The next release will fix the glitch in case of the maximum font size.
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I’m keen on air too. Sometimes Devonthink presents me with a paralysing mass of text. I think Microsoft Outlook handles this form of user fussiness quite well.
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I used a bit of code in Terminal once years ago that changed Apple Mail so the view pane was a decent font size. Then I upgrade my Mac and I’d never saved my instructions for what I did, and the internet never surfaced the code again. It remains an annoyance to this day, years later! To know there is a solution and that I didn’t write it down…
I have the same grievance as OP, but it’s not a DevonThink grievance, it’s a MacOS grievance. I find it inconceivable that Apple have deliberately produced an OS where you can’t edit basic font size appearance settings. Apple’s only response to this accessibility issue is to change screen resolution, which is not an acceptable response. We can change font size on iOS so they do know it’s a thing people need! (In fact, almost half the world now needs glasses, declining vision is a silent pandemic, and screens are likely at least one of the causing factors. But apparently no-one in California has noticed this….)
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I think the problem is more in the spacing between the lines, it could have a better spacing, it would help in reading the lists. If the line spacing was the same as the Finder in Sonoma, it would already be good
Actually the next release will slightly revise this too and make this more consistent independent of the used font size.
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I understand the sentiment of the original post. I went from OmniFocus for task management to Things. I could accept the loss of some functionality because the interface is cleaner and I enjoy using it. I love the power of DEVONthink - in fact I know there’s a lot still for me to discover and use - but I just wish I could achieve a clean uncluttered interface that enthuses me.
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Any chance of making workspaces more powerful…Where you can set the display, what columns appear in a list view, font size, and other visual elements? Switching workspaces would give different ‘looks’ for different tasks?
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And create a load of interesting questions in the forum, I guess: Why is my font suddenly smaller? Where are my metadata columns?
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There are always chances but there are much higher priority tasks at hand.
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Display Text is a well known design term, meaning text that is comfortable for extended reading at a book / computer distance. I t will vary from say, around 8-10 points for print, and 16 points for displays. Larger point sizes for older adults. Also, there are well known guidelines for line heights, typefaces, weights, number of characters per line, justification, hyphenation and so on.
Digital broke most of it, with readability and legibility getting some times atrocious. For years, the whole idea was “filling as much white space as possible”. For the software industry, screen space is money.
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Very true Jim, very true. Type has to serve several masters nowadays. Not forgetting those who want white on black…
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Uh, I meant, Reading Text - which is what I suspect the OP meant. Display is something else in design parlance.
BTW Gravy, using a different font sometimes makes a big difference.
That would be me. I can’t stand “modern” user interfaces. Too many screens, too many clicks. The more information ya can cram on a single screen, the better. That’s what my huge monitor is for. Lol.
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Haha! Thanks for illustrating my point 
That, and a very substantial fraction of UI designers are under 30.
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These keyboard shortcuts you suggest change the actual fontsize in the mail. And if you are writing a mail you don’t want the recipient to receive a mail with a large font size as it doesn’t represent professional care taken to a well-formatted mail.
The weirdest thing is, is that the text editor for Apple Mail is based on the TextEdit standard app (the very same used in DT!) DT and TextEdit (CMD-Shift-< and CMD-Shift-<) can zoom in and out !! Why not Apple Mail?
Thanks, I already implemented a few of your suggestions 
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I am not at my computer to test but are you sure? I thought it changes the view not the format.
I have learned the you cannot control the format of email. readers can change the view. you cannot control the device it is read on. Simple text the best format to send in email imho.
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You can control the format by writing your email in HTML – which is what the formatting tools in your client are actually doing. As with ebooks, though, the receiving software can generally control how it’s rendered.
So using headings and so on for structure can be useful, but don’t assume that the recipient sees exactly what you created.
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