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By: pete

pete — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:13:34 +0000

Best bet for filling in forms is Acrobat Pro, Acrobat Reader or PDFPen, not necessarily in that order.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:14:26 +0000

Hello Pete
I just switched to mac from windows. I used to use Paperport and have been working with Devonthink Pro. It is great for document management but there are a few features I miss from Paperport. For example, I used PaperPort to fill in forms — a replacement for the typewriter. Does DevonThink have such capacity? The annotation features appear to just print notes etc. on screen but not to actually fill in a form, such as an EEOC charge form. Or is there something cool in mac (I have snowleopard)? Thanks!

By: Mike Hopkins

Mike Hopkins — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:30:00 +0000

I’m a litigation attorney in Wisconsin and a recent (6 mo) Mac convert. Safari recently updated to v 5.1.2. and now I can’t get documents on Pacer to open as pdfs – they’re embedded in the web page. PDfs from other sites seen to open just fine. Any thoughts?

By: pete

pete — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:39:03 +0000

Sorry for the belated reply. DevonTHINK Pro is definitely the way to go for large document collections. Leave the docs in whatever file/folder structure you normally have on your computer and use the ‘index’ feature of Devon to index all those documents in place. The ability to tag, replicate to other folders and copy links to individual/discrete pages in a multipage PDF are key to analyzing any large document collection which contains multi page PDF files.

By: Deepak

Deepak — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:15:54 +0000

I am a criminal lawyer in Toronto. I follow your MacLitigator site as I am all Mac in my practice. Quick question. I am starting a murder trial in a few weeks. The disclosure is on 150 CDs with thousands of pages of PDF documents. I am currently using Circus Ponies as my trial book. But I want to analyze the documents – what is the best replacement for Casemap – MacJournal or DevonThink Pro. I read your earlier reviews on both – once you said MacJournal is replacing Jourlner, then a later article said DevonThink Pro is the ultimate replacement for Casemap. What is your recommendation. Thanks for your help.

By: pete

pete — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:40:39 +0000

Stan:

(1) Yes, still using DEVONthink Pro. Yes, still recommended for tagging and analyzing large cases.
(2) I use a weird combination of BusyCal, OmniFocus and Bento. BusyCal handles day to day calendaring of appointments. OmniFocus handles task management with separate projects for each client-matter. Bento also gets a separate entry for each client-matter and is used to track non-essential, long view statistics/info.

I have demoed both Rocket Matters and Clio and, back in the Windows days, used Amicus extensively. Since our firm works on contingency, we rarely track billable hours and don’t need those features. If our firm grew in size, Clio or Rocket Matters might be useful. But to date we get by just fine without the added expense.

By: Stan

Stan — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:04:51 +0000

Pete,

Two questions, I read your post recommending DevonThink Pro. Are you still using it and recommending it?

Second, what software do you use for overall case management for tracking contacts related to a case, deadlines, workflow, todos related to a case, the status of discovery and investigation of issues? (I’m thinking of softwars along the lines of Amicus, Rocket Matters, Clio, etc)

Thanks,

Stan

By: Kim Trout

Kim Trout — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:20:03 +0000

Pete,
I’ve worked a bit with iAnnotate and love it……but can’t seem to figure out the feature you describe of showing one ‘tab’ while viewing ‘another tab’…….can you share the ‘trick’?

Many thanks,

kim

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