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DEVONthink also provides many commands in contextual menu items, shown when you Control-click on elements in the application. Many of the contextual menu items are also found in DEVONthink's menus. Below is a list of common menu items you'll find in the contextual menus for documents and windows. Document Contents When you Control-click in the contents of documents, you will see a contextual menu with commands and options. The items shown are related to the file type and if you're interacting with a selection in the document. Specific items, e.g., commands relating only to PDFs, are covered in their respective sections. In editable documents: Add to Favorites: Adds the current document to the Favorites. Add to Reading List: Adds the current document to the Reading List. Services: Displays the macOS Services menu. Text or links in text: Add Link to Reading List: Adds a link to the Reading List. Add Link: Allows you to enter a URL for the selected text, converting the text to an active link. Add tag [word]: Tags the document with the selected word (only available if the word is not already a tag of the document). Copy Link: Copies a clicked link to the clipboard (only available for selected links). Edit Link: Edits the destination of a selected link. Selecting this option allows you to remove the link as well. Insert Link To: Inserts a link to an item you select in the submenu (only available when no text is selected). Insert Placeholder: Inserts a predefined placeholder or one specified as custom metadata in Preferences > Data. Highlight: Highlights the selection with the current highlight color. Using this command on a selection again removes the highlighting. Link To: Makes the selected piece of text a cross-link and links it directly to the group or document you select in the submenu. Look Up [word]: Looks the selected text up in macOS's Dictionary. Make Link: Makes the selected piece of text a WikiLink. The destination of the WikiLink is a document with the same name as the selected text. If no document with that name exists, clicking the created link creates it using the template you have set in the Preferences. Open Link in Browser: Opens the selected link in the default browser or application. Open Link in DEVONagent: Opens the selected link in a DEVONagent Pro browser window. Open Link in New Tab: Opens the selected link in a new tab in DEVONthink. Open Link in PhotoStickies: Opens a link in PhotoStickies. Open Link: Opens the selected link. Remove Link: Use this to remove the link status of selected text. Search with Google: Searches for the selected text in Google. Search [word]/Selected Phrase: Searches for the selected word or phrase in your open databases. See Related Text: Displayed like search results, this shows a list of documents related to the selected text passage. This option is only available when more than one word is selected. See [word]: Opens a drawer with documents related to the selected word. Set Name As: Sets the name of the document to the selected piece of text (needs to be less than 256 characters). Share: Shares selected text via the available sharing extensions. PRO Add Link to Downloads: Adds a link to the Download Manager. Images and PDF documents: Actual Size: Displays the document at its actual size. Uses also the resolution information contained in the file. All Pixels: Zooms the image so that one image pixel equals one pixel on the screen. Zoom In/Out: Zooms in or out of the document, or displays it in its actual size. Zoom To Fit: Zooms the image so that it fits into the view/edit pane or the document window. Zoom To Width: Zooms the image to fit the width of the view/edit pane or the document window. Item List These contextual menu items are commonly shown when you ⌃-click items in a main window's item lists. In items lists, the commands are also often available in the Actions toolbar button. Some of these commands are also seen in the See Also & Classify Inspector pane. Add To: Commands in this submenu add the currently selected documents to your Favorites or the Reading List. Apply Rules: Runs a chosen smart rule on selected items matching the location and criteria of the rule. Convert: This submenu displays options for converting from one file type to another. The options shown here are dependent on the type of file selected. Copy Item Link: Copies a link to the current item. Copy URL: Copies the URL of the selected document to the clipboard. This only appears when one document is selected. Duplicate To: Duplicates the selected item to the group you select from the submenu. Get Info: Opens an popup containing more detailed information about the currently selected file or group. Group Items: Groups multiple selected items in an item list. Label: Changes the label of the selected item. Launch URL: Opens the URL in the selected item's URL field. Hold the ⌥ Option key to choose Launch URL in Background. This keeps DEVONthink in the foreground. Mark: Changes the flagged, locked, or read status of the selected item. Move Into Database: Moves an indexed item into the database. Use this command with caution as it moves the file from its current location into the internals of your database. It does not copy the file. Move To External Folder: Moves a non-indexed item, e.g., imported or created in DEVONthink, out to an indexed folder in the Finder. Move To: Moves the selected item to the group you select from the submenu. Move to Trash: Moves the clicked item to the Trash. Hold the ⌥ Option key to shows Move All Instances to Trash when used in items lists. New: This submenu allows you to quickly create several built-in file types. See the Data menu for more information on these file types. New from Template: This submenu allows you to create new documents from any of the installed templates. Open: Opens the selected item in a separate main window or document window. Open in Tabs: Hold the ⌥ Option key and Open changes to Open in Tabs. If the View/Edit pane is visible, this opens the selected items in new tabs. If the View/Edit pane isn't visible, a new document window will open with each selected document in its own tab in the window. Open With: Opens the selected item in an external application. Rating: Allows you to set a rating, from no stars to five stars. Replicate To: Replicates the selected item to the group you select from the submenu. Reveal: Shows and selects the selected item in its location in DEVONthink. Send by Email: Sends the selected item by email. Show in Finder: Shows the selected item in the Finder. Tags: This submenu offers special commands for automatically adding some kinds of tags. See the Data menu for more information. Thumbnails: This submenu allows you to Create, Update, or Remove the thumbnail for a file. Ungroup Items: Ungroups a group, leaving its contents behind. The group is not preserved. PRO Imprinter: Choose an imprint you've defined in Preferences > Imprinter to apply it to the current image or PDF. OCR: Choose the output file type and convert a compatible file via OCR.
Note: Send by Email: The ability to add the attachments depends on the inter-application capabilities of the email application. If it doesn't provide support for this, you may be able to drag files into draft message or the email application's dock icon.