Very soon, macOS will no longer support Intel Macs. Upgrading hardware is also a good impetus to upgrade DEVONthink. If you’re running the Pro or Pro Office editions of the 2.x line, here is the smoothest migration path to version 4. (more)
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a mechanism that allows AI assistants to communicate with apps to accomplish tasks for you. On macOS Sequoia and later, DEVONthink now has its own MCP support built-in that lets your preferred AI agent access and work with your databases. (more)
This feature release brings our own MCP server to Pro and Server users, a bridge from your databases to AI applications like Claude or Codex, built with privacy and security at its core. Version 4.3 also introduces a new Markdown parser, desktop widgets, sweeping AI improvements, and a raft of updated models. (more)
If you use custom metadata in DEVONthink Pro and Server or DEVONthink To Go, you’ve probably used text-based attributes like Single-Line Text. But have you ever wondered about the various text types and their differences? Here is an overview. (more)
DEVONthink’s unified elements collect all inboxes and Tags groups from your open databases in one place in the Navigate sidebar, making it easy to find what you need. Here is how to unify different elements in DEVONthink and what that does. (more)
While you’re reading through a PDF or other document in DEVONthink, you may run into words or phrases and wonder what other documents may contain them. You could start a new search, then copy and paste the text, or re-type it. But there is a more efficient method. (more)
The first feature release for DEVONthink To Go 4 brings home screen widgets, support for RSS and Atom feeds, and a brand-new Markdown parser and renderer. It also improves the editing workflow, adds a search field to the group selector, and lets you edit a document’s geolocation. (more)
If you’ve ever needed to consolidate content from multiple documents into one, you likely have used copy and paste. But if you make edits, they have to be made to all involved files. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could keep the documents separated but show them as a single document? You can with a Markdown feature in DEVONthink: file transclusion. (more)
With DEVONthink’s search, you can precisely search your databases for documents with specific characteristics, like, for example, tags. Many people often use a Tags property for this, but that isn’t optimal. Here’s how to correctly search for this. (more)
Joe Kissell from Take Control Books has updated his free ebook Take Control of DEVONthink 4. It is now up to date with DEVONthink 4.2.2 Cassini and DEVONthink To Go 4.0.6 Kepler. (more)