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December 24, 2017

Merry Christmas 🎄 and a Happy New Year 🎆

The whole DEVONtechnologies team wishes you a peaceful Christmas time, wherever you live and whatever you believe in. We hope that 2018 will be a great, productive, and successful year for you, and that you and your loved ones stay healthy and happy. (more)

December 2, 2017

DEVONthink To Go 2.4.1 Adds Drag-and-Drop for the iPhone

DEVONthink To Go 2.4.1 has just become available in the App Store. It’s a maintenance release so most changes are bug fixes dealing with PDF annotations, HTML and Markdown documents. But, we couldn’t resist throwing in a few other improvements: … (more)

November 21, 2017

Help Our Support with Screencaptures

When sending in support tickets, it is often very useful to attach screencaptures for us to look at. Sometimes the words you use aren’t the words we’d use and the real issue can be unclear. A screencapture is indeed worth 1,000 words, in many cases. (more)

October 31, 2017

Drag-and-Drop OCR in iOS 11

DEVONthink To Go does not have OCR(Optical Character Recognition)capabilities built-in. However, if you have an iOS device capable of running in split view mode (as of this writing: iPad Pro, iPad Air 2 or iPad mini 4) and an iOS OCR application, you may* be able to do OCR now. (more)

October 27, 2017

Mac Geek Gab Mentions DEVONthink and Other Needful Things

Our friends at MacObserver mentioned DEVONthink, EasyFind, and more again in their excellent Mac Geek Gab podcast, episode 679:

Quick Tips, Cool Stuff Found, High Sierra, and KRACK are the topics today, but that means you’re in for a real treat. The goal is for everyone to learn at least four (4!) new things, but today you’re guaranteed to learn a whole lot more. (more)

October 19, 2017

DEVONthink 2.9.16 Speeds Up Synchronization

With our maintenance update 2.9.16 for DEVONthink we focused on enhancing the built-in synchronization. We now let you import multiple databases at the same time from a sync location and pending items are automatically downloaded from the next available location. (more)

October 2, 2017

Quitting Evernote for DEVONthink

Information worker Yann Rousse switched from Evernote to DEVONthink. He described how he managed the transition in detail in an excellent blog post on Medium:

Moving to DEVONthink from Evernote is not a trivial change. The new tools available to handle my Information and Knowledge activities are quite different and in many ways, far more powerful. The learning curve has started for me but I feel DEVONthink is not only excellent but most importantly the proper fit for me. I’m just beginning to perceive how I can now extend my use of such tool as most barriers I had with Evernote have been lifted now. (more)