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DEVONthink Personal supports bookmarklets. Bookmarklets are special bookmarks that do not load a saved address but execute a little JavaScript application that, for example, adds a bookmark to the current page in your DEVONthink Personal database or that creates a web archive of a page. Basically, bookmarklets use your web browser's bookmark function for creating handy shortcuts for application functions.


Installation

Click here to open the Download Extras page

To install them, drag the links on the page to your web browser's bookmarks, preferably the bookmark bar. You can organize the bookmarklets like any other bookmarks but placing them into the bookmark bar keeps them handy at all times.

Alternatively you will find all of them as .inetloc files in the Bookmarklets folder on the DEVONthink Personal disk image.


Using Bookmarklets

Launch the web browser you have placed bookmarklets into, such as Safari. Next, load any page that you wish to archive or from which you want to clip text. When the page is shown, select the bookmarklet of choice in your bookmarks bar. Instead of loading another page, as normal bookmarks would do, the bookmarklet will add the selected text or the whole page as note, bookmark, HTML code, or web archive to the global inbox of DEVONthink Personal.

The Clip to DEVONthink bookmarklet is the most comfortable choice as it places an overlay over the displayed web page first. It lets you enter a title as well as a note and lets you choose in which format you want to save the clipped data. The note is either saved as a text file or, for a bookmark, HTML document, or web archive is placed into the comments field of the created document. Hold the Command key to see the keyboard shortcuts for all buttons.