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May 3, 2022

How to Protect Your Data with a UPS

Image showing a MacBook being struck by lightning.

Our Earth is struck by lightning eight million times per day and the power of a single strike can shut down electricity for a house, a neighborhood, or more. But there are also other potential causes of power outages, outages that can lead to data loss. Here’s one way to try and minimize potential losses of your data. (more)

April 26, 2022

How to Print to DEVONthink

Screenshot showing the PDF dropdown menu in the print dialog.

Beyond messaging and email, PDF is one of the most common formats for communicating information between people. In applications that support printing to PDF — and there are many — you can print a paginated PDF directly to DEVONthink. (more)

April 26, 2022

We Celebrate 20 Years of DEVONthink

Picture of a city in a starry night with fireworks.

This month we are celebrating DEVONthink’s 20th anniversary. And we’d love you to join us! If you don’t use DEVONthink yet or are toying with the idea to make the jump to the next level and a more powerful edition: this is the weekend with exclusive discounts of up to 35 percent on all editions of DEVONthink as well as DEVONthink To Go. (more)

April 19, 2022

How to Fix the Create Item Shortcut

Screenshot showing the file selection menu in Shortcuts.

If you are among the DEVONthink To Go users inclined toward automation, you may have run into an issue with the Create Item Shortcut action. In some cases, it seems you can only select a static file, not pass input from a previous action. Here’s a workaround for that. (more)

April 12, 2022

How to Split PDFs in DEVONthink

Screenshot showing dragging a PDF thumbnail.

PDFs come from a variety of sources but not always in the perfect form for your work. Sometimes you may have pages you don’t need. Maybe you had a marathon scanning session to one big document but need individual documents now. Whatever reason you have for splitting a PDF, DEVONthink has a few special options available. (more)

April 5, 2022

How to Use Multiple Windows on iOS

Screenshot of the iPadOS window switcher with two open DEVONthink To Go windows.

For some time now, DEVONthink To Go has supported opening multiple windows in iPadOS, e.g., when you long-press an item and choose Open in New Window. But windows on mobile aren’t as obvious as they are in macOS. Here are a few ways to access and interact with these windows. (more)

April 1, 2022

DEVONthink Adds Support for NTFs

Screenshot showing DEVONthink To Go's context menu with the new Copy NFT Token command.

If you want to sell or buy digital originals, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the way to go. Twitter and 1Password have already added NFT support, and so do the next updates for DEVONthink and DEVONthink To Go. Create NFTs for your documents and sell them on OpenSea, or store digital assets in your DEVONthink database. (more)

March 30, 2022

Is it Love? — DEVONthink & Yoink

The DEVONthink and Yoink application icons next to each other.

As a Mac user, you know that drag-and-drop can be, well, a drag. Eric uses Yoink to drag files and text to even the most remote places on his desktop without breaking his fingers. Therefore, we’ve arranged a little promotion, so you can get both DEVONthink and Yoink for 20% off. Boosting your productivity was never more affordable. (more)

March 29, 2022

How to Migrate to a New Mac

Illustration showing a DEVONthink icon falling onto a Mac mini.

There’s always something new and shiny coming from Cupertino. And with a new computer comes the inevitable question, “How do I move my DEVONthink to my new Mac?” Here is how to manually migrate to a new Mac. (more)

March 25, 2022

To Those Who Suffer

Symbolic picture of a bowl with food.

It’s now one month after the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. However, what happens in Europe at the moment also affects other parts of our world. The war is making the all-present hunger in East Africa and the Middle East even worse. We are donating 10% of our March revenue to JAM. (more)