Why-o-ever it may happen, databases can go corrupt. Be it a damaged file system, a system hang, or, Heaven forbid!, a DEVONthink crash. But, no reason to panic. First, run Tools > Verify & Repair. If DEVONthink cannot repair the database or if you are sure that you’ve lost some data, it’s time for the internal backups. By default, DEVONthink keeps two internal backups of the database index files that you can revert to at any time. (more)

Innowen from DIY Planner has published a nice review of DEVONthink Pro. She nicely describes how she uses DEVONthink but does also mention the downfalls for her. Here’s her conclusion:

That said, if you need an excellent all-in-one research assistant/personal information manager on your Macintosh system, then DEVONthink is the one for you. It’s fast, reliable, is able to index, cross-reference, search, handles almost all file formats natively and makes coffee for you in the morning (okay, it doesn’t… but DTPro could do that if it wanted to) … (more)

This blog is named “The Balcony” and so it’s time to publish a new picture from our lovely town, now that summer is here — in April! See yourself. Not taken from our balcony itself but a nice view on our town center, less than three minutes away from here. (more)

Share-It, our online sales agent, has now added PayPal to the available payment options. So if you prefer using PayPal when ordering in our online shop, you can now do so.

With Bookends 9.2 it’s now possible to create links from DEVONthink to an entry in Bookends. Simply drag an ID number of a reference into a rich text document. This creates a special URL that opens the corresponding Bookends reference when clicked. In addition, you can drag the ID into DEVONthink’s groups and documents list which the creates a link document for the reference. DEVONthink Pro Office 1.3.1, DEVONthink Pro 1.3.1, and DEVONthink Personal 1.9.9 add special support for this and name the link document automatically.

No Tuesday Tip, but a Wednesday Announcement. We’re proud to tell you that we’ve agreed with the German capture software manufacturer ExactScan to work closer together. Their ExactScan software allows you to connect one of the fast Avision scanners to your Mac and feed scanned documents directly into DEVONthink Pro Office. Just as we already did with the Fujitsu ScanSnap. Avision makes low-end to high-end auto-feeder scanners with scan speeds of up to 100 pages (50 sheets) per minute. So if you’re into serious paper capture, check them out.

We’re not present personally at CeBIT, the world’s largest IT and communications event, held in Hannover, Germany, but Avision is demoing DEVONthink Pro Office at their booth together with one of their high-end document scanners. Come and visit our new friends from Avision in Hannover, hall 1, booth C02!

Just a quick note that we have just released DEVONthink Pro Office 1.3 (and DEVONthink Pro 1.3) as a final! Finally, after an extensive public beta test, we now declare it officially as read for prime time.

A less well-known keyboard shortcut that works in nearly every Mac OS X application including DEVONthink is Alt-Tab. It switches forward through all panes of the frontmost window. In DEVONthink Pro’s Three Panes view, for example, from: groups to documents to the view/edit pane and back to groups.

For most people who are like us, being without a computer and Internet access, is unthinkable. We are already getting very uneasy when our DSL line is dead for one, two hours. Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer? To be honest, I think I can. And so I have just signed up for Shutdown Day. Can you, too?