Comments on: 8 Web Information Collectors Reviewed

By: sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:04:55 +0000

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By: Todd Stanfield

Todd Stanfield — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:26:52 +0000

Thanks for the comparison. Here is my take on the current state of things based on my workflow needs: http://www.macgrad.com/2008/12/20/the-conundrum-that-the-devonthink-20-update-poses/comment-page-1/#comment-205

By: Freelance Samurai » voodoopad lite vs journaler vs devonthink

Freelance Samurai » voodoopad lite vs journaler vs devonthink — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:37:34 +0000

[...] And another brilliant review, this time by Daniel Jomphe reviewing Devonthink, Eaglefiler, Journaler, Notebook, Scrivener, SOHO Notes, Together and Yojimbo side by sid…. [...]

By: tayker

tayker — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:09:00 +0000

Great article, and I wish this was written in 2005 when I started investing in SOHO. If you decide to follow up, I think you should include how apps tax the system and sync services. After 3 years of using SOHO, I’m looking elsewhere because SOHO, with its SOHO services and use of OpenBase, really taxes my system – no app should take 15 minutes to load with 4GB of memory.

By: Daniel Jomphe

Daniel Jomphe — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:28:19 +0000

Øystein: Only one reason – web archives preserve the best how what you collect looked at the time you collected it. If preserving something in a state that fits with your visual memory is important to you, then rich text isn’t up to the task.

By: Øystein

Øystein — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:31:13 +0000

Why do you regard the ability of Together to save parts of web pages as web arhives rather that rich text to be so important? What are the advantages of a web archive?

By: robthecomputerguy

robthecomputerguy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:04:12 +0000

I just wanted to say that this review helped me immensely and I thank you very much for taking the time out to do it!

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:58:58 +0000

I use Together but am evaluating again. One of my main requirements is to be able to get this data out of the application. I will use such an application all the time, but I will need to get data our and into another app from time to time – like I keep work information in here and I am one of the few mac’s. I need to be able to publish articles to our internal wiki or just in file format. Maybe Together can do this better than I understand.

Regarding the comment that together does not get covered as much as yojimbo . . . that might be true but part of that is the ability to FIND such reviews. Searching for together is a utter waste of time. You have to use terms like Yojimbo or devonthink to find reviews that also cover together. I think together is a bad name for that reason. Had to find publicity for your product.

By: AlexM

AlexM — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:26:43 +0000

Your blog is interesting!

Keep up the good work!

By: Daniel Jomphe

Daniel Jomphe — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:21:18 +0000

Alan: Thank you for the comment. I plan to make a new version of my benchmark that’ll evaluate more wide options. Your comment left me more interested than ever in trying (web+yo)jimbo. I’ll be sure to consider webjimbo’s features for the next iteration of my comparative review. Meanwhile, who knows if the developer won’t release a significant update to yojimbo that would make it compare more favorably under my current benchmark…

By: Alan Mortensen

Alan Mortensen — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:41:39 +0000

I know it’s an additional application, but you should really look into webjimbo in addition to yojimbo. I don’t think any of the other applications have that level of web integration even with third party additions (short of screen sharing). I really need to be able to access and preferably acquire my info at any computer and I’d need a fairly large and fast flash drive to make that work with any of the other apps.

By: Together and Evernote: Updates Reviewed « Daniel mostly on Software

Together and Evernote: Updates Reviewed « Daniel mostly on Software — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:02:35 +0000

[...] you remember my comparative review of web information collection applications, you know I liked a lot Together. Now it’s been significantly upgraded in its new [...]

By: Gordon R. Vaughan

Gordon R. Vaughan — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:58:40 +0000

1. Yeah, obvious.
2. Yes, but beyond that, it would be nice for any info manager to have a global tag management feature so you could consolidate similar tags, etc.
3. I guess smart folders could be of help for filing search results from the web; don’t think I’d use DT that way, since I don’t want to fill it full of noisy data. Organization/structure is important for me.

Thanks for the tip about Scrivener, I do miss outlining in DT & am curious about how Scrivener integrates outlining and writing, as you say.

By: Daniel Jomphe

Daniel Jomphe — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:45:06 +0000

Gordon : 1. Tags; 2. Proper integration of tags into search features; 3. Saving searches into smart folders. One could argue that 1 & 2 are the same, and I wouldn’t mind. For the sake of this review, I believe I should have written it this way more than like I did.

When you try Scrivener, I strongly suggest you skim through its tutorial. Most of it is pretty obvious, but if I remember well, it’s there, for example, that I learned I could edit multiple files like if they were only one contiguous file. It’s like mixing up outlining and writing, and I found it really efficient.

By: Gordon R. Vaughan

Gordon R. Vaughan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:23:51 +0000

For anyone landing here interested in DEVONthink, I really like it & left some comments last night at

http://danieljomphe.wordpress.com/2008/03/22/evernote-for-mac-reviewed-beta-version/#comment-31

Looking over the reviews again this morning, Daniel, I’m wondering what are your 3 essential features that DEVONthink lacks?

Also, one of the functions I was really hoping DT would cover (well) was writing (which involves a lot of organizing of information, too). I haven’t really done much writing yet on DT, but am beginning to think it won’t really handle it as well as I’d hoped.

I’ve long been amazed at the lack of a strong writing tool, which is such a common job that computers ought to be able to help us with. While I really like DEVONthink for organizing info, Scrivener may also be a tool with a bright future, if it’s as good as you say. I’ll have to check it out soon.