With great pleasure I welcome the public beta of DevonThink Pro 2.0, next version of my external brain.

I use a combination of Omnifocus (to plan, schedule and execute my actions) and DevonThink (to keep, organize and classify all my knowledge and information). Omnifocus was released just this year, and combined with the iPhone client application it is the perfect organizer and keeper of everything I do.

DevonThink version 1 is four years old, and even though it doesn't have any real competition as a knowledge and research repository, the age was starting to show. Which makes me very happy for the new version 2, which is very modernized, including a super fast database. And tons of very clever features. But most important to me, tags.

I have shitloads of ideas, articles, research, world domination plans, projects, thoughts and sketches, all stored in DevonThink. Grouping them by the ancient and boring folder structures of computer operating systems, is way to limiting.

With version two, this knowledge can now be tagged and classified automatically by artificial intelligence or manually by me. Which means an item exists not in one specific place, but every place it SHOULD exist. Automatically. I can then approach this data by tags, from any angle, in any combination, and have the system display connections and references to me. When I would like to see all items concering "Ugress" and "web", I just create a smart group for that.

Goodbye, hierarchical folder structures. Hello, fluid and dynamic multidimensionality.