Devonagent seems to have great options for the natural sciences. I imagine this would be very helpful for meta analyses. I’m still writing in word or Ulysses, but I’ll pop into DT to find additional references or to find an article on a similar topic. Or find and article similar to an article you know works for your writing or teaching. This is great for those times you need to find a reference. I then drag my piece of writing into DEVONthink and have it look for files that have similar content. So I have thousands of references and all my PDFs in DT. This takes very little space so not a big deal to keep thousands of reference pages in DT. It store the page as resource (mostly text but if you’re on WiFi it’ll load the page). I have Devonagent download the results to DEVONthink. I also try to use hyper specific terms.įirst Gen* student university (home or responsibility or work or struggle or stereotype or barrier or “cultural strength” or “social capital”) immigrant (latin* or hispan* or mexic* or chican* or salvador* or colomb* or guatemal* or peru* or ecuador* or venezuel*) I left google scholar, google pdf, and Added a few university libraries. I turned off most plugins (search pages). It’ll look suspicious to your IT department. One tip, don’t have your work computer do these searches at 2am at night. It saves me space not having to download the PDFs, and I can focus on only downloading the most relevant articles to the piece I’m currently writing. These were mostly articles I did not have in my database a few days ago. It pulled up about 10 articles that were perfect for my article. I forgot I had all these new resources in my database from DEVONagent. I click on the “magic hat” that looks for articles that closely match the text. Today I put in a draft of a paper I’m working on. It’ll help them narrow down their searches. I figured at some point I’ll have my research assistants look through these folders (that had 800 hits each after 3 nights). You can create predefined searches and have them run automatically then feed the html pages of articles to DEVONthink. I rediscovered DEVONagent, it’s an advanced web search app from the same team. The matches were okay, but pretty much what I could already do since I’m familiar with the kinds of articles I have. It was fine, it matched some articles with ones I’m reading and it helped me find articles that fit papers I’m writing. I only have 800 pdfs, but the process was daunting enough that I was willing to try DEVONthink again. This year I went back to try and organize my PDFs. Apple released the Files app, and I turned into a Devonthink hater (look at my history. The main draw was able to get my files on iOS. Okay, so I spent about a year with Devonthink.
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