Honestly, the last time I had this ‘Ooh, this is going to change the way I work’ feeling was with Quicksilver (the only other application where I’ve bothered to write a gushing fan letter to the developer, too).Īs with SpamSieve, EagleFiler is working very well, and I’m extremely impressed. I haven’t been using it long enough for the Mail integration and Web archiving features to have had an effect on the way I work, but suspect that having mail messages, Web research and related text files in one place, filterable by tag is going to make my life a hell of a lot easier. I’m a journalist, so I have an unweildy number of text files sitting around-interview transcripts, rough drafts, published articles, &c.-and in about five minutes I had all my current and upcoming projects neatly organised, tagged and sortable, instead of sitting in one big folder waiting for me to sort them out (which never happens!). I just thought I’d drop you a line to say how impressed I am with EagleFiler-I’ve tried a few of the rival organisers out there (as well as various Finder-based methods to keep things organised) and this is the first one that I could grasp at a glance, and start using immediately. But with these new features, it takes a huge leap forward in helping the end user filter, classify, and categorize data and research quickly and efficiently.
EagleFiler has always been great in terms being able to instantly grab or import just about anything anywhere on my iMac or the Internet. I make my living as a writer/editor and I’m constantly doing research. Yes, this is a rave review, but I think these improvements deserve my rave.
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And what’s more, EagleFiler does this search within PDFs and Web Archives much faster than DevonThink Pro does, though DTPro still has some advantages in its interface on searches.Īs a user of Punakea, I’m really pleased to see the new options for importing tags, especially since the “Import as notes and tags” helps me get Punakea-style tags into EagleFiler without having to lose my non-Punakea style info in my Spotlight comments.įinally, I’ve used the new contextual menus dozens of times today-how cool is it to be able to select text and instantly make it the title of the something you’ve grabbed from the Internet or some PDF, or instantly to make a keyword in record a tag? Huge time-saver. I really needed to see inside the hundreds of PDFs I had, not just look at titles or tags. This was one area where DevonThink Pro really outperformed EagleFiler for my daily research.
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And to top it off, I can search for these individual files with Spotlight, and not just within EF.Īlthough it’s short bullet in the list of changes, perhaps the most important new function for me as writer/researcher has been the addition of a Find panel for searching within PDF and Web archives.
Now I can make a individual message a “to do” or “next action” based on tags and other criteria within the e-mail message.
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eml files, I’m finally going to start using EF as my mail archive database, because I really wanted to be able to store individual e-mail messages along side my other kinds of data in my EF folders. Now that I can drag individual e-mail messages into EF as free-standing. I am especially loving and using the new tag cloud window for quickly see what tags I’m using with an item and for quickly adding or changing the tags I have assigned. The new Stationery Folder function has immediately become a huge time saver for me-for example, I can now create MS Word files, or MindJet MindManager mind map files, instantly, from within EagleFiler based on templates I’ve created in these, or other, programs. This is the first time I’ve begun to think that I could find a replacement for DevonThink Pro in my daily use this version of EagleFiler is that much more powerful. Unbelievably cool! I’m only just beginning to see all that I can do with the new power of these smart folders. If such powerful smart folders weren’t enough, I can now add actions to the smart folders and further modify my data. The sheer flexibility of the criteria one can use (17 different kinds, from tags to notes to labels to file size to URL to creation date to just about you-name-it), combined with the ability to nest criterion give me unmatched horsepower in terms of seeing my gigabytes of research data the way I want to see.
The new custom smart folders are a huge leap forward in terms of being able to filter and modify one’s data in EF. Every new feature makes EagleFiler incredibly more usable and versatile. All I can say is WOW! What a terrific update.
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