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Welcome Back to School

September 1, 2021

Campus life will, maybe, never be what it was before the pandemic. Video courses might, at least partially, replace the need to queue up for overcrowded lectures and you’ll do more of your research online instead of burning the midnight oil at the library. Get our Mac apps with an exclusive 40% discount until September 19th, 2021. If this isn’t the best time in the year to get prepared, then when is? (more)

Hemispheric Views on DEVONthink

September 2, 2021

Logo of the Hemispheric Views podcast.

In their entertaining podcast Hemispheric Views, Andrew Canion, Jason Burk, and Martin Feld talk about all things tech, media, and more. In episode no. 36 Andrew tells his co-hosts why and how he moved back to DEVONthink. (more)

Understanding Tagging

August 31, 2021

An image with added tags in DEVONthink.

One of the methods of organizing data is tagging. Supported by DEVONthink as well as in some other applications, including the Finder, tags can provide contextual relationships between items, either broadly or narrowly defined. Here is a simple way to think about tags. (more)

Avigail Oren and Ada Barlatt

August 24, 2021

Avigail Oren
Avigail started her career by doing history research on U.S. cities but now enjoys learning something new every day in her work for clients.

Avigail Oren and Ada Barlatt created the great DEVONthink for Historians online course. No wonder this caught our attention and we wanted to find out more about how it happened. (more)

Summer Freeware Updates

August 19, 2021

Screenshot of the EasyFind window.

This summer it’s time to update also our freeware tools for Apple Silicon. Here are EasyFind 5.0.2, PhotoStickies 6.0.1, XMenu 1.9.11, CalcService 3.5.1, and WordService 2.8.3, all fully optimized for Apple’s new M-series processors. (more)

How to Change the App Language

August 3, 2021

On the Mac and on iOS apps open in the best available language from the preferred languages order you define in System Preferences or the Settings app. But did you know that you can change this for each app individually? Here’s how. (more)

Summer Updates

July 22, 2021

It’s July already and so time for a round of summer updates. Here are new releases of DEVONagent, DEVONsphere Express, and DEVONthink To Go with improvements and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new. (more)

Understanding DEVONthink Editions

July 13, 2021

DEVONthink menu with starred items.

In our user community and in customer support, we receive reports about certain functions of DEVONthink, e.g., OCR, not working. However, after asking for a bit more detail, it often turns out the person has purchased the wrong edition. Here’s how to check your edition and a few of the specific functions in them. (more)

Integrate Trickster with DEVONthink

July 6, 2021

Trickster and DEVONthink icons connected with a cable.

Our friends at Apparent Software added dedicated integration with DEVONthink to Trickster. Trickster is a little application that lives in the menu bar and lists your recently used files, neatly organized by file type and application. Here’s how the integration works and how you set it up. (more)