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How to Use Mentions in DEVONthink

February 18, 2025

Screenshot showing the Mentions inspector in DEVONthink. As described in the blog article, the inspector lists documents in which the selected document is mentioned.

Making connections between documents is an important aspect of researching a topic and linking information. DEVONthink offers several ways to do this, including Mentions. Here we show you how to use them. (more)

DEVONagent's Browser Inspectors

February 11, 2025

Screenshot showing the DEVONagent browser with the Linked Documents inspector open, which is described in this blog post.

DEVONagent’s web browser lets you view websites you have found without having to switch applications. And while it may not have all the features of major browsers, it has a very handy one: inspectors, which provide some additional information about the site. (more)

Benoît explains DEVONagent

December 12, 2024

Screenshot of Benoît’s blog, showing the title of his entry and the theme, an underwater picture showing sea urchins and small fish.

DEVONagent is our application for sophisticated web searches. But how exactly does it work and for what kind of searches is it actually useful? Power user Benoît Pointet has some thoughts on this, which he shares with you on his blog. (more)

How to Export DEVONagent Results

November 19, 2024

Screenshot showing a DEVONagent window with the Results tab and a window with the .csv export of the results.

Would you like to share your search results from DEVONagent with others or use them in another application? You can export the results in various forms and formats to use them as you wish. Here is, how to do this. (more)

How to Use DEVONagent's Digest Tab

October 29, 2024

Screenshot showing a DEVONagent window, displaying search results for

When doing a web search in DEVONagent, you are presented with a list of matching pages. One of the tabs is called the Digest. But what information do you get in this view? Here is a brief introduction. (more)

How to Save DEVONagent Results

April 9, 2024

Screenshot of a DEVONagent agent search file.

In DEVONagent Pro, you can archive search results or send them to DEVONthink. But after closing the search, you no longer have access to those results. Of course, you can run the search again, but there is a more efficient way to return to them. (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)

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)

How to Use DEVONagent's Browser

December 6, 2022

Screenshot, showing a browser window in DEVONagent Pro 3.

Our intelligent search assistant DEVONagent can be used for all kinds of searches on the web, searching several search engines simultaneously for the best results. But besides searching, DEVONagent also has a built-in web browser. And while it doesn’t support browser extensions, it does have some nice tricks up its sleeve. Here are a few. (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)