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

Posted by JakeBernsteinWA
Jul 8, 2018 at 06:00 PM

bigspud wrote:
I kinda agree with Paul Korm.
>Use default file generating options when possible, only because it
>limits the work into taxonomy and curation of anything “special” within
>the native filesystem.
>To that end my bucket is the browser ‘downloads’ folder. hazel is
>trained to keep everything there fresh, until well, unfresh. And then my
>preference is to sort by file extension. I use DTPO to index a good few
>folders of these extensions. my devonthink bases are large enough now
>that I use foxtrot search in the filesystem, and sometimes ammonite if I
>need to search the breadth of both devonthink and the remaining sorted
>files.
> >god knows I wish there were better support for the mac tagging interface
>for all of this. suggestions welcome!
> >living inside devonthink or keepit or et al seems to become painful if
>they are used as the dump/bucket/scratchpad. just my opinion that they
>excel at focussed work rather than the catchall.

I tend to use Indexing with DTPO and it works great. The one problem is when I forget to “move to external folder” and find myself wondering where a file is and realizing it’s simply stuck inside DTPO. Not a huge deal since I’m on a Mac or iPad full time and DTTG2 works incredibly well, but there you go.

After all my CRIMPing the last few days, the two new apps I’m interested most in are Outlinely and Notebooks. Keep-It remains an ongoing experiment, but perhaps (as you suggest) for a focused use or two. Otherwise, I remain happy with my DTPO workflow and despite the focus on DTTG over the last year, DTPO *is* in active development.