DEVONthink To Go VERSION 2.7.9 DOCUMENTATION © 2001-2021 DEVONtechnologies TABLE OF CONTENTS READ ME 4 SHARE OR CLIP DATA 22 What's new 4 Use the Files app 22 About DEVONtechnologies 11 Use drag-and-drop 23 Credits 11 Capture data 23 Scan paper documents 23 MANAGE YOUR DATABASES 12 Create notes and search with Siri 24 Create new items 12 Share data 24 Sync 12 Share documents 25 Get help 13 Use iTunes to batch-import documents 25 Customize the settings 13 SYNC YOUR DATABASES 27 MANAGE YOUR ITEMS 14 Quick start 27 Top-level groups 14 Scenarios 27 Customize the view 14 Synchronizing everything or just the Search 15 metadata 28 Get more information about an item 15 Setting up sync 29 Create new items 16 Setting up Bonjour 30 Organize your documents 16 Troubleshooting 31 Share items 17 CUSTOMIZE THE APP SETTINGS 33 Use the grid view 17 Premium features 33 VIEW AND EDIT YOUR DOCUMENTS 19 Security 33 Common options 19 Sync settings 33 Plain text and Markdown 19 Group settings 35 Rich text and formatted notes 20 Document settings 35 Images 20 Integration settings 35 PDFs 20 Backup settings 35 Bookmarks and HTML 21 Log 35 Sheets 21 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 37 Movies and audio files 21 Other 21 Security 37 Spotlight 38 Synchronization 38 Contacting us 38 DEVONthink To Go 2.7.9 Documentation, page 2 OTHER PRODUCTS 40 Overview 40 DEVONthink 40 DEVONagent 40 DEVONsphere 41 Needful Things 41 APPENDIX 42 Glossary 42 Iconology 44 Tagging 44 Search operators 45 Item links and paths 47 URL commands 48 DEVONthink To Go 2.7.9 Documentation, page 3 READ ME IN THIS CHAPTER Take your documents with you Create and edit documents on the go What's new 4 Find using fast full-text search About DEVONtechnologies 11 Organize your knowledge wherever you are Credits 11 Sync your databases with DEVONthink for Put your notes, text documents, images, Mac or other devices running DEVONthink and bookmarks into your pocket with To Go DEVONthink To Go. Have them always at hand even when you are not connected to your office network or the Internet. WHAT'S NEW New Improved Fixed Removed VERSION 2.7.9 This maintenance update fixes a crash related to adding PDF annotations on iOS 14, an issue where URLs could no longer be be added to documents via the Info popover, and more. Adding annotations to PDFs crashed the app on iOS 14.x. Fixed. URLs couldn't be added to regular documents anymore. Fixed. The Info popover from the detail view could appear too narrow. Fixed. Calculating all tags of an item could crash the app in some rare cases. Fixed. If the app crashed on launch, web archives to be added were lost. Fixed. Sync — The background fetch could, theoretically, freeze the app in the background. Fixed. VERSION 2.7.8 This is (one of) the last maintenance update(s) for DEVONthink To Go 2. It prepares the data store for version 3.0, which has been in the works for a while and will become available as a separate app in the App Store in due course. A welcome screen will inform you about the arrival of DEVONthink To Go 3.0. The update to 2.7.8 also brings those bug fixes over from version 3 that don't depend on larger changes to the database or app structure, or would make the app DEVONthink To Go 2.7.9 Documentation, page 4 incompatible to iOS 11 and 12. And finally, we've updated the PDF library and MultiMarkdown support as well as brought the sync submodule on part with DEVONthink 3.6 for Mac and the upcoming DEVONthink To Go 3.0. Added welcome screen that will appear when DEVONthink To Go3.0 becomes available. The data store, settings, and sync data are moved to a shared location where they can be picked up by version 3. Documents can be added to Favorites too. Search more reliably finds words containing a hyphen. Sheets no longer display DEVONthink for Mac column type identifiers in their header row. Very long PDFs are now scaled to width. Sync locations no longer show file name extensions. Added support for iOS 14 local network access security. Added support for newer App Store URL scheme. More reliable full-text reindexing. Improved timeout handling of clearing duplicates. PDF library to updated to latest version that is still compatible to iOS 11. Markdown support updated to MultiMarkdown 6. Further minor performance, responsiveness, and reliability enhancements. Sync — Dropbox uploads are now limited to four concurrent connections and the minimal time between two upload connections is 0.5 seconds. This reduces up to 90% of temporary rate limiting errors and might also reduce the likelyhood of Drobopx stalls and timeouts. Also: improved automatic retry handling in case of rate limiting errors and improved multi-threading of Dropbox support. Sync — Reduced CPU, memory, and battery usage of Dropbox sync stores and iCloud upload monitor. Sync — Improved multi-threading and better support for asymmetric multi processing. Sync — More reliable synchronizing of tags, e.g., after replicating ordinary tags. Sync — Better and more consistent logging. Sync — Reduced load for push notification server. Sync — Improved overall reliability and performance. Autosaving PDFs could cause interruptions or streaks while drawing. Fixed. PDFs without annotation permissions could be annotated. Fixed. RSS feeds didn't show shallow/full sync controls. Fixed. Searching for multiple tags separated by semicolons didn't work. Fixed. Setting only the tags via x-callback-url didn't work. Fixed. Importing files from the Files app didn't work due to permissions issues. Fixed. Documents added by drag-and-drop were not searchable. Fixed. DEVONthink To Go 2.7.9 Documentation, page 5 Voice notes played with very low volume on iOS 13 and later. Fixed. Changing a group's tags was not reflected in the details string of its children. Fixed. New tags were not necessarily marked as such. Fixed. Records moved to another database could be purged under certain circumstances even though they were not synced yet. Fixed. Sorting by name could order some items differently in item lists and in the destination selector. Fixed. The toolbar for documents wasn't updated after downloading the document on demand. Fixed. The button for expanding the detail view sometimes vanished randomly. Fixed. The activity indicator wasn't always properly shown during a database migration. Fixed. Various glitches of the database list. Fixed. The "Saved" notification ducked the suggestion bar. Fixed by removing the unnecessary notification. After selecting PDF search results and scrolling, the found results were not highlighted. Fixed. Conversions were shown for items not yet downloaded. Fixed When switching the item list out of editing mode, the selected item showed a checkmark for a fraction of a second. Fixed. The full-screen progress indicator label was clipped on iPhone in portrait orientation. Fixed. Moving items with the Files app did not reliably work. Fixed. PDFs were reloaded unnecessarily after saving, causing side-effects such as changing unexpectedly from double spread view to single pages. Fixed. Background tasks were not correctly marked as ended and so caused unnecessary console messages. Fixed. Some examples for URL commands appeared as clickable links in the integrated help. Fixed. Documents without content could crash the app. Fixed. Extracting PDF metadata could crash the app. Fixed. Updating the app badge could crash the app. Fixed. Scrolling in lists with a large number of items could crash the app. Fixed. Starting maintenance tasks while the app was going into the background could crash the app. Fixed. Creating a formatted note with Clip to DEVONthink crashed the extension. Fixed Opening documents with invalid item link could potentially crash the app. Fixed. Collecting data in the file provider extension could crash the extension. Fixed. Importing files from, e.g., the Files app, could freeze the app. Fixed. Calculating sheet column widths could crash the app. Fixed. Deleting items could crash the app in rare situations caused by recursive group structures. Fixed. Converting web archives could crash the app. Fixed. DEVONthink To Go 2.7.9 Documentation, page 6 Fixed other potential glitches and crashes. Sync — iCloud locations could be added multiple times. Fixed. Sync — %20 in URLs was converted to + which confused some WebDAV servers. Fixed. Sync — During a sync, the indexed status of items was changed even though it didn't need to. Fixed. Sync — Duplication was enabled for conflicts in case of Bonjour syncs. Fixed. Sync — Updating the sync status button could crash the app. Fixed. Sync — Rare issue of duplication in case of conflicts of indexed items. Fixed. Sync — In case of temporary server issues of Dropbox endless retries could be performed. Fixed. Sync — Obsolete files/folders might not have beem removed from the internal sync status folder after cleaning sync stores. Fixed. Sync — WebDAV session handling could throw harmless exceptions. Fixed. Sync — Skip state restoration when the background sync is active to prevent a (harmless) console warning. Sync — Requesting the sync status of databases synchronized through Bonjour could crash the app. Fixed. Sync — When the background app refresh was triggered before the app was even launched at least once, the app crashed. Fixed. Sync — Broken status files could crash the app. Fixed. Sync — Empty sync store uploads could crash the app. Fixed. Sync — Rare crashes related to multi-threading. Fixed. VERSION 2.7.7 This maintenance release allows you to merge floating toolbars with the top toolbar to move them out of the way, and increases the size of preview images. Version 2.7.7 also improves the performance when handling PDFs, better avoids reindexing metadata unnecessarily, and fixes a number of bugs and glitches.