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How to Get Instapaper as RSS

July 18, 2023

Screenshot showing Instapaper's website and a contextual menu.

If you are using Instapaper for gathering resources in an online archive, there isn’t a built-in RSS feed available. If you’d like to have a feed adding these articles to your DEVONthink database, here is a simple way to accomplish this. (more)

DEVONthink To Go 3.7.3

July 18, 2023

Screenshot showing DEVONthink To Go's context menu with the new Merge Groups command.

This update lets you merge groups and tags, share groups via the Share sheet and search for aliases. A new command moves all instances of an item to the trash, and tags in the Info popover have a context menu, e.g., to reveal them. (more)

How to Get Metadata from Crossref

July 11, 2023

Screenshot showing the Info inspector with some metadata in DEVONthink.

DEVONthink is a good place to keep your literature, because you can add a lot of bibliographic data as metadata. One source for such data is Crossref, and with a script you can easily import metadata from there to DEVONthink. Here is how that works. (more)

DEVONthink 3.9.2

July 6, 2023

Screenshot of the Clip to DEVONthink menulet.

Today’s maintenance release of DEVONthink for Mac comes with an improved clutter-free web capture option, better detection of defective PDFs, an updated OCR engine, and more. (more)

How to Use Default Smart Groups

July 4, 2023

Screenshot showing DEVONthink's smart group criteria editor.

Similar to the Finder’s saved searches, DEVONthink’s smart groups display items that match criteria you define. Besides the possibility to build your own smart groups, there are also a few default ones in DEVONthink. Here’s what they are. (more)

All Things Apple

June 27, 2023

Screenshot showing the Mactracker interface.

We are big fans of utility applications that excel at a certain function, apps that do one thing exceptionally well. Whether you’re shopping for hardware or just an Apple enthusiast, you should check out Mactracker. (more)

DEVONthink's Automation Options

June 20, 2023

Screenshot showing batch processing and script code in DEVONthink.

The beauty of the paperless office is that you can automate workflows. But maybe you are not familiar with all the capabilities of automation in DEVONthink or don’t know when which one makes sense? Here are the main options and when it’s best to use each. (more)

Creating Documents in DEVONthink

June 16, 2023

Screenshot showing the new tutorial in DEVONthink's support assistent.

In DEVONthink you cannot only manage, but also create different kinds of documents, e.g., for note taking. Plain text, Markdown or even sheets for tabular data. To show you what types of documents you can create and how that works, we have prepared a tutorial for you. (more)

How to Use WikiLinks

June 13, 2023

Screenshot showing the WikiLink preferences in DEVONthink To Go.

WikiLinks are one of many ways of making connections between documents and items in DEVONthink and DEVONthink To Go, turning your database into its own wiki. Here is how to use them. (more)