DEVONthink for Mac

Today's maintenance release introduces a new hidden preference that allows clicked links to open in the foreground. Additionally, it now recognizes scans from Doxie scanners, enhancing compatibility. The update also improves the detection of copied Markdown content, making it easier to paste into other Markdown documents, and optimizes MultiMarkdown code for better viewing and conversion. We have also enabled See Also searches to be limited to the current database, providing more focused results, and filtered queries in AppleScript now run significantly faster. Lastly, we've addressed various crashes and issues to make DEVONthink more robust and reliable.

New

• A new hidden preference OpenLinksInForeground makes clicked links always open in the foreground, including when opening documents externally.

New (pro)

• Added the Doxie scanner software to the list of known scanning applications.

Improved

• Improved linebreaks when working with ordered lists in Markdown.
• Optimized MultiMarkdown code speeds up viewing and converting Markdown documents.
• Anchored links in HTML pages are more reliably handled.
• Sheets in table view mode look better in both light and dark mode and preserve column order and column widths.
• Better support for dropping .webp and .avif files from Safari, e.g., into Markdown documents.
• Opening a favorite document, e.g., via double-click or the Go > Favorites menu, now always opens it in a new document window.
• Newly created items made via the Data > New > With Clipboard command can be immediately renamed. Note the setting Files > Import > Select (and display) new notes automatically must be enabled.
• The Content > Table of Contents inspector now supports section links in web documents having an anchor with an ID right before headings.
• If Current database only is enabled in the See Also & Classify inspector, searching for a group is now also limited to the current database.
• The Help button in the File > Restore Backup and Tools > Batch Process panels links to the related section in the documentation.
• Markdown content on the clipboard is now better detected.
• A revised user-agent improves overall compatibility, e.g., to Bloomberg feeds.
• The event triggers Before Synchronization and After Synchronization no longer trigger if the smart rule doesn't target a synchronized database.
• Greatly improved performance of AppleScript's filtering terms, whose and where, when retrieving database items, e.g., count of (contents of current database whose exclude from Wiki linking is false).

Improved (Pro)

• The "Move original to trash" option of the File > Import > Images (with OCR) command is now Move originals into database.

Fixed

• Some specific sites and the context menu of bookmarks and some web-based documents could cause a crash. Fixed.
• The position of the insertion mark in text documents wasn't restored when revisiting a document. Fixed.
• The text editor could behave unexpectedly in dark mode, especially if Format > Show Invisible Characters was enabled. Fixed.
• Using Edit > Copy Section Link on a Markdown document incorrectly copied the paragraph link. Fixed.
• The metadata of Markdown documents whose first line ended with a colon wasn't parsed correctly. Fixed
• With WYSIWYG editing enabled for Markdown documents, links of HTML tags didn't always include the trailing slash. Fixed.
• Autocompletion of Markdown transclusions didn't always work correctly. Fixed.
• Data detectors were always used in PDF documents, even when explicitly disabled in the Editing > General > Substitutions settings. Fixed.
• PDF documents couldn't be converted to web archives. Fixed.
• Columns in sheets with data types Set or Single-line Text didn't support values with commas, e.g., "Steinbeck, John". Fixed.
• When creating a video note, iPhones supporting Apple's Continuity Camera weren't shown as input options. Fixed.
• Clipping content via the Sorter didn't always show if an item already existed in an open database. Fixed.
• Clipping formatted notes from our forum always showed a black background and clipped web archives would incorrectly open the print panel when viewed. Fixed.
• An unnecessary alert was shown when exporting a database archive if filename extensions were disabled in the Finder.
• When renaming items in the item list, the field editor was incorrectly sized and placed in List and Column views. Fixed.
• With a feed, group, or smart group selected, closing a main window required pressing ⌘W twice when the DisplayGroupsInPreviewPane setting was enabled and the view/edit pane disabled. Fixed.
• Selecting an item in the view/edit pane switched to the item selected in the item list when the DisplayGroupsInPreviewPane hidden setting was enabled and a group was visible in the view/edit pane. Fixed.
• When renaming a database in the Navigate sidebar, the background color was incorrect. Fixed.
• Cancelling a background process, like splitting a PDF into chapters, could freeze DEVONthink. Fixed.
• The Help buttons in several places in the interface weren't working correctly. Fixed.
• The Trial or Update button was misplaced and didn't always behave correctly. Fixed.
• Activating a license incorrectly could show a warning on already licensed installations. Fixed.