Today's release brings a few new features together with improvements and fixes. There is a new preference option to have document windows always open in fullscreen mode if there is already a fullscreen window. A contextual or action menu command enables or disables selected smart rules and DEVONthink better handles aliases and symbolic links, e.g., when indexing or deleting files, or when opening them externally. We refined some format conversions, e.g., sheets to Markdown, and made tranclusions of HTML files and sheets happen faster and more reliably, especially with larger sheets. The synchronization now shows failed verifications in Notification Center. And lastly, the update fixes, among other minor bugs and glitches, a critical issue when inserting pages from one PDF to another. It also improves the overall performance and reliability.

This release brings improvements, from syncing to indexing, as well as many fixes. When using item links in documents, you can now have the link text updated automatically. A new option allows to show label colors as flags, and a new preference lets you always search the currently selected location when doing a toolbar search.

Clipping websites with dynamic content retains more content than before, and clipping web pages as Markdown automatically downloads images if desired. Sheets can be converted to PDF or printed as forms (Pro edition only). Indexing items is more robust, from better performance with mounted volumes to new alerts when emptying the trash containing indexed items. In addition to some cosmetic polishing, some menus and preferences have been adjusted for clarity or consistency.

Scripting support, smart rules, and batch processing have received some attention, too. DEVONthink 3.8.1 improves the performance, resource consumption, and reliability of the synchronization, as well as the compatibility to an upcoming release of macOS Monterey. And, as always, the update brings countless further enancements and fixes.

With so many improvements made and functions added, this update is almost an upgrade. The summary would be far too long to list them all, so here are a few of the high points.

To help ensure your databases are healthy, we've added another mechanism that logs the state of each file, called a checksum, in your database. Occasionally, use the new Check File Integrity command and script to verify the files are intact. As linking becomes increasingly commonplace, WikiLinks can now be converted to more "stable" item links. You also can now update the link text for an item link if you've renamed the linked file. Additionally, DEVONthink now has another way of seeing relationships between documents: a new Document > Mentions inspector that lists documents that mention the name or aliases of a selected document in their contents. You can see where the mention occurs and there is a new Summarize Mentions command to gather those mentions into one document. When searching, you can set a preference to set a default search scope for toolbar searches, e.g., Inboxes. And the See Also & Classify inspector now presents options to match items by tags instead of content and also can limit the suggestions to the current database. For the automators, seasoned and new, JXA (JavaScript for Automation) scripts can now be edited in the embedded editor and executed in smart rules and reminder alarms. The AppleScript dictionary has several new commands and properties.

Markdown fans will see more improvements including setting formatting via hotkeys, e.g., ⌘B to type in bold, and automatically continued lists where pressing Return in a list will insert a new list item. In the Markdown preferences, specify a default JavaScript to apply to all Markdown files. Dropping, pasting, and inserting pictures into a Markdown document can now automatically add the images directly to a group with a user-specified name, with links added to the document by DEVONthink. PDF annotators will appreciate new highlight, underline, and strike through tools that are persistent until you change the tool.

An important feature for people who index files, a Select option has been added to the Path dropdown in the Generic Info inspector. This allows you to select the moved item in its new location and have the indexed children detected properly. Since files often travel outside of macOS, e.g., through Dropbox, DEVONthink can now preferentially replace OS-unsafe characters in a filename. We also made some cosmetic changes to the interface. This includes rearranging some of the preferences to make them appear more consistent between the old and new versions of macOS.

Regarding syncing, we made more improvements to our sync engine to try and circumvent the roadblocks remote sync options can present. We have fixed several bugs and crashes and, as always, improved the performance and reliability.

This release addresses a few lately discovered issues, e.g., some smart rule actions incorrectly running twice. Additionally, Markdown support continues to improve with the Table of Contents inspector honoring placeholders used with headings. Hashtags in MultiMarkdown metadata are now detected and converted to ordinary tags, if needed. Also, we have added an AppleScript command to return the current workspace you're using.

This maintenance release continues our improvements with Markdown. This includes better performance, improved transclusion, and fixes for an issue with WYSIWYG editing when using non-Latin fonts. We have made some changes to our sync engine to boost the reliability of syncing via Dropbox and iCloud (CloudKit). Also, the Sorter now allows you to clip from Microsoft's Edge browser. And lastly, we've made the requisite performance and stability improvements.

This release not only provides bug fixes and improvements of many kinds, but features more extensions to Markdown handling. The first, a new hybrid Markdown source rendering: WYSIWYG editing. While editing your Markdown, you will see bold characters embolden, italics italicize, etc. in the source. DEVONthink also now supports transclusion, allowing the display of another Markdown, plain text, or HTML document's content in a Markdown document. Additionally, DEVONthink indexes certain MultiMarkdown metadata types and makes them usable with smart rules, batch processing, and automatic tag assignment.

Among the other changes, the Sorter has shortcut keys in the Screen Capture view and a shortcut for the clutter-free option in the Web Clip view. Autocompletion of square bracket WikiLinks searches anywhere in an item's name, and you can create WikiLinks in the Annotations inspector. We have improved handling and deleting RSS articles as well as the maintenance routines that allow for some more valid types of zero-byte (empty) files. On the sync side we made some changes to reduce issues with Bonjour timeouts. And for the AppleScripters, we added some new commands, including one to automate summarizing document highlights.