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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)

August 26, 2024

Neo Network Utility 1.1

Screenshot of the Neo Network Utility main window and the settings window with the new IPv6 option.

Last month we released our little Neo Network Utility, bringing you some simple network diagnostics in a nice interface. Today we’re updating it to version 1.1 with IPv6 support, many quality-of-life enhancements, and bug fixes. (more)

August 20, 2024

How to Reuse Groups and Tags

Screenshot showing nested tag groups in DEVONthink. Two of these groups are selected to exemplify the script we discuss in the blog post.

If you have groups or tags in a DEVONthink database and want to use them in another, you may have tried copying them. But this also duplicates the documents. We have a script for you to duplicate only selected groups or tags, leaving their documents behind. (more)

August 13, 2024

How to Capture Frequently Visited Websites

Screenshot showing a group in DEVONthink with several subgroups, containing financial records and a web location.

We receive probably most of the information that we want to save in DEVONthink online, via a web browser. If you regularly capture content from the same website, there is a workflow that makes this easier and more productive. We show you, how it works. (more)

August 6, 2024

How to Search Your Browser History

Screenshot showing a DEVONagent search window with browser history search results.

If you were reading something online but forgot to bookmark the page, you could look at the browser’s History. But that only handles the name or URL. With DEVONagent you can search Safari’s or DEVONagent’s browser history more thoroughly. Here is, how that works. (more)

August 1, 2024

DEVONthink 3.9.7

Screenshot showing the Safari-related commands that DEVONthink inserts into the global Scripts menu.

The latest update to DEVONthink, version 3.9.7, brings a variety of improvements across the app, including new application scripts for web browsers, enhancements to Markdown transclusions, WYSIWYG editing, search, and more. (more)

July 30, 2024

How to Clip in Google Chrome

Screenshot showing a section of a Google Chrome window with the extensions popover opened containing Clip to DEVONthink.

If you are using Google’s Chrome browser and want to clip content into DEVONthink, here is how to install and configure our browser extension. (more)