Move Tab to New Window

[analogue_man]

I would like to be able not only to open links/documents in tabs but also to move tabs to a new window to work with the documents side-by-side, similar to the behaviour in Safari. However, while I thought this would be an obvious menu entry, I cannot find it. Can anyone point me to the right direction?

[manfred9]

Would it help to select two items and then click on the Scripts menu - Windows - Open in Two Windows?

[BLUEFROG]

There’s no command or behavior to find as that’s not a function in DEVONthink.

[analogue_man]

thanks! I thought it was part of macOS window management. Can development consider to add this very handy feature in future releases?

[analogue_man]

If the files are going to be opened, yes, it would, thank you! My issue is that the ‘problem’ already exists. Yes, I could reveal the file via CMD+R (1), open it from there in a new window (2), activate the former (tabbed) window (3), close the tab (4), activate the newly opened window (5), arrange the windows (6)… But I thought there is a more immediate approach with just detaching the Document from the tabbed window (1) and rearrange via Moom or other (2).

[troejgaard]

@analogue_man

I thought it was part of macOS window management.

Tabs in DEVONthink are not the same as standard macOS tabs. Those are each a full window, where in DT a tab is only a record.

You can drag and drop to rearrange the order of tabs, but otherwise you need scripting to manipulate them.

There are two extra scripts for download in the support assistant you might like: Detach Tab and Attach Tab. I think Detach Tab does what you want. (I also like Combine Windows.)

[analogue_man]

oh, thanks! I haven’t seen them!

[troejgaard]

@troejgaard

Tabs in DEVONthink are not the same as standard macOS tabs. Those are each a full window, where in DT a tab is only a record.

This should clearly illustrate the difference:

Back when macOS window tabs were originally introduced, you could suddenly open multiple main windows of DT2 as tabs in the same window.

Some found it very useful, but it was never officially supported as it wasn’t actually a result of anything the developers did. It was just a happy accident; a side effect of a new system-wide thing.

It looked like this:

(from Open new windows in tabs in DT3? - #17 by peeler)

---

Returning to the present – your inquiry reminds me that @meowky shared this cool script:

Script: open everything in two windows

Use case My workflow usually involves two document windows side-by-side. The window on the right is for my notes. The left is for reading and reference materials, i.e. everything else. Both windows may contain many tabs. I prefer this setup because I don’t need to switch between, or rearrange windows. My setup relies on the two following functions: When I open documents, they appear as tabs in the correct window: notes on the right, everything else on the left. When I, for some reason, have m…