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With its built-in artificial intelligence (AI) functions, DEVONthink can be used to analyze the documents in your databases as show you information and suggestions about them. There are more AI-driven functions than shown here but here are a few highlights… DEVONthink has long had its own internal AI, the brain of the application, working in the background, indexing and analyzing the content and locations of your documents. Every time you add documents, make changes to them, reorganize them, it updates its internal knowledge. This knowledge is used to offer a few things: suggestions where an item could be filed, what group it best belongs in, and what documents seem to be related to it. These recommendations can be viewed in the See Also inspector. So as you work with your database, the AI takes note and adjusts with those changes, essentially training itself based on what YOU do. In the Tags inspector, the AI displays the tags on a document. But using its internal knowledge of your tagging practices, it also makes suggestions about other tags that you may want to add to the document. Adding and removing tags is as simple as two clicks. In addition, a network graph of a selected tag illustrates the relationship between a tag and others in your database. Lastly, the Graph inspector also shows connections between documents. But in this view you can see how a document is linked to by other documents via item links or WikiLinks. Or examine what documents mention each other. While this information is also found in other specific places, this graph can be helpful in visualizing the relationships in one consolidated view. Possible uses: Analyze the complexity and focus of a specific document collection Helps make tagging decisions and apply those tags View the interlocking relationships between documents, their tags, and links Continue to read here: Get an insight into the tagging possibilities for a document Get recommendations on where to file your documents Examine the word distributions of your documents