DEVONthink remember all the details. It is clearly one of those Mac centric applications that separates the Apple experience from the PC world. I ran the demo just a few times before I dropped some dough on this app. If you are a student, teacher or just an information pack-rat, then Curio is definitely worth a demo. Here are a few that others might find important: ![]() It has other interesting features which I just haven’t found any use for. Especially when compared with an application like Devonthink. The built in find function will highlight hits in the document, but I just found it a little clunky. But it seems like more or less a web browser feature. It does give you an easy way to find photos and other media without leaving the application. There are plenty of built in engines but I’m not sure what advantage there is to using this over a normal web browser. Rather than having a good search function to find the info you have stored in Curio, the developer has gone with expanding a web “Sleuth” feature. The major disappointment with Curio is the search feature. I know several people that keep everything in powerpoint slides. I guess you could describe Curio as a powerpoint on steroids. As I gather more research info, I can organize it anyway I like. I’ve also embedded the DL.TV episode on HD TV’s. ![]() I have pasted some links to reviews along with some hand written notes. I’m researching an HDTV (my wife finally agreed!!!). Here is a good example of how I use Curio. One cool feature is that you can drop audio or video files right onto the canvas and play it right from within it’s own frame. It also does a great job of handling just about any information you want to attach. The eraser function on my Wacom also function with Curio. It has a pen, pencil, marker and highlighter options. Sometimes an arrow connecting two things speaks more than trying to write it out. Then I can make hand written drawings and notes if I want. Everything can be moved, rotated and colored. I can throw URL’s, pictures and text on what is essentially a blank canvas. It excels at #1, is decent at #3, but blows at #2 (ok, that’s a little harsh) Even though I want to ability to search, I don’t want to have to perform a search every time I need something. I need to be able to organize the info in a logical way.What use is compiling a huge amount of information if you can’t find it any faster than you can Google it again? Boolean logic searching is a definite plus. How many times have you saved a web address just to find that the content has changed when you need to refer to it later? I often add more than just URL’s and email addresses. You know, a picture is worth a thousand words. It needs to hold ANY kind of data I want to attach.To me note taking needs to satisfy three needs My goal here is to give a little review to Curio. For power users Devonthink will definately win on the organizational side. By no means are Curio and Devonthink competing products. That’s when I stumbled across a little application called Curio. I used it exclusively for my note taking on the mac until about a month ago (I use oneNote and that MS office note-thingy on the PC side). about 18 months ago I invested in Devonthink Pro. I tried several hipster-esque methods that include 3X5 cards and Moleskines but finding exactly what I’m looking for later was never any easy or precise task. I take a lot of notes when I’m using my computer. ![]()
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