When I plan a trip, I clip the PDFs for flight reservations and hotels into DEVONthink. And I really mean each document: When I get a physical letter I scan (not OCR) it with Genius Scan and share it into DEVONthink through the iOS share sheet. For me it’s my digital office.Įach document I receive like PDFs, images and scans go into DEVONthink. For academics it could be a database to classify and link content together. When friends hear me rave about DEVONthink and they go and check it out, they usually end up even more confused about what it actually is than before.ĭEVONthink is a tool for organizing information, but it’s one of these things that is something else for each person that’s using it: For researchers it could be a tool to clip content from the web and aggregate information.

It’s also the most expensive app I’ve purchased so far. It’s maybe the most used, most important Mac app that I own. First on the list we have… 1) DEVONthinkĭEVONthink has been my gem for the past I think 3 years. Today, let’s talk about these apps and what role they play in my day to day life. Over the course of the past months/years this resulted in a system that works incredibly well for me that I’ll be using to start 2022. I stopped overthinking the hell out of the perfect system and just let the software handle things for me. On the contrary, tools that give me too many customization options turned out to be a pretty bad match for a brain like mine. Tweaks here, tweaks there - putting some new app into the center focus and building everything around it (again).ĭid I find the perfect solution? Nah, I don’t think it actually exists. I can’t even count how often I re-invented my entire information management stack on the hunt for the perfect solution.

Today, let’s talk a little about my favorite time-sink: Productivity! This post is cross-posted from my personal blog.

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