DevonThink at startup opens the same document

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This is one of those trivial maybe not worth features, but is there a way to define what document DevonThink opens by default each time you launch it? In my case it’s the daily todo-journal. Would save me 400 milliseconds (avoid clicking on it in the Favorites list plus keep the Favorites list always open)?

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No, there’s not anything built-in other than selecting it before you quit the app. DEVONthink should reopen in the same state it quit.

However, you could generate a bookmark from the item link and launch DEVONthink by double-clicking it in a variety of ways.

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Thx will try the bookmark case, assume this is the DT specific url that I could put into a browser bookmark. Or I will will experiment with Alfred to see if there’s a simple way to associate that with a ‘fake’ search.

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  1. Control-click > Copy Item Link.
  2. Command-N to make a new bookmark in DEVONthink.
  3. Drag the bookmark out to your desktop, dock, whatever.
  4. Quit DEVONthink.
  5. Launch your bookmark.
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Thx that’s cool but it opens up the document inside DevonThink in a separate window rather than in the view pane below when launching the link.

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Then edit the URL by appending of the bookmark with ?reveal=1.

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Thanks yes that was the trick.