Comments on: 43 Folders on DEVONthink and Smart Groups http://douglasjohnston.net/archives/2006/05/23/dtpro-43folders/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dtpro-43folders random musings from a primate Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:14:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom Fuerstner http://douglasjohnston.net/archives/2006/05/23/dtpro-43folders/comment-page-1/#comment-118408 Tom Fuerstner Tue, 30 May 2006 12:48:12 +0000 http://www.douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/05/23/dtpro-43folders/#comment-118408 I think about a year ago I've started to push DevonThink "funcionwise" to the limit. Therefor I developed a native DevonThink-Ruby-Bridge to enable me not just to store documents within DT but also pieces of code. These code snippets should turn DT into a real agent environment. You can read more about this crazy experiment inside the <a href="http://www.devon-technologies.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=9679&" rel="nofollow">forum-pages</a> of Devon-Technologies. What I really wanted was some kind of smart, semantic system that would support me automatically to find, rank,store and distribute relevant information throughout the web. Actually the rather "eclecticistic" combination of VoodooPad, NetNewsWire, DevonThink,Ruby and RubyCocoa made it really possible to intelligently contextualize information as expected. But I couldn't share this benefits collaboratively. As a result of this attempts and because the company I'm working for got funded by some governmental institutions to turn the vision behind these experiments into reality there exists now a very sophisticated web application which delivers a wiki/weblog extended with functionalities related to just-in-time information retrieval, social software aspects, structured blogging and a semantic web backend based on TripleStores. The screencast at: http://www.systemone.at/en/technology/overview shows that it's really possible to do this fancy stuff and as our lab-pages show there are even more things possible: http://labs.systemone.at like finding pictures by drawing, etc. . Meanwhile I use DevonThink as frontend to System One and I'm very satisfied that I found a new and improved way to work creatively with huge amounts of digital data. Tom I think about a year ago I’ve started to push DevonThink “funcionwise” to the limit. Therefor I developed a native DevonThink-Ruby-Bridge to enable me not just to store documents within DT but also pieces of code. These code snippets should turn DT into a real agent environment. You can read more about this crazy experiment inside the forum-pages of Devon-Technologies.

What I really wanted was some kind of smart, semantic system that would support me automatically to find, rank,store and distribute relevant information throughout the web. Actually the rather “eclecticistic” combination of VoodooPad, NetNewsWire, DevonThink,Ruby and RubyCocoa made it really possible to intelligently contextualize information as expected. But I couldn’t share this benefits collaboratively.

As a result of this attempts and because the company I’m working for got funded by some governmental institutions to turn the vision behind these experiments into reality there exists now a very sophisticated web application which delivers a wiki/weblog extended with functionalities related to just-in-time information retrieval, social software aspects, structured blogging and a semantic web backend based on TripleStores.

The screencast at: http://www.systemone.at/en/technology/overview shows that it’s really possible to do this fancy stuff and as our lab-pages show there are even more things possible: http://labs.systemone.at like finding pictures by drawing, etc. .

Meanwhile I use DevonThink as frontend to System One and I’m very satisfied that I found a new and improved way to work creatively with huge amounts of digital data.

Tom

]]> By: Earl Moore http://douglasjohnston.net/archives/2006/05/23/dtpro-43folders/comment-page-1/#comment-117324 Earl Moore Sun, 28 May 2006 16:24:10 +0000 http://www.douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2006/05/23/dtpro-43folders/#comment-117324 I've been using DEVONthink along with DEVONagent for some time now and it seems I'm never fully utilizing the capabilities of these products. My own personal learning curve is obviously longer then DEVONtechnologies product development curve. I won't go into what this may say about me, but I think DEVONthink and DEVONagent are two extreamly powerful tools for anyone who wants to manage and analyze information. I’ve been using DEVONthink along with DEVONagent for some time now and it seems I’m never fully utilizing the capabilities of these products. My own personal learning curve is obviously longer then DEVONtechnologies product development curve. I won’t go into what this may say about me, but I think DEVONthink and DEVONagent are two extreamly powerful tools for anyone who wants to manage and analyze information.

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