Tip: Use Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts are available almost everywhere. You’ll find an (in)complete list of all available shortcuts here. The online help mentions all available keyboard shortcuts in the respective chapters.
▪ Return: Rename documents in browser windows.
▪ Escape: Cancel renaming or leave full screen mode.
▪ Command-W: Close window or leave full screen mode.
▪ Delete/Backspace: Delete selected items or downloads.
▪ Tab/Shift-Tab: Go to next/previous user interface element (not available in text views or browser windows).
▪ Option-Tab: Jumps between between panes of browser split views.
▪ Command-Shift-O: Open selected document/group of browser windows and close the current window (“Hoist”).
▪ Command-Shift-F: Open search window.
▪ Command-Option-F: Jump to search field of browser toolbar.
▪ Left/Right arrow: Show or hide the contents of groups in split or list views or navigate to previous/next item in other views.
▪ Up/Down arrow: Navigate up and down in all views. Use “Shift” to select multiple entries.
▪ Home/End: Go to beginning of or end of any view.
▪ Page Up/Down: Scroll one page up and down in any view.
▪ Space/Shift-Space: Scroll one page up and down in displayed web pages or browser views. Works also in images and PDF documents.
▪ Backspace/Shift-Backspace: Go back and forward through visited web pages.
▪ Command-Up/Down Arrow: Go to first/last page of a PDF document.
▪ Command-Right/Left Arrow: Go to next/previous page of a PDF document.
▪ Shift-Left/Right/Up/Down Arrow: Extend current selection.
Additionally, there are many modifier keys you can use when dragging documents or clicking a piece of text.
▪ Command-Drag: Copy/duplicate to destination.
▪ Command-Option-Drag: Link/replicate to destination.
▪ Control-Right click: Access contextual menu.
▪ Command-Click:
⁃ Open clicked URL within text or web views in default application (e.g. your default Internet browser),
⁃ Add item to selection of list, icon, column or split views,
⁃ Place cursor inside a link for editing without jumping to the destination of the link.
▪ Shift-Click: Select multiple items.
▪ Option-Double click: Open selected document/group of browser windows and close the current window (“Hoist”).
▪ Option-Click: Add clicked URL within text or web views to download manager.
▪ Option-Click: List all contents containing the clicked word too in a drawer (identical to the contextual menu command “See Word”).
Of course, also the Services menu commands installed by DEVONthink can be reached by keyboard shortcuts. By the nature of the Services mechanism, these shortcuts work in every Cocoa and enabled Carbon applications such as TextEdit, Mail or Safari as well as, of course, all DEVONtechnologies applications. They do not work in older Carbon application such as Microsoft Word v. X, RagTime or the Microsoftt Internet Explorer.
▪ Command-(: Copies the selected piece of text into a new plain text note in the open DEVONthink database.
▪ Command-): Copies the selected piece of text into a new rich text note in the open DEVONthink database. If possible, this preserves all formatting and even takes over the URL when you clip text from a web page in Safari.
▪ Command-/: Open a new search window in DEVONthink with the selected piece of text already filled in.
