Comments on: A box with something in it http://www.machinelake.com/2009/02/02/a-box-with-something-in-it/ Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:34:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sergio Mora http://www.machinelake.com/2009/02/02/a-box-with-something-in-it/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Sergio Mora Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:02:16 +0000 http://www.machinelake.com/?p=430#comment-13 Thanks for your post. I'm currently in a similar situation, because I would like to have a consistent and coherent way of storing all my data. DEVONThink Pro 2 improves a lot of things, but sadly, I think it misses its promisses. First, it does store files into your file system, but it does it in a non semantic manner (first by kind then by date of import). Spotlight won't see those files because they are inside the database package. You can't navigate your files seamlessly using the Finder because they are hidden into the package. So you got to stick to the not so well done DTP's Spotlight plugin, which lets you find your data via Spotlight but don't let you preview it with Quicklook in the Finder. Second, and paradoxally, it does use Quicklook to preview all kind of files, but you can do the same and better in the Finder!. And third and most important, it has HUGE usability problems. Thanks for your post. I’m currently in a similar situation, because I would like to have a consistent and coherent way of storing all my data.

DEVONThink Pro 2 improves a lot of things, but sadly, I think it misses its promisses. First, it does store files into your file system, but it does it in a non semantic manner (first by kind then by date of import). Spotlight won’t see those files because they are inside the database package. You can’t navigate your files seamlessly using the Finder because they are hidden into the package. So you got to stick to the not so well done DTP’s Spotlight plugin, which lets you find your data via Spotlight but don’t let you preview it with Quicklook in the Finder. Second, and paradoxally, it does use Quicklook to preview all kind of files, but you can do the same and better in the Finder!. And third and most important, it has HUGE usability problems.

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