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October 8, 2024

How to Clean a Sync Location

Screenshot showing a log window in DEVONthink, reporting a successful cleaning of a sync location.

For some sync-related errors or when needing to modify an encryption key in DEVONthink or DEVONthink To Go, cleaning the sync data may be required. Here we show you, how to properly do this. (more)

October 1, 2024

Understanding the Release Notes

Screenshot of DEVONthink To Go's release notes.

When updating DEVONthink or our other applications, you might want to know what’s new and what we’ve improved? This is what the release notes are for, which we provide with every update to our apps. Here’s what’s in the notes and how they can help you. (more)

September 26, 2024

How to Extend Our Browser Filing Script

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)

September 24, 2024

How to Save Your Browser Tabs

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)

September 19, 2024

Eighteen Happy Children

Illustration of five human hands of different colors hands-over-hands in a circle.

Last year, we were once again able to support the organization Deutsche Cleft Kinderhilfe (German Cleft Children’s Relief) financially and cover the costs of eighteen surgeries. We have now received the news that all the treatments were successful. (more)

September 17, 2024

How to Unencrypt a Database

Screenshot showing a Finder window. The Finder window contains the open disk image of an encrypted database, as described in the post. The disk image contains a regular database file.

DEVONthink’s encrypted databases are useful for keeping your private data, e.g., financial or health records, though they can be used for any purpose. If you decide you don’t need a particular database to be encrypted, here’s how you can unencrypt it. (more)

September 10, 2024

Search Multiple Locations in EasyFind

Screenshot showing multiple EasyFind windows open with searches in different locations.

EasyFind lets you search every corner of your Mac for files and folders that Spotlight might not find. Perhaps you need to run the same search on multiple locations and don’t want to reconfigure the search each time? We show you a workflow for that. (more)

September 3, 2024

Using Compressed Files in DEVONthink

Screenshot of Archive Utility's settings, set to decompress to the downloads folder.

A DEVONthink database can contain many different types of files including ZIP archives. But is this a good idea? We explore how to deal with compressed files in your databases. (more)

August 29, 2024

Welcome Back to School

Part of studying and teaching means: organizing knowledge. Taking notes, doing research, creating and managing documents. Our apps help you do just that. For a relaxed start into the new term, here’s a 40 percent discount, only until September 15th, 2024. (more)