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The Sweet Setup on DEVONthink

May 28, 2021 — Eric Böhnisch-Volkmann
Living room situation with a MacBook running DEVONthink.

The Sweet Setup is one of the best online sources with daily app reviews, tips, and tutorials for everyone interested in productivity. In one of the latest articles Josh Ginter lays out how he uses DEVONthink and DEVONthink To Go for managing and annotating PDFs.

While I still think DEVONthink’s power outpaces my needs, the app has worked exceedingly well for storing all sorts of information, quickly unearthing that information, and finding connections between files I never knew existed. I’ve been especially impressed with how DEVONthink handles PDFs — doubly so considering it’s not a “PDF app” at all. Here’s how I’ve been using DEVONthink on the Mac and on the iPad (but mostly on the iPad) in the last five months of heavy, heavy study.

Josh extensively uses the Clip to DEVONthink share extension to save articles he’s interested in, annotates PDFs on the iPad, and uses backlinks to build his personal web of information. Read the full article here.