Devonian Times

DEVONthink 4.4 Tycho turns your AI assistant into a genuine co-worker: a new AI Library lets you build and trigger roles, prompts, and skills, and the Chat assistant can use MCP tools directly. Markdown gets a big upgrade too, with live WYSIWYG tables and MathJax, LaTeX/PDF export, and a distraction-free Reader view.

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.

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.

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.

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.