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November 20, 2023

Black Friday Weekend

Illustration of an autumn landscape.

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

November 14, 2023

How to Style Markdown

HTML markup for a converted Markdown document.

You may be wondering how you can change the appearance of your Markdown documents. The answer is: with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Here are some tips to get you started. (more)

November 7, 2023

How to Narrow the Search Location

Screenshot showing a targeted search in two selected databases in DEVONthink.

When you’re searching for your documents in DEVONthink, you often have an idea where they might be. Searching everywhere would give you more results than you want at the moment. Here is, how to narrow down the search location. (more)

October 31, 2023

How to Use Custom Metadata

Screenshot showing the preferences for custom metadata in DEVONthink.

Metadata is information about other data, in our case documents. Most metadata is predefined, like the file size or the creation date. However, DEVONthink lets you create and use custom metadata, that you can apply to your documents. Here is, how that works. (more)

October 24, 2023

Why to Use Markdown

Screenshot showing a window in DEVONthink with an open Markdown document.

As native file type in DEVONthink and DEVONthink To Go, Markdown is a format used by many of you. However, often the question comes up what Markdown is at all and why one should use it. Here are a few things you may not have known about Markdown. (more)

October 19, 2023

Handling Email with DEVONthink

Screenshot showing the tutorial Handling Email in DEVONthink's support assistant.

DEVONthink Pro and Server let you archive email messages in your databases. Our new tutorial explains how to get messages from your email app into a database and what you can do with email in DEVONthink. (more)

October 17, 2023

How to Create a Database Template

Screenshot showing two database windows with some items.

Sometimes we get asked about having a DEVONthink database that can be copied for reuse, e.g., when creating a yearly database. Simply copying a database should not be done for technical reasons, but you can create a set of objects as a template to populate a new database. Here is, how that works. (more)

October 10, 2023

How to Use Emojis safely

Screenshot showing preferences in DEVONthink.

Emojis are often used to convey emotions, thoughts, or actions. They are also sometimes used as visual indicators to provide more context to documents. But should you use them in DEVONthink 🧐? (more)

October 3, 2023

How to Speed Up Haptic Touch on iOS

Screenshot showing the settings for Haptic Touch in iOS.

Context menus are used by many applications on Apple’s mobile platform. They provide a wider range of commands within the limited interface space of mobile devices. You typically open them by long-pressing items. Here is how to open them a bit faster. (more)

September 28, 2023

How to Create a Reminder on iOS

Screenshot showing the Reminders app with a reminder from an DEVONthink To Go item.

Apple’s Reminders is a great application for keeping track of what’s done and what still needs to be done. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could create a reminder for items in DEVONthink To Go? We created a shortcut to make that an easier process. (more)