At the risk of flogging the subject to death, I thought I would do a quick check of my DEVONthink databases and post the information. There seem to be fourteen of them, containing a total of 65.75 million words. The largest is over 47 million words, the next is only 13 million. I thought I would do a search of the whole collection for Napoleon NEAR Josephine (just for a laugh). I got this result, which you can see includes rtfs, emails, pdfs, and an iThoughts mind map – all in half a second (not bad for a search of 65.75 million words, bearing in mind that it was looking for one word only where it appeared within ten words of another word):
