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DevonThink To Go 2.0 Has Arrived
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Posted by Captain CowPie
Aug 4, 2016 at 08:52 PM
DTTG 2.0 has taken a long time to get here, but has finally arrived today on the App Store. So far everything looks very nice and polished. This is a huge step up from DTTG 1, and the new sync capabilities should make this my go to app. Here is a listing of the new capabilities from their site:
Synchronize: Direct connections, Dropbox, WebDAV, full or metadata-only**
Organize: Move, replicate, duplicate, trash, group and ungroup, tag
Drag: Grid view with Mac-style drag-and-drop (iPad and iPhone Plus)
Convert: Many document can be converted to other formats
Create: Document assistant for creating new items
Search: Full-text search with advanced search language
Navigate: Predefined smart groups for many common use cases
Annotate: New PDF support including annotations**
Edit: New editor for rich text and formatted notes, Markdown editing and live rendering
View: Email and sheet viewer**
Capture: Enhanced Clip to DEVONthink
** Metadata-only sync, editing PDF annotations, and email and sheet viewing requires a $4.99 in-app purchase.
So it is a free upgrade for v1 owners, with an optional $4.99 upgrade for the extra capabilities. The new sync engine in the Mac app has worked flawlessly and quickly using Dropbox and Box. I have not tested the other sync options yet but expect them to work just as well.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 5, 2016 at 07:36 PM
Damn, that’s useful! Thanks for the tip, didn’t pick up on that.
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by bigspud
Aug 22, 2016 at 06:09 AM
Looking for input on how people use DTTG2.
Is it to reference the main desktop databases on the go?
Or to collect information from mobile sources?
If it’s the latter? are you happy with DTTG2? Applying tags to new content is tedious to day the least, and the native mobile content isn’t great at making it into the app. (photos/and webpage content)
But does it sync well? Damn straight! they’ve spent those years wisely. I think this could really be something special!
Posted by Paul Korm
Aug 23, 2016 at 12:07 AM
The product page addresses your questions.
http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonthink/devonthink-to-go.html
“Does it sync well”. Sync, without the premium “upgrade”, is “all or nothing”—if you have an 4GB database you have to sync all 4GB unless you buy the premium feature to sync only part of the database. If you visit the DEVONtechnologies forum you’ll notice that almost all the postings regarding this product relate to confusion about how to configure and activate sync and/or failure of the sync technology. In fairness, DEVONthink attempts to do more with sync than any other non-Apple product. Is it too much? Time will tell.
bigspud wrote:
Looking for input on how people use DTTG2.
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>Is it to reference the main desktop databases on the go?
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>Or to collect information from mobile sources?
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>If it’s the latter? are you happy with DTTG2? Applying tags to new
>content is tedious to day the least, and the native mobile content isn’t
>great at making it into the app. (photos/and webpage content)
>
>But does it sync well? Damn straight! they’ve spent those years wisely.
>I think this could really be something special!
>
Posted by Charlie
Aug 23, 2016 at 03:23 PM
I purchased the premium package. The first sync failed at version2.0 due to bugs in memory management. then v2.0.1 makes some progress and it seems the sync proceeds.But the 10G sync database on the dropbox seems never finish since as long as I press the sync button in the ios app, it always resume a full round of sync. I have to say it does work but with main bugs. My solution is to create some small groups say, less than 100M , and put it in global inbox and just sync it not the whole database which i have not luckily succeeded in any sync yet.