So this improved things but, really, I needed to TAG files as I downloaded them. Tags consists of two parts, a browser that lets you search by Tags: Leap preview and search window.(Click for a full size image)īut you can mark files from the Toolbar by opening the Tag Window: Then dropping a file onto the Tag Window: And entering your tags: Magic Sauce Time I tried a number of different methods over a year or so to get a workflow that I would reliably use. This makes the TAGGING really really important.įor a while I used Leap to work through files but this didn’t work out well. Thus I can slice my search in many ways according to how I have tagged the file. So, know you know that I can mark PDF files by tag. PDF Document Explaining Open Meta – Google Docs PDF Preview Tags and Hazel More on OpenMeta in this PDF file : AboutOpenMeta – PDF Download Where xattr is a Unix file meta attribute that hasn’t been used in many years. The metadata is stored in extended attributes (xattr). The idea of the project is for commercial, open source and in house programs to be able to use OpenMeta for reading, writing and dealing with user defined meta data. OpenMeta is an OS X Cocoa Objective – C technology that allows any application to read and or write tags, ratings, etc to any file. Short description from the OpenMeta Tags google project. OpenMeta Tags uses a Unix file feature to add tags to files. And the super-fast solid-state hard drive on the MacBook Air runs DTPO very, very fast.This articles continues from My Knowledge Management Process With PDF Files – Part 1 on managing collections of text and PDF files. A slower hard drive will slow down DTPO regardless of the size of the RAM. And the standard MacMini runs at 5200 rpm. My original MacBook Pro had a hard drive that ran at 7200 rpm. Nada! In retrospect, this should have been obvious. But guess what? When I doubled the RAM on my MacMini (from 4 to 8 gis) it did NOTHING for the speed of DEVONthink. Why? About four years ago, when I doubled the RAM of my (now dead) MacBook Pro from 2 to 4 gigs it massively increased the speed of DEVONthink. I used to believe that the main factor on the speed of DTPO was RAM. Keeping your databases on a USB is not necessary or required but my DTPO databases are about 32 gigs in total and I do not want them clogging up the hard drive on my Air. And in my case, I have been able to keep my databases on a USB 3.0 Flash drive. Not only does a MacBook Air run DTPO, but it runs it super fast and efficiently, even with only 4 gigs of RAM! It runs faster - much faster - than on my MacMini and my former MacBook Pro. I have recently discovered how wrong I was. When I first bought the computer I foolishly believed that it was not good enough to run DEVONthink Pro (DTPO) because it did not have enough RAM nor a big enough hard drive. My MB Air is built for a Latin American market and as such has a Spanish-friendly keyboard, and due to taxes and import fees and such a price tag 30% higher (gag) than I would have paid in the U.S. It has been about 7 months since I first bought a MacBook Air with 4gigs of RAM and a 128gig SSD hard drive. Peace! DEVONthink Pro Office (DTPO) on a MacBook Air I may post more on it later or on a YouTube video. And on some weeks as much as 1798 per day (top average for a 7-day week). With Roam, I have gone from an average writing output of about 500 words per day to about 1200 per day. But now, nearly all of my writing and researching happens in Roam Research. I still use Devonthink as a repository of data and as a way to search for documents.
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