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Articles in the category Tips

April 4, 2023

How to Scan Text into Your Notes

Image showing text on a web page getting scanned into DEVONthink To Go.

One of the features Apple added to their operating systems is Live Text. It uses the device’s camera to dynamically detect text in whatever it’s pointed at. Here’s how you can use this feature to scan text into a document in DEVONthink To Go. (more)

March 28, 2023

How to Get Metadata From Google Books

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)

March 21, 2023

How to Share Your Smart Rules

Screenshot showing a list of smart rules in DEVONthink.

Smart rules are a powerful automation tool in DEVONthink, allowing the application to act on matching documents. Used wisely, they can be great allies in the quest to organize your databases. Maybe you want to share a specific rule with someone or install it on another Mac? Here’s how you can easily share smart rules. (more)

March 14, 2023

How to Receive our News via RSS

Screenshot showing a RSS feed in DEVONthink.

A fantastic way to get news in an organized, clear form, and be able to read them in one place, is RSS. We support RSS, too, and provide feeds for our blog and forum, so that you can get news and conversations about us and our products in your feed reader at your convenience. Here is, how that works. (more)

March 7, 2023

How to Access our FAQ

Screenshot showing the FAQ opened in Safari.

In customer support, we receive many questions every day on different topics and it is not uncommon for people to ask the same question others have asked before. Therefore we offer another form of support for quick access: a FAQ section on our website. Here you can learn more about it. (more)

February 28, 2023

Understanding DEVONthink's Interface

Screenshot of DEVONthink's support assistant, showing a tutorial.

DEVONthink offers a wide range of features and therefore has a complex, multi-layered interface with numerous elements. To avoid stumbling over terminology being used in our forum, handbook, or elsewhere, we created a tutorial. (more)

February 21, 2023

How to Use Equations in Markdown

Screenshot showing some MathJax examples.

Perhaps you like to use Markdown for your notes, but need to write mathematical formulas from time to time. The MathJax extension lets you do exactly that: edit and render documents with terms and equations directly in DEVONthink. Here is, how that works. (more)

February 14, 2023

How to Focus Your Searches

Picture showing the search fields in DEVONthink and DEVONthink To Go.

In a search, your search term can refer to different contexts, such as the name of the document or the content. Using search prefixes in DEVONthink and DEVONthink To Go allows you to focus your searches by narrowing down to the context you’re searching on. Here is how that works. (more)

February 7, 2023

How to Quickly Open Documents

Screenshot showing the CustomShortcuts menu beneath the Open With submenu in DEVONthink.

We know our applications don’t exist in isolation on your Mac. While you can view or edit many file types in DEVONthink, there are times you want to open them in other applications. This is especially easy with the free utility CustomShortcuts. Here is how that works. (more)

January 31, 2023

How to Handle Stalls and Crashes

Screenshot showing a crash report and the activity monitor.

Quality assurance is a top priority in the development of our applications. Nevertheless, misbehavior can sometimes occur, leading to an application crashing or stalling. To investigate and fix the issue, we need a report with some information about it. Here’s how you can support us with that. (more)