will allow you to save newly created files directly into your Global Inbox, by selecting the ‘Inbox’ destination under "Places’ in the left column of a Finder window. Many other applications such as Pages, Word, Excel, Numbers, etc.
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After saving changes within Scrivener, click on the corresponding project within your database and choose File > Synchronize to update changes into the database. Want to open your project and work with it under Scrivener? You can do that from within DEVONthink by selecting a project file and clicking on the Launch Externally (Scrivener) button in your Toolbar. The information contained in your project files is searchable, integrated with the other information in your databases. Text of your documents will be visible within the database. Scrivener project don’t take well to being directly saved into DEVONthink.īut you can Index an existing project into DEVONthink. The advantage of storing documents in a DEVONthink database is that the text information of a wide variety of filetypes can be integrated into the information resources available within the database, including searching, See Also, etc.
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If people need something more, they can edit the document in an external program, but I shouldn’t have to leave DevonThink just to get a usable full screen mode. I’m not suggesting implementing every possible feature and option that are present in WriteRoom or Scrivener, but how about making the simple basics nicer to work with so it’s at least visually pleasing. What’s the point of having a feature people like to use and then doing a halfway implementation of it, when doing the full thing is really not so much more then having a HUD slide in that let’s you adjust options you can already adjust within DevonThink preferences 90% of the time anyway. I don’t see how it would take a programmer who is capable of handling the heavy intellectual work of DevonThink’s AI, more then 30 minutes to change full screen mode from an almost-good-enough option, to being at least pleasant to use and part of a fluid workflow. The only programming for all of this, is adding in one of those HUDs that fades into view when you mouse down, just like Pages does in iWork as someone mentioned or Scrivener. Since people will want to fiddle with it, you could allow options for block cursor, blinking block cursor, underline, blinking underline, insertion point, blinking insertion point. The only brand new addition I’d like to see is the option to change the cursor from the vertical bar insertion point, to being able to have a simple block cursor. Set background opacity would be nice but it’s neither that critical or something that isn’t present in some Apple framework I’m sure. Every single one of these is already present in DevonThink with the exception of the degree of opacity you want to set for the background. Text Scale, Paper Position (left, right, center, fill justify), Paper Width (margins), Tags, Info Panel, Word Count.
Scrivener does add bells and whistles and niceties, but let’s compare the basics with what’s already in DevonThink right now. When you slide the mouse to the bottom of the screen, the controls fade into view. The full screen mode in Scrivener is quite simple, the important elements at any rate. The impediments to comfortable use are not that great and do not require a design genius to implement. When I am doing research and taking notes, writing something longer, I’d like to use full screen mode which is already present and works. DevonThink is the best research tool I’ve ever used in my life. The consensus then is that the DevonThink team is engineering driven and very good at programming but so terrible at user interface design that everyone has given up that they can even make a full screen mode that’s pleasant to work with and look at? Re: Text Editing and a good interface not being doable by the makers of DT, I see no reason why this should be the case - especially with regards to full screen mode - not the hardest UI to get right So here’s to hoping for some improvement soon… If, as you say, this can be done then it might be a workaround until such time as DT gets a full screen mode that works well enough to be used for serious writing (and why else would one use it - not for a short note, there is no point in that so far as I can see) This may be a silly question but how exactly does one keep the document in DT and still edit it in say writeroom or better yet Scrivener ? Using the external editor gives access to the full-screen features that other posters mentioned, while keeping the document under management of DT. On the other hand, a strength of DT is that it is relatively easy to open documents in external editors and have the external changes visable via Quicklook in DT.
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