Disable global shortcut to open devonthink

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I found other shortcuts which were doing the same thing, and I was able to reproduce the issue.

  1. Select any text in Safari or TextEdit and press ⌘ + ⇧ + 9 or ⌘ + ⇧ + 2 . This will also open Devonthink doing something with the selected text.
  2. Select any text in TextEdit and press ⌘ + / . This will also open devonthink with a dialog asking permission to control TextEdit. After giving this permission, it will paste the selected text into the search box and start searching.

These things are called “Services”. Devonthink developers think that generic shortcuts to these services is a good idea without giving any option to disable those shortcuts in preferences. A page hidden in the manual asks to disable these from the System preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services.

I think I am done with Devonthink. I have spent way too much time investigating this. It is easier to learn vim and edit my notes in terminal :slight_smile:

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