Introduction to DEVONthink

Anthony Caldwell

UCLA Library Research Workshop Series Summer 2020

What is DEVONthink?

DEVONthink: Create, store, organize, find, and retrieve almost any kind of data.

Document and Information Management Tool

File and media browser

Add metadata to each item

Capture and store a wide variety of data types

Note taker

Database

Web and RSS reader

Organizational tool

Focused Research

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OCR Support

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Support for Teams

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Capture

Hazel Folder Automation

RSS News Feeds

Email Mobile Syncing OCR

Apple Notes

Web

ExactScan Scanning

Questions?Anthony Caldwell

UCLA Digital Research Consortium Scholarly Innovation Labs 

11630L Charles E. Young Research Library sil@ucla.edu

DEVONthink for Historianshttps://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20200211-devonthink-for-historians

Literature Management with DEVONthinkhttps://www.organizingcreativity.com/2011/07/literature-management-with-devonthink/

Luhmann’s Zettelkasten with DEVONthinkhttps://www.organizingcreativity.com/2013/09/luhmanns-zettelkasten-with-devonthink/

Hierarchical Tagging in DEVONthinkhttps://www.organizingcreativity.com/2012/07/quick-hierarchical-tagging-in-devonthink/

Digital Information Infrastructure with DEVONthinkhttps://www.organizingcreativity.com/2015/02/digital-information-infrastructure-with-devonthink/

Organizing Creativityhttps://www.organizingcreativity.comhttps://youtu.be/bd7hp7dj5KQ

DEVONthink Part 1 - What is it?http://myproductivemac.com/blog/devonthink-part-1-what-is-it8102015?rq=DEVONThink

DEVONthink Part 2 - My Preferenceshttp://myproductivemac.com/blog/devonthink-part-2-my-preferences5112014?rq=DEVONThink

DEVONthink Part 3 - Importing and Indexinghttp://myproductivemac.com/blog/devon-think-part-3-importing-and-indexing14102015?rq=DEVONThink

DEVONthink Part 4 - Duplicates, Replicants and Bookmarkshttp://myproductivemac.com/blog/devonthink-part-4-duplicates-replicants-and-bookmarks19102015?rq=DEVONThink

DEVONthink Part 5 - Classificationhttp://myproductivemac.com/blog/devonthink-part-5-classification21102015?rq=DEVONThink

DEVONthink Part 6 - Searchinghttp://myproductivemac.com/blog/devonthink-part-6-searching27102015?rq=DEVONThink

DEVONthink Part 7 - Database Maintenancehttp://myproductivemac.com/blog/devonthink-part-7-database-maintenance2112015?rq=DEVONThink

My Productive Mac Blog

Manualhttps://download.devontechnologies.com/download/devonthink/3.5.1/DEVONthink%20Manual.pdf

Book Take Control of DEVONthink 3https://download.devontechnologies.com/download/ebooks/TCoDEVONthink3-1.2.pdf

DEVONthinkhttps://www.devontechnologies.com