![]() database in Dropbox or a folder synced by a similar service). Ability to create new Categories DURING the “change category” option vs. sional, and Pro Office editions) version 2 on the Mac and DEVONthink.Drag & drop grouping of documents/notebooks into tags/folders to for easier navigation.Biggest dislike is the management of documents Note: I would love to be able to:.Likes = Excerpts organizable in Mind Map and Outline (use outline more on iOS due to limited screen size) as well as export to iThoughts and Anki.Which sections do you like/dislike MarginNote 3 the most:.Most used apps: MarginNote 3.0 (iOS), Bear, Readdle Documents, Workflow, iThoughts & MindNode, Drafts 5.0, Fantastical 2.0, Scanner Pro by Readdle.Twitter: Device info: MacBook Air 11" 2014, iPad 2018, iPhone 7+.For now, though, the easier navigation and quick search make DEVONthink a nice alternative to lugging thick files off to depositions.Was beta testing the iPad version and LOVED it - happily paid for it when it was finally released I am THRILLED with the opportunity to start using the Mac version along w/ the iPad version! I’m no DEVONthink ninja, so I haven’t even tapped into that power yet. Typing the person’s name into the search box revealed a few documents almost instantly.ĭEVONthink’s real power is in its artificial intelligence, and how it builds relationships between documents. In the first case, I quickly needed to call up information about a person mentioned by one of the witnesses. The ability to search for specific content within documents (if those documents have been OCR’d) came in handy in the first case. Still, after one attorney claimed that he hadn’t been asked for certain information, I was quickly able to locate discovery requests where he had been asked for the information in question. Before I begin to set it up, I see that in Dropbox I have two folders related to DEVONthink. My second case involves five parties, and I’ve decided that in the future I will give each party its own discovery subgroup, for example, instead of lumping all discovery together. I did learn, though, that I probably need more subgroups to be able to find documents faster. If you need to Sync a DEVONthink database for use with other machines with DEVONthink installed, use the included Sync plugin connecting to your Dropbox account. I still had to have a rough idea what document I wanted to locate, but that view made it quick and easy to jump between documents. You can find your databases by searching with Spotlight for: kind:database dtBase2 The global inbox is stored in: /Library/Application Support/DEVONthink Pro 3/Inbox. We advocate using a folder in your home directory, like /Databases, and never put them in a cloud-synced folder. If you expected to see a file in DEVONthink for an indexed OneDrive folder (following Scottisloud’s advice) and do not, then check the OneDrive sync client to make sure there are no errors reported there or that it even connected. With respect to navigating to files, I used a three pane view, with the groups on the left, the list of documents in the middle, and a preview window on the right. DEVONthink stores the databases where you created them. The OneDrive Mac app’s sync between OneDrive in the cloud and your desktop is sometimes flakey and sometimes fails. Creating databases in Box Sync folder is no longer possible. The two areas it really helped with were navigating to files, and searching for content within files. As a native Mac application, DEVONthink Pro Office is also tightly integrated with OS X. How did it work? Very well, although I still have some work to do, as I’ll explain below. The second case involved 660 documents spread over 19 groups (with more to come, since that case began prior to when my firm scanned every document we’re going back and getting old documents scanned prior to trial). The first case involved 207 documents spread among 11 groups. Fortunately, our case management system made that easier, as I could export documents by classification. I organized the documents into some basic groups (pleadings, discovery, investigation, etc.). Prior to each deposition, I created a separate database for the case, and moving the documents into the database. ![]() That doesn’t translate well to managing documents during a deposition. ![]() ![]() We have a high-end document management system at my firm, but the system doesn’t work well when off of our network. This is the first time that I’ve used DEVONthink for legal work. I was involved with a few longer depositions this week, and copied all of the documents for those cases into DEVONthink, and then took my MacBook to the depositions. Specifically, I wondered if I would benefit from using DEVONthink in my legal practice. The latest episode of the Mac Power Users podcast took a detailed look at DEVONthink, and got me thinking about whether I was using the app to its fullest potential. I’ve been using DEVONthink Pro Office for a few years now, but only as a filing cabinet for documents that I don’t want to trust to the cloud. ![]()
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