First, let me say … DEVONthink 3!! Woo hoo!! Wonderful news, and I’m happy the wait is over.
I’ve only been playing with it for a short time, and I like what I see. Of course, this being the Internet, here a few things I’m still looking for:
Color syntax coding for multiple languages, although I’m looking mainly for markdown coding like you see in an app like Ulysses.
Text themes (text color, background color, but ties in with syntax coding, etc.) like you see in in a lot of text editors (e.g., SublimeText, Atom).
It would also be nice if the text width could be controlled in the regular app view (not full screen). Having the text be as wide as the bottom preview window simply makes the lines too long when, in the default view, I have the app window wide enough to make the top list view usable.
Over the past few years, I’ve moved to plain text for most of my writing, and I’ve gotten used to apps like Ulysses, Bear, IA Writer, SublimeText, and some others where their display of plain text is both functional and pretty. I want to be able to view text in DEVONthink that looks as nice.
Also re aesthetics: Could the folder/file list spacing be opened up to the same spacing as the sidebar? The sidebar is easy to read, but the list is overly dense.
As dougray has posted: I’d hope for the ability to constrain text width to a certain number of characters, so that it forms a column in the middle of the window, or to have customisable margins of white space at the edges of a window. I’d prefer the former - it means that when you open a text window, text will flow in the same way every time.
BBEdit’s “Editor Defaults” preferences would be perfect
On the style I have created when entering text, I have narrowed the left and right hand side margins for easier reading in display. I agree though, it should ideally be a user default setting.
