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How to Take Notes in DEVONthink

March 9, 2021

Taking notes in DEVONthink with the Sorter.

Taking notes is a common activity in today’s information-intensive world. This need often leads to having many different applications to create different file types. While DEVONthink is an information manager at its core, it also has the ability to create a few document types suitable for note-taking. (more)

How to Quickly Take Multiple Photos

March 2, 2021

In DEVONthink To Go, you can create a new image in a database with the New Document Assistant button in the bottom toolbar. This works great for a one-off image, here and there. But what if you wanted to take and add a series of images in a row? A Shortcut may help. (more)

How to Customize the Toolbar

February 16, 2021

Window with toolbar options

As with any good macOS application, the toolbar at the top of any window in DEVONthink presents information at-a-glance and buttons for some common commands. Perhaps you often add rich text files to your databases. Or maybe you prefer to press a button to group and ungroup files. Here’s how to customize the toolbar to your own needs. (more)

DEVONthink To Go 3.0

February 10, 2021

After the release of DEVONthink 3 for Mac and subsequent updates, which consumed quite a part of our energy for a while, we used the last few months to work on its mobile companion. Today we’re releasing DEVONthink To Go 3.0 as a new app with many new features and improvements as well as a modernized code base. (more)

DEVONthink 3.6.2

February 10, 2021

Screenshot showing opening screen of DEVONthink.

What would be CloudKit sync support in DEVONthink To Go 3.0 without its Mac counterpart? Say hello to DEVONthink 3.6.2 for Mac. Also in the box: extensive support for CriticMarkup, Mermaid.js, and a new app icon designed for macOS Big Sur. (more)

How to Use Favorites in DEVONthink

February 2, 2021

Favorites in the Sorter

DEVONthink has a special section named Favorites in the Navigate sidebar. This is a place you can put commonly used items for quicker access. It also has ties in with the Sorter for quick drag-and-drop to commonly used groups. Here is how to work with and use the Favorites. (more)

We Wish You Wonderful Holidays

December 24, 2020

We wish everyone of you a peaceful time, wherever in the world you are and whatever you believe in. Have a good start into a hopefully positively less special 2021. (more)

How to Use Placeholders

January 12, 2021

Placeholders used in a template

In DEVONthink, placeholders are specialized strings that resolve specific values on demand. They can be used to dynamically add data to documents generated via templates or file items in locations based on dates. Here are some ways placeholders are used. (more)

Join Us for WinterFest

December 17, 2020

Snowflake

WinterFest is the time when we come virtually together with other, like-minded software manufacturers. Buy DEVONthink or DEVONagent Pro for 25% off directly at the workshop gate and have a look at the other WinterFest apps with a similar discount. (more)

Christmas Updates

December 15, 2020

Screenshot showing the DEVONagent Pro See Also inspector pane

With the new Apple Silicon Macs bringing great speed paired with long battery life it’s time for us to update more of our products for Apple’s great new architecture. Here’s some news for DEVONagent, DEVONsphere Express, and EasyFind. We are also updating DEVONthink To Go with bug fixes and preparations for the arrival of version 3.0. (more)