i’ve been looking around, asking questions and getting various suggestions for an application that can help me work more efficiently with my giant collection of documents and articles. i often need to find stuff that i know i have, someplace, but can’t remember the title or what folder i may have put it in. someone in a forum suggested i take a look at Devonthink and, in an absolute rarity, this is exactly what i was looking for. exactly.

<p>incredibly simple, stable and open. you just drag any of the supported file types (just about every common text encoding, including .html, .xml, etc) into the app&#8217;s field, and the text is, from that point, rendered entirely searchable by keyword or category. i dropped 8 gigs of data into it (my entire documents folder, mostly .pdfs, .html, .rtfs), and in a flash, my entire library is now keyword searchable&#8212; i mean the actual contents of every file, not just names or abstracts, is now searchable. search results come up sorted by hit count. </p>

<p>you can actually drop your entire media collection in too.</p>

<p>&#8230;this basically has replaced the Finder for me (<span class="caps">OSX</span>)</p>

<p>i&#8230;   love this.</p>