Version 2.0.2
DEVONthink Personal and up:
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Improved: Cover Flow uses Quick Look, if available, to improve the preview quality.
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Improved: Capturing of not paginated 'web' PDFs retains the background.
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Improved: PDF annotations linking to a page use the upper left corner now.
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Improved: Opening search results externally submits the search string to the application.
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Improved: Results of Search windows are updated after changing the settings.
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Improved: Full screen mode of Quick Look previews more reliable.
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Improved: All Pixels scrolls images to the upper left corner.
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Improved: Thumbnails of captured web archives.
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Improved: User interface performance.
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Fixed: The 'search' parameter of x-devonthink-item: URLs was handled case sensitive in some cases.
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Fixed: Notes created via the Dashboard do not longer get a 'localhost' URL.
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Fixed: Existing PDF link annotations were not always highlighted.
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Fixed: Entering the URL for a link annotation did not always save the URL.
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Fixed: Thumbnails of web archives created by Quick Look do no longer look like icons.
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Fixed: Applications cannot be imported or indexed anymore.
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Fixed: Indexed documents located in a locked folder cannot be edited anymore.
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Fixed: Locking HTML pages made their WYSIWYG view editable.
All Editions:
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Improved: Warning added to Delete cookies on quit in Preferences, Web tab.
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Improved: Groups created in a local inbox are no longer excluded from tagging by default.
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Improved: Remove Tag command is now available in pop-up menus of existing tags.
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Improved: Dragging an ordinary tag on another ordinary tag moves the tag (to create tag hierarchies) instead of replicating it.
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Improved: (Shift-)Tab can be again used in empty or unmodified tagging fields.
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Improved: Items in the trash are no longer used by See Also or Classify.
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Improved: List column for Spotlight Comments is now called so.
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Improved: Confusing 'No Tags' placeholder in smart group editor removed.
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Improved: Welcome Assistant adjusts to when the application is properly licensed.
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Improved: Handling of HTTP cookies.
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Fixed: Find panel no longer switches spaces.
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Fixed: Glitches of the Info panel.
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Fixed: Several minor bugs related to the Tags bar.
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Fixed: Files and folders were imported or indexed in reverse order.
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Fixed: See Also and Classify drawers could not be always closed.
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Fixed: Welcome Assistant no longer loads external libraries from the Internet.
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Fixed: Various minor glitches of token fields.
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Fixed: Minor issues of smart groups.
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Fixed: Localization glitches; 'Ignore Umlauts' renamed to 'Ignore Diacritics'.
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Fixed: Other minor bugs and glitches.
Version 2.0
DEVONthink Personal and up:
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NEW: Note and OpenOffice document templates added.
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NEW: Summarize service and command Edit > Summarize are finally working again.
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NEW: Already existing annotations of opened PDF documents can now be edited, too.
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Improved: Groups panel includes ordinary tags now, too, and so has been renamed to Groups & Tags.
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Improved: Changing tags of indexed files via the Tags bar or the Info panel updates the OpenMeta attributes immediately.
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Improved: Thumbnails of PDF and PostScript documents in List, Column views and search results are framed.
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Improved: Drag-and-drop in column view.
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Improved: Dropping/pasting a PDF document into a rich text document does not insert the rich text anymore but attaches the file.
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Improved: Support for Mathematica files ('.nb').
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Improved: '.rss', '.rsd' and '.rdf' files are imported or indexed correctly as XML files.
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Improved: 'File > Synchronize' does not remove files/folders located on unmounted volumes anymore; synchronizing indexed but unmodified files imports eventually changed OpenMeta tags now, too.
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Improved: Creation of web archives or PDF files in the background after using bookmarklets.
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Improved: Adding data from DEVONagent updatest the Dock badge, too.
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Improved: More reliable importing/indexing of QuickTime files.
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Improved: Creation of movie thumbnails.
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Improved: Performance when the PDF sidebar is hidden.
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Improved: Handling of background threads.
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Improved: Minor changes to speed up the forthcoming synchronization.
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Fixed: Wrong position of preview pane after leaving full screen mode and switching from Split view to Column views.
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Fixed: Clicking on cross-links ('x-devonthink-item://...') in PDF documents with Command pressed or using Open Link In New Tab in the contextual menu opened a new window instead of a new tab.
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Fixed: Internet radio streams (.pls) did not play.
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Fixed: Quick Look panel didn't display the last selected item anymore after de- and reactivating the application.
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Fixed: External indexed files/folders located in '/System/', '/Library/' or '~/Library/' are never renamed or deleted so that the user cannot cause harm to the system by accident anymore, independent of user permissions.
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Fixed: Various minor glitches of column views.
All Editions:
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NEW: 'Welcome Assistant', appears when the application starts up.
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NEW: New preference option Web > Only automatic JavaScript windows (on by default). Disabling this option blocks all pop-ups except HTML links opened in a blank window.
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NEW: Dedicated icons for groups used as tags and for ordinary tags (groups inside the Tags group). A small tag icon is displayed behind the name of groups used as tags if necessary.
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NEW: Setting Exclude Groups from Tagging (off by default) added to Database Properties panel to exclude all groups outside of the Tags group from tagging.
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NEW: Smart group predicate 'Instance is (not) tagged'; smart groups can search for other smart groups.
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NEW: Navigation bar of Split, Three Pane, Tag and Column views provides the possibility to lock/unlock also groups.
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NEW: Pure NOT queries (e.g. '-word', '-word1 -word2', 'NOT word', '!word' etc.) are now supported.
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NEW: Drag-and-drop on list/split/three pane views automatically selects an enclosing group if possible and necessary.
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NEW: Support for upcoming iPhone/iPad conduit plugin.
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Improved: Website export uses now all templates available in the folder "Websites" (in the application's Application Support folder). Improved default templates plus new template "Header+URL+Comment" are copied to this folder automatically; new website export placeholders '%databasePlusLocation%', '%comment%', '%url%' and '%tags%'.
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Improved: Multiple selected items having already the same tags can be tagged via the Info panel and the Tag bar; Tab key can be used to enter the next tag.
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Improved: Dragging items on tags in Tags view tags them (adds replicants only if necessary); dragging items on ordinary tags in all other views tags items, too; deleting them from the tags list in the Tags view moves ordinary tags to the Trash and excludes group tags from tagging.
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Improved: Upper left pane of Tags view displays all untagged items if no tag/group is selected in the right pane.
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Improved: Tag bar and Info panel colorize tags/groups like the Tags view (ordinary tags are blue, groups are gray). Tags contain a pop-up menu that allows to reveal already existing groups/tags and to list and to add related tags.
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Improved: Classifying does not remove tags located in the Tags group anymore. In addition, ordinary tags (located in the Tags group) are not used by classification anymore.
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Improved: Primary location of an item is now one outside the Tags group (if possible).
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Improved: Tag bar moved to bottom of main/document/search windows.
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Improved: Entering tags using the keyboard and the contextual menu.
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Improved: Renamed Checked to Flagged throughout the whole user interface.
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Improved: Menus of Actions toolbar items work without having to release the mouse button first.
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Improved: Edit > Spelling has been replaced with Edit > Spelling and Grammar and sub-menus Edit > Substitutions and Edit > Transformations have been added. Note: Data Detectors, Text Replacement, Smart Dashes, Correct Spelling Automatically and Show Substitutions are limited to Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'. Edit > Substitutions > Data Detectors can be used to re-enable automatic data detectors for PDF views.
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Improved: Revised shortcuts for View > Zoom In/Out.
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Improved: The Command modifier key while clicking on the URL above document views opens the URL in a new tab if possible.
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Improved: Slightly revised Data menu and revised contextual menus.
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Improved: Document Properties panel's visual appearance.
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Improved: Slightly revised appearance, e.g. of file properties, tabs bar, scores and labels in result lists.
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Improved: Shortcut to cycle through all panes/fields is now (Shift-) Control-Tab instead of (Shift-) Option-Tab.
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Improved: Tooltips of icon and column views display the location and the comment.
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Improved: Many minor interface improvements.
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Improved: Depending on the preferences, services create now thumbnails for captured notes and web archives.
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Improved: Smart Quotes, see e.g. Preferences, Editing tab, use now the system-wide settings.
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Improved: Sorting of diacritics.
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Improved: Support for FTP URLs.
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Improved: Rebuilding of databases.
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Improved: Improved and larger (512x512 pixel) application icon; revised icons for Spotlight metadata files; revised splash screen.
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Improved: Check for correct installation location.
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Improved: Check for updates more reliable.
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Improved: English, French and German localizations including localized smart group editor.
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Improved: Documentation updated.
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Fixed: Duplicating items not located in the top level group created unnecessary replicants.
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Fixed: Saving documents updates the navigation bar and see/classify/concordance drawers if necessary.
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Fixed: Capturing rich text data beginning with invalid filename characters (e.g. /) didn't always work.
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Fixed: Not all RTFD attachments displayed their filename on Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard'.
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Fixed: Results of searching for words separated by hyphens were not always complete.
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Fixed: Option double clicking on items in split and column views didn't open them in a new tab.
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Fixed: Emptying the trash did not always remove the tags associated to children of trashed groups.
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Fixed: Exporting files via drag-and-drop did not always update OpenMeta attributes and Spotlight/Finder comments.
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Fixed: Handling of services revised.
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Fixed: Full screen glitch when viewing documents on a second monitor.
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Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches
Version 2.0 public beta 8
Note: THIS PUBLIC BETA EXPIRES FEBRUARY 28, 2010. After this date it has to be replaced either by a new public beta or the final release. An entered license is not affected by this expiration and stays valid.
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DEVONthink Personal and up:
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NEW: Completely redesigned column views. They now show the selected item in the lower pane, similar to iTunes, and they support Cover Flow and the fullscreen mode. They remember the last displayed item.
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NEW: Symbolic link 'Save PDF to DEVONthink' in folder '~/Library/PDF Services/' is automatically created and can be used to 'print' to DEVONthink.
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NEW: Many template scripts are available in DEVONthink Personal now, too; new .dtTemplate packages contain localized files/folders for templates and use placeholders for commonly used data such as date, user name, or the clipboard contents without having to use scripting.
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NEW: DEVONjot widget supports tagging.
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NEW: Clicking on links in PDF documents with Command held opens new tabs (like in other views).
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Improved: Links in Quick Look previews (e.g. of email messages or vcards) are clickable, clicking them with Command held opens them in a new tab (if possible).
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Improved: Search windows support See Also and Classify drawers, too.
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Improved: Icon views (with or without details) display the state and whether items are unread right before the name (without details) or in the upper right corner (with details).
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Improved: Data > Convert > … commands add the converted items to the same locations as the originals and therefore retain tags and replicants.
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Improved: The Label toolbar item can be added to the toolbar of document and search windows, too.
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Improved: Templates can be installed by double-clicking them in the Finder.
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Improved: Templates moved to Data > New With Template (also in contextual/action menus).
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Improved: Open Link and Open Link In New Tab commands added to contextual menus of PDF views.
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Improved: Log panel; new contextual menu.
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Improved: File > Export > as Text/RTF/RTFD/Word Document insert the names of the documents on demand into the text.
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Improved: Escape key can be used to close the Quick Look panel.
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Improved: Validation of command Data > Convert > to HTML.
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Improved: Opening and editing multiple documents externally.
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Improved: Highlighting and handling of occurrences in PDF documents.
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Improved: Rendering of PDF documents on Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'.
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Improved: Playback of QuickTime movies optimized for QuickTime X.
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Improved: Encoding handling after importing text/HTML/XML templates.
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Improved: The kind of image documents is now usually the file extension and therefore sorting by kind is more useful.
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Improved: Spotlight meta data importer are found and used even when Spotlight is disabled or not up-to-date.
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Improved: Third-party XML file types, e.g. Tinderbox, are indexed via Spotlight plugins again.
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Improved: Better indexing of PDF documents created by Ghostscript by using PDFKit on Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'; more reliable handling of huge PDF and PostScript documents.
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Improved: Many minor user interface enhancements.
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Improved: Localization.
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Improved: Performance and reliability.
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Fixed: Protected PDF documents could not be imported/indexed on Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'.
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Fixed: Editing indexed files/documents didn't retain file creation/modification dates and Spotlight comments.
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Fixed: .svg files are now never imported as text, even if their HFS type claims that they are text.
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Fixed: Worked around bug of Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard's WebKit causing importing or indexing of 'legacy' web archives (including conversion of v1.x databases) sometimes to crash. It is possible to convert these web archives afterwards to rich text but not to display them.
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Fixed: Workarounds for various bugs in ImageKit and PDFKit system frameworks added.
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Removed: Obsolete commands Data > New > Outline, same optional toolbar item, Data > Mark > Show/Hide State, Show State option of Info panel, and State is Hidden/Shown predicate of smart groups. In addition, the 'To-Do' smart group isn't added to new databases anymore.
All Editions:
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NEW: Tagging including a (still incomplete) tag view; OpenMeta is supported while importing and exporting files/documents. It is also used when indexing or synchronizing files/documents.
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NEW: An alert on startup asks whether the application should be installed in the global Applications folder in case it's not installed in one of the recommended locations for applications.
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NEW: Option Preferences > General > Appearance > Colorize icons with label. By default this option is disabled and labels are (more or less) displayed like in the Finder. Enabling this option colorizes icons/thumbnails (including favorites in DEVONthink Pro's sidebar) with the label's color like in previous versions.
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NEW: Option Preferences > General > Appearance > Mark duplicates and replicants in color that switches between coloring duplicates and replicants in blue and red instead of marking them with an icon.
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NEW: Optional Check/Uncheck toolbar item.
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NEW: Preferences option Destination on Import tab.
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NEW: Preference option Web > Web Content > Zoom text only to enable Safari-4-style zooming.
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NEW: Read-only databases (e.g. locked in the Finder, on read-only volumes like CDs/DVDs or with wrong permissions/ownership) and their favorites are marked in the Database Properties panel.
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NEW: Finder labels with same name (preferred) or same color are used while importing/indexing (Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' only).
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NEW: Support for .vncloc bookmarks and for 'ilvn' HFS type; support for plain text and HTML/XML file formats defined by third-party applications added.
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Improved: Interface section of Preferences, General tab, splitted into Appearance and Interface.
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Improved: Polished appearance of dividors, borders, tabs, icon views, column views, PDF thumbnail views, drawers, group selector and the icon size slider. Fixes also harmless console messages on Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'.
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Improved: Status and file property icons revised.
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Improved: Slightly revised background color of highlighting of occurrences to distinguish it from the default highlight colors.
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Improved: Data > Mark > As Read/Unread, As Locked/Unlocked, and As Checked/Unchecked combined and therefore the commands toggle now these values (e.g. like Apple Mail)
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Improved: The unread icon does not replace the file icon anymore.
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Improved: Automatic scrolling added to tabs.
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Improved: Data > New > Bookmark downloads and sets the name automatically if no name is entered.
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Improved: Double-clicking on items in the icon pane of split views or column views opens them in the same pane instead of opening a new window or hoisting the current window (depending on the preferences).
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Improved: Optional pop-up menu to the right of tabs bar includes all tabs now.
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Improved: Pressing the Option modifier key while clicking on the URL in a document's navigation bar opens the URL in a new tab if possible.
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Improved: Shortcut Option-Tab (now supported by main, search and document windows) supports the tags bar, too. In addition, the new shortcut Option-Shift-Tab cycles through all panes in reverse order. Finally, both shortcuts select the first search result if necessary after navigating to the search results.
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Improved: View > Columns > Comment and View > Sort > by Comments renamed to (by) Spotlight Comment to distinguish them from the comment of documents.
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Improved: Command Open Link In New Tab added to contextual menus of text views.
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Improved: Tab management in general.
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Improved: Escape key can be used to cancel renaming of search results.
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Improved: Some keyboard shortcuts revised.
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Improved: Go > First/Previous/Next/Last Document support visible toolbar search results.
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Improved: Number of results of simple smart groups (without using search terms or tags) is immediately displayed in all views now.
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Improved: After moving the selected items to the trash, the next item is selected in split and three-pane views.
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Improved: Many more minor interface enhancements.
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Improved: Recognition of duplicates.
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Improved: Advertisement filter.
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Improved: Sorting.
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Improved: Rebuilding is more reliable.
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Improved: Handling of user style sheets.
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Improved: Memory management and performance.
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Fixed: Grouping items selected in the upper right pane of the three-pane view used the wrong destination group.
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Fixed: Command-D shortcut for 'Don't Save' didn't work on English systems.
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Fixed: Various pop-up menus (e.g. of search fields, tabs or the Label/Highlight toolbar items) do not contain contextual menu items anymore.
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Fixed: Count of smart groups wasn't always up to date.
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Fixed: Temporarily wrong item count of groups after duplicating.
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Fixed: After setting custom icons for the inbox of databases, the icon wasn't always flushed and therefore usually gone after restarting the application.
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Fixed: Switching between views does no longer reset/remove additional tabs.
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Fixed: Rare crash after switching views.
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Fixed: Localization glitches.
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Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.
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Removed: Danish localization.
Version 2.0 public beta 7
Note: THIS PUBLIC BETA EXPIRES DECEMBER 31, 2009. After this date it has to be replaced either by a new public beta or the final release. An entered license is not affected by this expiration and stays valid.
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Changes for Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard':
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NEW: Quick Look preview of audio files contains play, plause, and mute buttons. Uses Play automatically preference for QuickTime media.
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NEW: Services updated for compatibility with new system services (services appearing in contextual menus).
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NEW: Dock menu uses indentation.
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Improved: Scroll bars in head-up display styles, e.g. the Groups panel, support arrows at top and bottom.
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Improved: Display of icon previews created by Quick Look, e.g. for web archives.
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Improved: Overall compatibility to Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'.
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Fixed: The Image Capture application can use DEVONthink Personal again as a target application.
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Fixed: Editing of smart groups did not work.
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Fixed: Quick Look panel did not work.
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Fixed: Quick Look based views did not work in full screen mode.
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Fixed: Duplicate Remove Link items in contextual menus of rich texts.
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Fixed: Minor visual glitches.
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Removed: Now obsolete services menu in contextual menus of various views.
DEVONthink Personal and up:
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NEW: PDF annotations. PDF documents can be annotated using new toolbar items similar to Apple Preview and existing annotations can be selected, moved, or edited by double-clicking them. Pressing the Delete key or using Edit > Delete removes the selected annotations. [Read more...]
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NEW: Image editing panel. Double-clicking an image opens the new panel which lets the user change exposure, black and white points, brightness, contrast, sharpness, etc. and choose between a selection of pre-defined filters. Undo/redo and rotating is supported, too. Changes are saves as lossless TIFF. [Read more...]
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Improved: Templates are appended to Data > New menu, support custom icons, and exporting as template exports custom icons, too.
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Improved: Take Note window saves its position; uses DEVONthink's editing preferences, and better handles errors.
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Fixed: Groups panel supports all spaces.
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Fixed: File > Export > Database Archive sometimes failed due to bugs in the 'ditto' and 'zip' command line tools. Workaround.
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Fixed: Quick Look panel could have been empty after enabling Cover Flow.
All editions:
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NEW: Instances pop-up menu listing all enclosing groups for this item and all duplicates. Selecting a location in the menu reveals it.
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NEW: Command-clicking the title of main, document, and search windows list all enclosing groups of the shown document. Selecting an enclosing group opens the group in the main window or opens a new window for it.
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NEW: Menu option to clear the recent destinations.
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NEW: Number of pages of PDF documents without (!) text is used to recognize duplicates. Note: This applies only to documents imported/indexed/created using 2.0pb7 or later.
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NEW: Services and the PDF Services script try to capture the URL from Firefox again. Due to limitations and bugs of Firefox 3.x, this might or might not work for you.
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NEW: Support for Internet locations (e.g. .webloc) using the data fork.
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NEW: '.sdef' added to list of known text/XML extensions.
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NEW: Custom icons of files/folders with at least 64x64 pixels are added to the database while importing/indexing (used e.g. by templates).
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NEW: (Insert) Link To sub-menus of contextual menus contain last destinations.
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Improved: Shortcut of Edit > Paste with Current Style is now identical to the ones used in Apple’s applications.
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Improved: Revised appearance of non-editable fields in Document Properties panel.
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Improved: See Selected Text renamed to See Related Text.
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Improved: It is now possible to drag items on groups in classify and search results.
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Improved: Edit > Find > In Database shows the toolbar if necessary.
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Improved: Inbox can be moved in unsorted views but only at the top level of the database.
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Improved: Handling of window positions and sizes; improved cascading.
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Improved: Log panel does no longer become active automatically anymore.
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Improved: Orphaned files that could not be imported while repairing are logged and moved to the folder 'Orphans' inside the database folder.
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Improved: Overall performance and stability.
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Fixed: Results of duplicating/replicating multiple selected and nested groups was kind of unexpected.
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Fixed: Total size in Database Properties panel was not correct.
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Fixed: Depending on active/focused view in three-pane views, different destinations for new/captured items were used.
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Fixed: Smart groups using only tags did not apply the 'Search in' setting.
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Fixed: After emptying the trash containing replicants, tabs/windows displaying other replicants of the same record were invalidated.
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Fixed: Rare glitches after expanding basic/additional information of Info panel fixed.
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Fixed: Various other minor bugs and glitches.
Version 2.0 public beta 6
Note: THIS PUBLIC BETA EXPIRES DECEMBER 31, 2009. After this date it has to be replaced either by a new public beta or the final release. An entered license is not affected by this expiration and stays valid.
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DEVONthink Personal and up:
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NEW: Simple PDF annotation functions (highlight, strike-through, underlining); can be added to PDF and main windows. More to come.
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NEW: Highlighting, strike-through, and underlinding can be used in editable PDFs and web archives.
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NEW: Toolbar button to send selected items by email.
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NEW: File > Export > Database Archive exports the verified, optimized database as a Zip archive.
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NEW: Tools > Take Note command for quickly taking notes.
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NEW: Quick Look toolbar item.
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NEW: Optional Zoom To Width toolbar item.
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NEW: Copy Page Link contextual menu item for PDF pages, copies a reference to the selected page.
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NEW: Show/Hide Groups Dock menu items.
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NEW: Columns and sorting options for Width x Height and by Duration.
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NEW: Contextual menu items listing groups now show custom icons and are graphically structured.
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NEW: PDFs and web archives requested by bookmarklets are generated using a background task for robustness.
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Improved: DEVONthink Jot widget completely rewritten, now compatible to all editions and vertically resizable.
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Improved: Cover Flow is now both window and database specific.
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Improved: Selecting multiple items in split and three-pane views, in search windows uses Cover Flow, too.
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Improved: Dragging items from Cover Flow is now (almost) identical to any other view.
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Improved: Groups panel uses black HUD style.
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Improved: Page toolbar item renamed to HTML.
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Improved: Printing of PDFs. Print panel offers options to automatically rotate and to scale pages (like Preview).
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Improved: After clicking on a link an eventually modified web archive is automatically saved.
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Improved: Comparison settings of search windows are now persistent.
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Improved: HTML parser more compatible to bad HTML code.
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Improved: SkimNotes framework updated to version 1.1.7.
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Fixed: Overwriting existing templates did not work.
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Fixed: Clip to DEVONthink bookmarklet saved itself with captured HTML code.
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Fixed: Double-clicking on Quick Look panel opened a document externally.
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Fixed: Scrolling of PDF documents via drag-and-drop with Command pressed did not work.
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Fixed: Error when exporting items without files as templates is logged.
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Fixed: Bug in Safari 4.0 preventing modified web archived to be saved.
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Fixed: Rare crash while synchronizing indexed files and folders.
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Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.
All editions:
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NEW: Optional Reveal and Show In Finder toolbar items.
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NEW: Optional Mark Up toolbar item for highlight, strike through or underline the selection.
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NEW: Go > Selected Group 'hoists' the main window to the selected group.
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NEW: Info panel and views display total size of groups or news feeds.
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NEW: Groups and news feeds support sorting by size.
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NEW: Shortcut Option-Left/Right expands/collapses all children in outline views whereas Left/Right expands/collapses only the selected item.
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NEW: Groups containing unread items are displayed bold and, if desired, show the number of unread items inside the group and its sub-groups.
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Improved: Highlight toolbar shows a menu for selecting the highlight color.
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Improved: Menu command shortcuts revised and adapted to e.g. TextEdit.
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Improved: Tooltips include now the location, the comment and available meta data.
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Improved: Info bar of main windows displays location of selected item.
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Improved: Action toolbar menu contains also commands to edit smart groups, to refresh feeds and to add/remove groups to/from favorites.
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Improved: Invalidate server certificates can be ignored on demand and the site is accessible afterwards.
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Improved: Links to remote downloads in RTF(D) and PDF documents are now opened in the default browser.
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Improved: Database in use alerts revised; improved alert sheets after network errors.
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Improved: Default size for document windows is now the last used size per document type.
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Improved: Minimal width of URL, Path and Comment columns reduced.
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Improved: Naming of items in Window menu standardized.
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Improved: Toolbar item Show Info renamed to info.
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Improved: Items in the trash are no longer considered instances or duplicates.
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Improved: Widescreen mode is now database- and window-specific.
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Improved: Compatibility of preferences panel to buggy third-party hacks.
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Improved: Communication with the file system more reliable.
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Improved: Updating of Info and Document Properties panels.
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Improved: Updating of toolbar search results after selecting different settings in the pop-up menu.
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Fixed: Edit > Copy URL was not always enabled for document windows.
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Fixed: Selected/Dropped aliases were not resolved while importing/indexing.
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Fixed: The name of newly created groups could not always be edited immediately.
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Fixed: Preview of split views was not updated after renaming a file and selecting a different item.
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Fixed: Automatic links based on MashedWords did not always work.
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Fixed: Searching right after verifying and repairing a database did not always return all results.
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Fixed: Expansion of groups inside smart groups was not always persistent.
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Fixed: Group names containing commas were displayed as multiple tags by the Info panel.
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Fixed: Bug affecting word counts of documents with only one word.
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Fixed: Internal character count was not always updated after saving a modified document.
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Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.
Version 2.0 public beta 5
Note: THIS PUBLIC BETA EXPIRES JULY 31, 2009. After this date it has to be replaced either by a new public beta or the final release. An entered license is not affected by this expiration and stays valid.
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DEVONthink Personal and up:
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NEW: Pressing the spacebar in list, icon, column, and search views opens the floating Quick Look panel.
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NEW: Web archives are now editable (if unlocked and not indexed).
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NEW: Web archives can be converted to HTML via Data > Convert > to HTML.
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NEW: Help > Bookmarklets making it easier to install the bookmarklets.
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NEW: Preference option Media > Web Archives > Create thumbnails.
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NEW: Send by Email command added to contextual menus (like in DEVONthink Pro Office).
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NEW: Instance is/is not indexed and Kind is/is not Video/Audio/Email predicates added to smart groups.
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NEW: Workaround to make CHMporter compatible to both Leopard and DEVONthink Personal.
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Improved: Bookmarklet design updated, minor bug with Safari 3.x fixed.
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Improved: Data > Mark > As Checked/Unchecked show the state if necessary.
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Improved: Improved naming of top level group in Move/Replicate/Duplicate To menus.
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Improved: Background color of selection of editable web archives can be set via the color panel. Highlighting commands of Format menu are supported.
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Improved: Bookmarks no longer automatically synchronized after opening a database.
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Improved: Services to append plain/rich notes do not change the Dock badge label anymore if a note has been already taken. These services are no longer database specific.
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Improved: Much faster updating of Info panel for images and PDF documents.
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Improved: More reliable handling of file system events.
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Improved: Compatibility to Safari 4.0 beta.
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Fixed: Revised default window sizes.
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Fixed: Duplicate recognition, classify, and see-also did not work reliably for images.
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Fixed: Bookmarks import was always using the top level group.
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Fixed: Some contextual menus did not work.
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Fixed: Certain PDF documents freezed the Info panel on Intel processors due to a bug of Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard'.
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Fixed: Meta data of images, PDF documents, and web archives was not always stored after synchronizing them or after adding them via scripts, services, DEVONagent, etc.
All editions:
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NEW: Properties of RTF/RTFD and PDF documents (except locked and indexed ones) are now editable via Tools > Show/Hide Properties...
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NEW: Comparison options Ignore Umlauts and Fuzzy added to Search window, to toolbar search and to smart groups editor.
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NEW: Tag predicate added to smart groups.
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NEW: Tooltip added to location field of Info panel; tooltips of smart group results include the location, the comment and available meta data.
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NEW: Option to ignore umlauts ignores now all diacritics.
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NEW: Expanded smart groups in three-pane view display number of found items.
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NEW: Attribute icon shows that an item has a comment.
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Improved: Occurrences are now always highlighted blue on yellow.
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Improved: Ranking of search results using wildcards.
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Improved: Selection handling while toolbar search results are visible.
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Improved: Capturing from text views via drag-and-drop or services retains the URL of the original document.
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Improved: It is again possible to begin editing of the comments and URL columns after pressing the Tab key.
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Improved: Revised shortcuts of Go and Format menu to avoid conflicts. In addition, shortcuts for Previous/Next Tab are now identical to Safari 4.0.
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Improved: Tooltips of recent destinations of Move/Replicate/Duplicate sub-menus display location of destination.
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Improved: All attribute icons for external and/or locked items are now displayed.
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Improved: Slightly revised order of Format menu.
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Improved: Double-clicking search results with the Option key pressed opens them in a new tab if tabbed browsing is enabled. The behavior of Option-double-clicking is harmonized also for all panels.
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Improved: Links to local files in rich text or PDF documents are always opened externally.
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Improved: Go > Previous/Next Instance unhoist the current window if necessary.
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Improved: Highlighting of occurrences of opened Spotlight search results.
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Improved: Items replicated both inside and outside of the trash are again returned by smart groups, can be duplicates and are used by automatic Wiki linking.
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Improved: Recognition of duplicates.
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Improved: Rebuilding retains the original order.
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Improved: English, French, and German Localizations.
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Fixed: Issues of database locking on computers with multiple network interfaces/host names.
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Fixed: Incompatibility to local domains.
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Fixed: Some Wiki links containing multiple numbers did not work.
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Fixed: Tooltips of navigation bar were not always correct.
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Fixed: Some column widths did not adapt correctly.
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Fixed: Locked orphaned files could not be repaired using Tools > Verify & Repair.
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Fixed: Inconsistent indentation of groups in list/split/three-pane views.
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Fixed: Data > Reveal did not always work.
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Fixed: Importing/indexing of certain Word documents was very very slow.
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Fixed: Bugs and glitches.
Version 2.0 public beta 4
Note: This beta expires May 31, 2009
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DEVONthink Personal and up:
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NEW: Clip to DEVONthink bookmarklet. Shows an overlay that lets the user save a selection or the whole page in various formats to DEVONthink Personal.
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NEW: Bookmarklets for adding a page as HTML or (paginated) PDF documents to DEVONthink Personal.
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NEW: Support for revised bookmark format of Safari 4.0.
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NEW: Set as Thumbnail contextual menu added to QuickTime views.
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Improved: Bookmarklets updated.
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Improved: Saving of searches.
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Improved: Multiple words can be selected in the similar words drawer or search windows and are combined using OR (spelling) or AND (context).
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Improved: More reliable conversion of PDF documents to text, e.g. when importing or indexing.
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Improved: Drawing of QuickLook thumbnails.
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Improved: SkimNotes framework updated to version 1.1.6.
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Removed: Useless values from smart group editor.
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Known issue: Conversion of version 1.x databases retains PICT images but they cannot be displayed anymore as they are no longer supported by the ImageKit framework Mac OS X 10.5.
All editions:
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NEW: Dock icon badge shows number of new items after using services, bookmarklets or after adding stuff from DEVONagent. Badge is removed after (de)activating the application.
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NEW: Default smart group 'Duplicates' listing all duplicate items in the database.
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NEW: More smart group predicates.
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NEW: Results of toolbar search and search windows can be renamed.
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NEW: Open Link command of contextual menus of text views is also available for automatic Wiki links.
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Improved: Revised Import and Backup preferences tabs.
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Improved: Default setting for Preferences, General tab, Startup is now Open windows that were open on quit. This setting is also applied to most windows and panels.
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Improved: Smart group editor.
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Improved: Ranking of search results.
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Improved: Recognition of duplicates.
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Improved: All unread items (and not only those of feeds) use the same unread icon in lists.
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Improved: Searching in selection is faster and supports selected smart groups, too.
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Improved: Services are able to retrieve the URL from iCab and Opera, too, or try to store the path of the original document of unknown applications as a file URL if possible.
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Improved: Toggling widescreen mode restores the width and order of the previously used columns.
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Improved: Unified focus handling.
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Improved: Display of creation, modification, and addition dates.
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Improved: File > Export > as Files & Folders automatically uses unique filenames if necessary.
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Improved: Revised indexing of numbers separated by '.' or ','.
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Improved: Naming of files, e.g. of email messages with a subject like '...'
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Improved: More reliable handling of bookmarks if URL is invalid or not RFC 1808 compliant.
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Improved: Handling of multiple strings for one predicate in searches.
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Improved: Automatic Wiki linking doesn't use items in the trash anymore.
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Improved: More accurate calculation of file size (includes both data and resource fork).
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Improved: Stability when importing Word and OpenOffice documents.
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Improved: Handling of defective databases.
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Improved: Sparkle framework updated to version 1.5b6.
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Improved: Many minor interface and workflow improvements.
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Improved: Several minor performance improvements.
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Fixed: Info toolbar item did not toggle visibility of Info panel.
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Fixed: Pressing Command-Shift-Backspace to empty the trash moved the selected items to the trash if the trash was empty.
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Fixed: Issues with certain complex proximity terms and phrases.
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Fixed: Bug causing text clippings become unsuable when being renamed.
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Fixed: Meta Data predicate of smart groups did not work.
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Fixed: Memory leak while converting old databases.
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Fixed: Various minor bugs and interface glitches.
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Removed: Obsolete preferences options.
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Removed: Inherited labels (again).
Version 2.0 public beta 3r2
Note: This beta expires Mar 31, 2009
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All editions:
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Improved: RSS icon.
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Improved: Documentation marks interface elements in a different typo.
Version 2.0 public beta 3
Note: This beta expires Mar 31, 2009
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DEVONthink Personal and up:
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New: Page count of PDF and PostScript documents displayed in navigation bar.
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Improved: Indexing previously exported folders more reliable.
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Improved: Opening the application slightly faster.
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Fixed: DPI of images shown in window title was not correct.
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Fixed: Bookmarklets did not work for URLs containing anchors.
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Fixed: Moving selected items of History panel to top level of database via "Move To" sub-menu of contextual menu didn't work.
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Fixed: Worked around rare WebKit bug causing loading of web archives to crash.
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Removed: Outdated and obsolete command File > Export > as OmniOutliner. Use File > Export > as OPML instead.
All editions:
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New: 'OPT' operator to specify optional search terms that influence the ranking.
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New: Data > Reveal, Data > Launch URL, Data > Show in Finder and Edit > Copy URL and their toolbar equivalents use the document of the active and focused (!) tab of the frontmost window, otherwise the selected records of the window/drawer.
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New: Copy URL command is also available in contextual menus.
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Improved: Revised alert dialog informing that a beta has expired.
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Improved: Data > New > With Clipboard uses now always the same destination as other capture commands.
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Improved: Data > Merge is only enabled if there is something to merge selected.
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Improved: Open Link command of contextual menus of text views opens the link in the default browser/application.
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Improved: Compatibility to mice with scroll wheels and applications like Smart Scroll.
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Improved: The New Group item is named so when the toolbar is in text-only mode to avoid confusion.
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Improved: Caching of WebKit resources.
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Fixed: Smart groups using 'All' and matching multiple search terms, e.g., name and URL, returned invalid results.
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Fixed: Worked around an issue in WebKit with 'localhost' in URLs.
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Fixed: Worked around a rare bug of Mac OS X creating empty or invalid RTFD files.
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Fixed: Clicking on (automatic) Wiki-links or cross-links to groups did not open the group in main or document windows.
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Fixed: Smart groups without search terms (e.g. 'Today') were not always updated after emptying the trash.
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Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.
Version 2.0 public beta 2
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This beta expires Mar 31, 2009
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New: Data > Merge creates PDF documents if the selection contains only pictures and/or PDF/PostScript documents. Otherwise rich text is created.
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New: Edit > Split Document command to split PDF documents or plain/rich text documents at the cursor position. Also available in contextual menus of PDF thumbnail sidebar and of text views.
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New: PDF thumbnail sidebar supports Edit > Paste.
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New: Unsupported file types containing text, e.g. iWork or Microsoft Office files, can be converted to plain text by using Spotlight. The results may vary.
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New: State predicate of smart groups has additional values Shown and Hidden; Type and Addition/Creation/Modification/Opening predicates renamed to Kind and Date Added/Created/Modified/Opened.
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New: Default smart group 'To Do' added to new databases that lists documents with visible but unchecked state.
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Improved: Unknown file packages containing a QuickLook PDF or HTML preview (e.g. Pages, Keynote, Numbers or Scrivener) are now displayed without using QuickLook and therefore support selecting/copying text and highlighting of found occurrences. QuickLook is also used to display Mathematica files (.nb). In addition, contextual menus and a PDF thumbnail sidebar are available and performance/stability are better.
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Improved: File > Export > as Website and Data > Convert > to HTML support packages containing a QuickLook preview, e.g. Scrivener files.
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Improved: Search highlights better visible in PDF and PostScript documents.
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Improved: General information area of Info panel is collapsable.
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Improved: Formatting of display of meta data in Info panel, column views and detailed icon views.
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Improved: Groups used as a drop target are automatically added to the last used destinations.
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Improved: Automatic naming of web archives and feeds.
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Improved: Property lists created via Data > New use a default XML template.
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Improved: Text views support rectangular text selections by holding down the Option key and dragging the mouse.
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Improved: Clicking file URLs in text and PDF documents opens them using the Finder.
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Improved: Edit > Copy Item Link is also available if the frontmost window is a document window.
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Improved: Image views support arrow keys, space and shift-space for scrolling
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Improved: Warning before closing a modified document window supports Command-D shortcut for Don't save button.
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Improved: Some keyboard shortcuts changed to avoid collision with other menu items or other applications.
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Improved: Help > Install Add-ons panel revised.
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Improved: Converting and rebuilding databases as well as exporting as files and folders faster and more reliable; better error logging.
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Improved: Automatic Wiki linking based on names and aliases now always prefers the longest match.
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Improved: Faster and more reliable capturing and displaying of web archives.
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Improved: Handling of file packages belonging to now uninstalled software.
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Improved: Support for 'promised files' while dropping stuff.
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Improved: Faster validation of menu items added by plugins
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Improved: German, French, and Danish localizations.
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Improved: Many more minor interface enhancements.
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Improved: Overall stability and performance.
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Fixed: Interrupting a conversion by using Force Quit and trying it again later could create duplicates.
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Fixed: View > Show/Hide Details was not selectable.
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Fixed: Moving/Grouping items from/of smart groups was not possible.
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Fixed: Smart groups using certain predicates didn't always work.
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Fixed: Smart groups weren't always updated after adding items to the database.
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Fixed: Command-Option-dragging items into plain text documents is no longer possible, and dragging them into rich text documents uses the insertion point.
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Fixed: Open windows that were open on quit preference didn't always restore the last used window size and position.
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Fixed: Handling of focus after browsing in place or using Go > Top Level/Enclosing Group.
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Fixed: Revised toolbar icons.
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Fixed: Many more minor bugs and glitches.
Version 2.0 public beta 1
Version 2.0 is has been completely revamped, therefore this version history starts anew and contains only descriptions of the main changes compared to version 1.x. All minor changes and fixes are not listed for clarity.
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From this release on DEVONthink Personal requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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This beta expires January 31, 2009.
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New: Boolean search operators replacing the current search.
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New: Smart groups (saved searches).
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New: Global inbox replacing the import destinations chaos.
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New: Trash can.
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New: Undo/Redo.
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New: Tabbed browsing, viewing, and editing.
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New: Cover-flow-ish document browsing.
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New: Documents are stored as-is, can be edited externally.
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New: Support for many more common file formats.
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New: Support for QuickLook for displaying proprietary file formats.
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New: Documents can be linked to from the outside using a URL.
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New: DEVONthink Personal updates the database files immediately.
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New: DEVONthink Personal inherits the Three Panes view from DEVONthink Pro.
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New: No more limit to 10,000 images.
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New: Overhauled user interface
Not yet implemented but scheduled for the final release:
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Intelligent tagging support
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Localizations
Known issues of the public beta:
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Application: Sidebar (Inbox, trash, smart groups, drag-and-drop) incomplete.
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Application: Graphical glitches of navigation bar, tabbed browsing/viewing/editing, and of image views. Please do not report them.
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Application: Editing of properties via Tools > Show/Hide Properties is not possible yet.
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Application: Edit > Summarize and Summarize service not working.
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Application: User/Password protection is quite useless and will be probably removed and replaced by encryption in a future release.
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