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Message from discussion DEVONthink Professional is out

Jeffrey Windsor

More options Jul 28 2005, 10:27 pm

From: Jeffrey Windsor <jeffreywind...@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:27:01 -0600

Local: Thurs, Jul 28 2005 10:27 pm

Subject: Re: [43F Group] DEVONthink Professional is out

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It's been said before, but bears repeating that Steven Johnson (author
of _Everything Bad is Good for You_) gave an excellent use case of
DEVONthink on his blog [1]. It's what sold me. Literally. After trying
it as he describes, it became a clearly useful tool, and worth every
penny.

Now I just need to decide if Pro is worth money or just fun.

I share you frustration with DEVONagent, however. I wish someone would
say, "Check this out! I used D.A. and was able to accomplish a) more
than every before and b) previously impossible things! Look at how I
did it!"

The team at DEVON are clearly a bunch of architypical programmer types
who can code amazing things, but can't understand that even amazing
things don't sell themselves.

[1] http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/000230.html

--jw

On 7/28/05, emory <emo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> After running it for a few minutes, I'm ready to upgrade my license.

> This release is amazing, and also gives you *a full screen mode* to
> surround yourself with the beauty of your own words and nothing else.
> Even browser pages open FULL SCREEN if you want 'em to, too.

> Its beautiful, to say the least.

> The tutorial they have, thankfully, will clue me in on the nuances.
> I've loved DEVONthink but I never really know just exactly HOW I should
> best use it to leverage all the things it has - that is, for what its
> worth, the only reason I don't use DEVONagent. Bad documentation and
> no real examples of why I'd want to use it.

> I want to use DEVONagent because I'm sure its great, but c'mon. I
> can't wrap my thick head around it for the life of me.

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