Starting at $5/month, Club MacStories includes MacStories Weekly – a newsletter delivered every Friday with a focus on iOS productivity and showcasing new and interesting iOS apps. With a Club MacStories subscription, you’ll gain access to weekly iPad workflows, iOS app recommendations, and other exclusive extras. Get More iOS Productivity Tips and Workflows And while the new commands are documented in the app, I thought it’d be useful to provide some concrete examples of how we can take DEVONthink to the next level through automation. These changes will enable a greater number of users to integrate DEVONthink with their favorite iPad apps and workflows. The automation features introduced by DEVONtechnologies in the latest DEVONthink for iOS go deep into the app’s structure, covering discrete functionalities such as file creation, search, and data retrieval. I made my decision: this is the app I’m going to use to manage the research content for my iOS 11 review this summer. With an improved set of URL commands and various optimizations for usage in Workflow, DEVONthink To Go can now be that kind of file manager. I was genuinely excited by the prospect of a scriptable DEVONthink: due to iOS’ lack of a deeply integrated Finder, I’ve always wanted a file manager that could be extended and enhanced through automation and other apps. The turning point occurred a few weeks ago, when DEVONtechnologies began adding advanced x-callback-url automation to DEVONthink’s beta channel and were kind enough to let me test and provide feedback for the functionality. I’ve been moving more work documents and other research material (web archives and PDFs, mostly) to DEVONthink over the past two months. I also expanded upon the idea of using DEVONthink as my only iOS file manager in the latest episode of Mac Power Users. I concluded the article noting that DEVONthink’s advanced file management features were ideal candidates for my writing workflow – particularly given the app’s ability to store different types of documents, reference them with unique links, and search them with Boolean operators. When I covered DEVONthink To Go in the first iPad Diaries column back in February, I briefly mentioned the app’s limited support for URL schemes and automation. You can find more installments here and subscribe to the dedicated RSS feed. IPad Diaries is a regular series about using the iPad as a primary computer.
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