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The UTSA explains DEVONthink

November 7, 2024

Screenshot of the website of the University of Texas at San Antonio, showing a section from the Research Guide for DEVONthink referred to in the post.
Source: libguides.utsa.edu

The University of Texas at San Antonio has created a research guide for DEVONthink, explaining the basics and a lot of features that are particularly useful for academic work. But it is also a great source for anyone who wants to work effectively with DEVONthink. (more)

Welcome Back to School

August 29, 2024

Part of studying and teaching means: organizing knowledge. Taking notes, doing research, creating and managing documents. Our apps help you do just that. For a relaxed start into the new term, here’s a 40 percent discount, only until September 15th, 2024. (more)

Welcome Back to Campus

September 4, 2023

Part of the daily routine at university is being able to organize knowledge. That means taking notes, doing research, creating and managing documents. Our apps help you do just that. For a relaxed start into the new term, here’s a 40 percent discount, only until September 17th, 2023. (more)

Lyndon Drake’s Road to DPhil

August 24, 2023

Photography of Lyndon Drake wearing his academic dress and holding his certificate of graduation.
Lyndon Drake, happy to receive his second doctorate, this time in Theology from Oxford.

Lyndon Drake received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Theology: Congratulations! We are honored to be part of his journey, since DEVONthink gave him a helping hand with his academic work. Here we share some of his thoughts and tips with you. (more)

How to Get Metadata from Crossref

July 11, 2023

Screenshot showing the Info inspector with some metadata in DEVONthink.

DEVONthink is a good place to keep your literature, because you can add a lot of bibliographic data as metadata. One source for such data is Crossref, and with a script you can easily import metadata from there to DEVONthink. Here is how that works. (more)

Students, Let's Get Back to Work

April 26, 2023

Every time fall comes around, we traditionally welcome all students and educators back to campus with a special educational discount. But maybe you just started studying for the summer term? For a relaxed start into the summer term, here’s a 40 percent discount, only until May 5th. (more)

How to Get Metadata From Google Books

March 28, 2023

Screenshot showing a document's custom metadata imported from Google Books in DEVONthink.

DEVONthink is a good place to build a digital book collection. Users of the Pro or Server edition of DEVONthink can add custom metadata to their books from the millions of books available in Google Books with a script. Here is, how to do that. (more)

News from DEVONthink for Historians

November 10, 2022

Picture of Avigail Oren and Ada Barlatt.

Avigail Oren and Ada Barlatt created DEVONthink for Historians, a series of online courses that provide a practical introduction to scholarly work with DEVONthink. Now, Ada and Avigail started to share some exciting insights into Avigail’s current research project on their YouTube channel, showing how a new database is being built for this. (more)

Welcome Back to School

August 29, 2022

Over the past year, academic life has gradually returned to campus, and part of a student’s or teachers’s everyday life is knowing how to organize themselves. Get our Mac apps with an exclusive 40% discount until September 11th, 2022. If this isn’t the best time in the year to get prepared, then when is? (more)

Welcome Back to School

September 1, 2021

Campus life will, maybe, never be what it was before the pandemic. Video courses might, at least partially, replace the need to queue up for overcrowded lectures and you’ll do more of your research online instead of burning the midnight oil at the library. Get our Mac apps with an exclusive 40% discount until September 19th, 2021. If this isn’t the best time in the year to get prepared, then when is? (more)