Is there any chance we can get color options for the background of rich text notes like we have for plain text notes in DEVONthink 3? I see their still is an option for this specific to full screen on rich text notes.
The majority of my notes are rich text and seeing the white background on the note preview screen with the rest of the application in dark mode is a bit jarring. Also, I usually use my notes in a pop out window in split screen mode so full screen is not my preferred method of use.
By the way, I love the update so far! The look is fantastic and a lot of the new functionalities are great too.
Thanks for the suggestion! Maybe weāll add another option to upcoming versions. Another possibility is that the plain text background color could also be applied to rich text (question is how many people wouldnāt like that?).
It seems natural that rich text would use the same background as plain text, as it is the case on text editor and quick look. Also, I would kindly suggest/request that a dark background be made available to the epub view as well.
One of the most appreciate advantages with the dark mode is, that it is very relaxing for the eyes. So, in every case a strong contrast between black and white is more stressful for the eyes.
For me, this is the strongest argument to have a darker background for every view in DT3
I would also welcome this. If I have to create a plain text note, I lose the advantage of headings, bold, italics, etc. to order my note. If I do all my writing in Full Screen, itās somewhat disconcerting to see the same note in white, with (for me) light grey text in the ordinary viewing pane. I think itās a small change that will accelerate DT3 into a strong note-writing app alongside its other considerable advantages for researchers, for example.
Actually legibility suffers in the dark mode color scheme. Using Appleās Night Shift is actually better for your eyes and maintains legibility. Perceptual constancy creates the illusion the color is correct when Night Shift is in effect. (The brain is an amazing thing!)
Hi @BLUEFROG, I use the dark mode also in other editors like Typora or Scrivener. Itās far better for me, than with dark mode an white background in the editor window. My legibility seems to be affected very positive. A few minutes ago I imported a lot of Scrivener RTF exports into DT. Iām a happier customer if I have the opportunity to switch to a dark backgroundā¦
I upgraded to DevonThink 3 primarily to get Dark Mode. But now all the black on white rich documents that I have to document procedures are really loud and unpleasant to read against dark mode. Unfortunately, unlike the color picker DevonThink 2, the color picker in DevonThink 3 doesnāt have a ābackground [ ]ā checkbox so I canāt seem to select the whole document and change the background color, or the background of any text. I am still searching around to see if youāve merely provided the feature in a different way.
To help people transition to dark mode, it would be nice to have some kind of import or conversion filter that would āinvertā the rich text colors or scan for existing colors and let users fill in a migration color table or something to quickly let them make their DevonThink 2 documents work better in DevonThink 3 with Dark Mode.
Iād love that feature but at least Iād like to know how to convert the doc background manually.
The request is noted, but Development would have to assess this.
However, you can change the background of a rich text document on a per-document basis by doing a Command-A or Edit > Select All while the text is active. The press Command-T to open the Font panel where you can change the background and font colors, like thisā¦
Hi, so thatās where the FG/BG colors are hiding in v3. Great.
Some very strange behaviors. When I brought up the font panel pop up, selected all the rich text document and set the background color it only changed the margins (where I use the ruler sliders to indent paragraphs).
But now the document shows mark up instead of a ruler (I probably have it in some mode), but when I select the font background from that it sets the background of everything except the margins.
Iāve pasted in both screenshots.
Now Iām going to see if I can get them both to agree on a color as a workaround.
Hi, thanks. Looking forward to that. There is a way to accomplish it in beta, but it is tedious.
First Iād like to add, if this is on someoneās agenda, that with a dark background the dark āIā cursor canāt be seen, so there should probably be some way to handle that.
The way I get the background to be a dark grey entails using the format bar, and the font panel because each changes a different part of the background color (one sets the margin background color (such as the whitespace that occurs when indenting sections using the ruler) and the other sets the text background. Together they can create the same background color.
Update: The new-user rules for this forum are really draconian and frustrating. I wanted to remove this post and post it as a reply to the previous person, but it told me I can only have three replies on this topic. I was going to delete this and hope it would decrement the total number of replies and āopen up a slotā for me to reply into, but figure it might be broken and not realized Iād deleted one so ā¦
The default highlight color is yellow (in this newly created example notes above, but also in all my other notes I have edited so far). The problem is that in dark mode, the font color changes from black to white (which makes sense due to the dark background). But white a font color within yellow text highlights makes the the highlighted part unreadable
Are there any solutions planned for this issue? E.g., automatically changing the font color in highlighted text to black or automatically changing the highlight color into orange or something else?
Well done, the DT3b5 update brings some improvement to the visibility of highlighted text in RTF files in Dark Mode! Unfortunately, the highlight color is now slightly too dim, so that the highlight can hardly be recognized (left image below). May be a slight increase of the background color could further improve the visibility (e.g., right image)?
