Jeffrey C. Long

I’ve decided to start publishing some tips for how I use Devonthink for those users on the internet who use this powerful information management tool for the Mac.

My most recent hack has been saving links to my Devonthink when I am doing offline reading. I spend most of my mornings at either Barnes and Nobles coffee shop or at a country restaurant in Buhl, Idaho studying and sifting through emails and feeds from weblogs on my laptop. Unfortunately, neither place has free wireless so I am working offline. While doing this, I often discover links to webpages that I am interested in visiting when I get back online.

I created a group in Devonthink for this purpose. I labeled the group “*Internet.” By putting the asterisk at the beginning, the group is automatically sorted to the top of my list. Then, when I find a website I want to visit later, I copy the URL and create a new link in my *Internet group. Then when I am back online I can go through each link and decide if it’s worth keeping or not. If it is, I post it to my del.icio.us account or import the webpage into Devonthink Pro (I’m a beta-tester). This has really helped me “catch” a lot of webpages that I would otherwise have missed