Awesome Note lives again!

Posted by Hugh
Nov 5, 2015 at 09:45 AM

jamesofford wrote:
I have Onenote on both my Mac and my iPad. I downloaded it because I
>used to use it on my PC back in a previous life. It works reasonably
>well as an info manager. I have several different notebooks, each with
>different sections and pages. And it is easy to use.
> >However, in my quest to replace Notesuite, I tried to use Onenote as a
>receptacle for clippings when I am browsing. I am afraid that I am a bit
>disappointed. In contrast to your experience, Onenote clipping is kind
>of slow on my computer. That may be due to the network that I am on at
>work, but it is pretty fast otherwise.
> >What I have been using for the last week is my old friend Devonthink Pro
>Office . I have had this program for some time, and it is a great place
>to store large sets of data. Way back I used to use it for clippings,
>but I stopped when I picked up Notesuite.
> >Devonthink Pro Office is pretty fast, even with the large databases that
>I have in it. And once it’s in there, I can search it and organize it
>six ways to Sunday.
> >Right now all that’s missing is the ability to synch it with my iPad. I
>know that you can get Devonthink to go, and I am thinking about that.
>However, one of the problems is that both my Mac and my iPad have to be
>on the same network to synch. Not a big deal, but it gives me pause.
> >Jim

(Somewhat OT) I yield to no one in my admiration for DevonThink Pro Office in its role as an information silo on the Mac, but as Paul Korm has recently noted in another thread, the list of successful Mac developers who have found it difficult to create successful, sync-able apps on iOS is growing longer - and it includes the developers of DT.

I’ve come round to the view that the best location for information files on the Mac is in the native OS X file system managed by the native file system, especially since the adoption by Apple of tags. In the file system you can index files and folders using DT if you wish, search files and folders using, say, Houdahspot, encrypt them, enhance the management of them using Yep, Leap or the likes of Path Finder or Total Finder, and easily copy selections of files or folders to Dropbox, say, for reading on the iPad.