DEVONthink 4 offers comprehensive support for generative AI. This raises the question for some people: Is DEVONthink now an AI application? Here is what we think about this and how it matters to us. (more)

Have you perhaps accidentally trashed a document or was it classified incorrectly? Sometimes a mishap occurs and an item in DEVONthink finds itself in a location where it simply doesn’t belong. For this case, there is a simple command to restore the item to it’s former location. (more)

For many people, color is a useful visual aid in recognition and organization. Starting with DEVONthink 4 Copernicus, we added support for colorizing groups. This can be helpful if you have many groups or if you want to organize them based on certain criteria. Here is how to use the feature. (more)

When organizing your item list in DEVONthink, the long list of options for sorting to choose from can be daunting. There are likely many options you’ve never used or perhaps didn’t know even existed. Here we show you, how to customize and slim down this list. (more)

Exactly twelve weeks after we published the first public beta of the fourth generation of DEVONthink, the beta phase is over and we can finally send DEVONthink 4.0 Copernicus to the stars! Welcome our new generation and its slew of new features and improvements, from the addition of generative AI to versioning, revision-proof databases, a completely rewritten web interface, new automations and much, much more. (more)

If you have audio or video files you’ve downloaded or recorded yourself, the Pro and Server editions of DEVONthink let you use external AI to convert the audio into text. Here is how that works. (more)

“How can I use generative AI effectively?” — “How do I write a good prompt?“ — As people explore accessing external AI in DEVONthink, questions arise about how to use it. Here we show you two helpful resources about using AI. (more)

When doing research and taking notes, it is often helpful to link to specific parts of text in documents, especially PDFs. DEVONthink has two special copy and paste commands that make such linking very fast and effective. (more)

At some point, you have probably worked on a text and created a duplicate to save its current state. For this purpose, DEVONthink offers document versioning. This is a backup mechanism that automatically creates versions of your document when you make edits. Here is a quick introduction to this useful feature. (more)

DEVONthink 4.0 public beta 3 brings support for the latest AI models, separate summarization settings, and the possibility to exclude documents from being accessed by external AI. And that is, of course, by far not all. (more)