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How to Colorize Your Groups

July 8, 2025

Screenshot displaying an item list in DEVONthink with a colorized group and the Get Info popover showing the color well.

For many people, color is a useful visual aid in recognition and organization. Starting with DEVONthink 4 Copernicus, we added support for colorizing groups. This can be helpful if you have many groups or if you want to organize them based on certain criteria. Here is how to use the feature. (more)

How to Organize Your Item List View

July 1, 2025

Screenshot showing DEVONthink's palette for customizing the metadata displayed in the sort options for the List Columns view.

When organizing your item list in DEVONthink, the long list of options for sorting to choose from can be daunting. There are likely many options you’ve never used or perhaps didn’t know even existed. Here we show you, how to customize and slim down this list. (more)

How to Transcribe Speech in DEVONthink

June 24, 2025

Screenshot of a DEVONthink window showing the Annotations & Reminders inspector. A transcript with timestamps is visible as an annotation.

If you have audio or video files you’ve downloaded or recorded yourself, the Pro and Server editions of DEVONthink let you use external AI to convert the audio into text. Here is how that works. (more)

Where to Find More About AI?

June 17, 2025

The image shows a book-page-like background with the words

“How can I use generative AI effectively?” — “How do I write a good prompt?“ — As people explore accessing external AI in DEVONthink, questions arise about how to use it. Here we show you two helpful resources about using AI. (more)

How to Paste Text with a Source Link

June 10, 2025

A screenshot of a Microsoft Word window displaying text with a source link that has been pasted into the document.

When doing research and taking notes, it is often helpful to link to specific parts of text in documents, especially PDFs. DEVONthink has two special copy and paste commands that make such linking very fast and effective. (more)

How to Use Versioning in DEVONthink

June 3, 2025

Screenshot of a DEVONthink window, showing the versions inspector. The inspector displays several versions of a Markdown document.

At some point, you have probably worked on a text and created a duplicate to save its current state. For this purpose, DEVONthink offers document versioning. This is a backup mechanism that automatically creates versions of your document when you make edits. Here is a quick introduction to this useful feature. (more)

How to Create Images in DEVONthink

May 27, 2025

Screenshot showing DEVONthink's Chat popover. The Chat contains a prompt requesting an image of a Portuguese cathedral, with the generated image displayed below.

There are times when an image would be useful to illustrate something, or just something creatively fun to explore. If you have the Pro or Server edition of DEVONthink and an API key for an AI provider, you can create images directly in DEVONthink. Here is what you need to know. (more)

DEVONthink's Content Inspectors for PDFs

May 20, 2025

Screenshot showing DEVONthink's Content Inspector, displaying a modified table of contents.

The Content inspectors in DEVONthink 4 are especially useful for PDFs, as they provide an overview of the document. You get a table of contents and thumbnails of the document’s pages. With DEVONthink 4, you can also customize a PDF’s outline. (more)

Using Local AI in DEVONthink?

May 12, 2025

Screenshot showing the AI section of DEVONthink's settings.

When it comes to AI in DEVONthink 4, questions of privacy and cost usually come up. In addition to the large commercial products, there also are smaller models that you can install and run locally on your Mac and use in DEVONthink. Here we show you these options. (more)

How to Get an API Key for AI

May 6, 2025

Screenshot showing a window of Anthropic’s Claude application with a request about API access.

In DEVONthink 4, you can use an external AI model like Claude or ChatGPT, e.g., to ask questions about your documents or generate images. For that you need an API key. But what is this and where can you get one? (more)