I’m unable to figure out how to do what should be DevonThink’s most basic core function: capturing text from a source and sending it to the desired database.
Here’s what I did:
- I defined a Copy Selection Hotkey in Preferences > Sorter
2. I chose “Inbox of current database” in Preferences > Import > Destination
But when I press my Copy Selection Hotkey, the text goes into the Global Inbox.
How do I make my selection go into the inbox of the current database?
Also, how do I instruct DevonThink to always capture my selection as plain text?
- The Sorter simply sends content to the Global Inbox. To put it another way, the Sorter isn’t governed by Preferences > Import - Destination.
If select an area containing content and drag it onto the DEVONthink application icon in the Dock, it will honor the setting you made in Preferences > Import - Destination.
- If you select an area containing content, the default in OS X is to maintain existing formatting as rich text or plain text. I like that, as when I select an area of a Web page displayed in Safari for capture to DEVONthink, I want to capture formatted text, images, hyperlinks, lists and tables if they exist within that selection.
Note that a capture made as rich text can be changed to plain text by choosing Format > Make Plain Text (there’s a keyboard shortcut for this command).
If you are capturing a selection from an application that supports OS X Services, such as Safari, TextEdit, etc. and press the keyboard shortcut Command-( the capture will be as plain text. The keyboard command to capture as rich text is Command-). Note that the Firefox and Chrome browsers cannot capture rich text via that Service.