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DESCRIPTION
Yojimbo empowers Mac users to manage, effortlessly and securely, the onslaught of information encountered every day at work and at home, even across multiple computers. Yojimbo stores different data types: text notes, passwords, web bookmarks, product serial numbers, PDFs, and web archives.

Data input into Yojimbo follows familiar Mac user interface gestures such as copy-and-paste, drag-and-drop, a Quick Input Panel, or PDF Services from the Print menu. Searching and retrieval are instantaneous, using either Yojimbo's built-in search, or the Spotlight search system in Mac OS X Tiger.

WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.0:
  • New Feature: Tag Explorer. Lets you visualize your data from the "inside out", using previously applied tags to see the relationships. Learn more here.
  • There is a "New Image..." command that will let you create a new image in the application (i.e. directly, not by drag and drop or using the Quick Input Panel.) If there is an image on the clipboard when it is invoked, the sheet will be prefilled. Otherwise you may drag or paste an image into the view, then click "OK" to create.
  • It is now possible to control which collections appear in the Drop Dock. This is controlled via the "Show in Drop Dock" checkbox in the collection inspector.
  • When dragging files/data to the collections list or Drop Dock, you can now drop items on
    • the "Flagged Items" factory smart collection;
    • any tag collection
    In the case of tag collections, after creating the items, Yojimbo will apply all tags used in the collection to the items. This is the case even for an Any/OR tag collection.
  • There are two new commands on the window menu: "Show Tags" and "Show Labels". These commands open the combined tag editor/label editor to display and allow editing of your existing tags and labels (respectively).
  • There is a new command: "Change Tags...". This lets you add/remove/set the tags for the selected items. It is particularly useful when you want to add or remove a tag to a set of items which have a non-homogeneous tag set.
  • There is a new command - Duplicate - in the Edit menu which lets you duplicate the selected items.
  • There is now a menu item which can be used to clear the search terms which were highlighted by doing a content search, or opening an item via Spotlight: Edit -> Find -> Clear Highlighted Search Terms. In the case of a previous content search, the terms are automatically cleared when you clear the search field when working in the main window. Previously, there was no way to clear the search terms in a standalone window.
  • The name of the Yojimbo PDF Service has changed to Save PDF to Yojimbo...
    You can provide a name, tags, flags, label, and comments for the item at at print time
  • The Quick Input Panel has been enhanced to provide the following features:
    • An inspector view which allows you to set additional metadata on items as they are created. (Flagged status, comments and label). The default keyboard shortcut to toggle the inspector view is the same as the main application - Command-Shift-I.
    • If there is a URL on the clipboard without an accompanying URL name, Yojimbo will try to intuit an appropriate name for the URL
  • Tags are now renameable.
  • Basic support for printing image items.
  • Double-clicking on an item in the Drop Dock is now a shortcut for revealing it in the main window.
  • Added a "Provide Yojimbo Feedback..." menu item to the Yojimbo menu.
  • When highlighting search terms for content searches, Yojimbo endeavours to do diacritic insensitive searching.
  • The search field will now offer completions for tag and label names as appropriate.
  • Hooked up the drag/paste support for image archives in the Quick Input Panel.
  • The match behavior of Tag Collections can now be set to one of
    • match items which have all of the following tags
    • match items which have any of the following tags
  • The selected collections in the collections source list are now persisted across runs.
  • The title of the Date columns will now switch to short form (dropping the 'Date' prefix) before truncating their labels.
  • Added date imported to the item inspector.
  • Added an optional 'Date Imported' column to the items list.
  • Items now have a 'date imported' attribute which is set by the file importer.
  • The file importer sets the dateImported attribute on items. By default, it also sets dateCreated and dateModifed to match the values on the file.
  • When exporting items, by default Yojimbo will now set the date created and date modified of the resultant file to the those values on the Yojimbo item.
  • Recent items are now computed based on dateImported as well as dateModified.
  • Labels can be applied to items by dragging a label out of the Labels panel and onto an item in the items list.
  • Tags can be applied to items by dragging tags out of the tags panel and
  • Allow type-select in the tags list (when the panel has keyboard focus.)
  • Yojimbo remembers the sort order and selected items on a per collection basis.
  • Added two new scripting verbs which allow you to append/prepend content to a note item (without destroying the rich text which already exists in the note.): append and prepend.
  • Improved the tag completion behavior when whitespace was introduced before starting to type the next tag.
  • NSTokenField does a poor job of completing mid word, so prevent it from doing so.
  • The tags panel now allows you to rename existing tags.
  • The tags editor panel allows you to merge existing tags. (This is useful, for example, if you have 'book' and 'books' and want to combine them.)
  • When doing an interactive search in a PDF, the match is shown using the find indicator style animation.
  • Reworked the "New Web Archive" sheet to try to make it obvious that leaving the name blank will result in auto naming of the new web archive.
  • The "New Web Archive" sheet uses the same magic as the Quick Input Panel for determining the initial name for the URL on the clipboard when the name is not provided directly by the provider clipboard source.
  • Pressing delete when viewing a tag collection now works similiarly to pressing delete when viewing a folder collection: You are prompted whether you want to move the selected items to the trash, or remove the tags which caused them to appear in the selected tag collections.
  • Since Yojimbo now requires 10.5.7 and later, mountains of workarounds and compatibility code for older OS versions have been removed.
  • Added Command-K as the keyboard shortcut for "Add/Edit Hyperlink...".
  • The tags interface is now always visible in the quick input panel.
  • Copy Item Link is now available for standalone editor windows.
  • Copy Collection Link is available when keyboard focus is in the collections list; copies the URI representation to the clipboard.
  • Many minor appearance changes:
  • The Quick Input Panel now uses a similar name header style to the details view used by notes in the main window.
  • The collections list uses the striped list look.
  • Folder Collection and Smart Collection icons are now sourced at runtime from the system so they will have the appropriate look, regardless of OS version.
  • The Drop Dock now has rounded corners and more whitespace/margin around the collections.
  • Updated the appearance of labels in both the Labels menu and the items list.
  • database items now respond to the open scripting command so you can write:
  • Standalone editor windows now have a specific scripting class: editor window. They also have a property which lets you determine which database item is associated with the editor window.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later.

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Developer:Bare Bones Software
Downloads:34,862
  - Version d/l:1,834
Business:Personal Info Managers
License:Demo
Date:01 Sep 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$39.00
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Yojimbo User Reviews (76 posts)Write A Review
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Oct 23 2009

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)

praisebury
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Oct 19 2009

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)

praisebury
-2
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Oct 15 2009
****.

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)

praisebury
+2
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Sep 27 2009
*****

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)

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Oct 19 2009

ICONZ113  your telling me together looks older then yojimbo? I disagree  
(Version 2.0)

praisebury
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Oct 19 2009

IALEXMAC1  Oh my mistake. Together looks much better and since I wrote this review I have actually got a refund for Yojimbo and bought Together :D  
(Version 2.0)

praisebury
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Sep 25 2009
*****

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)

praisebury
+2
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Sep 15 2009

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)

praisebury
+1
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Sep 15 2009

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)

praisebury
+2
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Sep 4 2009

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)

praisebury
+6
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Sep 3 2009

VGOKLANI  Like everyone else, I waited a VERY LONG time for an upgrade. The prior version was an unfinished product, and now they want an upgrade fee? I want my money back...  
(Version 2.0)

praisebury
+4
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Sep 2 2009

IBSTEVE  I must agree with most of you. Too little too late and an upgrade fee to boot. Needs an iPhone mate and a cloud sync.

I have liked this app but moved on a long time ago.  
(Version 2.0)

praisebury
+9
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