MIKILC  Yojimbo has just got much better, finally catching up with Together in its use of the drop dock. But there are still some improvements to be made.

1. The most important. A feature which all Mac text programmes should have but sadly don't, and that is a Bean-like slider (or equivalent) to enable quick zooming of the text without changing the font size. The fact is, if you work on a 24" screen, then the standard 12pt is often too small to read without squinting.

2. When right-clicking on the item list, the last item is 'View with' but only gives the option of using TextEdit. How can this be changed? One should really be able to choose...

3. The Drop Dock should include 'Quick Entry' (preferably at the top). Would then be the quickest way for mouse-users to do this.

4. It would tremendously useful if the Collections list and the Items list could be made collapsible, independently of each other (as in MacJournal).

5. It would also be useful to provide a better selection of icons to place on the tool bar, (whatever the Mac guidelines are for this).  
(Version 2.1)

TOADLING  I've been using Yojimbo since January 2006 and it's still one of the few apps on my Mac that I truly love. It's simple, polished, and effective. Highly recommended.  
(Version 2.1)

EODTECH  I have used Yojimbo for 4+ years. The release of v:2.0 is a BIG improvement over previous releases. It's now my choice for a free format database, storing all sorts of tid bits of information that don't seem to fit anywhere else. My favorite trick is to print to a PDF file and then open it in Preview - then using the edit feature in Preview to delete blank or not needed pages then import it in Yojimbo using Path Finder ( right click on the PDF file name and the select Open With Yojimbo). Easy , fast and now your "clippings"are searchable with tags you have assigned to each Yjimbo entry. I have quite a catalog of reviews from MacWorld stored in Yojimbo.  
(Version 2.0)

ICONZ113  I also Just ditched devonthink because I was realizing it was adding steps to my workflow and using up more time, when the reason I started using it was to save time and be more organized. Im now just using hierarchal folder structure inside my idisk, and I just keep my idisk synced so I can drop docs in and not have to sit there and wait for upload, I can just go on with my work while idisk syncs. This is what pushed me over the line to leave devonthink. I tried placing my databases into the idisk, and tried opening them from there, and it worked for a little bit but I was advised by the forum not to do that. SO in the end Im back where I started with folders, Ive tried together, evernote, devonthink. I think I might readopt evernote again , use that for notes and web pages and clippings, and just use the folders structure for my documents, until I find something that will hold all tyes of documents, allow me to export them easily, and allow me to import easily, I dont know though, I think Im going to focus on keeping documents organized in folders, tag my documents, and hope for the best, using default folder x, pathfinder, laucnhbar, and hazel for my folder and file organization.  
(Version 2.0)

XPLICIT  Ok, Yojimbo still lacks a few important features, like better eMail handling for example, but after having compared it to its main competitors I must say it's the best programme for its purpose on the market at the moment.

Yojimbo might lack some features, but those features which have been implemented and published actually work really well. It's easy to use and fast too.  
(Version 2.0)

IALEXMAC1  I've been using Yojimbo for a few months now from 1.5 to 2.0. I am very satisfied. I have tried the competitors (together, SOHO Notes, DEVONnotes etc) and Yojimbo stood out from the rest. Yojimbo's clean interface for displaying the file name and the file itself is very important to me. SOHO Notes did not acomplish this, it cluttered up the viewing area with dates etc in large fonts, also SOHO Notes crashed on numerous occasions. Together had a dated feel to it and lacked a few features i needed. Basically I believe Yojimbo to be the best and i am going to stick by it. The fact that i can add pictures, screenshots, pdf's, rtf's, docs and more is very important. I also love the Archive in Yojimbo bookmark for your browser (no longer demonsrated in the start up video) that is a feature i cannot live without and is soooooo helpful,copying and pasting web addresses takes valuable time. Although I would like sub folders for collections tagging is fine  
(Version 2.0)

BLLOYD  Yojimbo is not the "swiss army knife" of information organizers. Its forte is text. So no video, no audio, no Pages/Keynote/Excel files.

There are other apps that do that -- Together, DEVONthink, EagleFiler, etc.

What Yojimbo excels at is text. And it EXCELS. It is fast -- LIGHTNING fast. Search is great, tagging is great, and it is outstanding for RTF, plain text, PDFs, Web Archives, bookmarks, serial numbers, and tags. I used DEVONthink for 6 years prior to switching to Yojimbo a month ago. And since I moved all my non-text documents to the Finder and tagged them, I can find them and sort/use them more easily (DEVONthink will export stuff to the Finder but it is impossible to figure out the results without opening them in DEVONthink as it changes their icons in summary).

I moved all my RTF documents to Yojimbo, and tagged them. Now browsing and searching are VERY fast, and I get one feature DEVONthink never had -- sync of notes across machines, automatically, via MobileMe. YAY! This is more useful to me than almost anything; given the convoluted workflow that involved DropBox I had before.

So, in summary, if you want a kitchen sink, this isn't the app for you. If you want a text-based information scalpel, that's Yojimbo. And after a month, I am happy to open and use it every day. DEVONthink, while powerful, was for the most part drudgery. I still use it when I want to OCR some documents, and that's about it. I don't miss it.  
(Version 2.0)

DARUKARU  A lot of people don't seem to understand what a database is for. Yojimbo is not a replacement for iPhoto, iTunes, or the Finder, nor should it be. What is is good for is storing hunks of textual data and making them easy to locate, search, and organize. I purchased it so that I could make some sense out of the nightmare stew that was my Documents folder--as well as moving pieces of archived information out of Mail.app, where they didn't really belong. So far it has done an excellent job with this.

A lot of people also don't seem to understand that if an application works well and does what it's supposed to, it doesnt' *need* to be updated every week. Bare Bones has historically been very good about shipping software that isn't a POS. And heaven knows there are enough unscrupulous developers that make minor x.x.1 changes on a weekly basis to get free advertising on MU, why add more?  
(Version 2.0)

MARIO GAJARDO TASSARA  Like many other fellow Yojimbo Users I feel cheated, how they "update" this app after TWO YEARS and charge for it $20 bucks !!!!!!!!!!!! no thanks, right now i given up with this app and im searching for a replacement.   
(Version 2.0)

ICONZ113  dont get me wrong this app really is a good information organizer, im just worried about buying it and then not getting another update for who knows how long. I might give it a try again  
(Version 2.0)