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DEVONthink comes with built-in RSS capabilities that enable you to add RSS feeds to your database and have DEVONthink update them automatically. Use these preferences to define how often DEVONthink checks for new articles, whether to skip duplicates when updating feeds, when to remove older articles, and which CSS style sheet to use for displaying the articles. Check for updates: Set how often you want DEVONthink to refresh your feeds. This can be from 5 minutes to once a day. It can also be when opening or before synchronizing a specific database. And of, there's always the option to check for updates manually. Convert categories and hashtags to tags: Some RSS articles have tag metadata to help people more easily navigate the publisher's site. Check this option to convert these to DEVONthink tags. Note this can add a great number of tags to your database. Skip identically named articles: The same article can be delivered when using multiple RSS feeds from one site. Enable this option to avoid downloading duplicate articles. Remove articles: Set how often older articles are removed from the feed. Check Also unread articles to remove them, even if they're unread. Remove immediately instead of moving to the trash: Immediately deletes the RSS articles. Also unread articles: Check this to remove all articles at the specified interval whether they've been read or not. You can use Data > Mark > as Locked to lock individual feeds or articles and prevent automatic deletion. Feed Format: Choose a file format for the downloaded articles. (RSS articles are presented as HTML files, by default.) Check Use clutter-free layout to try to remove unwanted ads, etc. from the article. Feed Style Sheet: For HTML (Feed Format: Automatic) articles, DEVONthink comes with multiple styles for displaying them. You can use your own RSS stylesheets by placing them into `~/Library/Application Support/DEVONthink 3/StyleSheets`. Enable Use clutter-free layout with web archive and single-page PDFs to produce a file with many extraneous elements removed.