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The Tools menu |
The Tools menu provides tools to get more detailed information about your documents, as well as some specialized commands. Info & Filters Get Info: Opens an popup containing more detailed information about the currently selected file or group. It combines frequently used elements of the Info inspector and contains three panes:
Inspectors: This submenu provides access to the inspectors panes.
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Filter: The commands in this submenu filter the list of files in the location you are currently viewing. As you select options in these panes, the list of files will change accordingly. The filters are also covered in the windows chapter.
Document Commands Annotate: This submenu provides access to the PDF annotation tools. The first three are: Hightlight Text, Underline Text, and Strike Through Text. These tools are persistent, so you can select one and use it in that mode until you change to another tool. Next, the basic annotation types are available: Oval, Rectangle, Line, Note, Text, and Link Capture: This submenu provides options for capturing the current document to a new file in a few different formats: Bookmark, Plain/Rich Text, Formatted Note, HTML, Web Archive, and PDF (One Page/Paginated). Captures are made to the current group. There is also an option to use the Clip to DEVONthink command. This allows you to clip to a chosen location.
Mode: Lastly, the commands in this submenu switch between three modes of interaction in PDF documents: Move, Text Selection, and Annotation Selection. Rotate & Flip: This submenu provides a Rotate command for rotating an image or PDF page right or left. You can also mirror images on their horizontal or vertical axes via the Flip commands. PDF: This submenu provides options for editing the current PDF document: Insert Blank Page, Delete Selected Page, and Reverse Page Order. See the Documents chapter for more information on PDF documents. Sheets: This submenu provides access to the following tools for editing a sheet: New Record, Duplicate Records, Delete Records, New Column, Edit Columns, and Delete Columns. See the Documents chapter for more information on sheets. Imprint, Item Links, Import Markdown Images PRO
Imprinter: Choose an imprint you have defined in Preferences > Imprinter to apply it to the current image or PDF. Item Links: For documents supporting item links and WikiLinks and WikiLinks (Read more...), there are two commands in this submenu. Convert WikiLinks to Item Links replaces detected WikiLinks with their item links. Update Name of Item Links will scan the current document for item links and update the link text for any files whose names have been changed. Note: This will not update a name for change WikiLinks, only item links. Import Online Markdown Images: Download and link to local copies of images from web content clipped as Markdown documents. Create, Summarize, Merge, Split Create Expense Report: Creates a sheet summarizing custom metadata dates and currencies of selected files. Totals for the amounts will also be included. Create Metadata Overview: Creates a sheet with records for each selected file. The columns contain data from the generic and custom metadata of each file. Create Table of Contents: Opens a submenu to create a rich text or Markdown document with links to the currently selected documents. Summarize Highlights: Creates a document with all highlighted text passages of the currently selected documents. In case of items located in multiple databases the summary is created in the global inbox. From the submenu, choose to create the summary in a rich text document, Markdown document, or a sheet. Summarize Mentions: Creates a new document containing a list of the documents mentioning the name or alias of the selected document. From the submenu, choose to create the summary in a rich text document or a Markdown document. Merge Items: Merge the selected documents into one. This creates a new file, preserving the originals. Hold the ⌥ key to choose Merge & Delete n Documents, removing the original files after the merged document is created. When merging documents, the order of the merge will be the order shown in the item list. The topmost selected document will be the first page with the pages beneath it following. The order of the documents can be controlled by the current sort method in the item list. Read more...
Split PDF into Chapters: Used on a PDF containing a table of contents, separate per-chapter files are created. Split Document: Splits the current document (PDF, plain or rich text) at the insertion mark position in the document. Rules These commands allow you to set or run smart rule commands
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Start/Stop Server: Use this command to start and stop the integrated web server. Read more... Take Note: Opens the Sorter to the Take Note view. If the Sorter is not shown, it opens the Take Note window. |