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The view for plain and rich text documents is basically a built-in incarnation of TextEdit, and you use it in a very similar fashion. Of course, text views support the Edit > Find > commands and all options of the Format menu.


The Ruler

For rich text documents, DEVONthink Personal supports the standard ruler that the TextEdit engine of Mac OS X provides. Show or hide it with Format > Ruler > Show/Hide Ruler.

The ruler contains the following elements:

  • Tab Stops: Place tab stops with the mouse, then remove them by dragging them away from the ruler. Drag new tab stops (left aligned, centered, right aligned, or decimal aligned) from the repository at the right side to their desired positions. Move the left and right margins as well as the indent with the mouse.
  • Styles: Select a predefined text style from the pop-up menu. To define your own styles, choose Other to open the Mac OS X standard style editor. In the style editor, navigate back and forth through the styles of your document or the stored favorite styles (use the radio buttons to switch between document and favorite styles). Click Select to select all occurences of text with the displayed style in the document, click Apply to apply the style to selected text or click Done to leave the style editor. To add a style from your document to the favorites, click Add To Favorites; to remove a favorite, click Remove From Favorites.
  • Alignment: Align the current paragraph (the one with the insertion caret inside) left, centered, justified, or right by clicking the according alignment buttons in the ruler.
  • Spacing: Choose the desired spacing for the current paragraph from the Spacing pop-up menu. Choose Other to enter other values than the ones shown.
  • Lists: Make the current paragraph a list item (indented and with a bullet or numbered) by choosing the desired list style from the Lists pop-up menu. Choose Other to define your own list style.

Note: A nice feature is a built-in 'mini outliner.' On any blank line in a rich text document (doesn't work for plain texts), type Option-Tab to create a bullet-point (Mac OS X shows dashes instead of bullets). Press Return for the next item, and so on. Additional Option-Tabs will increase the indentation; a Return on a blank list line will decrease it. It uses hyphens to indicate list items by default. Right-click to choose all kinds of list styles.


Shortcuts & Modifier Keys

  • Shift-Left/Right/Up/Down Arrow: Extend current selection.
  • Command drag-and-drop: Copy selected text.
  • Command-Option drag-and-drop: Insert a cross-link for groups or documents dropped into a rich text document. Dragging with Command and Option pressed files or folders from the file system to a rich text document creates links to them.
  • Command-Click: Open clicked URL in the default application (for example, your default Internet browser) or in a new tab, depending on your preferences.
  • Command-Shift-Click: Opens a link in a new tab and selects it (only if tabbed browsing is switched on).
  • Command-Option-Click (1): Places the insertion caret inside the text of a clickable link.
  • Command-Option-Click (2): Opens a clicked cross-link or Wiki-style link in a separate document window.
  • Option-Drag: Selects text using a rectangular selection ribbon.
  • Option-Click (1): List all contents containing the clicked word in the See Also drawer (identical to the See [selected text] in the contextual menu).


Toolbar

The document windows toolbar is very similar to the one in DEVONthink Personal main windows, yet can be configured separately.


Contextual Menu

  • Search with Spotlight: Searches for the selected text using Spotlight.
  • Search in Google: Opens you default browser and searches for the selected text in Google.
  • Copy Link: Copies a link as such to the Clipboard (only available for selected links).
  • Edit Link: Edits the destination of a selected link.
  • Highlight >: Highlights the selected piece of text with the color you select in the sub-menu.
  • Insert >: Inserts special elements into the text (such as a page break, the current date or a bullet). Same as the Insert sub-menu of the Edit menu.
  • Insert Link To >: Inserts a link to an item you select in the sub-menu (only available when no text is selected).
  • Look Up in Dictionary: Looks the selected text up in Mac OS X's Dictionary.
  • Link To >: Makes the selected piece of text a cross-link and links it directly to the group or document you select in the sub-menu.
  • Make Link: Makes the selected piece of text a WikiLink. The destination of the WikiLink is a document with the same name as the selected text. If no document with that name exists, clicking the created link creates it using the template you have set in the Editing Preferences.
  • Open Link: Opens the selected link in the default browser or application (only available for a selected link).
  • Open Link in New Tab: Opens the selected link in a new tab.
  • Open Alias: Follows a selected link (only available for a selected Wiki-style link resolved by an alias). Aliases are defined for each item separately in the Info panel.
  • Remove Link: Makes a selected link simple text.
  • Search selected phrase: Searches for the selected text as a phrase.
  • Set Title As: Renames the document according to the selected piece of text (needs to be less than 256 characters).
  • Split Document: Splits the document at the current insertion mark position.
  • Add tag [word]: Tags the document with the selected word (only available if the word is not already a tag of the document).
  • See [word]: Opens a drawer with documents related to the selected word.
  • See Related Text: Opens a drawer with documents related to the selected text passage. Only available when more than one word is selected.

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