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How to Organize Emails in DEVONthink

September 29, 2026

Screenshot showing the smart group editor in DEVONthink witch criteria for matching specific emails.

With the Pro or Server edition, you can use DEVONthink to archive and organize your emails in your databases. Emails have certain identifying attributes you can use for processing them with tags, smart groups or smart rules. Here is how that works. (more)

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How to Reinstall DEVONthink To Go 3

September 22, 2026

Screenshot showing the purchase history in the iOS App Store, displaying DEVONthink To Go.

It’s the season for Apple’s new mobile hardware, but you might not be ready to part with your older device just yet. If you have older hardware that can’t run iOS 26 or later and you need to (re)install DEVONthink To Go 3, here’s how you can do it. (more)

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The Future of Intel Apps

September 8, 2026

Screenshot showing the Get Info pane of EasyFind in the Finder.

You may have seen concerning messages about applications, including some of ours, that won’t work on future macOS versions. But is that a cause for concern, especially for our freeware apps? Here is what you need to know. (more)

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How to Clip Better in DEVONthink

September 1, 2026

Reader view of a bookmark in DEVONthink

We all spend a lot of time on the Internet and clip content into our DEVONthink databases regularly. But web clipping is not trivial, especially as technologies change. In DEVONthink 4.4 Tycho we made this a lot better. (more)

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How to Use DEVONthink's Dock Icon

August 25, 2026

Screenshot showing the context menu of DEVONthink's dock icon.

An application’s icon is typically considered as just something to click on to launch it. However, many developers add information and commands to the context menu of an app’s Dock icon, and DEVONthink is no exception. Here is a quick overview of what you’ll find there. (more)

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How to Use a 3-2-1 Backup

August 18, 2026

Screenshow showing Time Machine in the macOS menu bar, displaying backup progress and schedule.

One of those topics we often talk about in support and on our forums is being diligent about backups. At a minimum, an external hard drive and Time Machine are much better than no backups. But a more robust option is the 3-2-1 backup strategy. Here we explain what that is and how you could do it. (more)

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How to Replace Text with a Batch Process

August 11, 2026

Screenshot showing the find and replace action in a batch process configuration in DEVONthink.

Batch processing is a simple type of automation in DEVONthink that you can use to quickly make changes to multiple items at once. One useful action is text replacement. Here’s how you can use that. (more)

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How to Use a Conditional Automation

August 4, 2026

Screenshot showing the input field for the Chat - Continue if smart action in the batch process editor in DEVONthink.

The Pro and Server editions of DEVONthink have a specialized action for smart rules and batch processes called Chat – Continue if, that uses external AI to determine if a process should continue. Here is how to create conditional automations with it. (more)

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Comparing Apple Vision and OCR

July 28, 2026

Screenshot of the Data menu in DEVONthink, where the OCR action is selected.

When creating searchable documents from images or PDF documents in DEVONthink Pro or Server, there are two mechanisms that process them: Apple’s Vision framework or traditional OCR. While seemingly similar in output, there are important differences between them. (more)