DEVONTHINK VS. EAGLEFILER FULL
DEVONTHINK VS. EAGLEFILER SOFTWARE
DEVONTHINK VS. EAGLEFILER MAC

Any option that we’re looking at should have a number of ways to ensure we won’t wake up one Tuesday to find that our beloved app is no longer around. In Josh Ginter’s look at Keep It, he said that long-term research should be available long-term.

DEVONTHINK VS. EAGLEFILER FULL

We expect basic text to sync within a few seconds and understand that if you’ve saved a large audio file it may take a bit to get a full sync depending on your web connectivity. As we look at the apps, we’re hoping to find feature parity across iOS and macOS.Īlmost all of us are in a multi-device world now, which means that any research you capture should be accessible on all your devices.

DEVONTHINK VS. EAGLEFILER MAC

I use an iPad as my main work computer and use a Mac mini only when there isn’t a reasonable way to accomplish a task on iOS. Yes, iOS and macOS are different beasts, but many of us at The Sweet Setup are iOS first users.

We want to see an app that feels just as at home on your iPhone as it does on your iPad or Mac.

DEVONTHINK VS. EAGLEFILER SOFTWARE

At the very least, any app we choose should fit with iOS instead of feeling like some port from elsewhere in the software realm. While we may prioritize the sheer utility of an app, it does need to look nice as well. Where we would have considered integration with Workflow a nice-to-have, with Shortcuts now being a first-party Apple product, your research app should have some sort of automation and Shortcuts support. It should support Files and Share Sheets. The app we’re looking for should play nice with iOS features. Ideally, you should be able to have a vague notion that you’ve captured something and be able to use various filters and search terms to narrow it down to the single item you want to find. Yes, this is listed second, but it’s just as crucial as capture - if you can’t find your research when you want to, it’s of no use to you. Our ideal app allows you to import information from any platform you’re currently using and supports any file type you want to add. That includes handling multiple file types and how it deals with formatting webpages. The first thing that a good long-term research app needs to do is easily capture the content you want to put into it. Our criteria for the best Evernote replacement seeks to capture not only the list of features required for such an app, but also seeks to capture the long-term nature of the subject. From our point of view, long-term research needs to last not just years, but decades. Long-term research is exactly that: long-term.

With apps and services evolving, devolving, being introduced, and being shutdown, nailing down an app with a wide range of features that will be here in the long-term is difficult to do. Long-term research is a tricky topic, especially when considering it from the ever-changing landscape of the digital world. My personal research database has many thousands of entries in it ranging across file types from web archives to Markdown to academic research PDFs to audio and video. Coming from a formal Psychology background, I love APA formatting, so I want the data I need to cite things properly. I write for a number of sites including The Sweet Setup and regularly go back to my research to find articles, PDFs, audio, and video to use as citations in my books and other posts. I even had a short stint writing my own web-based research catalog for the 60+ books I read in a year. I’ve used Evernote, Bear, DEVONthink, Zotero, Zim Wiki, and others over the years to try and get exactly what I wanted. I’m a bit of a research maniac and have been looking for the perfect research app for years. This is a category that Evernote once ruled, but we think our picks have several advantages over what Evernote offers today.

Whether you’re researching a topic for school, writing a book, planning a big purchase, or collecting ideas for a remodel, we think Keep It and DEVONthink have you covered. We’ve used all of that work and discussion to inform our recommendation for the best app for long-term research on iOS, and specifically, the iPad. Over the last number of weeks, we’ve looked at a bunch of great note-taking and research apps.

Devonthink vs. eaglefiler