DEVONthink Pro

This release brings a wide variety of additions, changes, and improvements. A new preference allows you to decide whether viewed items are marked as read, and a new filter pane finds multimedia documents. With dates being prevalent in many naming conventions, new smart rule actions and AppleScript properties help deal with finding or changing dates. Markdown editing has been polished, including easier indenting of lists, and RTFD documents now support displaying pencil drawings made in DEVONthink To Go 3.5 and later. In addition, several inspectors have seen modifications and the improved sync engine makes Dropbox and iCloud synchronizations more robust. The FAQ is now accessible via the Help menu.

NEW

• Added File > Export > as HTML Bookmarks to export the URLs of all selected items (and their children) as an HTML bookmarks file.
• Added Preferences > General > General > Automatically mark items as read. This option is on by default.
• Added support for RTFD documents containing pencil drawings created by DEVONthink To Go 3.5 or later. The auxiliary attachments are hidden in the editor (in windows, tabs, and the Annotations & Reminders inspector). In addition, saving and indexing of such documents is faster.
• Added Tools > Filter > Multimedia to easily find pictures, videos, or sounds having a certain size or duration. Requires macOS Big Sur or later.
• Added Edit > Insert > Separator to insert a separator line in Markdown documents and formatted notes. This command is also available in contextual menus.
• Added new default smart rule Unify Date In Names.
• Added .raku as a known plain text extension.
• Added .vcard as a known contact extension.
• Added VoiceOver support to the Scripts menu and the Insert Placeholder submenus.
• Added Help > Frequently Asked Questions.
• Added AppleScript property bates number to query the current Bates number, reset the numbering, or define a specific start number.
• Added Name Without Date placeholder and name without date AppleScript property.
• Added attachment count AppleScript property for use with RTFD files.

NEW (Pro)

• Added contextual and action menu item Add Default Templates to Preferences > Data to restore the default items.
• Added attachment count AppleScript property for use with email messages.

Improved

• Improved Markdown WYSIWYG editing and parsing.
• Tab and Shift-Tab increase or decrease the indent level of the current line in Markdown lists. In addition, the index of lines in ordered lists is updated, if necessary.
• Markdown editing detects links, e.g., in YAML metadata and makes them clickable.
• The image destination for Markdown documents (see Preferences > Files > Markdown) supports now also placeholders (e.g. %recordName%).
• Revised default Markdown stylesheet, adds paragraph margins.
• Converting Markdown to PDF or HTML, and rich text to PDF, retains the document's title.
• Converting Markdown and HTML to rich text converts certain metadata to document properties, viewable in the Document > Properties inspector.
• Merging, splitting, exporting, and converting PDF documents as well as post-processing web pages clipped as PDF now validates the output created by macOS to detect text layer corruptions. Use the hidden preference DisablePDFValidation to disable the validation. Documents having more than 100 pages are not validated due to the poor performance.
• Less aggressive blocking of editing of PDF documents containing certain fonts, e.g., ones that may be problematic with macOS' PDF framework.
• Tools > Summarize Highlights now sorts the annotations when used with PDF documents. Additionally, summarizing highlights as Markdown has been updated when Preferences > Files > Markdown > Summaries: Quote highlights instead of retaining style is enabled.
• Improved support for PDF ink annotations made in DEVONthink To Go, e.g., drawing and shapes.
• Revised appearance of highlight, underlined, and strike-through PDF annotations in the Document > Annotations inspector. The marked text is styled and the note is visible too.
• File > Import > Bookmarks from HTML file now supports notes and dates, too, and fixes naming of bookmarks. In addition, the group hierarchy defined in the file is now used.
• YouTube pages can now be more reliably clipped as HTML pages.
• Using a more compatible user-agent when clipping websites if the user-agent isn't provided by a browser extension or a script.
• Improved capturing of formatted notes. Also, optimized performance and memory usage when saving or creating formatted notes to avoid using virtual memory with very large files.
• Improved handling of Down and Right arrow keys when using Icon view. Also, the Home and End keys behave the same in Column view as they do in other views. Lastly, to select and scroll to the first or last item, Command-Up and Command-Down can be used in table or outline views of a sheet as well as Icon or Column views in the item list.
• The First/Previous/Next/Last Document commands in the Go menu are shown as First/Previous/Next/Last Record when a sheet is displayed in the View/Edit pane.
• The Go > To Group popover opens the group in a new window if the Option modifier key is pressed.
• Improved support of Go > Next Unread Item with search results.
• The Table of Contents inspector supports chapters of audio and movie files.
• Excluding a group or tag from See Also in the Info inspector excludes all items in this group or having this tag.
• Improved the automatic layout of the Annotations & Reminders inspector when using lengthy Finder comments or annotations.
• Improved dark mode appearance of the Annotations, Links, and Mentions panes of the Document inspector.
• The preference panes General, Files, Colors, and Server now remember their last used subtab.
• The Install button in the DEVONthink 3 > Install Add-Ons panel is now disabled when no items are enabled for installing.
• The toolbar search field has now a higher priority and a minimum width on macOS Big Sur and later, too.
• Adjusted vertical alignment of the Sorter after switching tabs.
• Improved logging to Windows > Log after database verifications, e.g., via File > Verify & Repair Database. Also, if minimized or hidden, the Log window is made visible and brought to the front if the option to show the log automatically is enabled.
• Cosmetic interface improvements for macOS Big Sur and later.
• The smart rule and batch processing actions Scan Name > Date and Scan Name > Amount now scan the name for a date or amount without having to use prefixes or suffixes, e.g., $*.
• Improved overall performance when setting properties via AppleScript, potentially up to ten times faster, depending on the code of the script and the macOS version.
• Improved description of the create record with AppleScript command.
• If necessary, the add download and start/stop downloads AppleScript commands log a message to the Log window and popover, noting these commands aren't supported by the standard edition of DEVONthink.
• Improved preprocessing of the HTML of dynamic websites, including cookie banners, advertisements, and dynamically or lazily loaded images, before clipping. Updated advertisement filtering.
• Improved consistency of clipping previews in Sorter.
• DEVONthink now remembers the last mount points of encrypted databases and tries to unmount them on startup if this wasn't possible when closing the database or when quitting the application.
• Improved database verification.
• Improved overall reliability of thumbnailing bookmarks.
• Improved reliability and performance of updates via File > Update Indexed Items and filesystem events.
• Windows and views are updated more efficiently after performing smart rules.
• Revealing files in List view and when using View > Sort > by Threads is more reliable.
• Updated SkimNotes framework.
• Improved overall reliability, including in case of permissions issues.

Improved (Pro)

• The resolution of OCR'd files will now match the resolution of the original image. PDFs use the resolution specified in Preferences > OCR > Resolution. If the resolution of an image is below 150 dpi or cannot be extracted, a resolution of 300 dpi will be used.
• Multi-line text custom metadata is now also scanned for item links making them accessible in the Incoming Links pane of the Document > Links inspector. Existing databases might have to be rebuilt if there is already such custom metadata.
• Empty fields cannot be entered in Set data types in the columns of sheets or Preferences > Data.
• The Download Manager has been rewritten for better performance, cookie handling, and improved downloads queue behavior.
• In Preferences > Files > Email, "Download remote images in HTML messages" was renamed to Load remote images in messages.

Improved (Server)

• Improved MIME type handling.

Improved (Sync)

• Small uploads to iCloud (CloudKit) sync locations are more aggressively merged. This may improve performance up to 1.5 times.
• Using new queuing methods, Dropbox syncing is now more robust.
• To reduce resource consumption, sync no longer attempts to compress audio, video, or already compressed files smaller than 32 MB. Files larger than 32 MB are never compressed.
• Improved detection of zero-byte files.
• Error logging uses the database's name instead of the location if the issues are database-specific.

Fixed

• The WYSIWYG display of the source of Markdown documents could show visual artifacts on macOS Monterey. Fixed.
• Line endings in Markdown metadata weren't always parsed correctly. Fixed.
• After editing formatted notes, the base URL was incorrect. Fixed.
• Only item links in the first column of sheets were indexed. Fixed.
• Pressing Return in the last row of a sheet inserted a new record at the wrong position if the last row wasn't currently selected. Fixed.
• Clipping web content as rich text didn't work if there were no HTML keywords on the page. Fixed.
• Image, audio, and video files containing / in the title yielded invalid links after inserting them via drag-and-drop into Markdown documents. Fixed.
• Capturing images from web views failed in case of invalid path extensions by ignoring or resolving the extension. Fixed.
• Images copied and pasted from Firefox could cause the font to change in rich text documents. Fixed.
• Web page elements, e.g., a navigation, of clipped PDF documents were sometimes misaligned. Additionally, clipping single page PDFs could sometimes yield white pages. Fixed.
• The Table of Contents inspector didn't display correctly with Markdown files containing YAML metadata or transclusions. Fixed.
• The height of rows in the Document > Annotations inspector wasn't updated after resizing the inspector. Fixed. In addition, the height of the rows is now unlimited.
• In the Annotations & Reminders inspector, the background color of Markdown annotation files didn't display correctly when using dark mode. Fixed.
• For items not available to classify, the contextual menu incorrectly didn't show the Batch Process command. Fixed.
• In search results, use of Go > Next Unread Item didn't work if no item was selected or there were no unread items. Fixed.
• Downloaded pending plain text and Markdown documents could appear empty until reopening the database. Fixed.
• Deselecting all items in the item list didn't reset the icon of the current tab if the tabs bar was always visible. Fixed.
• Using the (not) within _ days search criterion in smart groups and advanced search criteria didn't always work as expected. Fixed.
• Moving individually Improved reliability and performance, e.g., ones not located in indexed groups, to the trash stripped the Finder tags. Also, indexed items could sometimes put the files in the system trash when choosing to only remove references from the database. Fixed.
• Dates in document titles weren't consistently recognized for all document types. Fixed.
• Brave bookmarks didn't import correctly. Fixed.
• The cached kind of ordinary tags, group tags, and groups wasn't reset after moving or replicating them. Fixed
• Video and image thumbnails set via AppleScript or the Info inspector didn't appear correctly. Fixed.
• DEVONthink could freeze when importing files via the "Global Inbox" folder while smart rules were executing scripts. Fixed.
• The perform smart rule AppleScript command didn't work in Execute Script actions of smart rules. Fixed.
• JavaScript for Automation (JXA) getting or setting the properties data, image, thumbnail, or content, especially in newly created records, didn't work correctly. Fixed.
• PDF thumbnails created via AppleScript weren't always correct on the latest versions of macOS. Fixed.
• The annotation AppleScript property of a record could be set to the same record. Fixed.
• Rare exceptions while handling mouse clicks in split views could cause glitches. Fixed.

Fixed (Pro)

• Smart rules were not always applied to imported or indexed items when background or intensive processes, e.g., OCR or imprinting, were being performed. Fixed.
• Some web content was unnecessarily added to the Download Manager, breaking compatibility with some sites. Also, removing an item from the queue didn't remove the temporary file. Fixed.
• The modification date of imprinted items was no longer updated. Fixed.
• Imprinting many files having the same or similar file names could fail. Fixed.
• Imprinting images or PDF documents manually could execute the wrong smart rule event triggers, e.g., On Labelling. Fixed.
• Double-clicking email contact cards in alternate email view or emails converted to rich text could incorrectly open the contact card image instead of the contact. Fixed.
• Emails weren't shown in the Text Alternative view when Preferences > Files > Email > Use alternative view was enabled. Fixed.

Fixed (Server)

• Preferences > Server had a minor memory leak. Fixed.

Fixed (Sync)

• DEVONthink sometimes would appear to stall on synchronizing when quitting. Fixed.
• Bonjour connections could time out when synchronizing larger or not yet opened databases.
• DEVONthink continually tried to upload missing and pending files even when they weren't available. Fixed.
• Multi-threading could cause a rare Bonjour crash. Fixed.