I’d be interested too. I think BTT is a nice util and it might be nice to explore it as a supplemental tool for our user base.
Go have a look here and here – these two posts are what I used to get a basic version installed, that I then tweaked.
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Oh, yeah. That is sexy indeed! 
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Thank you! This is great. I look forward to playing with it.
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Figured I would share the below screengrab, for those DT3 users who are heavy annotators, have KM, and an extended keyboard with numpad. So, for the 1%. 
I hadn’t realised that KM knows the difference between numpad keys, and main main keyboard numeral keys. Heard it first via Brett Terpstra – saw it care of MacSparky’s KM Field-Guide.
I do occasionally use the numpad in the ‘ordinary’ course of working inside DT3, but that most regularly occurs within .txt / .rft files, so I added the If>then>else proviso, to try and limit where the trigger kicks in.
Given that I have a Microsoft Ergonomic Sculpt keyboard that comes with a separate BT-dongle numpad, I can now highlight my PDFs with the left hand on the trackpad, selecting the text, with my right hand on the numpad > and simply tapping/toggling between numbers 0-7, to have one of my 7 highlight colours applied.
The nerd in me is in rapture. 
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As I personally hate suggesting dependencies, i.e. things you need to buy or install to make things work - it should just work out-of-the-box - I rarely offer ideas like this to you all. However, it’s cool to explore such options. Nicely done!
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As someone who highlights a lot too….
Would be convenient to have a pop up with colors available.
Highlight> auto pop up colors then choose.
I have seen some apps have this ability.
Maybe one day!
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That is sexy indeed, but also slow. I don’t have a need to highlight quickly though, but it would be slower using a popup like that. 
Slower if you are a keyboard type of person ;). I’m a trackpad kinda of guy, so for me this is faster
I track a lot as well. I’m just playing nice with everyone
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Cassady, I’ve download BetterTouchTool, have you got a grab of your settings regarding how you’ve set that up with the highlights? Thanks!
Scrub that, I see you’ve put a grab, but it’s beyond my level.
I see a three finger click on a word brings up the dictionary. Would be nice if a three finger click on a section instead brought up the highlight colour palette.
I use a fixed two finger with 1 finger (left) tap, that works well.
Regarding the set-up – I wish I could be more help.
It requires playing around a bit with CSS/HTML files, that I hardly understand either – but I managed to dig around in it enough to get something going.
I downloaded a template uploaded here, and played around. Honestly though, I’m fairly certain that if I could hack something together, pretty much anyone could – since I was really poking around with zero clue as to what I was doing…
Have a look at this blog post [under the heading “Floating HTML Menu”, it is quite detailed, and walks one through all the steps required! Good luck!
also, cmd+shift+L shortcut does not work for me.
after pressing the shortcut, I hear a short bang voice from mac.
The free ShortcutDetective app should show you if there’s another app that receives a shortcut.
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thanks mate.
the ShortcutDetective app can only detect the shortcuts of other apps besides DT3. when I am using DT3 and press any shortcuts, ShotcutDetective can’t detect them.
ShortcutDetective doesn’t detect any custom shortcuts from DEVONthink 3 here either.
ShortcutDetective only shows globally registered shortcuts. I use it to find the app that overwrites a shortcut in my active app. Or to see why e.g. an Alfred shortcut doesn’t work - most often it’s a Keyboard Maestro shortcut that overwrites Alfred.
Cassady,
Can you explain in detail how to set your little BTT-hack, for the floating palette?
Goodness — I missed this. Have you sorted this, or should I share what works my side still?
Recently had to “fix” it when transferring to the new Mac, so actually had to remember what I did, which I fortunately could work out again.