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How to Change an App's Language

November 21, 2023

Screenshot showing the language preferences in macOS' settings.

If an application has translated its interface into another language, you can choose the language in which it is used. DEVONthink is, e.g., available in English, French, and German. Here is, how you can easily change an app’s language on the Mac. (more)

How to Style Markdown

November 14, 2023

HTML markup for a converted Markdown document.

You may be wondering how you can change the appearance of your Markdown documents. The answer is: with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Here are some tips to get you started. (more)

How to Narrow the Search Location

November 7, 2023

Screenshot showing a targeted search in two selected databases in DEVONthink.

When you’re searching for your documents in DEVONthink, you often have an idea where they might be. Searching everywhere would give you more results than you want at the moment. Here is, how to narrow down the search location. (more)

How to Use Custom Metadata

October 31, 2023

Screenshot showing the preferences for custom metadata in DEVONthink.

Metadata is information about other data, in our case documents. Most metadata is predefined, like the file size or the creation date. However, DEVONthink lets you create and use custom metadata, that you can apply to your documents. Here is, how that works. (more)

Why to Use Markdown

October 24, 2023

Screenshot showing a window in DEVONthink with an open Markdown document.

As native file type in DEVONthink and DEVONthink To Go, Markdown is a format used by many of you. However, often the question comes up what Markdown is at all and why one should use it. Here are a few things you may not have known about Markdown. (more)

Handling Email with DEVONthink

October 19, 2023

Screenshot showing the tutorial Handling Email in DEVONthink's support assistant.

DEVONthink Pro and Server let you archive email messages in your databases. Our new tutorial explains how to get messages from your email app into a database and what you can do with email in DEVONthink. (more)

How to Create a Database Template

October 17, 2023

Screenshot showing two database windows with some items.

Sometimes we get asked about having a DEVONthink database that can be copied for reuse, e.g., when creating a yearly database. Simply copying a database should not be done for technical reasons, but you can create a set of objects as a template to populate a new database. Here is, how that works. (more)

How to Use Emojis safely

October 10, 2023

Screenshot showing preferences in DEVONthink.

Emojis are often used to convey emotions, thoughts, or actions. They are also sometimes used as visual indicators to provide more context to documents. But should you use them in DEVONthink 🧐? (more)

How to Create a Reminder on iOS

September 28, 2023

Screenshot showing the Reminders app with a reminder from an DEVONthink To Go item.

Apple’s Reminders is a great application for keeping track of what’s done and what still needs to be done. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could create a reminder for items in DEVONthink To Go? We created a shortcut to make that an easier process. (more)

DEVONthink 3.9.3

September 23, 2023

Screenshot of selected text in DEVONthink and the Copy with Source Link menu command.

Today’s update for DEVONthink for Mac is, as always, not only a maintenance update with bug fixes and performance enhancements. It also improves quoting, working with custom metadata, viewing computer code in Markdown, and preserving image quality when running PDFs through OCR. (more)