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September 24, 2024

How to Save Your Browser Tabs

Screenshot showing a DEVONthink window with some saved links in the background and a browser window with an open web page in the foreground.

In our browsers, many tabs tend to accumulate, as most of us are certainly familiar with. Perhaps you would like to preserve some of these tabs, e.g., when you are doing a research? For that, we have a DEVONthink script available to file tabs from Safari or Google Chrome. (more)

September 19, 2024

Eighteen Happy Children

Illustration of five human hands of different colors hands-over-hands in a circle.

Last year, we were once again able to support the organization Deutsche Cleft Kinderhilfe (German Cleft Children’s Relief) financially and cover the costs of eighteen surgeries. We have now received the news that all the treatments were successful. (more)

September 17, 2024

How to Unencrypt a Database

Screenshot showing a Finder window. The Finder window contains the open disk image of an encrypted database, as described in the post. The disk image contains a regular database file.

DEVONthink’s encrypted databases are useful for keeping your private data, e.g., financial or health records, though they can be used for any purpose. If you decide you don’t need a particular database to be encrypted, here’s how you can unencrypt it. (more)

September 10, 2024

Search Multiple Locations in EasyFind

Screenshot showing multiple EasyFind windows open with searches in different locations.

EasyFind lets you search every corner of your Mac for files and folders that Spotlight might not find. Perhaps you need to run the same search on multiple locations and don’t want to reconfigure the search each time? We show you a workflow for that. (more)

September 3, 2024

Using Compressed Files in DEVONthink

Screenshot of Archive Utility's settings, set to decompress to the downloads folder.

A DEVONthink database can contain many different types of files including ZIP archives. But is this a good idea? We explore how to deal with compressed files in your databases. (more)

August 29, 2024

Welcome Back to School

Part of studying and teaching means: organizing knowledge. Taking notes, doing research, creating and managing documents. Our apps help you do just that. For a relaxed start into the new term, here’s a 40 percent discount, only until September 15th, 2024. (more)

August 26, 2024

Neo Network Utility 1.1

Screenshot of the Neo Network Utility main window and the settings window with the new IPv6 option.

Last month we released our little Neo Network Utility, bringing you some simple network diagnostics in a nice interface. Today we’re updating it to version 1.1 with IPv6 support, many quality-of-life enhancements, and bug fixes. (more)

August 20, 2024

How to Reuse Groups and Tags

Screenshot showing nested tag groups in DEVONthink. Two of these groups are selected to exemplify the script we discuss in the blog post.

If you have groups or tags in a DEVONthink database and want to use them in another, you may have tried copying them. But this also duplicates the documents. We have a script for you to duplicate only selected groups or tags, leaving their documents behind. (more)

August 13, 2024

How to Capture Frequently Visited Websites

Screenshot showing a group in DEVONthink with several subgroups, containing financial records and a web location.

We receive probably most of the information that we want to save in DEVONthink online, via a web browser. If you regularly capture content from the same website, there is a workflow that makes this easier and more productive. We show you, how it works. (more)