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DEVONtechnologies
Company blog · blog.devontechnologies.com/blogproductivitysecurity
DEVONtechnologies is the company blog at blog.devontechnologies.com, writing about productivity and security. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a screenshot of DEVONthink's "See Also and Classify" feature, which suggests related notes and categories. The commenters are discussing that note-taking app and an OCR engine incident.
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DEVONtechnologies develops DEVONthink, DEVONagent, and other Mac and iOS apps for document and information management and web research.
What Hacker News says?
Aside; This was the OCR engine included with DEVON(think/note) applications. Thankfully the OCR engine processed documents offline, in a seemingly prescient move, adherence to the rule of processing and storing as little data as needed saved an anxiety inducing set of events from occurring. Shame that small teams (I think that team is less than 10 devs) are sometimes the only businesses with enough sense to ensure t…
Comment linking /2018/08/abbyy-data-leak/
on “OCR Software Dev Exposes 200k Customer Documents”Submitted We’re opting out of Google Analytics as a story · 14 points
HN discussionDevonThink has a "See Also and Classify" feature [1] that will suggest other notes related to a note, or suggest a category for to a note. [1]: see screenshot here http://blog.devontechnologies.com/2016/11/a-users-journey-in...
Comment linking /2016/11/a-users-journey-into-devonthink-student-academic-workflow/
on “Ask HN: Any tools to easily cluster ideas/notes by similarity?”Submitted The next generation of Devonthink Pro's AI is here as a story · 1 points
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