DEVONthink vs Zenkit
When comparing DEVONthink vs Zenkit, the Slant community recommends Zenkit for most people. In the question“What are the best personal Knowledge Base apps?” Zenkit is ranked 10th while DEVONthink is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Zenkit is:
Data views include Mind-Map, Kanban-Board, Spreadsheet, List, and Calendar. Views can be switched easily.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Can store any file type
File types containing text are indexed.
Pro Very flexible
An extensive feature set makes it easy to adapt to your work flow.
Pro Sync
Sync between different macs and/or ios devices is fast, safe and easy.
Pro Paperless office functions available in PRO Office version
Includes processing of scanned documents, OCR etc.
Pro Completely offline
Pro Full text search
Pro Many important data views
Data views include Mind-Map, Kanban-Board, Spreadsheet, List, and Calendar. Views can be switched easily.
Pro Powerful and simple to use tool with a clean design
Easy to use and easily understandable for everyone.
Pro Native apps
Native apps for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Cons
Con Only runs on Macs & Web
Con Costs US$79.95 for just the Personal version
Con Stores in a proprietary format
It stores the whole database in a proprietary file package, that you cannot easily access from another app or from the Finder. Considering you might be classifying a huge quantity of files there, it is quite problematic if you want to interact with this data from other applications.
Con Non free/libre (proprietary)
Con Aged
DEVONthink has not seen any major update in the last 5 years at least. Its interface still ressembles PowerPC era Mac OS X and it has not kept up with the evolution of other apps and services that could interact well with it. Most of its functionalities (e.g., OCR engine) are not at the level of current technology.
Con Very limited automation
While the marketing claims are about an intelligent document manager, it actually does not offer many automation features, such as automatic classification, tagging and renaming of the files. It's much more like an extended file explorer.