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March 21, 2023

How to Share Your Smart Rules

Screenshot showing a list of smart rules in DEVONthink.

Smart rules are a powerful automation tool in DEVONthink, allowing the application to act on matching documents. Used wisely, they can be great allies in the quest to organize your databases. Maybe you want to share a specific rule with someone or install it on another Mac? Here’s how you can easily share smart rules. (more)

March 14, 2023

How to Receive our News via RSS

Screenshot showing a RSS feed in DEVONthink.

A fantastic way to get news in an organized, clear form, and be able to read them in one place, is RSS. We support RSS, too, and provide feeds for our blog and forum, so that you can get news and conversations about us and our products in your feed reader at your convenience. Here is, how that works. (more)

March 9, 2023

Multiple Macs? Today's Your Lucky Day

Illustration of a modern office with multiple people using computers.

Come in and take a seat. Or two. Actually, as many as you need for DEVONthink. This week only, from Thursday, March 9th, to Friday, March 10th, 2023, you can purchase additional seats for 30% less. (more)

March 7, 2023

How to Access our FAQ

Screenshot showing the FAQ opened in Safari.

In customer support, we receive many questions every day on different topics and it is not uncommon for people to ask the same question others have asked before. Therefore we offer another form of support for quick access: a FAQ section on our website. Here you can learn more about it. (more)

March 1, 2023

Early Spring Updates

Screenshot of the DEVONagent search window with the Neeva search engine selected.

DEVONagent 3.11.7 brings integration with Neeva, the Case Law Project, and IEEEXplore. Its scripts and scanners also retrieves more image formats, and the See Also inspector makes better suggestions. DEVONsphere 1.9.7 suggests related websites and adds thumbnails to web search results more reliably. (more)

February 28, 2023

Understanding DEVONthink's Interface

Screenshot of DEVONthink's support assistant, showing a tutorial.

DEVONthink offers a wide range of features and therefore has a complex, multi-layered interface with numerous elements. To avoid stumbling over terminology being used in our forum, handbook, or elsewhere, we created a tutorial. (more)

February 21, 2023

How to Use Equations in Markdown

Screenshot showing some MathJax examples.

Perhaps you like to use Markdown for your notes, but need to write mathematical formulas from time to time. The MathJax extension lets you do exactly that: edit and render documents with terms and equations directly in DEVONthink. Here is, how that works. (more)

February 14, 2023

How to Focus Your Searches

Picture showing the search fields in DEVONthink and DEVONthink To Go.

In a search, your search term can refer to different contexts, such as the name of the document or the content. Using search prefixes in DEVONthink and DEVONthink To Go allows you to focus your searches by narrowing down to the context you’re searching on. Here is how that works. (more)

February 9, 2023

DEVONthink 3.9

Screenshot of DEVONthink showing the context menu with the Copy Selection Link command highlighted.

Our update for DEVONthink for Mac today lets you create deep links for selected text and PDF annotations, search more precisely from the toolbar, and write Markdown in WYSIWYG in the Sorter. We’ve also improved working with annotations and rearranged the inspectors a bit. (more)

February 7, 2023

How to Quickly Open Documents

Screenshot showing the CustomShortcuts menu beneath the Open With submenu in DEVONthink.

We know our applications don’t exist in isolation on your Mac. While you can view or edit many file types in DEVONthink, there are times you want to open them in other applications. This is especially easy with the free utility CustomShortcuts. Here is how that works. (more)