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Originally Posted by Brian
I don't use it myself, but from the traffic on the forums, DEVONthink does seem to be the main contender for that kind of thing.
(If I had to pick a runner-up, it would probably be Evernote.) |
I just got DEVONthink (DT) working correctly this morning in DEVONthink To Go (DTTG) on my iPad so that I can do this (totally operator error which is why it wasn't working).
So far I can see two ways of doing this, I'm sure that there are probably more creative ways though.
This shows you how to do this using OF and DEVONthink as well as OF and DEVONthink To Go on your iPad.
1. Make a note in DT and name it with whatever you want to name the project. Then send the note using the provided script as a "reminder" to OF. Go into your OF inbox and delete the appended "Reminder:" label from the new action that was generated from the script so that the note title is the same and convert it to a project. The link back to the original DT note will now be in the new project notes field. Sync both DT and OF to your iPad and you now have the note working. You can go into DT and add to or change the original note and as long as you sync DT with DTTG all changes will carry over.
2. Make a note in DT with whatever descriptive title you want. I suggest starting the title with "[Note]" just so it will stand out as such. Link it to OF using the reminder script provided with DT. Remove the appended "Reminder:" from the note and move it into your project, setting the context to "Note". It will now show up in your project as an action without a due date and will start with [Note] so it will stand out. This way you can have multiple notes for your project instead of one long one and you can include many different formats in the multiple notes such as pictures, pdf's, text, etc, etc.
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* The only set-back with any of this is that if you create a text note in one folder (Global Inbox for example) and then sync with DT and move the note to another folder that note will not show up in DTTG when you sync it again unless you convert it to rich text. Rich text notes can not be edited in DTTG so you will lose the ability to do further edits (add more information) to the original note. DEVONthink is aware of this and has said that it will be fixed shortly. However, if you create the text note in the proper folder and never move it you will be able to continue to edit it in either DT or DTTG and it will sync properly. (I do not know if this is an intermittent bug or not but it has been consistent for me)
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** I don't want to mislead anyone here, you can also create a note in DTTG on your iPad. But, you will have to wait until you are back at your Mac and sync the note that you created in DTTG to DT so that you can then run the script to move it into OF. You can not run the script from your iPad.
Some may ask - why not just use the notes field in OF for this. If all you are going to have is text notes then I would agree that the OF note field is great for that. But I have many project's that have large PDF's, engineering drawings, schedules, budgets (spreadsheets), pictures, etc., that I can use this method for and have very quick access to them through OF. Yes, I can go into DT to see them but I have a large folder structure in DT with only a few hundred folders at the moment, but I just started using DT and DTTG. It will multiply very quickly and being able to just select the link in the OF active project will just make it much faster to get there.