Any Known Alternatives to DEVONthink for Linux or Windows?

Posted by satis
Jul 14, 2018 at 10:42 PM

I remain supportive of the features and the continued development of Devonthink, but I too was not using it to its full potential: I wasn’t using the scanning/OCR or the AI analysis.

For my uses Notebooks (which I own) could have done *most* of what I needed, and is iOS/Mac cross-platform. However I settled on EagleFiler because Notebooks doesn’t handle images and other formats but EagleFiler takes on just about any format you throw at it: PDF, Word, Excel, Pages, Keynote, images, videos, Web archives, and anything that can be viewed with Quick Look plug-ins.

https://c-command.com/eaglefiler/help/what-can-be-imported

Search is acceptable: //’;l[1]=‘a’;l[2]=’/’;l[3]=’<';l[4]='|103';l[5]='|110';l[6]='|112';l[7]='|46';l[8]='|120';l[9]='|50';l[10]='|64';l[11]='|115';l[12]='|101';l[13]='|99';l[14]='|114';l[15]='|117';l[16]='|111';l[17]='|115';l[18]='|45';l[19]='|104';l[20]='|99';l[21]='|114';l[22]='|97';l[23]='|101';l[24]='|115';l[25]='>’;l[26]=’”’;l[27]=’|103’;l[28]=’|110’;l[29]=’|112’;l[30]=’|46’;l[31]=’|120’;l[32]=’|50’;l[33]=’|64’;l[34]=’|115’;l[35]=’|101’;l[36]=’|99’;l[37]=’|114’;l[38]=’|117’;l[39]=’|111’;l[40]=’|115’;l[41]=’|45’;l[42]=’|104’;l[43]=’|99’;l[44]=’|114’;l[45]=’|97’;l[46]=’|101’;l[47]=’|115’;l[48]=’:’;l[49]=‘o’;l[50]=‘t’;l[51]=‘l’;l[52]=‘i’;l[53]=‘a’;l[54]=‘m’;l[55]=’”’;l[56]=’=’;l[57]=‘f’;l[58]=‘e’;l[59]=‘r’;l[60]=‘h’;l[61]=’ ‘;l[62]=‘a’;l[63]=’<'; for (var i = l.length-1; i >= 0; i=i-1){ if (l[i].substring(0, 1) == ‘|’) document.write(”&#”+unescape(l[i].substring(1))+”;”); else document.write(unescape(l[i]));} //]]> ”>https://c-command.com/eaglefiler/images/

And UI is close enough to be familiar after years in Devonthink: https://c-command.com/eaglefiler/images/recipes.png

Main issue I have with it is slowness when editing large rich text files from within the app. For some reason an 872k rtfd file containing passwords & screenshots started bogging down recently when adding new data, and I needed to create a new part-2 file for new passwords. No biggie, but I feel it shouldn’t have happened, and it’s the main issue I’ve had worth mentioning.

And the biggest quibble is the dearth of an iOS app, and apparently no plans to offer one. It’s possible to put files in Dropbox and access most files from iOS apps:

https://c-command.com/eaglefiler/help/how-can-i-put-my-librar

as long as one does not rename files (which will confuse the Mac app).