Callouts are a Markdown feature for highlighting tips, notes, or important information as text blocks — familiar from textbooks or online tutorials, for example. DEVONthink To Go also supports them in your Markdown documents. Here is how to use them. (more)
While you’re reading through a PDF or other document in DEVONthink, you may run into words or phrases and wonder what other documents may contain them. You could start a new search, then copy and paste the text, or re-type it. But there is a more efficient method. (more)
iOS widgets are used by many people for little bits of at-a-glance information viewable outside an application. The widgets for DEVONthink To Go let you quickly access your most important data and help you keep updated with your news right from your home screen. Here is how you use them. (more)
The first feature release for DEVONthink To Go 4 brings home screen widgets, support for RSS and Atom feeds, and a brand-new Markdown parser and renderer. It also improves the editing workflow, adds a search field to the group selector, and lets you edit a document’s geolocation. (more)
If you’ve ever needed to consolidate content from multiple documents into one, you likely have used copy and paste. But if you make edits, they have to be made to all involved files. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could keep the documents separated but show them as a single document? You can with a Markdown feature in DEVONthink: file transclusion. (more)
With DEVONthink’s search, you can precisely search your databases for documents with specific characteristics, like, for example, tags. Many people often use a Tags property for this, but that isn’t optimal. Here’s how to correctly search for this. (more)
Joe Kissell from Take Control Books has updated his free ebook Take Control of DEVONthink 4. It is now up to date with DEVONthink 4.2.2 Cassini and DEVONthink To Go 4.0.6 Kepler. (more)
In DEVONthink, you can encrypt databases for particularly private or sensitive documents. However, if you accidentally save the key to the macOS keychain, you won’t need to enter it when opening the database. Here’s how to remove the key from the keychain if you don’t want it there. (more)
Smart groups show items that match criteria you specify. They are essentially saved custom searches. DEVONthink To Go comes with a small set of predefined smart groups, but you can also create your own ones. Here is how to do that. (more)
AI inside DEVONthink can be a powerful tool. But when it comes to AI, some users have security concerns, such as possible prompt injections. So, what exactly are they, and are they a risk in DEVONthink? (more)