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Posted by rogbar
Aug 22, 2010 at 07:07 AM
I, too, find tags get in the way of how I work with DevonThink. I like the nested folder hierarchy, I replicate like crazy, and I use Smart Groups when necessary, because frankly I’m worried that my aging memory will cause me to forget to tag each item properly.
DT’s replicate function makes it the closest thing I’ve found to Ecco Pro, in which an item could be in multiple folders at the same time, and a change made to the item in one folder would be reflected in that same item in any other folder in which it resides. (And the columns=folders aspect of Ecco is similar to what DT may have been thinking of when they introduced Tags=Groups.)
In any event, I like DT a lot, use it regularly, and haven’t even scratched the surface of what it can do. The learning curve is steep, but so far, it seems pretty bullet-proof. And I suspect Daly’s initial feeling of having so many choices of how to organize his file is a reflection of how powerful and customizable the program is. Much like Ecco. Even today, more than a dozen years after it was discontinued, there are still people on some Yahoo Discussion Board arguing about TLIs and parent items ...