Favored "bucket" app - DEVONthink v. Keep-It vs. EagleFiler etc

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 6, 2018 at 08:35 AM

I would recommend Notebooks like a shot, if the desktop versions weren’t so much less powerful than the iOS version. Alfons has been working on a new version for a long time now, but news has become a trickle. I might have to harass him!

DEVONthink is awesome, but I couldn’t use it for everyday bucket listing - it’s just too cumbersome.

I find myself using KeepIt more and more, as it becomes increasingly stable (and multi-featured); the developer is impressively committed. And the always-on-top compact view is awesome!

I tried to love EagleFiler for years, but somehow it never quite did it for me. But it’s not bad.

Having rejected DayOne (after making years of journal entries), I’ve just invested in Mariner Software’s MacJournal. Which is actually very impressive, with a very wide range of features at a very modest price. It could easily be used as a bucket-list app, in that it accepts attachments, recordings, links, tags, hierarchies of journals/sub-journals, ebooks and all kinds of other stuff - and has useful timeline and calendar views as well. Having said that, I’m still in the early stages of blast-testing it, so I won’t give it my ultimate five-star recommendation until I’m convinced it does everything it says it does.

Cheers,
Bill