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All documents are displayed in DEVONthink Personal in views (not to confuse with the different layouts in main windows, also called views. Each view has its own tools, contextual menu commands and hidden keyboard shortcuts.

Currently, DEVONthink Personal features the following view types:


Navigation Bar

At the top of the view/edit pane DEVONthink Personal shows a navigation bar that gives you access to some additional tools that deal directly with the contents of the document. Which tools are available depends on the type of the document.

  • Previous/Next: Navigates back and forth through visited pages in a web view.
  • Reload: Reloads the displayed page in a web view.
  • URL: Shows the URL associated with the displayed item. Click to launch the URL in its default application. Hold the Option or the Command key to open the URL in a new tab if possible.
  • Lock: Locks or unlocks the item.
  • Previous/Next Page: Navigates back and forth the pages of the displayed document.
  • Word Count: Shows the number of paragraphs, words, and characters of the displayed text.
  • Page Count: Shows the number of pages as well as the page number of the currently displayed page.
  • Text/Preview: Switches between text-only view and preview if available. The text-only view can be useful to select text in items that are displayed using QuickLook or to view or edit the source code of an HTML document.
  • Show/Hide Sidebar: Shows or hides the PDF sidebar containing thumbnails of all pages.
  • See Also/Classify: Opens the See also & Classify drawer.
  • Topics: Shows a list of the most important words of the document as a pop-up menu. Select any word from the menu to show documents also dealing with this topic.


Tag Bar

The Tag bar, which can be shown or hidden, shows all tags associated with the document. Click the tag bar and type to add tags, select a tag and press the Delete or Backspace key to remove it. [Read more...]

When you type the name of a tag, DEVONthink Personal offers automatic completion. Choose the right option with the mouse or the arrow keys and press Return or Enter to accept it. Press Escape to use whatever you entered. Auto-completion prefers ordinary tags (tags represented in the Tags group) over groups used as tags. Press Tab to enter another tag.

Note: The Tag bar is also visible for multiple selected documents when all documents have the same tags attached. Use it to change the tags for multiple documents.


Toolbar

DEVONthink Personal can display documents in separate windows when you double-click the documents in a main window. Depending on the type of document, the tools in the toolbar can change. Even though not all tools are always present in the default toolbar for a particular view, you can easily add them by choosing View > Customize Toolbar.


Shortcuts & Modifier Keys

Besides shortcuts special to one view or another, many shortcuts work the same for all views (and the same as in most other Mac OS X applications).

  • Control-Tab: Jumps between between panes of split views.
  • Home/End: Go to beginning of, or end of, any view.
  • Page Up/Down: Scroll one page up and down in any view.
  • Space/Shift-Space: Scroll one page up and down in displayed web pages or main views. Works also in images and PDF documents.

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