Very soon, macOS will no longer support Intel Macs. Upgrading hardware is also a good impetus to upgrade DEVONthink. If you’re running the Pro or Pro Office editions of the 2.x line, here is the smoothest migration path to version 4. (more)

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a mechanism that allows AI assistants to communicate with apps to accomplish tasks for you. On macOS Sequoia and later, DEVONthink now has its own MCP support built-in that lets your preferred AI agent access and work with your databases. (more)

If you use custom metadata in DEVONthink Pro and Server or DEVONthink To Go, you’ve probably used text-based attributes like Single-Line Text. But have you ever wondered about the various text types and their differences? Here is an overview. (more)

DEVONthink’s unified elements collect all inboxes and Tags groups from your open databases in one place in the Navigate sidebar, making it easy to find what you need. Here is how to unify different elements in DEVONthink and what that does. (more)

Callouts are a Markdown feature for highlighting tips, notes, or important information as text blocks — familiar from textbooks or online tutorials, for example. DEVONthink To Go also supports them in your Markdown documents. Here is how to use them. (more)

While you’re reading through a PDF or other document in DEVONthink, you may run into words or phrases and wonder what other documents may contain them. You could start a new search, then copy and paste the text, or re-type it. But there is a more efficient method. (more)

iOS widgets are used by many people for little bits of at-a-glance information viewable outside an application. The widgets for DEVONthink To Go let you quickly access your most important data and help you keep updated with your news right from your home screen. Here is how you use them. (more)

If you’ve ever needed to consolidate content from multiple documents into one, you likely have used copy and paste. But if you make edits, they have to be made to all involved files. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could keep the documents separated but show them as a single document? You can with a Markdown feature in DEVONthink: file transclusion. (more)

With DEVONthink’s search, you can precisely search your databases for documents with specific characteristics, like, for example, tags. Many people often use a Tags property for this, but that isn’t optimal. Here’s how to correctly search for this. (more)

In DEVONthink, you can encrypt databases for particularly private or sensitive documents. However, if you accidentally save the key to the macOS keychain, you won’t need to enter it when opening the database. Here’s how to remove the key from the keychain if you don’t want it there. (more)