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January 28, 2025

How to Clip in Microsoft Edge

Screenshot showing the settings for the extensions for Microsoft Edge, including Clip to DEVONthink.

If your browser of choice is Microsoft Edge, you have two easy options for clipping web content to DEVONthink. We show you how they work. (more)

January 21, 2025

Downloading Our Chrome Extension

Screenshot showing an error in locating our browser extension in the Chrome Web Store.

With our Clip to DEVONthink extension, you can easily capture web content in Google Chrome. However, if you are having trouble downloading the extension, we may have a solution for you. (more)

January 14, 2025

First Steps with a New Device

Screenshot of a DEVONthink window showing a read-only database, indicated by the symbol of a small crossed-out pencil.

Have you just done a fresh install of DEVONthink on a new Mac and want to get it up and running? Here are a few things to check off your list. (more)

December 17, 2024

How to Access Your Last Destination

Screenshot showing DEVONthink's Go menu with

In DEVONthink, you move documents around, duplicate them, or capture web content and store them in a specific location. So that you can quickly continue working, there is a command in DEVONthink that takes you to your last destination. (more)

December 10, 2024

How to Scan to DEVONthink To Go

Screenshot showing the export settings in the Genius Scan iOS application, including the Save to Files app option.

There are many ways to scan documents with your iPhone. But what’s the easiest way to get scans from your favorite scanning app into DEVONthink To Go without the hassle of moving documents around? Here we show you how to scan directly into your database. (more)

November 26, 2024

How to Use Dynamic Tagging

Screenshot showing the database properties and an item list with tagged items in DEVONthink. In the properties, the two tagging options discussed in the post are activated.

Tags can be very effective for organizing your databases. But it is often tedious to assign them to each document by hand, isn’t it? That’s why DEVONthink and DEVONthink To Go can dynamically add and remove tags to objects. Here are two options for dynamic tagging. (more)

November 19, 2024

How to Export DEVONagent Results

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)

November 12, 2024

DEVONthink's Property Icons

Screenshot showing two DEVONthink windows displaying several items with property icons.

You have probably already seen the different icons in DEVONthink, for example a little speech bubble or a Finder icon next to a document. But what do these symbols mean? Here is, what the iconology in DEVONthink is all about. (more)

November 3, 2024

Using Custom Metadata for Automation

Screenshot showing the editor for a smart rule in DEVONthink. In the smart rule, a placeholder for custom metadata is used for a file action, as described in the tip.

Thinking about making your automations in DEVONthink more dynamic using variable values? Combine smart rules or batch processing with metadata you’ve defined yourself. We show you an example how this could work. (more)