![]() If you’re dropping by from the mothership, hi! I’m Rachel. I write now and then about history, academia, research tech and bookporn. Hit the RSS if you’re into any of that, I’d probably like to know you - R. Īs some of you know, I am a loyal devotee of DevonThink, and was fortunate enough to have found out about it early on in my research. ![]() For four years, over the course of my PhD, I mucked about with it: exploring, optimizing, and adding to it–sometimes systematically, sometimes not. It effectively replaces my contributions on this old thread (which I’ll supplement to refer to this newer thread). In consequence, it’s a gnarled, twisty and flawed little place (presumably, like the brain whence it sprung). StephenC August 8, 2022, 4:07pm 1 Introduction This thread is about the manner in which I export diary entries from Day One, import them into DEVONthink and enhance and use them. Nevertheless, I thought I’d offer a tour through my PhD database for several purposes: to allow those who are interested in finding out more about DT to get some specific insight into its uses for humanities research to document for myself some of the things I did which worked and didn’t to hear from anyone with more experience in research management systems and perhaps offer something new or different to those who already use DT or something similar. (For those who don’t know or use DT, it’s an amazing piece of research management software for Macs, consisting of a smart, flexibly structured database into which one can place all manner of files, web bookmarks, photos and notes. Some use one database for everything I prefer to allocate one database per project. In this post I’m primarily going to discuss the yellow folders, called “groups”: specifically, Archives, Chronologies, Images, Library, Notebooks and +Notes. I suppose I’m a little old-fashioned in my approach to groups. I don’t really exploit the full flexibility of DT - how it allows you, for instance, to “replicate” files in many different places such that changing something in one file will change all instances of that file no matter which group it’s in. ![]()
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