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DEVONthink Field Guide Early Bird Pricing Ends Tomorrow

Folks are digging my new DEVONthink Field Guide. Here’s just one of the nice testimonials I’ve received:

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“I wish I’d had this MacSparky Field Guide when I first started using DT 8 months ago; it would have saved me hours of reading manuals, watching videos, and reading blog posts to try to figure out how to use DevonThink. In his typical thorough and logical manner, David takes you by the hand and leads you step-by-step through everything you need to know to get the most out of DevonThink. Excellent, and a steal for the value!”
— Jim E.

Tomorrow the early bird price of $44 is going up so if you want that discounted price, now’s the time.

Announcing the DEVONthink Field Guide

Hooray! The DEVONthink Field Guide lives! I first started work on this Field Guide in April. Now it’s ready for you.




The Details

  • DEVONthink secrets unlocked

  • 8.5 hours

  • 100+ videos

  • Over 9 gigabytes of video files

  • PDF and ePub transcripts

  • Downloadable data sets

  • Fully captioned

  • Combined videos for easier download

  • Six video interviews with DEVONthink power users where they explain how they use the app

  • Everything you need to take you from a DEVONthink novice to expert

The DEVONthink Field Guide teaches you, soup to nuts, how take advantage of one of the most powerful research / artificial intelligence / do-anything-with-your-files apps available for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. With 8.5 hours of content, the course starts from zero and, by the end, turns you into a DEVONthink pro. The material is accessible to beginners and power users alike, with a thorough explanation of DEVONthink and all its features.

I’ve continued to press down on the production values button, and these videos came out great. Also, there are 2 gigabytes of data for you to download to build a sample database as you are learning the app. To truly understand DEVONthink, you’ve got to throw some data at it.

DEVONthink is a powerful application, and I built this field guide to help you get the most from it. There is a limited time launch discount, so get it now.

Field Guide Price Increase Starts Next Week

I’ve decided to raise the price of the MacSparky Field Guides starting next week to $49. There are a few reasons why I’m doing this.

First, I Think They are Worth It

I pour a ton of effort into the Field Guides. Nearly all of them are more than five hours of content with transcripts and downloadable materials included. My goal for every Field Guide is to turn anyone interested in a topic into an expert and give them everything they need to get there. Moreover, many of the Field Guides get ongoing support and free updates for several years. For example, I’m currently working on a free update for the Shortcuts for iPhone and iPad Field guide that will likely result in an hour of additional content for existing customers. This is the second major free update this course will receive.

So, in short, I think they are worth it.

Second, The Field Guides are Expensive to Produce

Every Field Guide I produce requires me to spend over 200 hours of my time and thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses. I’m thrilled with the way the Field Guides have evolved into such a well-produced product. But if I’m to keep making them at this level, I need to charge more.

I hope you understand I did not make this decision lightly. This price increase is to make the business more sustainable so that I can put more time into new titles and updates for existing ones.

The price increase will not start until August 16, so if you’d like to purchase anything before the prices go up, now’s the time.

Thank you for all of your support.

The Hazel Field Guide 2021 Update and Discount



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Over the past several weeks, I’ve been busy recording new screencasts for the Hazel Field Guide. Hazel recently released version 5, which doesn’t make many changes to the way the application works, but lots of changes to the way the application looks. Hazel is now an app, not a system preference.

I decided that it didn’t make sense to make a new edition of the Hazel Field Guide because there isn’t a lot of new features to cover, and it didn’t make sense to charge everyone a second time. So instead, I’ve made a free update with 14 new videos clocking in a little over 30 minutes.

Get the Free Update

If you’ve already purchased the Hazel Field Guide, just log in, and you’ll see a lot of videos with (2021) in the name. Those are the new ones. The captioning and transcripts are still in process and will be uploading over the next few weeks.

Get It on Sale

If you haven’t purchased the Hazel Field Guide, now’s the time. I’ve lowered the price from $29 to $19, but that’s only good for a week. Enjoy.

The Paperless Field Guide



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I’m so pleased to announce the release of the all new Paperless Field Guide. The Paperless Field Guide takes the mystery (and fear) out of going paperless with your Apple technology. The video course includes 95 videos with nearly seven hours of content to turn you into a paperless ninja. The material is accessible to beginners and power users alike, with a thorough explanation of all the hardware, software, and workflows necessary to finally conquer paper.

The course is available now with an introductory price of $24 (the normal price will be $29). I can’t do upgrade pricing on this one because the prior Paperless Field Guide was on a different platform, so I am making it $5 off for everyone. 



Get the Paperless Field Guide

The Paperless Field Guide, by the numbers:

  • Paperless geekery deciphered

  • Nearly seven hours

  • 95 videos

  • Nearly 7G of video files

  • PDF and ePub transcripts

  • Downloadable scripts and shortcuts

  • Fully captioned

  • Combined videos for easier download

This course covers all of the critical components of a successful paperless system on your Mac, iPad, and iPhone.

Capture
Discover how you can capture paper and other digital information with the Mac, iPad, and iPhone. This chapter also demystifies optical character recognition and explains how you can put it to work for you.

Process
Learn how to reliably name, index, and store your paperless documents with various systems and options.

Edit
Now that you have created a paperless workflow, learn how to access, edit, and sign your paperless documents from anywhere on the Mac, iPad, and iPhone.

Sharing
One of the advantages of keeping digital documents is the ease of sharing them. Learn how in this course.

The Paperless Field Guide is broken down into 19 sections and 95 videos. It covers all of the major topics on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac independently, so you can learn to go paperless on your platform of choice or combine the best tools on each platform to build the paperless workflow that’s right for you.

All videos are captioned, and there is an additional ePub and PDF with transcripts of all of the videos. I’m really happy with how the Paperless Field Guide came out. There is a 45 minute sample on the sales page. I hope you dig it.

Field Guide Black Friday Sale

I don’t often run sales on the MacSparky Field Guides. Instead, I price the courses so, in my opinion at least, they are always good values. Nevertheless, I decided this year to make an exception. Through this weekend only, all of the MacSparky Field Guides are $10 off. That’s the biggest discount I’ve ever offered. So if you’d like to get better at something nerdy on your Mac or iPhone, now’s the time to jump on board. To get the discount, just scroll to the bottom of any course (or press the enroll button at the top) and select the Black Friday discount price before check out.