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September 4, 2023

Welcome Back to Campus

Part of the daily routine at university is being able to organize knowledge. That means taking notes, doing research, creating and managing documents. Our apps help you do just that. For a relaxed start into the new term, here’s a 40 percent discount, only until September 17th, 2023. (more)

July 11, 2023

How to Get Metadata from Crossref

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)

April 26, 2023

Students, Let's Get Back to Work

Every time fall comes around, we traditionally welcome all students and educators back to campus with a special educational discount. But maybe you just started studying for the summer term? For a relaxed start into the summer term, here’s a 40 percent discount, only until May 5th. (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)

November 10, 2022

News from DEVONthink for Historians

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)

August 29, 2022

Welcome Back to School

Over the past year, academic life has gradually returned to campus, and part of a student’s or teachers’s everyday life is knowing how to organize themselves. Get our Mac apps with an exclusive 40% discount until September 11th, 2022. If this isn’t the best time in the year to get prepared, then when is? (more)

September 1, 2021

Welcome Back to School

Campus life will, maybe, never be what it was before the pandemic. Video courses might, at least partially, replace the need to queue up for overcrowded lectures and you’ll do more of your research online instead of burning the midnight oil at the library. Get our Mac apps with an exclusive 40% discount until September 19th, 2021. If this isn’t the best time in the year to get prepared, then when is? (more)

October 13, 2020

How to Customize Bookends Import

Importing Bookends references into DEVONthink.

If you are using the Pro or Server editions of DEVONthink, you can import references from the popular bibliographic manager Bookends. Here’s how you can customize the format of the imported references in DEVONthink. (more)

September 1, 2020

Welcome Back to School

Going back to school or university this autumn feels so much different than ever before. Video courses instead of overcrowded lectures, web research instead of late night hours at the library. Get our Mac apps with an exclusive 40% discount until September 20th, 2020. If this isn’t the best time in the year to get prepared, then when is? (more)

March 24, 2020

Using Our Tools in the Pandemic

COVID-19 is everywhere, in the news, blogs, podcasts, but also quite literally. We’re all giving our best to adjust our lives to the new rules that will impact our societies for quite some time. We don’t want to give you yet another list of tips for how to work from home. Instead, we asked our user community how they use our products to cope with the current situation. (more)