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October 10, 2012

ScreenCastsOnline Gives Great Intro into DEVONthink

ScreenCastsOnline, famous for their great videos about all things Mac, has just published two great screencasts about DEVONthink.

DEVONthink is probably one of the most requested productivity and organisational apps I get asked to cover. Well this week is the week it happens, but as a change, I thought I’d get a DEVONthink expert in to lead us through the benefits of this complex and powerful application — Todd Olthoff. (more)

October 2, 2012

First DEVONsphere Express Did Local, Now It Does Servers Too

Today we have released DEVONsphere Express 1.6 with the ability to index network servers and volumes, that are not always available, too. Add your team server and get related data to whatever you’re working on in an instant from all the knowledge accumulated by your group. And if you don’t want to see irrelevant results, add the folders to the preferences and DEVONsphere Express excludes them from searching. The full power of DEVONthink, integrated into Mail, Safari, and the  Finder. And now also extended to your servers. (more)

September 25, 2012

New Introduction Video for DEVONthink

After having released quite a number of video tutorials for DEVONthink we have finally also re-imagined the introduction video for DEVONthink.

Meet Jim, a university student graduating in modern literature about The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He collects articles, clippings, links, even paper documents, organizes them, and writes his thesis — all with DEVONthink. The built-in artificial intelligence assists him and finds connections between items that Jim even hasn’t thought of himself. (more)

September 14, 2012

New Tutorials About Scanning and Setting Up a ScanSnap

With DEVONthink 2.4 we have introduced our new scanner/camera import window, and just yesterday we have released an update that makes scanning with Image Capture compliant flatbed scanners or all-in-one devices a lot more comfortable. Today we have published two new tutorials that guide you through the new scanner/camera import window (all editions of DEVONthink) and through setting up a Fujitsu ScanSnap document scanner for use with DEVONthink Pro Office. Check them both out directly in DEVONthink (Help > Tutorials).

September 13, 2012

Easier Scanning with DEVONthink

DEVONthink’s new scanning function unified the various scanning options of previous versions and made paper capture available also for users of the Personal and Pro editions. But users are still missing some of the more advanced options, for example convenient capturing of documents with multiple pages. DEVONthink 2.4.2, which we have released today, supports the option Combine Into Single Document whenever you scan as PDF or TIFF. Just name the document and start scanning; DEVONthink creates a new document for you that you just have to send to your database when you’re done with all pages. (more)

September 7, 2012

Missing Apps in the Open In Menu

If you have many apps installed on your iPhone or iPad that can handle the same file types, e.g. PDFs, it can happen that one or the other does not longer appear in the Open In menu that allows you to send files from one app to another. In iOS 5 the limit seems to be ten apps. So if you want to send a file to, e.g., DEVONthink To Go and you don’t see it listed it may be that you simply have too many apps on your device that can open this file type. (more)

August 15, 2012

Maintenance Updates for DEVONthink and DEVONnote

We have just released maintenance updates for all editions of DEVONthink and for DEVONnote fixing a few minor issues introduced with last week’s updates. The updates to DEVONthink resp. DEVONnote 2.4.1 are recommended for all users using an Intel-based Mac running OS X 10.6.8 or later. (more)

August 14, 2012

DEVONagent for Mountain Lion

Last week we have tamed the Mountain Lion with DEVONthink and DEVONnote 2.4, this week it’s the turn of DEVONagent to pass the Gatekeeper. That being not enough, version 3.3 of DEVONagent Pro carries support for Notification Center and the new Sharing Services in its bag. Share found results with one click via iMessage, Mail, Twitter, Facebook, or Airdrop or add them to Safari’s Reading List. Notifications let you know when a lengthy search run is done. (more)

August 13, 2012

Chrome Extension Updated

In the recent releases of Chrome Google has tightened the security for installed extensions. We have just updated our Chrome extension to work with the latest version of Chrome. Visit the Chrome Web Store to install the Clip to DEVONthink extension or use the Chrome extension preferences page to update your existing copy.