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Can notebook replace Devonthink?by eiron - 08:22PM, Dec 04, 2003 |
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Having overviewed and been seriously disappointed by the latest version of Devonthink (1.7.3) I'm considering scrapping it and using Notebook exclusively for my web clippings. Does anyone have any opinions about NoteBook's ability to hold large numbers of big web clippings/pages/articles?
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The limiting factor seems to be number of cells, not their size. Huge cells (hundreds of K, even megabyte-sized) are no problem at all, but thousands of tiny cells on one page can cause slower speeds.
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eiron: Yes, for a lot of purposes NoteBook can replace DEVONthink. As David noted, notebooks that have a high ratio of text and image content to the number of cells per page can function well. I use both applications heavily. Most of my reference material is in DEVONthink -- the database size is in the hundreds of megabytes and continues to grow rapidly. Some of my references in DEVONthink run 500 or more pages. I depend on the AI capabilities of DEVONthink (recognizing contextual relationships) to help me do technical literature research. But I keep my daily journal and project journals in NoteBook, and find it a great organization and writing tool. For several projects, I've used NB notebooks as my initial literature databases, and later dump the material into DEVONthink. In size, these notebooks run from 4 to 10 MB and I've never seen a performance hit in the larger ones. I prefer RTF, RTFD and PDF file formats to HTML for my Web-derived files. A big bonus of the move to OS X 10.3.x is the ability to capture Web pages from Safari to NoteBook and DEVONthink as RTFD files -- capturing images, text and working hyperlinks. Editing RTFD within NoteBook is easy, and editing HTML within NoteBook is not easy! Bill
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08:49PM, Dec 04, 2003