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DEVONagent overcomes all the shortcomings that make Google & Co. such a pain to use for serious research projects. With more than 130 plug-ins for popular search engines, DEVONagent has scientific databases and research tools, and predefined search sets that you can use right away with amazing results. The application also has a clean, easy-to-use user interface. All this and more make DEVONagent the number one tool for finding information on the web with a Mac.


Why DEVONagent

DEVONagent is much more than just an interface for web search engines; it helps you find, collect, and organize information with a powerful and flexible search architecture. It also has a simple to use built-in archive, and tight integration with DEVONthink. DEVONagent creates summaries, acts as a fast and lean web browser, and shows all items of interest in a separate drawer. DEVONagent is the easiest way to look for information on the web.


DEVONthink Companion

DEVONagent is the perfect extension to your DEVONthink database. With DEVONagent you can save found information directly to your database as plain or rich text, as a web archive, or as a PDF-all with a single click of your mouse. You can then use DEVONthink's intelligence to organize this newly collected data conveniently and quickly.


What You Can Use It For

There are many different ways to use DEVONagent and to integrate it into your workflow. Some examples include:

  • Journalists, who use DEVONthink Personal to collect hot news, and who use copy-and-paste to transfer the summary to the word processing program of their choice. 'See Also' and DEVONagent's intelligent filters also help journalists eliminate junk information and/or duplicate or irrelevant pages on-the-fly.
  • Analysts, who need to stay up-to-date with everything that happens in their industry. With DEVONagent they define their own search sets that return exactly what they're interested in, storing the key information in the integrated archive.
  • Scientists and students, who directly access specialized databases, scan important websites, and receive relevant news via RSS. These users then transfer the most interesting articles as web archive, plain text, RTF, or PDF files into DEVONthink with a single click of the mouse.
  • Lawyers, who wish to stay up-to-date with new laws, precendence setting cases and interpretations, and with their main clients. DEVONagent's scheduler does this automatically, letting the lawyers concentrate on their work, instead of searching the web for information.
  • Home users, who are interested in genealogical research, finding desktop pictures, searching for long-lost friends, or simply using DEVONagent as a high-end interface for Google and MSN Search.

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