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  • Export Your Data Transparently

    Mar 17, 2009 — Eric Böhnisch-Volkmann

    When you add your documents and clippings to DEVONthink , you’re never locked in. DEVONthink provides you with a variety of export options based on standard file formats , not obscure XML … (more)

  • Your Documents, Up in the Clouds?

    Sep 25, 2008

    There’s a lot of discussion about ‘cloud computing’ and storing your data ‘in the clouds’. Some new applications are based on this paradigm and are either built … (more)

  • An Online Storage Service Worth a Look

    Jan 23, 2008

    Last week I came across an interesting backup and archival solution: JungleDisk . It uses Amazon’s S3 storage and makes it available as a local WebDAV disk. You can use it to make regular or … (more)

  • Copy/Backup Intelligently

    Dec 11, 2007 — Eric Böhnisch-Volkmann

    DEVONthink Pro databases are technically packages, folders that appear like a single file. When you simply copy them to another volume as a backup, the Finder always copies the whole thing. And so … (more)

  • Going Back to a Backup

    May 1, 2007

    Why-o-ever it may happen, databases can go corrupt. Be it a damaged file system, a system hang, or, Heaven forbid!, a DEVONthink crash. But, no reason to panic. First, run Tools > Verify & … (more)

  • Improve Classification

    Jan 16, 2007

    One simple way to improve the Classify feature of DEVONthink is to exclude certain groups and documents from being used for classification. You could, e.g., exclude groups with indexed backup CDs or … (more)

  • Emails to DEVONtech Got Lost

    Oct 23, 2006

    This saturday, the hard drive of my brave MacBook broke. From one second to the next, no warning, no scrating sounds, nothing. Now, it just makes click-click sounds, and I see the “System … (more)