You mentioned on a recent episode of either Automators or MPU that you have a Shortcut to launch DEVONthink To Go every night in order to sync your databases (due to the iOS requirement that an app is active in order for syncing to happen). Can you share this shortcut or else explain how you have it setup? I envision something like (1) launching DTTG, (2) setting display brightness to something low (5%?), (3) waiting X seconds (how many?) until DTTG has enough time to sync/re-index, (4) re-setting display brightness to 100%, and (5) ending shortcut. When I have tried to implement this way, it doesn’t seem to work…
Unfortunately, I haven’t! I setup an ‘Automation’ (in the Shortcuts app) to run a specific shortcut every night at 3 AM, but only if the connected WiFi network is my home network so that this doesn’t trigger when away from home. Weirdly I get an error on my iPad every morning saying that the automation failed because it could not launch DTTG; however, I don’t see this error on my iPhone. It’s really hard to tell whether it’s working on my iPhone though so my next step is to test it at a time when I can actually observe the workflow being automatically executed.
UPDATE: over at the Devonthink forum, user FlohGro is using this x-callback url in a shortcut:
x-devonthinktogo://resync
Seems to work, but sounds like this is a maintenance routine, and is not suggested.