

The first thing that a good long-term research app needs to do is easily capture the content you want to put into it. Our criteria for the best Evernote replacement seeks to capture not only the list of features required for such an app, but also seeks to capture the long-term nature of the subject. From our point of view, long-term research needs to last not just years, but decades. Long-term research is exactly that: long-term. With apps and services evolving, devolving, being introduced, and being shutdown, nailing down an app with a wide range of features that will be here in the long-term is difficult to do. Long-term research is a tricky topic, especially when considering it from the ever-changing landscape of the digital world. My personal research database has many thousands of entries in it ranging across file types from web archives to Markdown to academic research PDFs to audio and video. Coming from a formal Psychology background, I love APA formatting, so I want the data I need to cite things properly. I write for a number of sites including The Sweet Setup and regularly go back to my research to find articles, PDFs, audio, and video to use as citations in my books and other posts. I even had a short stint writing my own web-based research catalog for the 60+ books I read in a year. I’ve used Evernote, Bear, DEVONthink, Zotero, Zim Wiki, and others over the years to try and get exactly what I wanted. I’m a bit of a research maniac and have been looking for the perfect research app for years. This is a category that Evernote once ruled, but we think our picks have several advantages over what Evernote offers today. Whether you’re researching a topic for school, writing a book, planning a big purchase, or collecting ideas for a remodel, we think Keep It and DEVONthink have you covered. We’ve used all of that work and discussion to inform our recommendation for the best app for long-term research on iOS, and specifically, the iPad. Fixed a crash or incomplete display of the window when accessing the Preferences on macOS Mojave.Over the last number of weeks, we’ve looked at a bunch of great note-taking and research apps.
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This maintenance release addresses a sporadic crash when accessing the Preferences on macOS Mojave. Drag-and-drop and the Services menu integrate DEVONnote seamlessly with your workflow. Clip data from other apps with just a keystroke, adding it to the GTD-like inbox for later filing, or take notes with the Take Note panel. Store your notes and bookmarks in the self-contained database. DEVONnote keeps in the background and lets you continue with whatever exciting task you are just engaged. Take new notes with a single keystroke, save bookmarks for inspiring webpages by dragging them to DEVONnote, or capture interesting paragraphs using the Services menu. Furthermore, DEVONnote helps you sort in new stuff and supports cross and Wiki-style links.Ĭollect all your notes, ideas, thoughts effortlessly in one place. Store and manage your bookmarks in DEVONnote too, browse the Web using the integrated browser based on Apple's WebKit, capture interesting notes immediately or organize webcams. DEVONnote is an easy-to-use, intelligent note pad capable of storing and organising plain or rich texts and file aliases.
