DEVONthink To Go 4.2 Chandra* introduces Zen mode for distraction-free reading and editing, a redesigned icon view, and an updated OCR engine with improved accuracy and language support. Create new images or edit existing pictures with the new AI image creation popover, and add notes or scan documents right from the lock screen or Control Center with two new widgets.
Quickly navigate your databases with your favorites right on the databases list. Color groups and tags and order documents manually if needed. The chat can highlight text passages and ignores documents from databases you exclude. You can also open a chat for multiple selected documents. We’ve updated the support for many AI models, too, added GPT 5.5 Pro and the Xiaomi models, and removed outdated ones.
Set a default font for text, Markdown, rich text, and formatted notes documents, and adjust the line height. Floating statistics show character, word, and paragraph counts. If you’re working with Markdown, the renderer/parser of version 4.2 is more compliant with common Markdown features, faster, and more reliable. We’ve also revisited the search to make it more complete and more compatible with DEVONthink for Mac. It finds documents with attached chats, too.
In addition, we have revised many icons and menu commands throughout the app for consistency. The main menu lets you directly access information about the app, the integrated help pages, the tips we regularly post on our blog, and send us feedback.
Of course, we’ve improved the overall reliability and performance, and fixed bugs and glitches.
You can find a complete list of all improvements in Settings > Help > Read Me inside the app. The New & Improved page also highlights what’s new in each feature release. We recommend this update to all users of DEVONthink To Go. The App Store will either install the update automatically for you or you can find it in the Updates area of the App Store app. If you are still using an older generation of DEVONthink To Go, version 4 is a new app and you’ll need to install it manually. DEVONthink To Go 4 is included with every license for DEVONthink 4 Pro or Server for Mac as long as it receives updates.
* We dedicate this release to the Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA’s flagship X-ray telescope launched in 1999 and itself named after the astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995). Chandrasekhar determined the mass limit above which a white dwarf star cannot support itself against gravitational collapse, laying the groundwork for our understanding of neutron stars and black holes. His work reminds us that perseverance can reveal truths about the universe even long before anyone has the means to observe them.
