DEVONthink/DEVONnote 2.10.2
DEVONtechnologies has updated all three editions of DEVONthink (Personal, Pro, and Pro Office) and DEVONnote to version 2.10.2. All three editions of DEVONthink and DEVONnote receive fixes for macOS 10.14 Mojave and update head-up displays like the Take Note panel and group selector.
The three DEVONthink editions also improve sync performance when handling indexed files, increase the reliability of Bonjour connections, preserve checkboxes in imported Evernote notes, improve support for EPUB metadata, speed up importing from Yojimbo, fix visual artifacts in the scanning interface in Mojave, and prevent several crashes. The Pro Office edition updates its Web server to use more modern technologies and make better use of fast network connections, and it updates and renames the Mail plugin to work within the tighter controls Apple has applied to Mail plugins. Finally, DEVONtechnologies removed the sync location for Box from all three DEVONthink versions because the file-sharing site is dropping WebDAV support on 1 January 2019. (All updates are free. DEVONthink Pro Office, $149.95 new, release notes; DEVONthink Professional, $79.95 new, release notes; DEVONthink Personal, $49.95 new, release notes; DEVONnote, $24.95 new, release notes; 25% discount for TidBITS members on all editions of DEVONthink and DEVONnote. macOS 10.10+)
The DEVONthink family of applications is very powerful software, but to me the interface is a bit ugly and unintuitive. Version 2 has been with us a long, long time. Here’s hoping work is going on behind the scenes on version 3.
An interesting possible (and partial) alternative is represented by PDF Search. It indexes PDFs and Office/iWork documents in any folder (including cloud folders) you point it to, and then responds to searches by giving a list of the specific pages in all the documents where the search term appears.