With respect, how do you know that they are selling anything? And if they are selling my data, what data exactly of all the data on my machine? Maybe there's another reason?

Have you ever captured any web archives in Yojimbo? If so, if those sites have cookies, then whenever you view them in Yojimbo, Yojimbo is going to call out to those sites, as it is displaying the web archives. This is what web archives DO.

This is one of the big problems with Little Snitch: 99% of people don't know enough about how computers and the web works to properly interpret its output. And I suspect you are casting blame for all the wrong reasons here.

iCloud sync did NOT work. They tried for a year (a year!) and had issues they couldn't work around. Core Data sync is a very difficult problem.

And Dropbox sync has issues as well.

Syncing a database is very hard. It's not at all the same as syncing something like 1Password. I do wish they'd been able to make iCloud sync work and save everyone money, and I REALLY wish they had a functional iPad client (it's nearly useless as-is), but the Bare Bones folks *are* smart developers and I'm certain if they could have made iCloud sync work, they would have. And maybe if Apple addresses the issue, an update will come out that uses iCloud.

This is so frustrating. If it used the Dropbox sync api I might be able to justify the purchase, but I have to pay 3 dollars a month to sync with some service that I've never heard of before and that I would only use with Yojimbo. The other upgrade "features" seem to be bug fixes and full screen mode, which should have come long ago. I'm sad and annoyed that I have to look for another junk drawer app.

And let's not forget there's STILL no iPhone client for this POS :) And none announced AFAIK.
These guys coming from parallel universe where neither Dropbox nor iPhones exist, and trying to sell us their stuff are so funny.

After reading the Yojimbo 4.0 release notes I am even more surprised that Bare Bones is selling this as a major upgrade, full screen and new syncing, that's it folks.

http://www.barebones.com/support/yojimbo/arch_yojimbo40.html

I've used Together, Eaglefiler, and Devonthink. They may have more features, but they have considerably more UI friction than Yojimbo does.

Together is slower from a UI perspective, but it keeps documents in the file system and syncs with iCloud so that's great.

EagleFiler feels like an open-source product. It is SO SLOW; it takes about 10 seconds to launch on my machine with a nearly empty library. EVERYTHING in the UI is slow and it's awful, and this is with the most recent version. Michael may be great at a technology level, but I've tried EagleFiler many many times and it's just bad. Plus it doesn't really "sync."

DEVONthink I used for a number of years but the UI just killed me. It's simply awful; it's about the most terrible UI I've ever come across. Everything is nonstandard and it doesn't sync well, etc.

I've used Yojimbo a lot and it is the fastest of the lot, and the UI is simple and clean and its use of tags and smart collections is fantastic. Plus sync works extremely well in this release.

I'm not really pleased with the costs given you have to pay for sync and there's an upgrade fee for few new features and the iOS sync still stinks and the product is read-only. But I'm not really worried about it being "far behind" compared to something like DEVONthink or Eaglefiler, because those are like the devil's swiss army knives when it comes to usability. I'd much rather have something that does few things well, if those things (sync and UI) are the things I find most valuable.

Thank you Blloyd for your run down of the other apps. I did prefer Yojimbo's simplicity. I've been using the app since 1.0 and am a bit insulted by this update. Especially with full screen mode coming almost 2 OS cycles after the feature was introduced. I don't mind not having iCloud sync, but Dropbox sync should have been an option. 1Password has been using it for a long time for their keychain format and Transmit now uses the Dropbox sync api for their favorites database. I'd prefer not to switch applications, but I don't feel like I'm being done right by this developer for the money I've spent on the desktop and mobile versions of the software. I never expected to get sync for free. Even Omnigroup has a software that allows you to self host a sync if you have access to webdav. That would have been great here and they could have presumably kept a lot of the mobile me syncing code if that was using webdav to sync to the old iDisk.

I'm currently trying out Together. It's not as lean as I would like, but it's pretty nice. I wont be using the iCloud sync, but it seems to be well supported with a clean interface. I like having filesystem access to items in Together as well so I can include them in other applications. It gives you the option to symlink files instead of moving or copying them.

I won't argue that Bare Bones moves slowly. They certainly do. Yojimbo has never been fast to get features, but when they come they're well thought out.

That said, they tried to use iCloud for a long time (a year?) and couldn't make it work, so that set them back a lot, time-wise.

Dropbox is not a viable sync solution for Yojimbo. Rich Siegel wrote a public article explaining why: A core data database is nothing like the key value pairs in 1Password. Nor is Dropbox viable sync for Omni Group; they wrote a similar article. You don't have to understand WHY, but it's the truth that it's not a viable solution.

Good question.

I finally fixed this problem. Solution: Close Yojimbo, move ~/Library/Application Support/Yojimbo to Desktop, reopen Yojimbo, close it again, return the above folder to its original position.

Now Quick Input Panel works again...go figure.

However, .Mac syncing hasn't worked. I'm hoping this will fix it too.