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Where to Find More About AI?

June 17, 2025

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“How can I use generative AI effectively?” — “How do I write a good prompt?“ — As people explore accessing external AI in DEVONthink, questions arise about how to use it. Here we show you two helpful resources about using AI. (more)

How to Paste Text with a Source Link

June 10, 2025

A screenshot of a Microsoft Word window displaying text with a source link that has been pasted into the document.

When doing research and taking notes, it is often helpful to link to specific parts of text in documents, especially PDFs. DEVONthink has two special copy and paste commands that make such linking very fast and effective. (more)

How to Use Versioning in DEVONthink

June 3, 2025

Screenshot of a DEVONthink window, showing the versions inspector. The inspector displays several versions of a Markdown document.

At some point, you have probably worked on a text and created a duplicate to save its current state. For this purpose, DEVONthink offers document versioning. This is a backup mechanism that automatically creates versions of your document when you make edits. Here is a quick introduction to this useful feature. (more)

DEVONthink 4.0 Beta 3

May 28, 2025

DEVONthink 4.0 public beta 3 brings support for the latest AI models, separate summarization settings, and the possibility to exclude documents from being accessed by external AI. And that is, of course, by far not all. (more)

How to Create Images in DEVONthink

May 27, 2025

Screenshot showing DEVONthink's Chat popover. The Chat contains a prompt requesting an image of a Portuguese cathedral, with the generated image displayed below.

There are times when an image would be useful to illustrate something, or just something creatively fun to explore. If you have the Pro or Server edition of DEVONthink and an API key for an AI provider, you can create images directly in DEVONthink. Here is what you need to know. (more)

DEVONthink's Content Inspectors for PDFs

May 20, 2025

Screenshot showing DEVONthink's Content Inspector, displaying a modified table of contents.

The Content inspectors in DEVONthink 4 are especially useful for PDFs, as they provide an overview of the document. You get a table of contents and thumbnails of the document’s pages. With DEVONthink 4, you can also customize a PDF’s outline. (more)

Using Local AI in DEVONthink?

May 12, 2025

Screenshot showing the AI section of DEVONthink's settings.

When it comes to AI in DEVONthink 4, questions of privacy and cost usually come up. In addition to the large commercial products, there also are smaller models that you can install and run locally on your Mac and use in DEVONthink. Here we show you these options. (more)

DEVONthink 4 Suddenly Doesn't Work

May 6, 2025

Starting the last week of April, DEVONthink 4.0 Beta 1 could suddenly ask for a license just. This is a bug in the first beta and we have already fixed it in the second beta. (more)

How to Get an API Key for AI

May 6, 2025

Screenshot showing a window of Anthropic’s Claude application with a request about API access.

In DEVONthink 4, you can use an external AI model like Claude or ChatGPT, e.g., to ask questions about your documents or generate images. For that you need an API key. But what is this and where can you get one? (more)

DEVONthink 4.0 Beta 2

April 30, 2025

Four weeks ago we’ve released the first public beta of DEVONthink 4. Today, we’re following up with public beta 2 which brings support for new AI models, new scripts, interface enhancements, and more. (more)