It works, but I know that something will eventually break and I’ll have to spend another eight hours experimenting to get “Mirroring” working again. Right now, the number of scripts and Hazel automation tasks I have to keep the rickety setup stable is absurd and took like 36 hours to stitch together. Yet I also want to have DEVONthink’s stellar concordance and search abilities available to these files. The easiest way to do this is to use a variety of cloud storage solutions. I work with other people on virtually every file I have. – but I think there’s a strong case for a “Mirror” functionality that operates like Indexing except that it does reflect changes in the indexed filesystem. I know the argument’s been had – DEVONthink isn’t a finder replacement, there’s benefit to being able to organize files differently in DEVONthink vs. This use case is actually why I index instead of import, but it’s super frustrating. To me it looks like sharing needs to be done via a separate service like Dropbox/Box/Google Drive.īut coming back to my use case, is there a better way to do it? To reach “Anyone” I can’t count on them being on the same LAN (and I only have a laptop so port forwarding wouldn’t work either). I don’t quite see how “sharing with anyone” is enabled by DevonTHINK alone.
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The DevonThink Office Pro marketing page states “Share your data with anyone, whether they use Mac or PC”. This is not an issue anymore though as everything works fine if I use the DevonTHINK inbox of the database MyDocuments. Only documents from the database “MyDocuments”. No documents from the global inbox appear in the search. The search field in my Mac client (DevonTHINK Pro Office" is at the top right (not left). The difference in behavior here is sometimes a bit unintuitive. But as I just discovered myself if I use the DevonTHINK default inbox, move the document to a group and use “Move to external folder” it works fine. If I move a document from this “MyInbox” group to another group and do a “Move to external folder” this is not reflected on disk (as moves between groups are not propagated to disk). The issue with the inbox (3) was that I was using a folder labeled “MyInbox” (not the standard inbox) on disk that was sync’d.
Where are you seeing “Share with anyone” in our marketing copy, please?
#DEVONTHINK PRO OFFICE BOX FOLDER SYNC SOFTWARE#
The marketing pitch for DevonTHINK office pro claims the software can do (scan your data, sync with all your devices, share with anyone) The searchField at the upper left works in the current database, including the Global Inbox. If you need to reorganize, do it in the Finder. There are many use case where the structure in the database wouldn’t match the structure in the Finder. This behavior may change in future releases but that is the current requirement.Ĭorrect, and that is by design. The setup you’ve discussed, using Dropbox and indexed folders sounds like the reasonable approach in your case.Ĭorrect. But setting this up is extremely hard, and in the end it’s not exactly a good user experience. What am I doing wrong here? It seems my use case is pretty much 100% what the marketing pitch for DevonTHINK office pro claims the software can do (scan your data, sync with all your devices, share with anyone). However with the global inbox, the search bar doesn’t work.Instead I use the global inbox where this works. If I do, files that I move into a group don’t move on disk. I can’t use the database’s inbox for this reason.I need to do the move in finder or move them out of the database first. I can’t move files between groups in DevonTHINK (or if I do, the users I am sharing with can’t see that change).I need to remember to “Move to external folder” after each change, or others can’t see it.This sort of works, but has a host of annoying issues: If they add a file to that folder, it shows up in my system as well next time I access the folder (good!).which family member or external party has access to which directory) Now I can use the cloud file store to set up sharing (i.e.I keep documents in a directory hierarchy that’s indexed by Devonthink on Dropbox/Box/Google.So the best solution I found is to use DEVONthink only for document management and a cloud file store (e.g. In fact, this being 2018 mobile access is more frequent than local access. This doesn’t work as we need access on mobile devices to these documents. Next I looked at Web Sharing, bat that only seems to work on the local network.
I can’t sync specific folders but only entire databases.My first thought was sharing with Devonthink mobile. I used to do this with Evernote and it was fairly straightforward, but I am struggling to do this with Evenote. Share documents in those groups with family members (different groups for different members) and external parties (e.g.I am trying to set up DevonThink Office Pro for a very simple use case:
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