Updates and More

You can access extras related to this ebook on the web (use the link in Ebook Extras, near the end). On the ebook’s Take Control Extras page, you can:

• Download any available new version of the ebook for free.

• Download various formats, including PDF, EPUB, and Mobipocket. (Learn about reading on mobile devices on our Device Advice page.)

• Read the ebook’s blog. You may find new tips or information, as well as a link to an author interview.

DEVONthink’s Documentation

I refer throughout this book to DEVONthink’s documentation. It’s available within the app via Help > DEVONthink 3 Help; you can also download it in the form of a user handbook in PDF, EPUB, or Kindle (Mobipocket) ebook format from the DEVONthink Handbooks and Extras webpage.

What’s New in This Book

This book is a major revision of Take Control of Getting Started with DEVONthink 2, which was first released in 2010 and eventually went through three different editions. DEVONthink itself has undergone massive changes in version 3; I’ve made comparable changes to this book. First is the title: although I don’t pretend that this is a comprehensive reference guide (such a book would run to many hundreds of pages), I hope to help you do more than get started, and anyway, that old title was a cumbersome mouthful!

Virtually every page of the old book was modified in one or more ways, every graphic was replaced, and numerous topics were added, deleted, or moved to reflect the current capabilities in DEVONthink and DEVONthink To Go.

It would be infeasible to list each of the thousands of changes, but I do want to call your attention to a few of the biggest:

• Explore DEVONthink’s Interface has been completely revamped to reflect the app’s new look and feel.

• I discuss DEVONthink 3’s greatly expanded metadata capabilities in Work with Metadata, and its new ways of using highlights in Work with Highlights.

• The Find Your Information chapter covers the greatly revised searching capabilities and adds several new topics: Use Filters, Use Search Prefixes, Use Smart Groups, and Search Within a Document.

• In Work with Your Information, I cover the new tools for editing documents, how to Add Imprints, and additional options to Convert Document Formats.

• The Automate DEVONthink chapter is new, although it incorporates some of the AppleScript text from the old book. Topics added include Work with Smart Rules, Use Reminders, and Use Smart Templates.

• Since DEVONthink’s built-in web server is now present only in the Server edition, I’ve moved instructions for using it into its own chapter: Use DEVONthink’s Web Server.