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How to Organize Emails in DEVONthink

September 29, 2026

Screenshot showing the smart group editor in DEVONthink witch criteria for matching specific emails.

With the Pro or Server edition, you can use DEVONthink to archive and organize your emails in your databases. Emails have certain identifying attributes you can use for processing them with tags, smart groups or smart rules. Here is how that works. (more)

How to Import Contacts Into DEVONthink

October 14, 2025

Screenshot of DEVONthink's contact import dialog window. It shows some contacts and selected properties.

DEVONthink is capable of organizing many types of documents. But it’s also capable of importing information from your contacts, such as email addresses or entire vCards. Here’s how and why you may want to do this. (more)

Discovering DEVONthink 4: Handling Email

August 14, 2025

Screenshot showing the Info Annotations inspector with a reminder set that automatically sends an email with an attachment, as described in the post.

DEVONthink is a place for all types of documents, including emails. In DEVONthink 4, we’ve improved email importing capabilities and the archiving of attachments, and there are new options for automated email sending. Here is what’s new and improved in email handling. (more)

How to Import Email Attachments

February 20, 2024

Screenshot showing the global scripts menu with scripts for DEVONthink in Apple Mail.

The Pro and Server editions of DEVONthink allow you to import and search for email. Messages with attachments are imported as one document, just as Apple Mail handles them. But what if you want the attachments separately? Here are a few options. (more)

How to Rebuild an Apple Mail Mailbox

January 23, 2024

Screenshot showing the mailbox Rebuild command in Apple Mail.

If you are dragging and dropping emails from Apple Mail into DEVONthink, you may see a message in our Log window that importing a message failed. Here’s something you can try to resolve the issue. (more)

Handling Email with DEVONthink

October 19, 2023

Screenshot showing the tutorial Handling Email in DEVONthink's support assistant.

DEVONthink Pro and Server let you archive email messages in your databases. Our new tutorial explains how to get messages from your email app into a database and what you can do with email in DEVONthink. (more)

How to Import Copies of Emails

May 30, 2023

Screenshot showing replicated emails in DEVONthink.

Users of the Pro or Server edition of DEVONthink can archive email into their databases. But per database, only one copy of any message. If an email exists in multiple copies in your email account, this can lead to complications. Here is why and how you easily get around it. (more)

How to Import Smart Mailboxes

August 23, 2022

Screenshot showing the smart mailbox editor in Apple Mail.

When it comes to email, most of us will have to admit we have way too much. If you’re an Apple Mail user and need to clean things up, smart mailboxes can help you keep things in order. Here is how you import these smart mailboxes to DEVONthink. (more)

How to Scan and Archive Email

October 1, 2019

As part of the unified interface of DEVONthink 3, some functions are now found in dedicated sidebars instead of opening separate windows. These sidebars are on the left side of every main window you open, and display an icon for each. (more)

Batch Print E-Mail Messages to PDF

January 17, 2017

DEVONthink Pro Office stores email messages in their original formats. If you want to keep your messages in an easier to handle file format one option is to ‘print’ them to PDF and keep the PDF instead. Converting hundreds or even thousands of messages manually is a painful process, however. But, as long as Apple hasn’t killed Mac automation, there’s a solution for this: … (more)