#Using devonthink pro research mac os

#Using devonthink pro research mac os

HoudahSpot leverages the built in Spotlight index, not sure if FoxTrot does the same or builds its own.Д«ack in the late 80s, the creator of Lotus 1-2-3, Mitch Kapor, started a company called On Technology, and its first Mac product was a Desk Accessory (a mini app that ran in the old cooperative-multitasking Mac OS of the time) called On Location that was a personal Mac search engine. Never used FoxTrot but it has a very good reputation, although I think youвЂ™d need to spend $120 on the FoxTrot Professional version to match HoudahSpotвЂ™s search capabilities. IвЂ™ve used HoudahSpot since 2008, and according to my records the appвЂ™s total cost including two upgrades was about $45. You can even craft a Keyboard Maestro macro to take a HoudahSpot PDF result and open the document in a PDF viewer like Skim and take you to the result, which you can see here. I have however completely replaced Spotlight with HoudahSpot for everyday searches of all kinds, including pdfs, and even changed the default Command-Spacebar to invoke HoudahSpot instead of Spotlight. (One of the reasons I donвЂ™t use DevonThink anymore.) I own DevonSphere and it does a serviceable job but I rarely need to exclusively search PDFs and I donвЂ™t find it that pleasurable to use. Which one do you find the most effective, and why? So far, in the Mac hemisphere, the above 4 apps seem the leaders. It is very important to have a powerful searching tool to find that specific concept or idea, or term. We have packs of pdf files lying around (organized in Be or other). PDF-search vs Devonthink vs Foxtrot vs Devonsphere