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How to Check Cloud Service Status

November 17, 2020

Screenshot of the Apple system status page

Many people use compatible cloud services for syncing DEVONthink and DEVONthink To Go. These can be useful in situations where devices need to be updated more frequently, or Bonjour connections are disallowed. However, just as any website can be unavailable, for a variety of reasons, these servers can experience downtime as well. Here are some official links to some of the services you might use, not only for syncing but just about any of your cloud storage needs. (more)

How to Use Your Voice for Notes

August 25, 2020

Dictation settings on iOS.

With the development of Siri (and now Cortana, Alexa, and who knows who else is on the horizon) as well as systems integrated into our cars, talking to our devices has become more commonplace. Here are a few ways to add content to your databases with your voice. (more)

How to Sync by Wire

August 4, 2020

Bonjour is a wonderful technology that allows us to connect to devices or services by name instead of a hard to remember IP address, a number that can and does change! DEVONthink can sync via Bonjour on a local network, but only if the traffic is allowed. Here’s one way to work around that … (more)

Save Space with Shallow Sync

July 28, 2020

Many times people will create large databases in DEVONthink and want to sync them to their iOS devices. But there may not be a lot of available space on the iPhone or iPad. DEVONthink To Go has a sync option that may allow you to sync the databases within the space you have. (more)

Smart Groups in DEVONthink To Go

June 16, 2020

One of the features in DEVONthink on the Mac that is on our future enhancement list but not not yet implemented in DEVONthink To Go, is local smart groups. But that doesn’t mean there are no smart groups available. (more)

New Book: Taking Smart Notes

May 27, 2020

Kourosh Dini, author of the excellent book Creating Flow with OmniFocus 3, has just released a brand new book: Taking Smart Notes with DEVONthink. Learn the basics of DEVONthink, build databases with the Zettelkasten method, and automate your workflows with scripts and macros that come with the book. (more)

DEVONthink To Go 2.7.7

March 4, 2020

On our way to the next feature release, this maintenance update of DEVONthink To Go brings some improvements and bug fixes. Move the floating toolbars of PDF documents and sheets out of the way by merging them with the top toolbar. Larger previews let you more easily identify shallowly synchronized documents coming from the Mac. (more)

December Updates

December 5, 2019

Thanksgiving and the Black Friday weekend are just over and here’s already another round of updates for our DEVONthink and DEVONagent product lines. All of them bring improvements and bug fixes that you don’t want to miss. (more)

Autumn Updates

November 13, 2019

New season, new releases. For this autumn we have prepared updates for our freeware apps ThumbsUp and XMenu as well as for DEVONthink To Go for you. (more)

DEVONthink To Go 2.7.2

September 4, 2019

In the last few months we focused on getting DEVONthink 3 ready for prime-time and so it had become a bit quiet around DEVONthink To Go. Today, version 2.7.2 has passed Apple’s review.

Our maintenance release brings the sync mechanism on par with DEVONthink 3, makes its handling of indexed items consistent to the Mac, and brings back the sync status sheet. Change the stacking order of PDF annotations and, finally, view highlight annotations added with DEVONthink on the Mac. If you’re a Bookends user you can now link to items stored in your favorite references manager using the Bookends URL scheme. (more)