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Favored "bucket" app - DEVONthink v. Keep-It vs. EagleFiler etc
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Posted by JakeBernsteinWA
Jul 6, 2018 at 12:52 AM
satis wrote:
>DevonThink does more but its UI is a comparative mess,
This is certainly my main complaint…really my *only* complaint.
> and you have to live inside it with no ability for Spotlight to index files (although I
>believe Spotlight *does* works in the iOS app).
This is no longer true. Databases can be set to create Spotlight indices now.
> I used Devonthink for
>many years, starting with DevonNote, then Devonthink, then Devonthink
>Pro. But the quirks and unfixed bugs (specific ones which I reported and
>finally got fixed two years after I stopped using the app) made it
>unpleasant to continue using.
>
>If I needed all the features - especially unique ones like OCR - I’d
>still be using it. But I don’t. I switched to EagleFiler, and all my
>files remain on my drive in folders and are referenced in the app, so
>Spotlight works fine. And I recently started using it to archive my tens
>of thousands of saved emails, thus allowing me to stop using the
>powerful but extremely unMaclike MailSteward app.
>
>I’ve recently been using it with my web browsers in conjunction with
>some of the provided bookmarklets that will save bookmarks or pages in
>pdf, Rich Text or Safari web archive formats.
>
>https://c-command.com/eaglefiler/bookmarklets
>
>I just find it a cleaner, more attractive, and somewhat faster
>experience overall. And the owner and main dev Michael Tsai usually
>responds quickly to questions in the forum, which is head and shoulders
>above trying to contact Devon Technologies about anything.
>
>https://c-command.com/forums/forumdisplay.php/7-EagleFiler
>
>With EagleFiler you can freely edit shared text files on either device
>as well as create new ones, and syncing with Dropbox/iCloud (though
>renaming/deleting outside the Mac can cause EagleFiler to lose track of
>the files). For multiple Mac or Mac/iOS access see:
>
>https://c-command.com/eaglefiler/help/how-can-i-put-my-librar
>https://c-command.com/eaglefiler/help/how-can-i-access-my-lib
>
>There’s a free trial, so I’d recommend checking it out and comparing it
>to Devonthink. But because there’s no iOS app, I’d lean back towards
>Devonthink if I needed full text/image/pdf access on iOS devices.
EagleFiler is interesting too, I’m trying it out now.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jul 6, 2018 at 07:50 AM
Jeffery Smith wrote:
>Right now, my bucket is Evernote.
Same here. I should add that it’s been so for the last 9 years, with more than 25,000 notes. It’s an amazing relief to not need to think where I should note an interesting piece of information, regardless of what device I have available.
Posted by Bernhard
Jul 6, 2018 at 07:57 AM
satis wrote:
>Keep It ($49) is the replacement for Together.
What bothers me with Keep It is that there is only one repository now. With Together there could be many. I would like to separate private an business.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 6, 2018 at 08:35 AM
I would recommend Notebooks like a shot, if the desktop versions weren’t so much less powerful than the iOS version. Alfons has been working on a new version for a long time now, but news has become a trickle. I might have to harass him!
DEVONthink is awesome, but I couldn’t use it for everyday bucket listing - it’s just too cumbersome.
I find myself using KeepIt more and more, as it becomes increasingly stable (and multi-featured); the developer is impressively committed. And the always-on-top compact view is awesome!
I tried to love EagleFiler for years, but somehow it never quite did it for me. But it’s not bad.
Having rejected DayOne (after making years of journal entries), I’ve just invested in Mariner Software’s MacJournal. Which is actually very impressive, with a very wide range of features at a very modest price. It could easily be used as a bucket-list app, in that it accepts attachments, recordings, links, tags, hierarchies of journals/sub-journals, ebooks and all kinds of other stuff - and has useful timeline and calendar views as well. Having said that, I’m still in the early stages of blast-testing it, so I won’t give it my ultimate five-star recommendation until I’m convinced it does everything it says it does.
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Hugh
Jul 6, 2018 at 10:13 AM
DevonThink Pro Office is my “bucket”. I’ve tried several of its rivals, including several mentioned in the posts above, but always found that DT is better for my purposes. I like its reliability, its ability to handle easily (in my case) tens of thousands of files in (in my case) 32 databases, and the seriousness of purpose of its developers. And, incidentally, development hasn’t stopped.