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Elaine Giles' DEVONthink 3 Series

October 5, 2020

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Elaine Giles, an IT consultant based in Manchester, UK, has made all the screencasts that she produced for MacBites After Hours available for free on YouTube. You don’t want to miss this great collection of tutorials. (more)

DEVONthink 3 Ebook Version 1.3

August 17, 2020

Joe Kissell has released the third update for the Take Control of DEVONthink 3 ebook. Download the latest version for free from our Handbooks and Extras page. (more)

New Book: Taking Smart Notes

May 27, 2020

Kourosh Dini, author of the excellent book Creating Flow with OmniFocus 3, has just released a brand new book: Taking Smart Notes with DEVONthink. Learn the basics of DEVONthink, build databases with the Zettelkasten method, and automate your workflows with scripts and macros that come with the book. (more)

Learning Resources in One Place

February 18, 2020

We have created our products as powerful tools but we also know that they can have quite a learning curve. The Learning category in our blog bundles all posts dealing with courses, books, and other learning materials. We’ve even added it as menu option to the Support main menu of our website now. (more)

DEVONthink for Historians

February 11, 2020

Avigail Oren and Ada Barlatt have created a row of online courses that explain how historians and researchers can squeeze the best out of using DEVONthink for their work. The courses also come with custom templates and scripts that take the pain out of managing citations with DEVONthink and your favorite reference manager. (more)

DEVONthink 3 Ebook Updated

January 15, 2020

Joe Kissell has just released the first update for his excellent Take Control of DEVONthink 3 ebook. Download the latest version for free from our Handbooks and Extras page. (more)

DEVONthink at ScreenCastsOnline

December 3, 2019

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The great folks at ScreenCastsOnline have kicked off a three-episode series of foundation screencasts on DEVONthink 3. Learn how to install the app, build databases, and how populate them from various sources in the first episode. (more)

Take Control of DEVONthink 3

October 11, 2019

When we released DEVONthink 3 we told you that an updated edition of Joe Kissell’s popular ebook Take Control of Getting Started with DEVONthink would be in the works and that we’d make it available for free. (more)

Get Started with Tutorials and Help Files

December 10, 2013

DEVONthink and DEVONagent are extremely feature-rich and deep applications, harder to master than, say, a simple to-do list app. But they come with an extensive documentation and many slideshow and video tutorials for many everyday tasks from ‘How to set up a first database’ to ‘How to use DEVONthink in a team’. We explain, e.g., the various options for sharing your knowledge, show you the pros and cons of importing vs. indexing, and give valuable tips. (more)