Many of you are using DEVONthink Pro Office as the heart of your paperless office. And no paperless office without scanning. Therefore we have now completely rewritten our DEVONthink scanner support and updated it to use the latest Apple technology. The new scanner interface now fully supports all flatbed, sheet-fed, wireless, and network scanners as well as digital cameras and all iDevices with a camera that can be accessed also through the Image Capture application Before we make this plugin...
Web tip: Working with templates
German power user ”Denkenswert” writes in his blog about how to use DEVONthink more productively. In two articles he talks about how to use pre-fab and user-defined templates to work faster with DEVONthink. Templates können einfache Dateien sein, die dann direkt als Vorlage benutzt werden. DEVONthink unterstützt aber auch komplexere Templates, die Skripte enthalten können und auch mehrere Sprachvarianten. Diese Templates werden in AppleScript packages verpackt. Nach aussen stellen sie sich wie einfache Dateien dar. If you read German make...
Reading tip: SEND
“The medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan wrote in 1964, meaning that the form of the medium is part of every message and influences how the message is perceived. And this is even more true since the invention of the Internet with email, newsgroups, forums, and text chat. Another reading tip for this holiday season: ”SEND: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home” by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe. GigaOm blogger Nancy Nally about the book: The authors of “SEND”...
Reading tip: “The Most Human Human”
Still nothing to read during the holidays? If you are interested in artificial intelligence, the Turing Test, and chatbots and would like to read something that makes you think have a look at Brian Christian’s ”The Most Human Human”. Here’s what Laura Miller says about it: But the advantage of a book like “The Most Human Human” is that even when it’s wrong, it does make you think. Reading it, I constantly found my mind pinging off of whatever Christian was...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
All of us here at DEVONtechnologies wish you and your family a pleasant and peaceful Christmas time. May it be a time of peace and reflection for all of you, wherever in the world you are, whatever religion you believe in, and whatever culture you are part of. Yours Eric Böhnisch-Volkmann & the DEVONtechnologies team PS: Our office will be closed from December 23, 2011, to January 8, 2012. Support will be available by email but we might reply slower...
Language Switcher and DEVONthink
Some people use TJ HD’s excellent Language Switcher to start applications with a localization different than the system’s default language. Unfortunately this only starts the app in the other localization but breaks proper localization support for internal but independent elements such as smart templates or AppleScript scripts. So if you are using Language Switcher and experience that some smart templates or scripts don’t work please use it without Language Switcher.
Tuesday Tip: Create your own HUD
Keyboard Maestro allows you to automate things in almost any Mac app and assign it a shortcut. Even cooler is that when you assign the same shortcut to multiple macros Keyboard Maestro shows a head-up display with a list of all macros with this shortcut for you to choose from. Create e.g. a number of macros that all create a new document in DEVONthink of a certain type. Assign them all Command-N. When you now press Command-N you are presented...
Email from a satisfied customer
From time to time I cannot resist to posting some feedback we receive, especially when it’s from people who usually don’t give any feedback to companies. Like Tony Vanderharst from Melbourne, Australia: […] It is excellent. I never give feedback to anybody unless I am really, really extremely frustrated and dissatisfied with something (by definition a grumpy old git). So this email is a bit of a departure. Well done on developing such a marvellous, easy to use and useful piece of software....
Support TidBITS and save on DEVONthink & Co.
Our friends over at TidBITS, one of the longest-running Internet publications, have set up a new membership program to support their excellent news service. By joining as a member you do not only support the editors but you also get access to some cool benefits like an ad-free view on the website, a full-text RSS feed, early access to new articles, and great discounts on all Take Control ebooks and Mac software like LaunchBar, 1Password, and … DEVONthink, DEVONagent Pro,...
Vote for the best Mac productivity app @ TUAW
The great people at The Unofficial Mac Weblog (TUAW) are asking for your vote for the best Mac productivity app. If you have a few spare seconds please click here and cast in your vote for your favorite.
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