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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)

How to Use Multiple Windows on macOS

August 29, 2023

Screenshot showing App Exposé for currently open DEVONthink windows.

When working in DEVONthink, you almost certainly end up with several windows open at once, and even on larger screens you can easily lose track of them. Fortunately, there are some tricks on how to get an overview of your windows and how to find lost ones. (more)

Understanding Indexing Files

August 18, 2023

Screenshot showing the tutorial Understanding Indexing in DEVONthinks support assistent.

DEVONthink provides two different methods for getting data into your databases: importing and indexing. To explain what it means to index files, what you can do with them in DEVONthink, and what you should keep in mind, there’s a new tutorial for you. (more)

How to Clip Web Content Inside DEVONthink

August 15, 2023

Screenshot showing a DEVONthink window with a Google search tab.

Clipping web content is one of the most common ways to get data into DEVONthink. But you may not know that you can clip inside our app as well, without having to switch to a separate browser. Here’s a simple way how you can quickly browse and capture web content directly in DEVONthink. (more)

How to Open Items with Keyboard Maestro

August 8, 2023

Screenshot showing a palette from Keyboard Maestro.

Even as our DEVONthink databases continue to grow, there are always certain documents or groups we deal with daily. Here is a way to create a launch palette in the popular Keyboard Maestro utility to quickly jump to an item in your database. (more)

Using Templates in DEVONthink

July 27, 2023

Screenshot showing tutorials in DEVONthink's support assistant.

DEVONthink offers several templates for various purposes, including journal entries, Cornell notes, systematic filing systems, and much more. To demonstrate the templates and their capabilities, we have created a new tutorial for you. (more)

SummerFest: Great Apps, Great Prices

July 21, 2023

In the summer months, daylight lasts long and the warm evening air brings conviviality. And for many years now, we also get together with friends all over the world and celebrate our traditional SummerFest. Get DEVONthink and DEVONagent Pro for 25% off directly at the workshop gate and have a look at the other SummerFest apps with a similar discount. (more)

How to Get Instapaper as RSS

July 18, 2023

Screenshot showing Instapaper's website and a contextual menu.

If you are using Instapaper for gathering resources in an online archive, there isn’t a built-in RSS feed available. If you’d like to have a feed adding these articles to your DEVONthink database, here is a simple way to accomplish this. (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)

DEVONthink 3.9.2

July 6, 2023

Screenshot of the Clip to DEVONthink menulet.

Today’s maintenance release of DEVONthink for Mac comes with an improved clutter-free web capture option, better detection of defective PDFs, an updated OCR engine, and more. (more)