Setting default “location” for “Open in…” in DEVONthink To Go 3

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@ralfrottmann

Unfortunately, those attachments always end up in the “Global Inbox”. I manually have to move them to my database (which is iCloud synced with other devices). This adds four more taps to my workflow.

It is very simple to create a Shortcut to do this.

• Create new Shortcut
• Give it a title like SaveAttachment (or whatever name you prefer)
• Enable the shortcut to be visible in the share sheet
• Add the DTTG ‘Create Item’ action to the shortcut
• Set the action to create a ‘file’ with some unique name (e.g. bij adding the current date) in the group you want the attachment to be saved to

Then go to iOS Mail and open a mail with an attachment. Press the share button and select the Shortcut with the title ‘SaveAttachment’ (or whatever name you chose). Open DTTG and check the appropriate group to check whether the attachment was indeed stored there.

You can tweak the shortcut with all kind of things like asking for input to set a name or choose a name from a menu, more or less recreating the regular DTTG action in the share sheet.