Dear Readers

I'm excited to present the next book in the productivity series, Taking Smart Notes with DEVONthink.

DEVONthink is a powerhouse of a program that helps you build your ideas, manage your files, and more. It's been a ton of fun putting the book together. A purchase includes not only the usual PDF, ePub, and Kindle files, but also AppleScripts and Keyboard Maestro macros for those so inclined. The book is a wonderfully weighty 500 page tome of material that will take you from complete novice to advanced user, step-by-step. It's launching at $34.95.

I'm also launching a series of related posts at Being Productive to go along with the release.

Check out below for the blurb!

- Kourosh

PS I really like the word "blurb".

Where do you put your ideas?

Do you take notes just to quickly lose them?
Do you have trouble finding information you’ve saved?
Is it hard to come up with ideas for a work or school project, blog post, or research topic?
Are you tired of having to work from a blank slate?
Do you have a mess of files you can barely get anything out of?

Find a way to build and use your ideas

Whether you're a student, business owner, researcher, office worker, blogger, or hobbyist you've got a lot to deal with.

New information - papers, articles, ideas - shows up faster and faster every day, and in so many ways (PDFs, videos, websites, etc).

Found a neat article that you want to use in a project?
Found something else that you totally disagree with?
Want to throw a receipt somewhere to get it off your desk, but you know it might be important later?
Just have interesting idea?

What do you do with all this stuff?!

You could just put it all in a folder, but no matter how carefully you create a folder structure, you may as well say goodbye to whatever you put in it. It can be nearly impossible to find that one cool idea you had.

You can also improve your search techniques, using keywords and dates, trying to remember what specific words you used or roughly when you saved the file you’re after. But if you can’t quite remember what criteria to search for, you may never be able to find that file, leaving you adrift in a sea of carefully saved yet utterly unnavigable information.

What’s missing in this scenario?

Discoverability. And that’s where Taking Smart Notes with DEVONthink comes in.

Harness the Power of DEVONthink

DEVONthink can help you not only find your files and ideas, but also discover new connections and inspire creative thoughts you weren’t even aware of.

You can have a way to create and find connections between your files, notes, papers, emails, videos, and more. Once you’ve learned how to work with its built-in tools, DEVONthink takes your stuff to the next level.

For example, it can be tough to write a paper or article starting with a blank page. It’s so much easier to write from the seeds of your own ideas. Better yet, DEVONthink can help you gather everything related, even files you didn’t even think of, then lay them all out into a solid structure, so that all you have to do is fill in the gaps.

Quickly get files, videos, emails, ideas, and more into your system with ease.
Get to your stuff quickly, whether or not you realized it would be important when you first saved it
Find new ways to combine and develop ideas you’ve previously worked on
Reveal connections you didn’t realize existed
Make it all happen with one of the most powerful file managers, DEVONthink

Taking Smart Notes with DEVONthink helps you build a powerful set of notes. Once you learn how to make your notes feed and build on each other, using your own thoughts and what you read and watch, taking notes becomes an enjoyable process of exploration and playful discovery. All the while, you’ll be building a foundation to make DEVONthink work for you, to fully empower not only your digital life but also your creativity.

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If for any reason you are not satisfied with the product, send an email during your first 30 days for a refund, no questions asked.

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