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What is XMenu?

July 2, 2024

XMenu's preferences window.

For many people, our freeware utility XMenu is a must-have on their Macs, an app launcher and snippet library always available from the menu bar. For anyone unfamiliar with it, here’s a brief introduction to it. (more)

How to Use the Links Inspector

June 25, 2024

Screenshot showing DEVONthink's document links inspector displaying links in a selected document.

Various types of documents can contain links, for example a saved web page, or a note with an URL or an email address. In DEVONthink you don’t have to search your document by hand for them because there is an inspector just for this. Here is, how that works. (more)

SummerFest: Great Apps, Great Prices

June 20, 2024

With a little delay, the warm days of summer have finally arrived. We are enjoying the bright and mild evenings outside, and, for many years now, we get together with friends all over the world and celebrate our traditional SummerFest. Get DEVONthink and DEVONagent Pro for 25% off directly at the workshop gate and have a look at the other SummerFest apps with a similar discount. (more)

Get to Know Your Fellow Users

June 13, 2024

People in a coffee shop.

We are always curious to learn more our users and their fascinating stories. How did they find us and how do they use our software? We already told you some of these user stories in our newsletter, now we have also published them here on our blog so that you can easily find them. (more)

Lyndon Drake’s Road to DPhil

August 24, 2023

Photography of Lyndon Drake wearing his academic dress and holding his certificate of graduation.
Lyndon Drake, happy to receive his second doctorate, this time in Theology from Oxford.

Lyndon Drake received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Theology: Congratulations! We are honored to be part of his journey, since DEVONthink gave him a helping hand with his academic work. Here we share some of his thoughts and tips with you. (more)

All Hands Hoy with DEVONthink

June 14, 2022

Old photograph of Hartmut as a child, paddling on the water with a girl in an aluminum boat.
An aluminum aerial delivery unit left behind by the Americans in 1945 became the ship in which young Hartmut daringly set sail with a companion.

More than 50 ships in 46 years. More than a lifetime of stories and encounters, but also changes. With the digitalization of seafaring, DEVONthink found its way into the life of chief engineer Hartmut Kellner. He takes us on a journey through the adventures of his life. (more)

How to Export a PDF without Annotations

June 18, 2024

Screenshot showing DEVONthink To Go with an Action menu open, including the print command.

When working with a PDF, you may have marked it up with some annotations. If you would now like to share this PDF with someone, you might prefer to have a clean version of the document. Here we show you how to get this in DEVONthink and DEVONthink To Go. (more)

More Key Commands on the iPad

June 11, 2024

Screenshot showing the popup with the overview of the keyboard shortcuts in DEVONthink To Go.

If you’re using an external keyboard with your iPad, you have access to keyboard commands in DEVONthink To Go. Here are a few keyboard shortcuts you may consider useful. (more)

How to Use Global Inbox Aliases

June 4, 2024

Screenshot showing a Finder window with the alias of DEVONthink's Global Inbox.

DEVONthink’s Global Inbox is an ever-present database used as a temporary holding tank for items you’ll late file in other databases. Here is how you can add items to it more efficiently than merely drag and drop. (more)

How to Merge Multiple Images to a PDF

May 28, 2024

Screenshot showing the thumbnails inspector in DEVONthink displaying PDF thumbnails of a PDF document.

Perhaps you have a selection of images that you would like to convert into a single PDF. In DEVONthink, there is a simple tool that does just that. Here is, how it works. (more)