Tip of the day: 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. #localization #macos #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20231121-change-app-language

DEVONthink To Go 4.0.6 is available. The maintenance update improves the search syntax and custom metadata handling, and updates support for many AI models. It also fixes issues with favorites, PDFs, the Summary popover, smart groups, syncing, and licensing, while making the app generally more stable and less prone to freezes. #devonthinktogo #devonthink #update #ai #artificialintelligence https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthinktogo

Tip of the day: When it comes to #PDF documents, what you see and what is actually there can be two different things. Just because you can read words in the document doesn’t mean it is searchable. Or perhaps you have a searchable #PDF but it’s still not found in a search in #DEVONthink. Here are a few ways to deal with such #PDFs. #macos #paperless #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20230418-pdf-searchable

Tip of the day: When it comes to #PDF documents, what you see and what is actually there can be two different things. Just because you can read words in the document doesn’t mean it is searchable. Or perhaps you have a searchable #PDF but it’s still not found in a search in #DEVONthink. Here are a few ways to deal with such #PDFs. #macos #paperless #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20230418-pdf-searchable

Tip of the day: 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. #automation #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20230321-share-smart-rules

Tip of the day: If you have a need to watermark or put identifying information on #PDFs or images, the Pro and Server editions of #DEVONthink can do this for you. It’s called imprinting and we show you how you set up and use it. #paperless #pdf #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/202040709-imprint-documents

Today's maintenance release of DEVONthink for Mac, version 4.2.2, lets you create powerful AI-driven searches and add tags more reliably via scripting. If you are using JavaScript for your automations, you can now use JS files. In AI, Gemini and Nano Banana get updates, and Claude 3 Haiku retires. We also have a few fixes, including better handling of OPML email attachments. #devonthink #update #ai #gemini #nanobanana #javascript #jxa https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink

Tip of the day: If you look at the File > Database Properties for a #DEVONthink database, the size of the content is shown, summed with all documents, including indexed ones. But when you look at the database file in the Finder, you’ll see the size doesn’t match. Let’s clear this up. #backups #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20250722-understanding-database-sizes

Tip of the day: Thinking about making your automations in #DEVONthink more dynamic using variable values? Combine smart rules or batch processing with metadata you’ve defined yourself. We show you an example how this could work. #automation #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20241105-devonthink-custom-metadata-automation

If you want to take notes about a document in your DEVONthink database, there is a feature for exactly that: the annotation. This is a specialized note document attached to another document. Here is how to create and use them. #devonthink #ai #notetaking #research https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20260303-annotations-devonthink

Tip of the day: There are several reasons to make a copy of a document, e.g., for safety, or because the document could actually belong in multiple locations in your databases. #DEVONthink and #DEVONthinkToGo support two types of copies: duplicates and replicants. Here’s what they are and how to make them. #paperless #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20230524-duplicates-replicants

Tip of the day: If you have groups or tags in a #DEVONthink database and want to use them in another, you may have tried copying them. But this also duplicates the documents. We have a script for you to duplicate only selected groups or tags, leaving their documents behind. #automation #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240820-duplicate-groups-and-tags

Tip of the day: Quick Look is a handy feature that, as the name suggests, allows you to take a quick peek at a file without having to open it. Most Mac apps support Quick Look, including #DEVONthink or EasyFind. And while it may be familiar to you, here are a few tricks you may not know. #macos #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20250923-use-quick-look

Tip of the day: External hard drives are one of the places where you can store your #DEVONthink databases safely. Nevertheless, there are a few things you should bear in mind. Here is, how to move your databases to such a hard drive. #pkm #productivity #safety #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240326-move-databases-externally

Tip of the day: 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. #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20231107-narrow-search-devonthink

Tip of the day: #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. #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20230228-devonthink-interface

There are four different sidebars in a DEVONthink window: Navigate, Reading List, Import, and Extras. The latter is a useful place to get some additional information from us. #devonthink #blog #tips #scripts #templates #smartrules https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20260224-devonthink-extras-sidebar

Tip of the day: We are all familiar with links to our favorite websites. But URLs, uniform resource locators, are not only used for web pages in a web browser. There are other specialized links that can be used with other applications, for example #DEVONthink. #devonthinktogo #pkm #productivity #thirdparties #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20251028-understanding-url-schemes

Tip of the day: We receive probably most of the information that we want to save in #DEVONthink online, via a web browser. If you regularly capture content from the same website, there is a workflow that makes this easier and more productive. We show you, how it works. #capture #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240813-capture-websites

Tip of the day: Many people use #Markdown documents, citing the ability to make global edits to the formatting. In #DEVONthink, similar global edits in the formatting are possible in rich text documents as well. Here is, how that works. #notetaking #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240521-formatting-rich-text