DevonTHINK is where I store all kinds information: lots of PDFs, emails, documents, etc. I find it specifically helpful as a kind of digital junk drawer, but I do sometimes use it for storing project support. For example, each year, I consult with high school administrators on building the school schedule. I receive a lot of input from people in the form of emails regarding schedule requests, so I can drag those into a folder for this project. I create some lists and other text-intensive materials as well, which I can either drop into DevonTHINK, or create in the applications text-creation suite.

I just don’t really like creating content inside of DevonTHINK. It supports Markdown, for example, but it’s utterly bare bones.

I do, however, like popping open TaskPaper or BBEdit (or another text editor) and whipping up a list. Until today, I figured that any list I created outside of DevonTHINK would have to be edited on creation and then preserved in virtual amber once I imported it into DevonTHINK

But it turns out that by command-option dragging a file into DevonTHINK, you can create an alias of the file in DevonTHINK’s database, but leave the file where it is. So if you like working in iA Writer, you can always go back there when you edit information that you’re linking to inside of DevonTHINK. It’s another example of this application’s crazy flexibility.