I shy away from DevonThink Pro because (1) it’s not exactly an intuitive piece of software; and, (2) it stores information in a proprietary database format which makes retrieval near impossible in the absence of the software itself. Journler stores everything in a Folder and plain text format which allows retrieval even in the absence of the software.

I tried Eaglefiler a while ago and it crashed repeatedly and seemed ‘clunky.’ I read the forums at Journler and am well familiar with Phil Dow’s developer struggles. He really needs to either sell the software to a bigger player or get a solid management/development team on board with him…. So, here’s rooting for Journler to make the leap.

It’s a little more expensive, Journler became shareware ($34.95) instead of donationware, DTPO is $149.95 but it comes with OCR built in, to search scanned documents, and other features: https://secure.shareit.com/shareit/product.html?productid=300125739&sessionid=1078685290&random=9450ac192c9f0f48ea5f9fe8704b62c9

For an office with tons of documents and the ability to search and sift through all of them DTPO is a good mac app. The next version looks to be even better.

I recommend this because the developer for Journler is thinking about selling Journler to another developer. Who knows what direction Journler will take with someone else. By the way, I love Journler.

Another app you might want to look at is Eaglefiler at http://www.c-command.com