The View menu

Sidebar & Layouts

Sidebar: The Sidebar view options allow you to switch between the four different sidebar views in a main window. You can toggle the sidebar's visibility by selecting the same option again.

• Navigate: Open the Navigate sidebar, giving you easy access to your databases, favorites, and global smart groups.
• Reading List: Open the Reading List sidebar where you can maintain a list of documents for later consideration.
• Extras: Open the Extras sidebar to read up on recent updates, announcements, and promotions or discover the latest tutorials, scripts, and templates.

View: Choose one of the following options to switch between different layouts for the item list in a main window. All these views are similar to options you find in Finder windows.

• Icons: Displays items as icons.
• List: Displays items in a list view with user-specified columns shown.
• Columns: Displays the item list as a set of columns.

Preview: These options allow you to control the position of the current document's preview, or dismiss it altogether.

• None: This creates a list only view.
• Standard: This shows a preview under the file listing.
• Widescreen: This shows the preview to the right of the file listing.

Quick Look/Slideshow: Opens the Quick Look panel for the selected items which can be useful for times when the view/edit pane isn't displayed. Holding the ⌥︎ Option key allows you to display the selected files in a Quick Look slideshow.

Show Tags & Details

Show/Hide Tags: Shows or hides the Tags bar.

Show/Hide Details: Switches between displaying icons only or displaying icons together with detailed information such as kind, label, size, word count, creation date, and modification date. Available in all windows using icon or column views.

Show Only Documents: When checked, this hides groups and smart groups in List and Icons views. Note this is a per-database setting, i.e., you can enable or disable it for each open database.

Columns & Sorting

List Columns: This submenu lists all columns available to be displayed as column headers in the item list.

Sort: This submenu lists all the attributes that can be used to sort the current item list. Choose Unsorted to manually sort the items. DEVONthink remembers sort settings for every group separately and uses those settings when the group is displayed in its own main window

Customize Metadata: Opens a panel showing all the available metadata fields that can be enabled as List view columns or used to sort on. This includes all enabled custom metadata.

Fullscreen & Zoom

Full Screen: Displays either the current document in a full screen mode optimized for reading and editing, or the frontmost window in full screen. There are two options available here:

• Document: Shows the current document in full screen. Note this is a distraction-free view, not the standard macOS fullscreen view.
• Window: Shows the current window in a standard macOS full screen view.

Zoom: Depending on the document type, you can zoom in or out of the document's preview:

• Actual Size: Displays the document at actual size, calculated using the resolution of the screen and the resolution information of the image or PDF.
• All Pixels: Displays the document at a 1:1 ratio so that one pixel of the image equals one pixel on the screen (PDFs and images only).
• Zoom In/Out: Zooms in or out of the document.
• Zoom to Fit: Displays the document so that it exactly fits either the height or the width of the window/preview pane (PDFs and images only).
• Zoom to Width: Displays the document so that its width fits the width of the window or view/edit pane (PDFs and images only).

Document & PDF Options

Document Display: This submenu contains commands for displaying alternate views of some documents. Note there are alternate commands shown when used with sheets or HTML and Markdown files.

• Best Alternative/Preview/Table View: Shows a QuickLook view, or a rendered view for HTML-based and Markdown files, the Table view for sheets.
• Text Alternative/Source/Form View: Shows a text-only view of some file types, e.g., Word or email. Also shows the page source of HTML-based and Markdown files or the Form view for sheets.
• Side-by-Side: Shows a side-by-side view of the rendered view and source for HTML and Markdown files. Note this does not apply to Formatted Notes.

PDF Display: This submenu lets you adjust the way PDF documents are displayed:

• Single Page, Two Pages: Shows a multi-page document as single pages or two pages facing each other (as in a magazine).
• Continuous Scroll: When checked, shows the pages of the PDF as one long scroll. When unchecked, only one page is shown at a time.
• Book Mode: When checked, facing pages start with one single page (the title page), then facing pages. When unchecked, they start facing.
• Page Breaks: When checked, pages are shown with a small break between the pages. When unchecked, the pages appear as a continuous document.
• Crop Box, Media Box: Crops the page to the crop or media box. By default, PDF pages are cropped to the crop box.

Toolbar

Hide/Show Toolbar: Hides or shows the toolbar of the frontmost window.

Customize Toolbar: Opens the toolbar configuration sheet so you can change the toolbar buttons of the frontmost window.