[HN Gopher] DEVONagent, a smart web (re)search assistant for the... ___________________________________________________________________ DEVONagent, a smart web (re)search assistant for the Mac Author : Tomte Score : 16 points Date : 2022-05-21 20:27 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.devontechnologies.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.devontechnologies.com) | KennyBlanken wrote: | It is baffling that there is a video for the $5 version (which is | barely more than "do google searches or searches of a pre-canned | list of sites, with site previews, from your menu bar" - thanks, | I'll keep my $5) but nothing for the $50 software? | | devontech has been around for something like two decades and has | always struck me as being borderline snake oil. Lots of hand- | waving elevator pitch, but I just never see anything explaining | _how the fuck it 's actually useful._ | | https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/technology is basically | several pages of lorum ipsum buzzwords. | csilverman wrote: | There was a point where I had most of my work and ideas in | Devonthink. Then I noticed that a few important files had | somehow vanished. I don't know for sure if this was due to the | software, but it unnerved me, and I moved to Obsidian. | | I used DT primarily as a knowledgebase/notes app; I never found | its smart features to be particularly useful. Nowadays, I'd | definitely recommend Notion over DT. | lab14 wrote: | I had a similar experience. Used Devonthink for about 10 | months and suddenly some files disappeared. Asked for a | refund and they said "sorry, no". ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-21 23:01 UTC)