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Posted by basilides
Jun 18, 2009 at 12:37 AM
Greetings.
I am looking for a PIM that works on a MAC, but features multi-database searching (and perhaps highlighting of the hits). I am currently using UltraRecall, a great program, but it lacks multi-database searching and highlighting of hits, though these features are on the roadmap.
As soon as I get my MAC (I am fed up to here with VISTA) I will take a look at DEVONthink, but I can’t find anything on the Forum or on the company’s webpage whether or not the above features (i.e., seaching across databases, when the data becomes to large and has to be broken into multi-databases) are available. I would deeply appreciate your advice.
Posted by David Dunham
Jun 18, 2009 at 01:56 AM
Not entirely sure what you mean by this. Opal, frex, is Spotlight searchable, so you can search multiple documents that way. Its filtering searches within a single file, showing you all relevant topics.
Many if not most Mac PIMs support Spotlight.
Posted by basilides
Jun 18, 2009 at 02:03 AM
OK. Let me clarify, using UltraRecall as the PIM, albeit a non-MAC PIM.
Sometimes a certain UR database becomes “too large.” So inevitably I would have to create another UR database to hold new data, so now I have two very large UR databases. I want to find certain data, so I need a PIM with a search function that operates across databases (in this case only two). Currently, UR can’t do this, though, as I said, it is in kinook’s roadmap. Is this clear enough?
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 18, 2009 at 04:15 AM
Yes, DevonThink can search across multiple databases.
basilides wrote:
>OK. Let me clarify, using UltraRecall as the PIM, albeit a non-MAC PIM.
>
>Sometimes a
>certain UR database becomes “too large.” So inevitably I would have to create another
>UR database to hold new data, so now I have two very large UR databases. I want to find
>certain data, so I need a PIM with a search function that operates across databases (in
>this case only two). Currently, UR can’t do this, though, as I said, it is in kinook’s
>roadmap. Is this clear enough?
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jun 18, 2009 at 06:33 AM
To be precise:
Devonthink Professional and Devonthink Pro Office - both in version 2 - allow you to open and search multiple databases.
Devonthink Personal and Devonthink Note do not.
See http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/comparison.html
Franz