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The Services menu allows access to special commands published either by other Mac OS X applications, such as TextEdit or Safari, or by services extensions such as our own WordService or CalcService. Also, DEVONthink Personal publishes its own services in the Services menu.


DEVONthink Personal services

DEVONthink Personal installs several services for copying selected text, summarizing text, capturing a web page, or looking up documents in the database.

Take Plain/Rich Note: Adds selected text from any application that support services (!) as plain or rich text to the global inbox. Taking a rich text note also copies images and clickable links. If the source document is a web page or a news feed, it tries to capture the address of the page or feed as well. This only works with applications that support this, such as Safari, DEVONagent, or NetNewsWire.

Capture Web Archive: Captures the web page displayed in the front-most window of any WebKit-based browser (such as Safari or DEVONagent) as a web archive to DEVONthink Personal's inbox. This menu item is only shown when available, e.g., when Safari is the active application.

Append Plain/Rich Note: Adds selected text as plain or rich text to the last note taken using the DEVONthink Personal Services menu items.

Lookup: Opens the Search window in DEVONthink Personal with the selected text copied as search term.

Summarize: Creates a new note in DEVONthink Personal's inbox with a summary of the selected text. DEVONthink Personal uses all documents in the open database for determining what's important and what is not. The summarization settings in the preferences, Editing tab, define whether the summary shall be based on sentences or paragraphs.

Note: After installing DEVONthink Personal you need to log out and then log back in again for new services and their shortcuts to be recognized. If one or more DEVONthink Personal Services menu commands do not carry a shortcut, then maybe another application grabbed them. Mac OS X will assign the correct shortcut when no other application claims posession of the same key combination.

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