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December 5, 2019

December Updates

Thanksgiving and the Black Friday weekend are just over and here’s already another round of updates for our DEVONthink and DEVONagent product lines. All of them bring improvements and bug fixes that you don’t want to miss. (more)

December 4, 2019

DEVONthink in Japanese

If you live in Japan or use your Mac in Japanese, DEVONthink 3 is now also available in your day-to-day language. Our friends and partners at Mercury Software have not only localized the user interface but also the documentation. You can download and buy the localized version of DEVONthink 3 exclusively from their website 🇯🇵 … (more)

December 3, 2019

DEVONthink at ScreenCastsOnline

Screenshot from the DEVONthink 3 tutorial

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)

November 25, 2019

Black Friday Weekend

Now is the time for relaxing — and the best time of the year to get ready for a productive year ahead. Only from Black Friday through Cyber Monday, we give 25 percent discount on all our software products and ebooks. (more)

November 19, 2019

DEVONthink 3.0.2

The latest update to DEVONthink 3 adds optional keyboard navigation to the sidebar, new smart rule actions, and support for Nisus Writer documents. It imports messages dropped from Apple Mail in the background. (more)

November 13, 2019

Autumn Updates

New season, new releases. For this autumn we have prepared updates for our freeware apps ThumbsUp and XMenu as well as for DEVONthink To Go for you. (more)

November 12, 2019

Stop Your Devices Phoning Home

The Pi-Hole administration console shows which and how many requests it has blocked.

No matter what we do online there are companies trying to follow us, learn more about what we do, and build profiles. Some web sites contain more tracking code than actual content. On the web you can use ad blockers and search engines like DuckDuckGo or Startpage but there’s little you can do about apps on your iPhone or your Amazon Echo calling someone you don’t what them to talk to. (more)

October 31, 2019

DEVONsphere 1.9.4

As if macOS Catalina wouldn’t be scary enough, here’s our Halloween update for DEVONsphere Express. We’ve made version 1.9.4 scream to make it work better with Catalina and to support the native Nisus Writer file format. (more)

October 29, 2019

How to Enter Emojis Quicker

Emoji. They’re the digital equivalent of the little doodles we’d draw when passing notes to each other. Built into macOS, you can call up the Emoji & Symbols palette while you’re typing. MacBooks with Touch Bar also have a dedicated key for emoji. For even quicker access to emojis there’s an neat menubar application: Rocket, by Matthew Palmer. (more)

October 21, 2019

Clip to DEVONthink and Safari 13

Safari 13 no longer supports traditional browser extensions. With DEVONthink 3 we have rewritten the whole Clip to DEVONthink experience and integrated it into the application. But what if you’re not ready to upgrade yet? Don’t panic. Our browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome continue to work just fine. (more)