DEVONthink Personal is a knowledge base and information manager.
Everything is digital today. But where to store all these e-mails, PDFs, Word documents, images and multimedia files you accumulate every day? How to organize them, and find the right one when you need it?
DEVONthink is the solution for the digital age, the one database for all your documents. And it's flexible. It adapts to your personal needs. Use it as your document repository, your filing cabinet, your e-mail archive or your project organizer. Collect and organize data from the Web for a publication, enrich it with sound and movie files, and export everything as a Web site, drag it to an Apple Pages document for publishing in print, or copy it to your iPod.
The Database for the Internet Age
DEVONthink keeps your important data in one database, regardless of where the data is physically located. Integrate both local documents and live content from the Internet to keep all project-related information together. Seamlessly mix local documents, clippings and live Web pages.
Your Digital Workplace
DEVONthink is not only a simple database, it's a flexible work environment with powerful management features. It provides you with all the tools you need for effectively working with your documents. Use the integrated RTF editor to write new documents, or open them in a third party application.
Intelligent Assistant
DEVONthink is based on a powerful AI architecture that helps you organize and navigate your information collection. It assists you with filing documents and with finding similar items. Master even huge data collections with a few simple clicks.
Changes for OS X 10.11 El Capitan (public beta)
- Minor bugfixes for issues with OS X El Capitan.
- Improved reliability of backgroung task, especially on OS X El Capitan.
New
- Support added for Markdown images referenced via cross-links.
- "File > Import > References from Bookends" converts the keywords of the references to RTF properties.
- Alternate menu item "Edit > Copy Page Link" added.
- Name of the top group can now be used via a placeholder in templates.
- Improved
- PDF text annotations keep their appearance as long as they're not edited by DEVONthink.
- Borders and background color are supported again by PDF text annotations.
- Dragging events from Calendar into rich text documents inserts back links (requires OS X Yosemite or later). Reminder: It's already possible to insert file links or address-book links by dragging with ⌘Command and ⌥Option held.
- Better HTML-to-text conversion, e.g., used by "Data > Convert" and by indexing.
- Enhanced drag-and-drop support.
- Items created via "Data > New from Template" can usually be renamed immediately.
- Renamed "Set Title As" to "Set Name As" for consistency.
- Further minor user interface enhancements.
- Title of PDF documents displayed live in web views is now used if available.
- Moving groups to external folders retains the creation date of the created folder.
- Simple templates honour the option "Preferences > Import > Titles > Filename with extension".
- Better naming of duplicated documents with a file name extension in their name.
- Installed add-ons are automatically updated after launching a new version; the "Install Add-Ons" panel does not appear in this case.
- License file moved to Application Support to avoid conflicts with preferences cleaners.
- French and German localization.
- Memory management.
- Overall performance and reliability.
Fixed
- "Open Externally" toolbar item was enabled if the default application is the Archive Utility.
- Highlighting multiple lines in PDF documents sometimes removed existing highlighting.
- Rare sync issues.
- Sorter issues and crashes.
- Scanner issue related to updating the destination of multiple items.
- PDFs attached to RTFs were shown on OS X 10.10 Yosemite even if the option "Display PDF attachments of Rich Texts" was disabled.
- Beep removed after trying to export an image via "File > Export > Document".
- Groups could be moved into themselves via the Sorter .
- Updating indexed HTML pages or web archives didn't retain the indexed metadata.
- Exporting as website didn't always create the required CSS file.
- HTML parser could crash DEVONthink Personal in case of invalid HTML code.
- Firefox add-on didn't encode URLs with parameters.
- RTFDs exported as website were sometimes incorrectly escaped.
- Changing the system appearance could crash the application.
- Further minor bugs and glitches.
