LLONGLEY  This is one of the coolest apps I have seen so far for the iphone / mac combo. It works flawlessly with my entertainment system connected to a mac mini. Once you get the iphone app you download the server for your mac and away you go. The really cool thing is that one of the problems with using a mac for a media center is controlling the mac with out keyboards and mouses all over the family room. This mouse has the keyboard built in and it works great "in the air" no table or flat surface needed. Great App!!!  
(Version 1.5.5)

LLONGLEY  I've owned this program for a while and a few years ago I really liked it. A few days ago I decided to organize all my DVD's and divide them putting some in storage boxes and some ripped. The long and short of this is that I spent 2.5 days scanning in @700 DVD's with not a lot of trouble. This program has so much potential!

Once everything was scanned in I set out to further organize my info to be sure I can find things when I want them. However, since the scanning is complete each time I open the program I either get this message (Here is my debugging information. Please report this part to :

Object [0x1f2c73c0 ] from table "Medium" has problem "userSynopsis is not valid. (1550)" with key "userSynopsis")... or I get a lame message about the program being confused and prompting me to close the program and restart (which does nothing as within a few minutes the same thing again. I am running OS 10.6 but still, all this work and it really feels as if I am going to loose everything because the program is really unstable with my data in it. I am (as I type) moving the data over to Bento as I no longer trust this software. I was really disappointed to find no real assistance at the developers web site either. I really would like this software if it was more stable. I am not having any other software issues at this time. I have sent the reports to the developers as they have appear on my system and got a thank you for my submissions but thats it.  
(Version 2.2)

LLONGLEY  So far so good. Been using this since it's release. The reviews for Receipt Wallet were great and a friend had upgraded from receipt wallet and really liked this software so I thought I'd try it. I use it to organize more than 5000 PDF's that were floating around my computer both work and personal items. I now have all IRS documents (checked with the IRS and its OK), paperwork from our income property, insurance policies, medical records, etc organized, tagged and easy to locate.

I settled on this because after months with Yep! I had some concerns about retaining the effort i had put into it. Devonthink Pro Office was over kill for my needs, had an extremely detailed and cumbersome learning curve and I did not like the interface at all (very un-Mac like). In addition I have used Yojimbo, SOHO Notes, together and on and on.

I like the fact that my actual documents were not herded into a proprietary database (this program gives you the option to not move everything). Yep also does not move your data to a database but on more than one occasion I was unable to recover my metadata (and that was a lot of work lost). Not all programs are for everyone. However, the unhelpful flaming on a program that some people clearly do not understand and have never used is counter productive to what these reviews are intended to do. I say that some of the comments are from people who have not used the program as some of the comments are "off the wall".

I appreciate reviews that alerts me to a bad developer, poor developer customer service and most of all poor software functionality but I can do without the pointless flaming.

Not saying this is the end all of software and I may move on if it does not continue to meet my needs. With one freeze so far all is good. With regard to OCR, the program does do OCR on the receipt side but OCR has not been added to the PDF side yet. However, most of the competition does not do OCR either. Devonthink Pro Office does but for the $100+ difference between the price tags of the two it should. But as I said, so far so good.   
(Version 1.0)

LLONGLEY  I also find Chronos Notes to be the most feature rich program of it's type. I began using it around version 2.5 as sticky brain. Once it changed to Chronos notes I continued to use it until it trashed my system. I left and when version 6 came out I paid the upgrade cost and returned to Notes as there is nothing to compare, when it works!!! I recently left again and I do not think I will return. I went back to Yojimbo (also use Circus Ponies Notebook occasionally) and have tried Devonthink. Notes has just been to buggy. The info in that database is important to me and syncing is a must (both dot Mac and Palm syning). I really believe that if they had left the forum up users like me would have been willing to continue to use the product. I cannot say for sure that it's not something on my system that creates the latest versions problems (although I doubt it since so many people have issues with the software. However with no forum there is no sounding board for loyal users to vommunicate with other users with similar issues and discuss possible fixes. When version 6 began to screw up my notes while syncing I new it was time to go. Sorry because it is a great concept and I miss it because nothing covers all the bases like Notes...when it works.  
(Version 6.2)