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Favored "bucket" app - DEVONthink v. Keep-It vs. EagleFiler etc
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Posted by satis
Jun 19, 2019 at 10:56 AM
Although I own Notebooks for Mac and iOS, and despite desiring a cross-platform solution, I’m still relying on EagleFiler on my Mac, which I’ve used for 3-4 years as a DEVONthink replacement. It’s just a very solid, clear, useful app that’s regularly updated and supported.
Posted by Simon
Jun 20, 2019 at 07:28 AM
I’ve now moved to Foxtrot Pro as my Devonthink replacement. My collect all bucket is now Finder using Hazel to file files not modified in 5 weeks into an Archive folder by Year > Quarter. This is then indexed by Foxtrot. I don’t need this information on iOS and where I occasionally do, it is simple enough to find the files in foxtrot and copy them to iCloud drive and delete when they are no longer necessary.
Posted by Paul Korm
Jun 20, 2019 at 11:13 AM
I’m not grasping how Foxtrot is a DEVONthink replacement. Foxtrot is discovery (seach, etc.) on steroids for whatever is in the target volume indexed by Foxtrot. DEVONthink is limited to whatever is in the currently open database. Beyond that, the feature set of DEVONthink is not much congruent with Foxtrot’s.
Simon wrote:
>I’ve now moved to Foxtrot Pro as my Devonthink replacement.
Posted by Simon
Jun 20, 2019 at 12:55 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
I’m not grasping how Foxtrot is a DEVONthink replacement.
I think it is dependent on how I used Devonthink. Devonthink is a database. It stores files and allows you to create new ones as well as see the information in different ways. Foxtrot is not in itself a database, although it does create one of your indexed location. My database is my Finder folder that is indexed by Foxtrot. I store my files in a Finder folder and Foxtrot indexes them. This is pretty much what my use of Devonthink was. I threw all my files into Devonthink and essentially used it as a repository of all my data that was searchable. I appreciate that not everyone uses it in that fashion. But for me this is how Finder+Foxtrot Pro replaces Devonthink in my use case scenario.
Apologies, if this is not how you use Devonthink at all.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jun 21, 2019 at 07:42 AM
Yes, I’m using FoxTrot Pro (and now EagleFiler) in the same way as Simon.
The “database” is the folder of files etc., which is indexed by FoxTrot/EagleFiler. EagleFiler also allows you to make notes directly, which FoxTrot doesn’t (of course). But FoxTrot can be set to update its indices on a regular basis (by default, every night), and has ridiculously powerful search options. So while it doesn’t have the concordance function of DEVONthink, you can come pretty close!
To my astonishment, I’m now thinking about uninstalling DEVONthink Pro Office, or maybe using it exclusively as an e-mail backup solution. Wow!