DEVONthink Pro DEVONagent

“Two great tastes that go well together...”

- some beer commerical

What the heck is this?

Powerful database with a sprinkling of artificial intelligence

Powerful Search agent for serious search work

Downloads

http://bit.ly/devonthink_download

http://bit.ly/devonthink_database

Flavors of DEVONthink

DEVONthink Personal

DEVONthink Pro

DEVONthink Pro Office

DEVONnote

The Install

Standard Mac drag and drop install

Optional Widget

Optional Scripts (DEVONthink Pro)

Bookmarklets (for Safari only)

Bookmarklet install highly recommeded

Drag and drop into you Safari bookmark bar

How it Handles Files

Direct Import

Index only

Maintains native file format

Efficient compression

Export Data back out

Data Formats

Local Data

Web Data

MS Office, OpenOffice, iWork, PDF and Tabular data QuickLook compatible

Web Archive, HTML, Bookmarks, RSS feeds

Multimedia and Images files

QT files (mov), audio (mp3, aiff), images (jpeg, tiff, png)

Additional Features of Pro Office

Email import

Direct OCR scanning

Configuring Your First Database

Interface tour

Sidebar

Groups

InBox

Sorter

Navigating your Files

Flexible Columns

QuickLook support

CoverFlow

iTunes, iLife “like” interface

Widescreen view

Groups

Smart Groups

Organizing Data

Duplicates

Replicants

Move To

Use Contextual Menus!

Handling Entries

Web Features

Shareable, Searchable Databases

iPhone Compatible

Pro and Pro Office only

Search, Artificial Intelligence and Semantics

Very powerful search features

Artificial Intelligence features

Classify features

Concordance

DevonAgent

Powerful Web Search

Highly Customizeable

“Agent” features such as automatic searches

Tightly integrated with DEVONthink

Examples of Use

Writer Steven Johnson explains how uses DevonThink to write a book (at BoingBoing blog)

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/27/diy-how-to-write-a-b.html

LifeHacker blog founder Gina Trapani

DevonThink’s Webpage for Examples from Users

http://www.devon-technologies.com/support/academy/portraits/index.html

http://smarterware.org/275/how-to-write-a-book-with-devonthink-pro

Thank You!

Keene Haywood, Ph.D.

k.haywood@austin.utexas.edu

The University of Texas at Austin

Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment