Wanted to piggyback off of this thread because I was having this feeling today (maybe there should be a praise subsection in the feedback section).
It just seems like as my journey with the app continues, I find more and more things where using DTP just aligns perfectly with how I think.
I started using DEVONthink as a repository for the 1000s of PDFs I get in my law practice. See previous post here.
But I have continued to struggle with the problem of organizing case documents and creating chronologies of my legal cases and otherwise just trying to make sense of the 1000s of pages of material I get from the government in my more complex cases.
Most recently, I was using Aeon Timeline to create a chronology, but ultimately found it too confining, at least for the initial part of case analysis. Analyzing a complex legal case reminds me of that quote, “I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn’t have time.”
Aeon Timeline just didn’t give me a large enough of a canvas to get it all out of my head. Instead I am using DTP to basically create a wiki of my legal case and as I go all I have to do is hit the double brackets and “poof,” I have a new note to expand on another topic, with links to all the relevant parts of PDFs, etc. I don’t mean to knock onto Aeon Timeline, it’s just I think it might be more useful of an app to me after I have done the initial process of sorting through everything and am ready to refine down to the essential facts of my case (ie ready “to write the shorter letter”).
Also to keep from clogging my hard drive with 500 GB of case documents, videos, etc, I simply save all that material to a 1TB Sandisk Pro Thunderbolt external SSD and then index it. With the 2500 Mb/s RW speeds, I can’t tell any difference between accessing the files on the external hard drive and my internal drive.
This is not to say that I never run into frustrations working with DEVONthink, but basically I rely on this app for so much and to find myself continually finding new ways to expand my use of the app after four years of daily use, just speaks volumes to the usefulness of this app.