DEVONthink for Mac

Today's maintenance release brings a few new items as well as many improvements and fixes. To more easily search for documents, you can use document or doc with a kind: search. We have also extended and improved the search syntax, adding, e.g., time components with relative dates, like modified:#6months, and more numerical range searches. For Markdown users, we've addressed some performance issues in editing and added a contextual menu command to jump to linked images in your databases. Sync now works more efficiently with sync stores, avoiding unnecessary actions. We have also fixed several issues with macOS' new operating system and, of course, continue to fine-tune reliability and performance for all supported systems.

New

• A new Reveal Image command in the contextual menu of HTML views, e.g., rendered Markdown, jumps to images linked within a database.
• The Extras sidebar now has a contextual menu with commands for sharing, services, etc.
• When checking for updates, the alert shows a Release Notes button if no updates are available.

Improved

• More robust and faster WYSIWYG editing and syntax coloring, e.g., of HTML and XML files. This can also alleviate potential stalls in Markdown documents with large fonts and many links.
• The Document > Attachments inspector supports and displays Markdown image links using inline attributes, e.g., ![piglet.jpg](assets/piglet.jpg width="50%").
• When using item links where the link text doesn't match the item's name, the location in the Document > Links inspector includes the actual document name.
• Images are added to the database up to four times faster with the Tools > Import Online Markdown Images or the Files > Markdown > Copy images into database setting.
• The Settings > Editing options, e.g., smart quotes, spellchecking, etc., are now supported in formatted notes and web archives.
• Better support for viewing and using .webp images.
• Item links with section parameters support anchors and IDs, making them more useful with web-based documents.
• Improved conversion of PDF documents to Markdown.
• Indexing and converting HTML-based file types to plain text more reliably ignore hidden elements.
• Data > Convert > Duplicates to Replicants skips documents with a missing file.
• The Navigation bar now shows the full location with the database's name of locally linked documents, e.g., when hovering over item links in rich text.
• To save space, the window title no longer appears when using the Icon Only toolbar style on macOS Sequoia.
• Improved updating and appearance of tabs.
• The contextual menus used in documents are now organized more consistently across different file formats. This includes a more simplified menu for HTML, web archives, and formatted notes.
• In the options of the File > Import > Files and Folders command, "Move Originals to Trash" has been renamed to Move Originals into Database.
• Improved support for opening contextual menus via Control-Return on macOS Sequoia.
• You can now use kind:document to limit results to only documents. An abbreviated form, kind:doc, and the original syntax, kind:any, can also be used.
• More numerical search prefixes accept ranges: ratings, number of attachments, number of incoming or outgoing links, and custom metadata with number data types, e.g., rating:2-4 or mdprice:3-3.50.
• The matches operator (:), can be used in date-based search with before (<), after (>), and is (==) operators, e.g., added:<=12-25-2023 searches for items added before or on the 25th of December, 2023.
• Date-based searches using named dates, e.g., "Yesterday", can now use before/after (<, >) and before or on/after or on (<=, >=). For example, added.
• The suffixes week, month, and year can be used with date-based searches, e.g., created:>2weeks. Note: Always use the plural form, e.g., 1days.
• DEVONthink accepts files dropped from other devices via Universal Control.
• The thumbnail creation of third-party file formats, e.g., Microsoft Word, uses Apple's latest framework.
• Geolocations are now more reliably indexed.
• Improved reliability, especially related to filesystem events.
• More reliable unmounting of sparse images of encrypted databases in case of still opened Quick Look, image or video tabs.
• The URL commands, x-devonthink://show-help or x-devonthink://showHelp, now support using anchors to open specific sections of the Help, e.g., x-devonthink://showHelp#inandout.