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The Future of Intel Apps

September 8, 2026

Screenshot showing the Get Info pane of EasyFind in the Finder.

You may have seen concerning messages about applications, including some of ours, that won’t work on future macOS versions. But is that a cause for concern, especially for our freeware apps? Here is what you need to know. (more)

Welcome Back to School

September 3, 2026

Illustration of a university campus in autum with a group of students walking towards it.

The semester’s back, and so is that particular kind of chaos. New notebooks, forgotten passwords, syllabi that already feel three weeks behind. This is where a little structure goes a long way. Our apps help you do just that. For a relaxed start into the new term, here’s a 40 percent discount, only until September 20th, 2026. (more)

How to Clip Better in DEVONthink

September 1, 2026

Reader view of a bookmark in DEVONthink

We all spend a lot of time on the Internet and clip content into our DEVONthink databases regularly. But web clipping is not trivial, especially as technologies change. In DEVONthink 4.4 Tycho we made this a lot better. (more)

DEVONthink 4.4 Tycho

August 27, 2026

Screenshot of DEVONthink's new AI Library settings pane, showing a list of skills with keywords and descriptions.

DEVONthink 4.4 Tycho turns your AI assistant into a genuine co-worker: a new AI Library lets you build and trigger roles, prompts, and skills, and the Chat assistant can use MCP tools directly. Markdown gets a big upgrade too, with live WYSIWYG tables and MathJax, LaTeX/PDF export, and a distraction-free Reader view. (more)

How to Use DEVONthink's Dock Icon

August 25, 2026

Screenshot showing the context menu of DEVONthink's dock icon.

An application’s icon is typically considered as just something to click on to launch it. However, many developers add information and commands to the context menu of an app’s Dock icon, and DEVONthink is no exception. Here is a quick overview of what you’ll find there. (more)

How to Use a 3-2-1 Backup

August 18, 2026

Screenshow showing Time Machine in the macOS menu bar, displaying backup progress and schedule.

One of those topics we often talk about in support and on our forums is being diligent about backups. At a minimum, an external hard drive and Time Machine are much better than no backups. But a more robust option is the 3-2-1 backup strategy. Here we explain what that is and how you could do it. (more)

How to Replace Text with a Batch Process

August 11, 2026

Screenshot showing the find and replace action in a batch process configuration in DEVONthink.

Batch processing is a simple type of automation in DEVONthink that you can use to quickly make changes to multiple items at once. One useful action is text replacement. Here’s how you can use that. (more)

How to Use a Conditional Automation

August 4, 2026

Screenshot showing the input field for the Chat - Continue if smart action in the batch process editor in DEVONthink.

The Pro and Server editions of DEVONthink have a specialized action for smart rules and batch processes called Chat – Continue if, that uses external AI to determine if a process should continue. Here is how to create conditional automations with it. (more)

Comparing Apple Vision and OCR

July 28, 2026

Screenshot of the Data menu in DEVONthink, where the OCR action is selected.

When creating searchable documents from images or PDF documents in DEVONthink Pro or Server, there are two mechanisms that process them: Apple’s Vision framework or traditional OCR. While seemingly similar in output, there are important differences between them. (more)

Using Imprints in DEVONthink

July 23, 2026

A screenshot of DEVONthink's support assistant with the imprints tutorial opened.

In the Pro and Server editions of DEVONthink, you can create personalized stamps to mark your PDFs and images. In a new tutorial, we show you how to create and use these imprints. (more)