I got DEVONagent for free as part of a package deal way back when I first bought DEVONthink. It’s not game changing, but it’s still quite nice in a few ways:
- You can use advanced query operators like “word1 BEFORE/3 word2” to specify that word2 must appear within a couple of words after word1. Compare with searches that say “oh, you want all documents that contain both word1 and word2? Here’s a dictionary! Here’s your document index! Hope that helped!” (I’m looking at you, Notion.)
- The agent supports that on search engines that don’t natively support that grammar. If it must, it’ll search for all documents that have both “word1” and “word2”, then filter out all the ones that don’t meet the more specific criteria.
- You can automate searches, and get notifications when it finds new results. Not super handy, but still nifty.
- Want to search 23 search engines simultaneously? Fine.
I wouldn’t buy it alone for $50. I’m glad I have it, though, for the rare times that I need it.
- You can use advanced query operators like “word1 BEFORE/3 word2” to specify that word2 must appear within a couple of words after word1. Compare with searches that say “oh, you want all documents that contain both word1 and word2? Here’s a dictionary! Here’s your document index! Hope that helped!” (I’m looking at you, Notion.)
- The agent supports that on search engines that don’t natively support that grammar. If it must, it’ll search for all documents that have both “word1” and “word2”, then filter out all the ones that don’t meet the more specific criteria.
- You can automate searches, and get notifications when it finds new results. Not super handy, but still nifty.
- Want to search 23 search engines simultaneously? Fine.
I wouldn’t buy it alone for $50. I’m glad I have it, though, for the rare times that I need it.