If you make screenshots and find yourself dragging them to DEVONthink Pro or ProOffice every time, here’s a shortcut for you: You can change the Finder’s location for screenshots to any folder you like. Change this to the Inbox folder and the picture is imported immediately or at least as soon as DEVONthink Pro (Office) is being opened. Follow this description and set the location for new screenshots to “~/Library/Application Support/DEVONthink Pro 2/Inbox/” (without the quotes). From now on new...
Reading tip: “Go Paperless with DEVONthink Pro Office”
Heavy-duty DEVONthink user and workflow addict Kerry Dawson wrote a nice piece on his blog dailymacview.com about going paperless with the Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 and DEVONthink Pro Office: Having accomplished all of this and gotten on the road to a cleaner and more organized work environment its time to pat yourself on the back for a job well done. You’ll definitely appreciate having your documents stored in DEVONthink. A cleaner workspace and knowing your documents are all stored together in...
Switch from Google Reader to DEVONthink Pro
Today Google announced that they would shut down their online RSS reader service Google Reader on July 1, 2013. So if you are a Google Reader subscriber looking for an alternative you may not yet know that DEVONthink Pro and Pro Office are excellent news reader, too! Add any RSS feeds that you want to read in DEVONthink using the menu command Data > New > Feed. Feeds appear just like “living” groups with HTML files for every downloaded article. Just...
Screencast tip: DEVONthink for Tech Information Management
Already two years online but definitely worth watching: Power user Matthew McCullough shares how he uses DEVONthink Pro Office for easily capturing information from the web for offline use and research. Matthew about his screencast: If you are an IT worker and having a hard time keeping up with the stream of knowledge, give DevonThink a try. I use it to capture a permanent archive of all my RSS feeds, which are typically generated via “favorites” and “stars” from Google...
DEVONthink for historians
Historian and power user Rachel Leow has recently published a thorough review of DEVONthink Pro Office in Perspectives on History. She explains how she uses our software for her research and where the obstacles are when trying to reach the Holy Grail, the paperless office. Rachel introduces us into this conundrum: With the increasing ubiquity of digital archives has come the expectation that we must use them; with rapid advances in search technology has come the requirement that our research...
Tuesday tip: Web sharing in a popup window
DEVONthink Pro Office‘s web sharing gives you sort of a simplified version of DEVONthink in a web browser. But how cool would it be if you could open a window to a DEVONthink Pro Office server like a regular app? You can — with Automator. Andy Ihnatko explains how this works on his blog.
Syncing and web sharing explained
In the recent weeks we have released both DEVONthink’s new sync feature as well as a rewritten web interface for DEVONthink Pro Office as public betas via my blog. If you installed the plugins but are still unsure if you really exploit their potential check out our two new screencasts. Thirteen minutes well spent! Ray demonstrates how you can work on one database with multiple users on the local network and how you set up sync locations, e.g Dropbox, and keep your...
New web interface for DEVONthink — public beta 3
Our brand new web interface for DEVONthink Pro Office quickly approaches production status. Here’s a third public beta with more bug fixes and interface polish. Please see the first announcement to learn what is new compared to the current, old web interface. How can I get it? First make sure your system meets the requirements. You’ll need an Intel-based Mac with OS X 10.6.8 or later and DEVONthink Pro Office 2.4.3 (click here to download the latest version). Then click Web Sharing Public Beta...
New web interface for DEVONthink — public beta 2
Two weeks ago we published the first public beta of our brand new web interface for DEVONthink Pro Office. As promised here’s the second public beta with many bug fixes and interface polish. Please see the first announcement to learn what is new compared to the current, old web interface. How can I get it? First make sure your system meets the requirements. You’ll need an Intel-based Mac with OS X 10.6.8 or later and DEVONthink Pro Office 2.4.2 (click here to download...
Article series: How to make your office paperless
Our power user Luc Beaulieu, professor for Physics at the Université Laval and researcher at the Quebec City University hospital, has turned his office completely paperless and shares on his blog how he achieved this, from the hardware and the software (unsurprisingly, DEVONthink Pro Office plays a key role) he uses to his workflow. Working efficiently in the digital world is not as easy as it sounds, in particular as you get more and more files to deal with. Furthermore,...

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