iDocument – Gorgeous Document Management App (+Giveaway!)
When I first heard from the developers about iDocument, I immediately wonder what are the use cases for this.
As I was struggling to keep my eBooks (.pdf format) organized, it is a no brainer that I will be using iDocument to organize my PDF eBooks and magazines!
But of course you can use it to manage and organize any type of documents.
eBooks has been gaining traction especially this year right after the announcement of the iPad. So I guess IcyBlaze, the developers of iDocument released the app at the right time.
User Interface
The awesome UI and straightforwardness really make iDocument stand out. In the screenshot above, you’re looking at documents that I grouped under “Ebooks”.
The screenshot below are documents under the category, “Magazine” that I created.
Smart Folders
Smart folders are the best way to give flexibility to the user. Using smart folders, I created one that says “Reading List”. The smart folder will put every document that was “flagged” into itself.
When I finish reading an eBook or a magazine, I will “unflag” the document to take it off my reading list.
Depending on your needs, there are plenty of other ways you can use smart folders.
Quick Look
With Mac OS X’s quick look support, you don’t have to launch the document to read it. Just hit the spacebar and the HUD window will popup, showing you the contents of that document.
Rate Documents
Rate your documents from one to five stars. You can create a smart folder out of the number of ratings too. Say you’ve downloaded a number of eBooks and rated the most popular one 5 stars. Using smart folders to filter these eBooks by rating lets you find the best eBooks quickly.
Sharing via Bonjour
If you have others working in the same place with you and would like to access your documents, this feature will come in handy. Useful too if you have multiple Macs and wish to access these documents from another workstation.
You can share documents at a document level. Meaning, you can select which document you want to share.
Sharing via Slideshare & Email
To share documents with the rest of the world, Slideshare and email sharing is supported. They are accessible via one click at the bottom right of the screen, much like how Facebook and Flickr sharing works in iPhoto.
Conclusion
Basically, if you’ve used iPhoto, iTunes, LittleSnapper or Fontcase before, iDocument will be no stranger to you.
I particularly love just how everything works.
There is certainly a hole to be filled in the market of document management apps, iDocument executed it well and filled that void.
An iPhone app for iDocument is underway. I can’t wait to see how it pans out.
To manage music, there is iTunes, to manage fonts, there is Fontcase, to manage graphics, there is LittleSnapper, to manage documents, there is iDocument. I hope you see the pattern. :)
Price
iDocument originally cost $49.95, but you can get yours now at $34.95. There is no word how long this is going to last, so be sure to grab it quick if you think iDocument can help you get more organized with your documents. But if you want it free, we have 2 x free licenses to giveaway!
Giveaway
Yes, 2 x free iDocument licenses to giveaway!
Just write in the comments how you will use iDocument if you win it.
Go on! :)
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I have so many document files, anything that helps me organize those is a welcome!
Would be an easy and effective way to sort the hundreds of documents (spread across various folders!) on my Mac! Hope I get a free license! :)
I’d be able to scan bills and receipts to managed them in a more comfortable way with iDocument. It looks to be a really cool app and yet I haven’t found anything on the Mac that could do the job. :)
I have many ebooks. I try to organize them in the Finder but with iDocument it would be more easy and more powerful.
I’m an undergrad law student and this will certainly come in handy for arranging all my cases and reference materials.
Oh gawd!. I’ve been trying for days this app and I’m going to love it! I’ll get an omikuji…
I’ve been looking for something to organize my documents! They are a mess. I tried yojimbo and together, I didn’t like them. Now I’m trying iDocument and still in trail period, really love how it’s so similar to iPhoto!!
This would be wonderful for a student who has many assignments and projects, where a quick glance gets you working quickly on what needs attention… I love apps like this!
I use Leap at the moment to organize my documents. This looks like a good alternative to help me manage the endless list of articles and researh documents that I store everyday.
Does this app do well with large libraries?
A lot of documents to manage… all in a HUGE folder named “PDF”…. iDocument seem perfect for me!
I have tons of research papers and user manuals for which this would work really well. I hope to get a chance to try it out. Thanks for the review.
I’ve switched only few months ago, and now I want to manage everything in a mac-way!
iDocumenti is so …. mac :-) With it I can manage all my magazines and newspapers scanned pages in a perfect os x compliant wat
I would like to use iDocument to create folders so i can easily preview, search and tag my documents in an organised manner. I also like the neat UI and the common doc sharing capabilities of iDocument. I could really use this app and hope to win a license. Thanks.
I am studying for my Apple ACSA and have plenty of eBooks about networking, development, hw, sw and yes, this app would be just amazing to manage those!
:)
so many files on my mac need the idocument to organize them
Would kill for such an app, so useful finding long forgotten files!
what a eye candy app and i am going to collect them all. my precious eye candy mac apps. it’s one of the reason i love Mac over Windows. You see so many eye candy apps on Mac.
It will save me SO much time, when I try to find that one file I can’t remember where I put.
An app that definitely helps putting some order to the clutter of my desktop
OMG, great app! I usually have one thousand pdfs open at the same time, just to go back and forth. Really love the preview feature!
Amazing app, very sexy interface
I’m a web developer who is too a college student as an English major. Too often I mix up files between my work and my college papers. A thousand times I download over thirty PDFs (academic articles) and lose a couple as I progress through my papers. I’ve been trying to keep up a neat portfolio but that always called for more work than was necessary — this application definitely will allow me to facilitate such tasks with far more easiness. I’m going into graduate school soon and this definitely will make me a better researcher.
I am just starting a career as an Attorney and I would use iDocuments to organize case files, briefs and other legal docs so this great app would be so useful to me
Hello,
Running my retail company i’ve decided to go “paper-free”.
Just bought a destroyer and i am loving to put everything in it after i scanned.
I tried iDocument and i loved it so i am ready to make it the center of my electronic office setup.
So choose me i am ready.
Thank U
geez… at long last an app that seriously looks like it will be able to make sense of the lousy file organisation i have at the moment !!!
As a graduate student in the humanities, collecting tons of pdfs, this will be a fantastic app!!
I am an insurance adjuster, and deal with and produce dozens of PDF files a day, Presently they are thrown onto an external drive, and I hope that I can find them later if I need to, being able to tag and search PDF files would help tons.
Please tell me they are going to do an iPad version…with sync to the desktop version. That would rock my world. :-)
Nice! I really would use one of those to organize all my research for my masters degree. If an iPhone/iPad version is ever going to be released, that would be great!
Btw: I want in in the giveaway!
Count me in
If I won an iDocument license, I’d use it to organize my books in .pdf format, magazines, some important documents relating to bank accounts and similar stuff, and slides for my college presentations.
Well, first and foremost the UI design is great and I find I am more likely to use an app if its UI is well refined like this one is.
On top of that using the Finder to organise your documents isn’t good at all, in fact it’s a mess! so having something like iDocument would be awesome as I’d be able to keep better track of my documents and files and e-books (which I have many!).
This would really help me to organize my school notes. I’ve tried schoolhouse and together..but both are not satisfying…the iPhoto like interface is truely amazing!!!
I have a dream of a “paperless” office and I’m on a huge PDF scanning spree lately to get closer to that goal, but the huge “documents” folder I am quickly filling up gets harder and harder to manage. If I won a license of iDocument, I’d use it to make my paperless office reality! :)
I would love to make managing my documents even easier! It’s really hard to manage everything in Finder..
I would use iDocument to organize my PDF files from daily course lectures as well as my lab resources. I’m in class 8 hours a day… needless to say, a lot of documents are generated!
Here’s to hoping I win a license :)
As a beta tester for software from Google, Autodesk, and Rhino, I am on the cusp of technology and software. I love the idea of having a file interface that is consistent and I would welcome the addition of this software in my library of applications and could provide similar services of beta testing and can help spread the word of the programs greatness!!!!
I have a lot of documents to manage. I would use it first on my MRI protocols and documents.
i’m just getting old and paperwork is harder to manage. i’ve just took a look at iDocument and already i can see that time will be saved by better organizing and managing all my different types of documents.
I actually own this software already and it’s no use to me as it doesn’t use openmeta tagging so other apps or spotlight don’t pick up on the tags. For this reason alone, what could have been an amazing app, it’s just pointless. I’m not retagging everything that I did before or after if it didn’t work out.
Is the chance still valid?
I want to have this app. as I have a lot of Documents to be managed.
Majdijm: This giveaway is more than one year old.