Coeur d’Alene, Idaho – Twelve artisanal software developers and ebook publishers have joined together for a SummerFest of hand-crafted software for writers, designers, and thinkers. For a limited time, customers get 14 productivity applications and selected ebooks for a terrific price. No gimmicks, no silly bundles – just great tools at great prices, direct from the developers:

* Aeon Timeline 2: The timeline tool for creative thinking
* BBEdit: Power tool for text
* Bookends: The reference manager you’ve been looking for
* DEVONthink Pro Office: Document management reinvented
* HoudahSpot: Powerful file search
* Nisus Writer Pro: The powerful word processor for OS X
* PDFpen: Powerful PDF editing
* Scapple: Quickly capture and connect ideas
* Scrivener: Grow your ideas in style
* Storyspace: Serious hypertext narrative
* Take Control Books: The answers that you need now
* Taskpaper: Make lists and get organized
* TextExpander: Type more with less effort
* Tinderbox: The tool for notes
* WriteRoom: Write without distractions

SummerFest assembles many of the best and most interesting tools for writing and research available today. These innovative applications bring recent developments in research in advances in engineering to the desktop, addressing many of the most challenging facets of knowledge work. Tinderbox transforms the notebook, Scrivener rethinks the manuscript, DEVONthink reconstructs the repository: each tool is the work of a small design team or a passionate designer, bringing unique, ambitious craftsmanship to a field too often dominated by corporate blandness.

“Our customers love to create something new. And for this, they collect, organize, structure, delete, note, write, and – finally – perfect. With the apps that we have put together for you in this SummerFest, handcrafted by creators for creators, you can do this without the computer getting in the way of your creativity”, says Eric Bohnisch-Volkmann, President of DEVONtechnologies.

“No matter what craft you’re pursuing, there is no investment more useful, productive, or gratifying than a set of finely crafted tools and trustworthy reference materials”, comments Rich Siegel, founder of Bare Bones Software.

“We’ve published over 120 practical books covering the most important Mac- and iOS-related apps, tasks, and technologies, including titles on DEVONthink, PDFpen, Scrivener, and TextExpander. All these books were created using Nisus Writer Pro, and for the TidBITS side of our business, we rely entirely on BBEdit for writing and editing articles. If you take your text seriously, do yourself a favor and invest in the tools and training that let you focus on the best way to convey your ideas to the world.” – Adam Engst, publisher of Take Control Books.

More information:
Customers find more information about about SummerFest 2016 promotion on the DEVONtechnologies SummerFest page and on the official promotion page. Other participating companies also run their own landing pages accessible from their web sites or blogs.

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DEVONtechnologies LLC creates end-user and server applications for the Mac and iOS platforms that enhance productivity, organization, and user experience with unique artificial intelligence technology. All applications are focused on both ease of use and satisfying the needs of even the most savvy users. The underlying DEVONtechnology is a flexible and versatile foundation that can be used for a large range of purposes from databases, data mining, and information retrieval to human-computer interfaces. DEVONtechnologies LLC was founded 2002 and incorporated 2004, and is today headquartered in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, USA. All Material and Software (C) Copyright 2016 DEVONtechnologies LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh and Mac OS X are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.