I am still using version 2, so I have never paid for an upgrade. “Do I pay for the upgrade or is it free?” All of the upgrades within a major version were free.“Is it worth the money?” I have found it to be well worth what I paid for it I think it was $60 then.(See Douglas Barone’s classic 2009 essay “File System Infobase Manager” for more arguments in favor of the “good old file system”.) Like and said, “I also use it as a tool, not as a full on repository”, which means I don’t store files in DEVONthink’s repository nor in a cloud service, but instead store files in the Mac file system and index them in DEVONthink. I am also an occasional DEVONthink (version 2) user, as I previously described here. This was such a great tool and allowed for a great workflow throughout the departments that a few of our attorneys switched from windows to mac just to have access to DT themselves. Also when working on a new product line, being able to oversee the existing patents can be a great way to create new technologies. For any new ideas i asked engineers to describe these in their own words and then i let DT classify it so that i had a chance to review if the proposal was likely already covered by existing patents, or how the idea could be restructured and/or which patents came close and could possibly harvested for some new ideas. With ongoing engineering in a competitive space, staying on top of the patent landscape is rather important and that DT database was instrumental answering engineering questions about existing art but also what we might improve on. As the database grew, new patents were quickly classified into its relevant group by DT’s classification function. With a small script i could extract various trends such as which technologies competitors appeared to focus on. Tagging each patent with year and company name. Using DT, i built a database with our own as well as competitors patents grouping and subngrouping along relevant technologies. At the time was working for a big industrial in engineering management role which required me to support our patent strategies (just support, i am not a patent attorney). I have used DT since an early v2 release, not sure when that was but feels like 10 years ago.
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