December 18, 2020

Winterfest 2020

In case you missed the Black Friday sales, fear not, there is another chance. DevonTechnologies, makes of DevonThink Office Pro, DevonAgent and others, have partnered with other great software partners to offer a multi-package sale. WinterFest is the time when we come virtually together with other, like-minded software manufacturers. They all love the Mac as much as we do. And they make great apps for research and writing, tools like DEVONthink, DEVONagent, Tinderbox, Scrivener, or Nisus Writer, that build bridges between art and research. If you're looking for note taking tools, word processing, or research tools, this is a great opportunity. Other tools on offer: Mellel Bookend BBEdit Aeon Timeline 2 Winterfest 2020

June 30, 2020

Creating 3rd party file formats from inside DevonThink

With DevonThink as the hub of my document management, I want to create files from inside the app itself. This works great for text related documents .txt, .rtf, .md, but what about .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and the like. Or even a document format to be named later? The answer is very simple and I’m surprised and perhaps a little disappointed it took me this long to get around to sorting it out. The process involves making a document of the type you plan to use in the future then making that available to DevonThink as a template. First, within DevonThink, select Data->New From Template->Open Templates Folder. This will open the Templates.noindex folder. Next, make a blank document from each application you want to work with in the future. For example, open Writer from within LibreOffice and save a blank document as .docx, then another for .odt. Do the same for Calc as .xlsx and .ods, Presentation and all your other […]

June 20, 2020

SummerFest with DevonThink, DevonAgent and Friends

Summer is here, quite literally a few hours away, so let the summer sales begin! To kick things off, DevonTechnologies has partnered with several other software vendors to offer SummerFest2020. It’s a great way to get a 25% discount on their products as well as some companion products that integrate very nicely and improve your research workflow. This would be a great time to get both DevonThink and DevonAgent. DevonThink goes far beyond note-taking to offer a complete document management solution. It has become the central hub of information on both my home and work Macs. I have text files, spreadsheets, task lists, Jira ticket notes, test plans, PDFs, RSS feeds, web archives, code examples and more all tucked away in there. It is a fantastic tool and I think I would be completely lost without it. DevonAgent is a must have for web research. And now that I have Adguard blocking ads within the DA browser, I’m using it […]

June 19, 2020

Three months of working remotely

I've crossed over the three month mark of working from home. And despite circumstances, I'm thoroughly enjoying it. By not being stuck in traffic I have so much more time available. I've been able to exercise with more frequency and still have plenty of time in the evening to play games, watch a movie, or work on side projects like Affinity, Inkle, or doing fun research with DevonAgent. Not to mention, I've saved a ton of money by not eating out and not buying gas. No sympathy for the oil companies I'm afraid. I've also been working on getting my organization groove on. I've made dozen of changes and improvements to my notes, folder and database structure within DevonThink. I've even moved a lot of documentation into DevonThink that was lingering in different folders on the drive. Everything in one place, very tidy. I've created several new Alfred and Keyboard Maestro workflows which have been some nice little timesavers. (Clicking […]

May 28, 2020

Using Taskpaper with DevonThink for Task Management

I purchased Taskpaper from one of the previous BundleHunt sales and have started using it more and more. My first attempts were simple checklists, marking off weekend chores, but I've started to dig a bit deeper into how it can help me. A recent addition to my workflow is to use Taskpaper to track my progress on Jira tickets. Starting in DevonThink, for tickets I work on, I create a new Taskpaper file. This is the ticket number with .taskpaper as the extension, such as xyz-1234.taskpaper. I'm very much trying to group documents in DevonThink these days. Inside Taskpaper, I copy any requirements from the ticket, then start making my own notes of what I tested and how I did it. I include information like user data, inventory SKUs, prices, quantities, etc. I also list acceptance criteria such as: Item price can't be above X Item can't be sold in region X Discount can't be higher than X For each […]

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