Move Tab to New Window

[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)

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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…