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DEVONagent Pro VERSION 3.9.8 DOCUMENTATION © 2001-2017 DEVONtechnologies TABLE OF CONTENTS Read Me 4 Menus 31 The DEVONagent Pro Advantage 5 The DEVONagent Pro menu 31 System Requirements 6 The File menu 32 Installing, Updating, Removing 6 The Edit menu 33 Trial Restrictions 6 The Data menu 34 Version history 6 The Sort menu 35 License Agreement 13 The View menu 35 Credits 13 The Web menu 36 The History menu 37 Getting Started 14 The Go menu 38 Why use DEVONagent Pro? 14 The Window menu 38 When to use DEVONagent Pro? 14 The Services menu 39 DEVONagent Pro at a Glance 15 The Scripts menu 39 First steps with DEVONagent Pro 15 The Help menu 39 The Dock menu 40 Common Tasks 16 Windows and panels 41 How to find on the Internet 16 How to search beyond Google 16 Search window 42 How to customize DEVONagent Pro 17 Web browser 48 How to set up a search set to crawl feeds 17 Archive window 54 How to run a search automatically 18 Search sets 56 How to archive search results 18 Plugins and scanners 56 Downloads 58 Queries 20 Preferences 59 Assistant 59 Operators 20 Designing a search query 21 Preferences 61 Search sets 23 General 61 Search 62 What are search sets? 23 Menu extra 63 Choosing a search set 23 Web 64 Creating and managing sets 24 Tabs 65 Sharing sets 25 Bookmarks 66 General tab 25 Email 66 Advanced tab 27 Update 67 Sites tab 27 Exclude tab 28 Menu extra 68 Plugins tab 28 Scripts 69 Actions tab 29 Schedule tab 30 Introduction 69 DEVONagent Pro's Scripts menu 70 Automator 71 DEVONagent Pro 3.9.8 Documentation, page 2 Plugin Development 72 Creating Your Own Plugins 72 XML and JSON Keys 74 Troubleshooting 79 DEVONagent Pro behaves irrationally 79 Problems interacting with DEVONthink 79 FAQ 80 General questions 80 Release schedules, Mac OS X, and Windows 80 Purchasing 81 Mac App Store 82 Your software license 83 Product-related questions 83 Technology 84 General Concept 84 Features 84 Structure 84 Applications 85 Other Products 86 Overview 86 DEVONthink 86 DEVONagent 86 DEVONsphere 86 DEVONnote 87 Needful Things 87 Appendix 88 Glossary 88 FAQ (product-specific) 89 List of Search Sets 90 List of Plugins 90 List of Scanners 96 Log message codes 96 DEVONagent Pro 3.9.8 Documentation, page 3 READ ME In this chapter: Web Searching: Fed up with Web searches that return loads of useless links? Using advanced search The DEVONagent Pro Advantage 5 techniques, DEVONagent Pro takes on all those System Requirements 6 tedious search-and-review tasks, releasing you to Installing, Updating, Removing 6 concentrate on relevant results. Trial Restrictions 6 Version history 6 License Agreement 13 Credits 13 DEVONagent Pro 3.9.8 Documentation, page 4 THE DEVONAGENT PRO ADVANTAGE WHY DEVONAGENT PRO? WHAT DEVONAGENT PRO DOES FOR YOU Using advanced search techniques, DEVONagent Using both standard and specialized search Pro takes on all those tedious search-and-review engines, DEVONagent Pro intelligently tasks, releasing you to concentrate on relevant summarizes the results -- fast! results. It assists you in Alternatively, DEVONagent Pro shows you an even larger number of search results using its finding, unique graphical topic map. collecting, and DEVONagent Pro support your research while organizing browsing the Web, e.g., by listing all objects such information from the Web or your DEVONthink Pro as images, linked documents, or outgoing links Office databases with a powerful and flexible search embedded into a viewed page. architecture. It also features a powerful, research- DEVONagent Pro archives your search results oriented web browser and simple built-in archive, with a single click or sends them to your and tightly integrates with DEVONthink. DEVONthink database. Instead of making you repeat actions, DEVONagent Pro performs those actions for you. Combine search sets, schedule searches, etc., to create your very own personalized search assistant. DEVONagent Pro 3.9.8 Documentation, page 5 PERFECT INTEGRATION If you would like to switch from the Mac App Store variant of DEVONagent Pro to one directly DEVONagent Pro integrates seamlessly with downloaded from the DEVONtechnologies website, DEVONthink. With just one click, archive your you can do so at any time. The official version will search results, webpages, and other information accept your Mac App Store receipt as a valid license. grabbed from the Web to your DEVONthink Copies not downloaded from the Mac App Store database. also allow you to buy an upgrade to a higher edition Select text in any application and use or version (if available). DEVONagent Pro's Services menu or a contextual menu item to search for it. The Menu To remove DEVONagent Pro traces from your Extra keeps DEVONagent Pro at your fingertips. computer, trash the following files and folders (~ Use various actions, including notifications and represents your home folder): AppleScript, to inform you of search results, DEVONagent Pro then send them to either DEVONthink or the ~/Library/Application Support/DEVONagent Pro application of your choice to process them any ~/Library/Contextual Menu Items/DEVONagent way you wish. Pro CM.plugin Learn more about why you should use DEVONagent ~/Library/Preferences/com.devon- Pro, when you should use it, and how to run your technologies.agentexpress.* first query: See also p. 14ff Depending on whether you have installed the following extras or not, remove them, too: SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS The product-specific scripts in ~/Library/Scripts and ~/Library/Workflows Every Mac running OS X Mavericks or later. In The contextual menu plugin in ~/Library/ addition, a fast Internet connection is highly Contextual Menu Items/ recommended. The Dashboard widget Note: Depending the version of OS X you are INSTALLING, UPDATING, using, some files may or may not be installed on REMOVING your machine. Just move the DEVONagent Pro application package to the Applications folder or any other TRIAL RESTRICTIONS directory you have access to. Please note that OS X Services and the connection to DEVONthink Unregistered DEVONagent Pro runs for 60 hours work only for applications installed into one of the of non-continous runtime. Close the app to stop Applications folders, and that logout and login or a the clock from ticking and re-open later to continue restart is required after installation. your evaluation. The menu extra is restricted to 100 searches until DEVONagent Pro is registered. To update an existing version of DEVONagent Pro, simply copy the application package from the disk image to your Applications folder, replacing the old version. Your database(s) will not be affected. VERSION HISTORY New Improved Fixed Removed DEVONagent Pro 3.9.8 Documentation, page 6 VERSION 3.9.8 This maintenance release enhances the Search mode for automatically searching sites. It also improves compatibility to Google Chrome bookmarks as well as the overall performance and reliability. Improved Search mode for automatically searching sites. Improved compatibility to Google Chrome bookmarks. Improved handling of background processes. Help > Report Bug sets the receiver if Postbox is the default email client. Improved overall performance and reliability. VERSION 3.9.7 This maintenance release sends all requests to Google or Bing over a secure connection (https). A new contextual menu option returns more precise see-also results for selected text, and a contextual menu added to the See Also pane of browser windows gives access to commonly used commands. The built-in search sets Macintosh News (Latest/More) have been updated too. Command See Related Text added to contextual menu of web views; useful to get more precise see-also results. Contextual menu added to See Also pane of browser windows. All requests sent to Google or Bing use secure connections (https) now. Macintosh News (Latest/More) search sets updated. See Also of search results lists also similar archived results now. Related website are retrieved more reliably. Improved installing and updating of scripts. Issue where automatic naming of files, e.g. when dragging results to the desktop, could have failed. Crash related to the DEVONthink databases plugin. Rare crash related to closing the last tab if the tabs bar was always visible. VERSION 3.9.6 This maintenance release adds new plugins for the privacy-focused search engine StartPage as well as for searching PDFs with Google. Version 3.9.6 improves sending results to DEVONthink, revises searching in the built-in archive, and adds usability and security enhancements. It also better handles dates and refines support for Google Chrome bookmarks. Note: Starting with this release DEVONagent Pro requires OS X Mavericks or later. Google (PDF) and StartPage plugins added. Tip: Use CoverFlow to scan all found PDF documents easily. Browsers > DEVONthink databases plugin added; scans all web sites bookmarked in the currently opened DEVONthink databases. Contextual menu added to tabs. Option Window > Search Sets > Actions > Destination added for choosing a destination group (requires DEVONthink 2.9.11 or later running concurrently). Options Formatted Note and Markdown added to Data > Add to DEVONthink and to contextual and action menus of search, browser and archive windows (the Markdown option requires the upcoming DEVONthink 2.9.12). DEVONagent Pro 3.9.8 Documentation, page 7 Plugins updated: DuckDuckGo, Computer Science > ACM Digital Library, Medical > PubMed, References > SEC, Science > IEEE Xplore, Social Networking > Twitter. Plugin Browsers > DEVONthink Pro Office renamed to DEVONthink server. Plugins updated (available via Support Assistant): Stack Overflow (Tags), Last.fm Similar Artists Search. Searching in results and in the archive revised; the All options find any entered word in any part of the metadata. This is closer to matching of web pages while crawling and to the behaviour of Spotlight. See Also and bookmarks support also DEVONthink Personal.