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Where to Find More About AI?

June 17, 2025

The image shows a book-page-like background with the words

“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)

How to Create Images in DEVONthink

May 27, 2025

Screenshot showing DEVONthink's Chat popover. The Chat contains a prompt requesting an image of a Portuguese cathedral, with the generated image displayed below.

There are times when an image would be useful to illustrate something, or just something creatively fun to explore. If you have the Pro or Server edition of DEVONthink and an API key for an AI provider, you can create images directly in DEVONthink. Here is what you need to know. (more)

Using Local AI in DEVONthink?

May 12, 2025

Screenshot showing the AI section of DEVONthink's settings.

When it comes to AI in DEVONthink 4, questions of privacy and cost usually come up. In addition to the large commercial products, there also are smaller models that you can install and run locally on your Mac and use in DEVONthink. Here we show you these options. (more)

How to Get an API Key for AI

May 6, 2025

Screenshot showing a window of Anthropic’s Claude application with a request about API access.

In DEVONthink 4, you can use an external AI model like Claude or ChatGPT, e.g., to ask questions about your documents or generate images. For that you need an API key. But what is this and where can you get one? (more)

We Say Hello from Cupertino

October 30, 2024

Graphic from Apple's announcement video for the new iMacs. The graphic shows the icons of various applications that support Apple's systemwide writing tools, including DEVONthink.

Apple presented their new iMacs this week and we made it into the presentation! If you take a careful look at the video, you can spot the DEVONthink icon. But what could this be about? (more)

The Most Human Human

December 28, 2011

Still nothing to read during the holidays? If you are interested in artificial intelligence, the Turing Test, and chatbots and would like to read something that makes you think have a look at Brian Christian’s ”The Most Human Human”. Here’s what Laura Miller says about it in her article, Can Computers Truly Think?: … (more)

Exclude Items from Classification

April 3, 2012

Last week we explained why one could want to exclude groups or even whole databases from tagging in DEVONthink or DEVONnote. In addition both groups and documents can be individually excluded from classification, see-also, and search. Nice, but why would you do such a thing? (more)

Artificial Intelligence at Work

February 11, 2011

We’re working with high-class artificial intelligence (AI) technology now for quite a while and still it sometimes manages to surprise us with exciting results. In our recent tests with DEVONagent it came up with the following really cool topic map: … (more)