Module & Scanner for local search (spotlight)

[gsgmx2]

I think it would be quite handy to have a module & scanner for a local search too.

I would create a combined search for the web and local documents together.

An example might show the benefits of this approach.
Today I had to find out some advanced information about a special barcode workflow to be implemented. I was sure I would find some relevant information in my file system , some in my mails, some in some DevonThink DBs and some in the web. All together in one DevonAgent search would be a lot easier to handle.
This setup could be improved further if there would be a scanner which compares the URLs of the DT or filesystem docs and compares these to the results from other scan modules and shows equivalence or differences.

[cgrunenberg]

@gsgmx2

Today I had to find out some advanced information about a special barcode workflow to be implemented. I was sure I would find some relevant information in my file system , some in my mails, some in some DevonThink DBs and some in the web. All together in one DevonAgent search would be a lot easier to handle.

Thank you for the suggestion, we’ll consider this for future releases. But there’s already a workaround:

1. Index your local documents & archive your emails in DEVONthink Pro Office
2. Enable DEVONthink Pro Office’s web server
3. Create a new search set, add the desired Internet sources (e.g. Google or Bing) and Browser > DEVONthink Pro Office to the search set