I connected the AI to DevonThink to sort and tag my old documents

He connected the AI to DevonThink, the app where he keeps his documents. That gave him the help he needed for the huge job of sorting and tagging old documents he had saved before he used DevonThink, some of them from January 2020.

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How it works

Connects the AI to DevonThink
The AI helps sort and tag his old documents
Old items from as far back as January 2020 come back up

Why it’s worth knowing

Once the AI could reach into DevonThink, a document pile he had put off for years became a job he could actually start.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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