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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)

September 28, 2023

DEVONthink To Go 3.7.6

Screenshot of DEVONthink To Go's context menu for databases.

DEVONthink To Go 3.7.6 improves searching in CJK languages, handles background tasks such as Spotlight indexing better, and shows a success notification after verifying databases. It also brings a number of important bug fixes. (more)

September 23, 2023

DEVONthink 3.9.3

Screenshot of selected text in DEVONthink and the Copy with Source Link menu command.

Today’s update for DEVONthink for Mac is, as always, not only a maintenance update with bug fixes and performance enhancements. It also improves quoting, working with custom metadata, viewing computer code in Markdown, and preserving image quality when running PDFs through OCR. (more)

September 19, 2023

A Relaxing Way to Work

Picture of a student sitting at her desk and with headphones on.

No matter how much you may enjoy your work, sometimes it’s just stressful underneath the surface. One option for relieving a little stress from your day that works for us are relaxing background sounds. Here are some options to explore. (more)

September 13, 2023

DEVONthink To Go 3.7.5

Screenshot of DEVONthink To Go's View Options menu.

DEVONthink To Go 3.7.5 is all about better thumbnail and preview management and performance enhancements. It is now also possible to export selected pages from a PDF to the Files app or, with drag-and-drop, to combine them into to a new document. (more)

September 12, 2023

Where to Store Your Databases

Screenshot showing database files stored in the Finder.

When you create a DEVONthink database, you need to save it to a specific location. In principle, there are many options here. Some are good, some others rather not. Here are the advocated options and things you need to know. (more)