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Stephen Millard's Import Automation

February 13, 2026

Screenshot showing Stephen Millard's blogpost

DEVONthink user Stephen Millard created an automation for importing documents and shared it on his blog. Stephen not only shares the script itself, but also his work process, making it a good example of an automation created through tinkering. (more)

How to Add Favicons to Your Bookmarks

January 13, 2026

Screenshot showing DEVONthink's smart rule editor and in the background some bookmarks with favicons.

Many people store bookmarks in a DEVONthink database. Often these have the generic bookmark icon which makes it more difficult to visually identify the site they’re from. However, with a little automation, you can use the site’s favicon. Here is how. (more)

How to Assign Shortcuts to Scripts

August 5, 2025

Screenshot showing a Finder window with some DEVONthink script files. One script is selected, and its file name contains a keyboard shortcut, as described in the tip.

Is there a script in DEVONthink that you use frequently and would like to have quickly accessible? DEVONthink has a way to set a keyboard shortcut for scripts and templates. Here is how. (more)

Discovering DEVONthink 4: Automation

July 31, 2025

Screenshot showing the batch process pop-up in DEVONthink with some saved configurations.

Automation is a big part of DEVONthink because it helps our users saving valuable time on recurring tasks. With batch processing, smart rules, and scripts, you can create workflows for your specific needs. Here are some of the ways we reworked and expanded automation. (more)

How to Get RSS Notifications

April 23, 2025

Screenshot showing DEVONthink's smart rule editor with the smart rule for rss notifications.

You can use DEVONthink as an RSS reader to subscribe to, read, and archive feeds. Here is a simple way to add notifications when you get new articles. (more)

Using Custom Metadata for Automation

November 3, 2024

Screenshot showing the editor for a smart rule in DEVONthink. In the smart rule, a placeholder for custom metadata is used for a file action, as described in the tip.

Thinking about making your automations in DEVONthink more dynamic using variable values? Combine smart rules or batch processing with metadata you’ve defined yourself. We show you an example how this could work. (more)

How to Extend Our Browser Filing Script

September 26, 2024

Screenshot showing a Finder window, which contains the scripts for Safari, including the script presented here.

There is a script for DEVONthink, that allows you to quickly save your open browser tabs as bookmarks into your database. Here we have a few extra tips on extending the functionality a bit. So for those so inclined to tinker, we hope you enjoy this. (more)

How to Save Your Browser Tabs

September 24, 2024

Screenshot showing a DEVONthink window with some saved links in the background and a browser window with an open web page in the foreground.

In our browsers, many tabs tend to accumulate, as most of us are certainly familiar with. Perhaps you would like to preserve some of these tabs, e.g., when you are doing a research? For that, we have a DEVONthink script available to file tabs from Safari or Google Chrome. (more)

How to Reuse Groups and Tags

August 20, 2024

Screenshot showing nested tag groups in DEVONthink. Two of these groups are selected to exemplify the script we discuss in the blog post.

If you have groups or tags in a DEVONthink database and want to use them in another, you may have tried copying them. But this also duplicates the documents. We have a script for you to duplicate only selected groups or tags, leaving their documents behind. (more)

Understanding Item Links

May 2, 2024

Selection link being made in DEVONthink To Go.

Much of the data we work with is connected in some way. Even if this is an only an implicit connection in our minds, we see relationships between documents. To help tie these documents together, DEVONthink and DEVONthink To Go support document linking. (more)