DevonThink Personal

Everything is digital today. But where to store all these e-mails, PDFs, Word documents, images and multimedia files you accumulate every day? How to organize them, and find the right one when you need it?

DEVONthink is the solution for the digital age, the one database for all your documents. And it's flexible. It adapts to your personal needs. Use it as your document repository, your filing cabinet, your e-mail archive or your project organizer. Collect and organize data from the web for a publication, enrich it with sound and movie files, and export everything as a web site, drag it to an Apple Pages document for publishing in print, or copy it to your iPod.

The Database for the Internet Age: DEVONthink keeps your important data in one database, regardless of where the data is physically located. Integrate both local documents and live content from the Internet to keep all project-related information together. Seamlessly mix local documents, clippings and live web pages.

Your Digital Workplace: DEVONthink is not only a simple database, it's a flexible work environment with powerful management features. It provides you with all the tools you need for effectively working with your documents. Use the integrated RTF editor to write new documents, or open them in a third party application.

Intelligent Assistant: DEVONthink is based on a powerful AI architecture that helps you organize and navigate your information collection. It assists you with filing documents and with finding similar items. Master even huge data collections with a few simple clicks.

What is new in this release:

NEW

• '.fountain' added to list of known plain text extensions.
• Option Preferences > Media > Markdown > Edit/Preview documents added.

Improved

• Editing of HTML pages saves checkboxes and text fields of forms too.
• Simplified scanning of multiple pages.
• Revised Preferences > Media pane.
• It's possible to drag tags onto tagging fields, e.g., the Tag bar or the Info panel.
• Windows are now automatically saved five minutes after the last modification instead of every five minutes.
• Less flickering while moving or resizing PDF annotations (macOS Sierra 10.12.2 PB4 and later).
• Better graphics card handling on MacBooks with discrete graphics card.
• Manually checking for updates reports now also versions that should be skipped.
• Localization.

Improved (Sync)

• Command Download Pending Records added to contextual and action menus.
• The dialog to create local sync stores validates the last used folder and switches to a valid folder if necessary.
• Dialogs to create or edit WebDAV sync locations no longer accept URLs containing '.dtCloud'.
• Extended sync store and direct connection data speeds up especially Mac-to-Mac transactions.
• Icon of Import Database button flipped

Fixed

• Issues related to bugs in PDFKit (macOS Sierra).
• Issues related to scanning.
• Issue where the PDF sidebar did not support reordering and dropping (macOS Sierra).
• Issue where closing modified document windows saved them independently of whether changes should be saved or not.
• Issue where the search engine didn't find all occurrences for proximity operators using wildcards, e.g., 'word1 NEAR word2*'.
• Issue where text in formatted notes created by the Sorter appeared grey.
• Issue where the email preview didn't work anymore since DEVONthink Personal 2.9.7.
• Issue where changing, e.g., label colors wasn't persistent anymore (macOS Sierra).

Fixed (Sync)

• Crash related to the Dropbox SDK.

Known issues (macOS Sierra)

• Flickering while resizing or moving PDF annotations, again due to PDFKit bugs.
• Encrypted PDF documents can't be unlocked; guess it: PDFKit bugs.
• Note PDF annotations can't be opened or expanded. No kidding, it's PDFKit.

What is new in version 2.9.7:

NEW

• Support for OmniOutliner 5 '.ooutline' files.
• Commands for inserting checkboxes into formatted notes, HTML pages, or web archives.

Improved

• Document windows are now automatically saved like main windows, e.g., after deactivating the window or the application, and both document and main windows are automatically saved every five minutes.
• Completely overhauled scanning user interface; it's also now possible to navigate away whilst scanning is in progress.
• More sophisticated HTML clean-up when converting or capturing formatted notes.
• Text entered into forms is saved for formatted notes.
• The alternate email view is enabled by default to make it easier to access attachments.
• Reveal is now also available in contextual menus of smart groups of databases.
• Thumbnails of bookmarks can be updated too.
• RTFD attachments show their size.
• Revised indexing of email messages; requires rebuilding the database to take full advantage of this change.
• Reliability of saving and restoring the order and width of columns.
• Reliability of PDF sidebar (macOS Sierra).
• Reliability of check for update (macOS Sierra).
• Checking for updates activates a hidden or minimized Sparkle window.
• Error logging and reporting.

Improved (Sync)

• Databases are, if possible, synchronized to different locations concurrently.
• Downloading pending records prefers faster sync locations if a database is synchronized via multiple locations.
• Downloading chunks of large files is now multi-threaded too. Can speed up especially the download of the last or only large file from remote sync stores.
• Reliability of Bonjour server settings.
• Only severe sync issues open the Log panel now automatically, independent of the Show log automatically option.
• Logging.

Fixed

• Crashes related to displaying PDF documents (macOS Sierra 10.12.2).
• Issue where the message 'The selected folder is not writable' appears after scanning a page (macOS Sierra).
• Issue where the label of pages wasn't drawn in PDF sidebar (workaround for macOS Sierra).
• Issue where the last page of PDF documents couldn't be deleted via the sidebar.
• More issues related to the PDF sidebar (workarounds for macOS Sierra).
• Issue where rotating an image right after renaming could corrupt it.
• Issue where sent messages weren't shown in File > Import > Emails (macOS Sierra).
• Issue where the Reference from EndNote template didn't work correctly due to wrong permissions.
• Issue where the automatic update of menu extra scripts launched the menu extra.
• Issue where splash screens could be white on regular user accounts on non-Retina displays.

Fixed (Sync)

• Issue where downloading receipts from sync stores could crash the application.
• Rare crash related to internal checks.

Known issues (macOS Sierra)

• The PDF sidebar doesn't support reordering pages with drag-and-drop due to PDFKit bugs.
• Flickering while resizing or moving PDF annotations, again due to PDFKit bugs.
• Encrypted PDF documents can't be unlocked; guess it: PDFKit bugs.
• Note PDF annotations can't be opened or expanded. No kidding, it's PDFKit.

What is new in version 2.9.6:

NEW

• Smart groups and advanced searches support 'not within last x days' conditions.
• PDF views support adding and editing links.
• HTML pages outside of feeds support WYSIWYG editing.

Improved

• Importing files and folders exported by ELO Office.
• Sharing extension accepts images, e.g., from browsers now too.
• PDF sidebars support Services.
• Reveal and Move To Trash contextual menu items of Windows > Log panel support multiple selections.
• Captured or converted formatted notes no longer strip form and input tags, e.g., checkboxes.
• State of checkboxes in formatted notes is retained.
• Scanning is more compatible to macOS Sierra.
• Smart group editor converts multiple 'kind' conditions to a valid smart group using compound predicates.
• Finder tags are updated more often.
• Sharing extensions work better with multiple copies of DEVONthink or DEVONnote installed.
• CPU usage of sharing extension while waiting for data.
• Registration of Services.
• Handling of temporary directories.
• Localization.
• Overall reliability.

Improved (Sync)

• Reading positions are now optionally synchronized.
• Database properties are now always synchronized.
• Up to two times faster sending and receiving of small files via Bonjour.
• Bonjour timeout handling.
• Scheduled synchronizations are only delayed for ten seconds after waking up.
• Cached records are validated and dismissed if necessary.
• More useful error message in case of WebDAV 501 errors ('Not supported').
• Garbage collection of sync stores.
• Overall reliability.

Fixed

• Issue where the PDF sidebar did no longer support inserting, pasting, or deleting pages (workaround for macOS Sierra).
• Issue where found occurrences in PDF documents were not highlighted reliably anymore (workaround for macOS Sierra).
• Issue were the PDF sidebar wasn't reloaded after rotating pages (workaround for macOS Sierra).
• Issue where editing PDF forms no longer marked the document as modified (workaround for macOS Sierra).
• Issue where selected pages couldn't be dragged from the PDF sidebar to other views, windows, or applications (macOS Sierra).
• Issue where PDF views didn't support Services (macOS Sierra).
• Issue where PDF views didn't always receive the keyboard focus after selecting an annotation.
• Issue where DEVONthink Personal wasn't always able to capture the URL from the frontmost application (workaround for macOS Sierra).
• Issue where hidden '.DS_Store' files created by the Finder caused unnecessary console messages when synchronizing.
• Crash related to importing a remote database (macOS Sierra).
• Crash related to right- or Control-clicking tags in the Tags view (macOS Sierra).

Removed

• OpenMeta support on OS X Mavericks.
• Hidden preference 'DisableOpenMeta'.

Known issues on macOS Sierra

• The PDF sidebar doesn't support reordering pages with drag-and-drop due to PDFKit bugs.
• Flickering while resizing or moving PDF annotations, again due to PDFKit bugs.
• Encrypted PDF documents can't be unlocked; guess it: PDFKit bugs.

What is new in version 2.9.5:

NEW

• Alerts dismissed with "Don't show again" can be brought back (see Preferences > General).
• '.ts' (MPEG-2 transport stream) added to list of known video extensions.

Changed for macOS Sierra

• Preferences > General > Labels > Dots (Mavericks) renamed to Dots (macOS).
• Renamed 'Mac OS X' to 'macOS' in alerts.
• Disk image is code-signed and includes an alias to the Applications folder.
• Templates no longer have custom icons as they break code-signing now.

Improved

• Notifications include thumbnails.
• Videos can be zoomed to 25 or 50 percent.
• Time column of the Log panel is now resizable.
• Tabbing through entry fields in the Info panel activates the creation and modification date fields too.
• Viewing a pending, not yet available, document doesn't mark it as read.
• Tools > Verify & Repair is now able to recognize records without a valid UUID; this can fix sync discrepancies.
• When DEVONthink Personal discovers missing files it now always shows the Log panel.
• Icon views reload faster in case of large selections.
• Moving items to external folders is more reliable.
• The sharing extension uses the correct DEVONthink Personal icon now.
• Overall reliability.

Improved (Sync)

• Added new Every minute schedule
• Add Dropbox Account contextual and action menu items renamed to Add Dropbox Location if there's already a Dropbox location.
• Local sync stores can't be created in the Documents and Desktop folders on macOS Sierra anymore if these folders are synchronized with iCloud Drive.
• Up to 13 times faster cleaning of Dropbox and WebDAV sync stores
• More efficient handling of sync store downloads avoids multiple downloads.
• Temporary files are removed more often and so less disk space is used.
• Dropbox uploads no longer require temporary files.
• More reliable handling of temporary files.
• More reliable handling of encryption keys
• More reliable and more efficient handling of database sync status.
• Pending files don't abort sync store uploads anymore; a warning is logged instead.
• Interrupted sync store commits are now resumed and don't cause unnecessary downloads anymore.
• Handling of failed sync store uploads; critical master/manifest files are now always verified.
• Handling of network errors and of errors of the Dropbox SDK.
• Handling of errors when zipping document packages.
• Stricter checking of WebDAV HTTP status codes; might improve reliability in case of unexpected server responses.
• Validation of file names.
• Missing files are immediately logged while uploading.
• Sync is aborted when loading the status fails; this shouldn't happen unless there's a hardware or filesystem defect.
• Automatic synchronization is performed less often after certain errors and therefore fewer errors are logged.
• Logging.
• Overall reliability.

Fixed

• Multitude of issues with the PDF sidebar and PDF views in general (macOS Sierra).
• Issue where Help > Report Bug and Data > Send by Email didn't work if Apple Mail was the default email client (macOS Sierra).
• Issue where the print panel of PDF documents didn't support page scaling and rotating (macOS Sierra).
• Issue where the encoding of new formatted notes containing Asian characters was wrong.
• Issue where saving Markdown notes with Chinese characters from the Sorter didn't work.
• Issue where the initial size of movie windows could exceed the screen size.
• Issue where the progress indication didn't always work correctly on Mac OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra.
• Issue where toolbar items caused unnecessary console messages (macOS Sierra).
• Crashes related to columns view (macOS Sierra).
• Crash related to printing a text view (macOS Sierra).

Fixed (Sync)

• Issue where it was possible to create identical sync locations.
• Issue where the information in Preferences > Sync whether local databases would be merged or uploaded wasn't always correct.
• Issue where canceling a sync store download didn't stop the operation completely.
• Issue where sync store databases that are currently being cleaned were not ignored when listing databases.
• Issue where migrating the Application Support folder to another computer or account used the former manifest chains.
• Issue where too short timeouts could occur while opening databases automatically on the remote computer.
• Issue where generated file names, e.g. automatically named notes, could be too long.
• Issue where sync store uploads weren't always resumed after quitting the application while uploading.
• Issue where groups or feeds were not always moved to the desired destination or deleted after interrupted Bonjour transactions.
• Issue where the garbage collection could cause a threading issue.
• Issue where the garbage collection was unnecessarily initialized even without uploads.
• Issue where conflicts of feeds could cause lots of logging due to failed and unnecessary duplication attempts.
• Crash related to WebDAV transfers.
• Crash related to Bonjour transfers.

Removed

• Redundant Tab menu items from the Window menu (macOS Sierra).

Known issues on macOS Sierra

• The PDF sidebar doesn't highlight the selected pages, is quite often completely empty, and doesn't support drag-and-drop due to PDFKit bugs.
• Flickering while resizing or moving PDF annotations, again due to PDFKit bugs.
• PDF commands to insert or delete pages are not yet available.

What is new in version 2.9.4:

NEW

• Data > Send by Email and Help > Report Bug support Airmail 3.
• '.rst' (ReStructured text) added to list of known plain text extensions.

Improved

• Help > Contact sends messages via the default email client again instead of opening a web form.
• Drag-and-drop provides more data to third-party applications, e.g. to Tinderbox.

Improved (Sync)

• Dot added to Synchronize and Synchronize All toolbar items indicating unsynchronized changes, similar to DEVONthink To Go.
• Long location labels in Preferences > Sync are truncated in the middle now.
• Progress indication now includes, if possible, the database name too.
• After disabling synchronization of a database, the date of the last synchronization is still displayed.
• Reliability of Bonjour connections and Bonjour timeout handling.
• Better resolving of Bonjour services; addresses have a higher priority than host name and port again.
• Better handling of Bonjour templates, e.g. in case of varying host names.
• Bonjour servers are automatically restarted with a different name in case of a conflict.
• More aggressive chunking of static and small items in sync stores; requires less bandwidth, less disk space, and fewer files, and speeds up sync-store-related operations up to 3.7 times.
• More precise chunking of items to avoid memory peaks on iOS.
• Obsolete files and manifests of sync stores, e.g. incomplete uploads, are deleted right after successfully completing an upload.
• Reliability of creating sync stores.
• Reliability of committing downloads from sync stores.
• Uploading to sync stores now always checks whether the database contains pending items and cancels the synchronization in that case.
• Dropbox conflict handling.
• Timeout and cache handling of WebDAV requests.
• Canceling WebDAV requests on OS X 10.10 (or later) and iOS.
• Error handling for local sync stores.
• Overall performance and memory management.

Fixed

• Issue where editing preferences, e.g. spell checking, weren't applied after toggling Markdown view.
• Issue where reloading a modified web archive didn't save the changes.
• Issue where the Sorter always created RTFD notes even if the rich text didn't contain any attachments.
• Crash of the Sorter after removing a group if the full visibility is disabled in Preferences > Sorter.

Fixed (Sync)

• Issue where WebDAV authentication could fail on OS X10.10 (or later) with passwords containing special characters.
• Issue where Bonjour and sync store synchronizations of the same database could happen concurrently on the server.
• Issue where deletions while importing databases could be skipped in case of interrupted commits.
• Issue where RTFD documents without attachments, created by the Sorter, weren't readable anymore outside of DEVONthink for Mac after synchronizing.
• Issue where no error was displayed after entering wrong WebDAV credentials on OS X 10.10 (or later) and iOS.
• Issue where trashing non-empty groups did not always successfully delete the group so that empty groups could remain in the trash (especially on iOS).
• Issue where the Activity window wasn't always closed after synchronizing in the background.
• Issue where the progress indication while downloading from sync stores wasn't correct.
• Crash related to sync stores.
• Crashes related to (unreliable) Bonjour connections.

Removed

• Useless Synchronize All menu and toolbar items.
• Useless Bonjour option to open databases automatically.

What is new in version 2.9.2:

NEW

• Smart group and advanced search condition Instance is Pending for finding items not yet downloaded by sync.
• Synchronize All item that can be added to toolbar.

Improved

• Finder tags of indexed items are immediately set, e.g. after adding tags on iOS.
• More reliable uploads to and downloads from sync stores in case of interruptions, e.g. due to an unreliable network.
• Bonjour locations prefer host name and port now. After a failure to open a Bonjour connection, the service is resolved again.
• Canceling of Dropbox requests.
• Multi-threading of sync store operations.
• Compatibility to HTTP proxies.
• Overall reliability of sync.
• Handling of process activity disables system sleep and prevents sudden or automatic app terminations.

Fixed

• Issue where new WebDAV locations didn't accept invalid HTTPS certificates.
• Issue where tags were not added to notes being sent from the Sorter to global inbox.
• Issue where server volumes could be mounted twice for local sync stores in rare cases.
• Issue where an incorrect file name provided by iOS was used.
• Issue where the number of missing entries reported by quick verification of sync stores was usually too high.
• Issue where old sync betas where not correctly removed.

What is new in version 2.9:

NEW

• NEXT-GENERATION SYNCHRONIZATION.
• Email messages (.emlx) files containing HTML content can be converted to HTML and formatted notes and are supported by website export. Requires OS X Yosemite or later.
• Navigation toolbar item of main windows supports text-only mode.
• Added '.ips.beta' to list of known plain text extensions.

Improved

• Handling of selections with thousands of items made up to 2000 times faster.
• Renamed Help > Bookmarklets to Help > Extensions & Bookmarklets.
• Clipping web pages as rich text or formatted note strips unnecessary headers created by Instapaper's reformatting.
• The default plain text font is now Menlo Regular 11pt.
• Thumbnails of very long PDF pages, e.g. captured web pages, are now scaled to width.
• Thumbnails of images with opaque alpha channel are stored as JPEG files and use much less space than before. Speeds up the synchronization and reduces sync store size.
• Search syntax is removed before copying search queries to find pasteboard so that Edit > Find > Find Next/Previous can be used more often immediately.
• Handling of tab stops of plain text views.
• Missing indexed files/folders located on unmounted volumes aren't reported anymore by Tools > Verify & Repair.
• VoiceOver support.
• Parsing of '.DSStore' files.
• Handling of background tasks.
• Error handling.

Fixed

• Thumbnails of PDF documents, e.g. merged images, sometimes used the wrong size.
• Text of .emlx files wasn't indexed and .emlx files couldn't be converted to plain text on OS X Yosemite.
• Glitches of token fields in HUD windows.
• Glitch of Info panel.
• Corrupted '.DS_Store' files could crash DEVONthink Personal.
• Memory leaks.

What is new in version 2.8.9:

NEW

• Importing and indexing support folder tags. Tags of groups are exported and tags of indexed groups are immediately applied.
• Images can be dropped into formatted notes too.
• Document windows support fullscreen window mode (OS X El Capitan or later).
• Optional "reveal" parameter of x-devonthink-item links can be used to reveal groups.

Improved

• Take Note panel restores unsaved contents after closing or quitting.
• Pressing the ?Option modifier key changes the Select font buttons to Reset (see Preferences > General and Preferences > Web) to easily restore the default fonts.
• Sharing extension is more compatible, e.g. to Tinderbox 6.4.
• Captured images, links, bookmarks, or notes are named smarter.
• Rebuilding retains addition date.
• Tools > Verify & Repair checks external files in the background.
• Templates updated.
• Data > Merge logs skipped records.
• File permissions of temporary files are corrected after importing.
• Error message in case of unmounted volumes is clearer.
• Documentation added for item links.
• Installation of Firefox extension opens Mozilla Add-Ons page in Firefox.
• Overall reliability and performance.

Fixed

• Issue where copying selected rows of table views failed on OS X El Capitan.
• Issue where tags entered into the Tags bar weren't always saved.
• Issue with Format > Show Invisible Characters being incompatible to rich text documents containing tables.
• Issue where the entered name was ignored when adding one file via Add to DEVONthink Personal service.
• Issue with PDF highlight annotations in case of rotated pages (workaround for issue in OS X).
• Issues with PDF line annotations (workaround for issues in OS X El Capitan).
• Issue with reverting documents.
• Issue with text templates containing date placeholders in the title failing depending on the system date format.
• Issue where the width of the Activity panel couldn't be increased.
• Issue where changing the column font didn't update visible windows.
• Issues with the automatic hiding of the Sorter on OS X El Capitan.
• Issue that allowed creation of smart groups with invalid parameters.
• Issue where scanning as image didn't use the correct file type.
• Issue that could slow down or freeze the application when reading damaged .DS_Store files.
• Vulnerability in Sparkle framework (used for downloading and installing updates).
• Further minor bugs and glitches.

Removed

• OpenMeta is no longer used on OS X Yosemite or later.

What is new in version 2.8.8:

Improved

• Better Tinderbox integration. Multiple copied notes can now be pasted to DEVONthink Personal including backlinks and tags; DEVONthink Personal creates plain or rich notes depending on the pasted contents. Requires Tinderbox 6.3.2 or later.
• Copied or dragged selections of PDF documents include images on OS X El Capitan or later. Converting PDF documents to rich texts retains images too.
• Creating a new group adds the group immediately to the recent destinations.
• Activity panel.
• VoiceOver support.
• Overall reliability and performance.

Fixed (OS X El Capitan)

• Issue with dragging multiple email messages to the Sorter.
• Issue with unrealiable installation of Clip to DEVONthink.
• Issue where Clip to DEVONthink couldn't always capture paginated PDF documents on OS X Yosemite and El Capitan.
• Issue with deadlocks caused by PDF sidebar.
• Issue where footers and headers were flipped when printing web views.

Fixed

• Crash of Sorter after deleting a group that has been already deleted in DEVONthink Personal.
• Crash when closing DEVONthink Personal after scanning.
• Issue of File > Import > From Scanner or Camera where it couldn't find the scanner's functional unit, i.e. flatbed, sheet feeder.
• Issues where the destination property was ignored when creating a document using File > Import > From Scanner or Camera.
• Issue where printed PDF documents weren't automatically rotated.
• Issue where smart groups named without alpha-numeric characters couldn't be created.
• Issue where corrupted or not supported EXIF comments could bloat the index.
• Issue where window titles weren't updated after renaming a database via sync.
• Issue where an internal calculation could freeze DEVONthink Personal for some time in case of documents with thousands of pages.
• Issue where inserting an image into an RTF document right after another attachment duplicated the first attachment instead of inserting the new one.
• Issue that created unnecessary Console messages.
• Minor bugs and glitches.

What is new in version 2.8.7:

Changes for OS X El Capitan

• Support for App Transport Security.
• Fixed glitches during drag-and-drop on icon views.
• Fixed fullscreen document window handling.
• Fixed issues with launch and progress panels not showing.

NEW

• "Reset Fill Color" added to PDF annotations panel.

Improved

• Import from Evernote groups all attachments, cross-links the attachments, and always imports images regardless how the note was originally created by Evernote.
• Synchronization (both Mac/Mac and Mac/iOS) is faster and more reliable.
• Importing and indexing is up to twice as fast depending on metadata and filesize. DEVONthink Personal uses the hidden .DS_Store files instead of AppleScript to read Spotlight comments.
• PDF history requires less "Go > Back" actions.
• Videos in web views support fullscreen viewing.
• PDF printing support.
• Accessibility support of navigation bar.
• Rebuilding retains all dates, e.g. to improve synchronization afterwards.
• Automatically updated user agent of web views should be more compatible to modern websites (especially on OS X Yosemite or El Capitan).
• Faster creation of Web archives and HTML previews of third-party file formats.
• About two times faster sorting by location.
• Faster reloading of user interface.
• Fullscreen window handling.
• Handling of split view of "Search" windows in widescreen mode.
• Handling of filesystem events.
• Optimized resolving of aliases.
• MultiMarkdown engine updated to version 4 and SkimNotes framework to version 1.3.3.
• Memory consumption.
• Overall reliability and performance.

Fixed

• Many issues related to synchronization.
• Email messages without a subject couldn't be dragged from Apple Mail to DEVONthink Personal.
• Up/down arrow keys couldn't be used to navigate the selection when the Quick Look panel is the key window.
• Dragging both groups and their subgroups to the Finder created duplicate folders.
• Glitches of date columns depending on selected list font.
• Issues of preferences of text and background colors of PDF annotations.
• Work around issue of OS X Yosemite's text engine changing the font after e.g. pasting an image into a rich text document.
• Glitch of Activity panel.
• Rare reloading issue of windows and views.
• "Kind is HTML page" condition of smart groups and advanced searches returned also formatted notes.
• It was possible to duplicate or move items with missing files.
• Import of Evernote notes containing attached bookmark files (e.g. .webloc).
• Optional "Scripts > Export > Export to Bookends" script.
• PDF documents were not always released after closing windows or tabs.
• Worked around possible issues of PDFKit framework.
• Crash in case of broken workspaces.
• Further minor bugs and glitches.

Removed

• 32-bit support.

What is new in version 2.8.6:

Changes for OS X El Capitan (public beta)

• Minor bugfixes for issues with OS X El Capitan.
• Improved reliability of backgroung task, especially on OS X El Capitan.

NEW

• Support added for Markdown images referenced via cross-links.
• "File > Import > References from Bookends" converts the keywords of the references to RTF properties.
• Alternate menu item "Edit > Copy Page Link" added.
• Name of the top group can now be used via a placeholder in templates.

Improved

• PDF text annotations keep their appearance as long as they're not edited by DEVONthink.
• Borders and background color are supported again by PDF text annotations.
• Dragging events from Calendar into rich text documents inserts back links (requires OS X Yosemite or later). Reminder: It's already possible to insert file links or addressbook links by dragging with ?Command and ?Option held.
• Better HTML-to-text conversion, e.g. used by "Data > Convert" and by indexing.
• Enhanced drag-and-drop support.
• Items created via "Data > New from Template" can usually be renamed immediately.
• Renamed "Set Title As" to "Set Name As" for consistency.
• Further minor user interface enhancements.
• Title of PDF documents displayed live in web views is now used if available.
• Moving groups to external folders retains the creation date of the created folder.
• Simple templates honour the option "Preferences > Import > Titles > Filename with extension".
• Better naming of duplicated documents with a file name extension in their name.
• Installed add-ons are automatically updated after launching a new version; the "Install Add-Ons" panel does not appear in this case.
• License file moved to Application Support to avoid conflicts with preferences cleaners.
• French and German localization.
• Memory management.
• Overall performance and reliability.

Fixed

• "Open Externally" toolbar item was enabled if the default application is the Archive Utility.
• Highlighting multiple lines in PDF documents sometimes removed existing highlighting.
• Rare sync issues.
• Sorter issues and crashes.
• Scanner issue related to updating the destination of multiple items.
• PDFs attached to RTFs were shown on OS X Yosemite even if the option "Display PDF attachments of Rich Texts" was disabled.
• Beep removed after trying to export an image via "File > Export > Document".
• Groups could be moved into themselves via the Sorter .
• Updating indexed HTML pages or web archives didn't retain the indexed metadata.
• Exporting as website didn't always create the required CSS file.
• HTML parser could crash DEVONthink Personal in case of invalid HTML code.
• Firefox add-on didn't encode URLs with parameters.
• RTFDs exported as website were sometimes incorrectly escaped.
• Changing the system appearance could crash the application.
• Further minor bugs and glitches.

What is new in version 2.8.5:

NEW

• Support added for .epub and .ibooks ebooks, Textbundle packages, and ".xsd" and ".wsdl" XML files. DEVONthink Personal imports or indexes files of these types, makes them searchable, and allows to convert them to e.g. plain text. For displaying ebooks or textbundles third-party Quick Look plugins might be necessary.
• Hidden preference "DisableFinderTags" added to disable reading and writing of Finder tags.

Improved

• Scanner support.
• PDF text annotations.
• Merging documents supports unknown types and attaches them.
• Sharing extension supports files, too.
• Website export converts cross-links in Markdown documents, formatted notes, and HTML pages.
• "Tag is (not)" predicate of smart groups and advanced searches supports multiple entered tags.
• Finder labels are converted to internal labels if possible.
• Rotating PDF pages is now undoable; better selection handling after rotating or deleting pages.
• Only options relevant to the context are enabled in Clip to DEVONthink.
• File > Export > As Template now supports groups and multiple selected items, e.g., to create your own project templates.
• Bookends support; Bookends no longer loses track of its attachments saved in DEVONthink Personal.
• Advertisement filter
• HTML to plain text conversion.
• Compatibility to OS X Yosemite 10.10.x.
• Overall performance and reliability.

Fixed

• Interface glitches.
• Support Assistant didn't play the intro movie on OS X Yosemite.
• Sync didn't prevent creating sync stores located in cloud folders.
• Handling of database backups in case of only one archived backup.
• Archive Utility wasn't blocked on OS X Yosemite.
• Link handling of Markdown to formatted note conversion.
• .exe and .hlp files with a text HFS type were treated as plain text.
• Further minor bugs and glitches.

What is new in version 2.8.4:

NEW

• Adds the ability to import files and folders from the Finder into the database and move the originals to the trash by holding the ?Command key while dragging.
• Adds new date-related smart group conditions.
• Adds full suport for ".webhistory" and ".webbookmark" bookmark files.
• Adds ".asciidoc" to the list of known plain text extensions.
• Adds the alternate menu item Help > Report Bug (press the ?Option key to show).

Improved

• Improves the compatibility to OS X Yosemite 10.10.2.
• Displays the number of total and finished items to the Activity panel.
• Retains the tags of documents when splitting them. All parts are now correctly put into the same groups as the original document.
• Creates only one highlight, underline, or strike-through PDF annotation in case of more than one selected line.
• Improves the conversion of HTML pages to plain text.
• Tools > Verify & Repair checks also the unique identifier (UUID) of databases and repairs it if necessary.
• Makes "lproj" subfolders optional for .dtTemplate packages. Creating non-localized templates is now as simple as creating a new folder in the Finder and adding ".dtTemplate" to its name.
• Adds Retina splash screens.
• Updates the look of the in-app help to OS X Yosemite. Newer images are optimized for Retina displays.
• Improves the French localization.
• Improves the overall performance and reliability.

Fixed

• Addresses graphical glitches of QuickLook-based views on OS X Yosemite by working around them.
• Fixes glitches of the group selector and the Groups & Tags panel on OS X Yosemite depending on System Preferences > Accessibility > Display.
• Fixes page up/down keyboard handling of PDF views on OS X Yosemite.
• Improves the memory management to work around issues of OS X.
• Updates sync with minor cosmetic changes and fixes for threading issues while quitting.
• Updates the Sorter fixing two rare issues.
• Prevents files from inside the database package from being imported or indexed.
• Fixes an issue where smart groups in index pages created by the website export were not clickable.
• Addresses further minor glitches.

Removed

• Removes View > Sort > Ignore Umlauts. Sorting uses now system-wide settings.

What is new in version 2.8.3:

• Classification. Improves "See Also", "Classify", and summarizing.
• Quick-Look-based views, e.g. Microsoft Office or OpenOffice documents, support selecting and copying text.
• Double-clicking OpenOffice documents opens them in the default application, similar to iWork of Microsoft Office documents.
• More user interface optimizations for OS X Yosemite.
• Converting indexed markdown files to rich text supports linked local images.
• Automatic Wiki-linking support for plain text, e.g. Japanese Katakana.
• Overall performance and reliability.

Fixed

• Sync updated, fixes e.g. issues with cancelling, encryption, and more.
• DEVONthink To Go 1.x sync issues, e.g. with trashed items.
• "Take Note" panel did not support "Format > Font" and other formatting commands.
• "Edit > Edit Tags" did not support multiple selections.
• The "Sorter" did not save the content of the note text field when being quit.
• PDFKit issues on OS X Yosemite through workarounds.
• Handling of .sdef files.
• Further minor bugs and glitches.

What is new in version 2.8.2:

• Incompatible, unsupported, or damaged image files are now imported as "unknown files".
• Usage of Spotlight plugins is more compatible to user-installed plugins, e.g. unMHT.
• User agent of web views is more compatible, e.g. to GitHub.
• After clicking on the help button of "File > Import > References from Bookends" or "File > Import > Notes from Evernote" the panel couldn't be closed anymore.
• Crash of scanner/camera interface after displaying or editing images.
• Camera interface didn't fully support AVI movies, e.g. imported from Canon cameras.
• Switching from one HTML document to another one with the same URL but e.g. without anchor did not always update the display.
• Rare importing/rebuilding issue.
• "DEVONthink To Go" sync could add superfluous title extension to items renamed on the device.
• Localization glitches.