Re: yojimbo-module
Hi Niels, On 24.05.2007, at 23:17, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: Hi! Kerris last mail reminded me of the Yojimbo-module for Quicksilver. And I just tried to do a Command window with selection and add to yojimbo but I can't use Add to Yojimbo for a selected Finder- item; any idea what could fix that. And where can I ask for feature requests for the Quicksilver-module - here? For me it works to select something in the Finder (file or folder) and the type command-Esc, which I think is a predefined trigger for command window with selection*. This pulls the current selection into quicksilver and gives me the ability to select add to yojimbo as the action. The _nice_ thing about this is that this actually adds a bookmark that points to the file or folder. Perfect! I would like to do the following: selct a pdf in Finder, Command window with selection (it's a QS-trigger in my case), tab, add to yojimbo, tab, add yojimbo-tags, tab, tags, enter (import to yojimbo with the tags)) Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. You can not manage yojimbo tags from withing quicksilver, as far as I know. Sebastian * you first need to disable the frontrow shortcut obviously -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: yojimbo-module
On 25.05.2007, at 09:25, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: The _nice_ thing about this is that this actually adds a bookmark that points to the file or folder. Perfect! That's not really perfect for me - the great advantage for me in Yojimbo in comparison to stuff like Devonthink is that it syncs the stuff in your library. Add to Yojimbo creates a bookmark - not very useful for local stuff. Good point, personally I never used .mac sync. This would require me to 1) buy a .mac account and 2) buy another yojimbo license. I don't believe in the put EVERYTHING, including files, into your personal information manager strategy. In the end you find yourself misusing yojimbo as a file manager. On the other hand, it would certainly be nice to put SOME files into it from time to time. btw., I think the archive to yojimbo is meant for URLs. At least it works with URLs. Archive in Yojimbo seems not to function with PDFs (at least nothing happens) I would like to do the following: selct a pdf in Finder, Command window with selection (it's a QS-trigger in my case), tab, add to yojimbo, tab, add yojimbo-tags, tab, tags, enter (import to yojimbo with the tags)) Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. You can not manage yojimbo tags from withing quicksilver, as far as I know. And it would be great to do that. I try to learn now AppleScript for trying to write an action via a script that will archive a pdf in yojimbo and which will present you a dialog for adding tags like the netnewswire_to_pukka_and_yojimbo-script does. Let me know whan I can beta test :) -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: yojimbo-module
On 25.05.2007, at 09:25, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: Kerris last mail reminded me of the Yojimbo-module for Quicksilver. And I just tried to do a Command window with selection and add to yojimbo but I can't use Add to Yojimbo for a selected Finder-item; any idea what could fix that. And where can I ask for feature requests for the Quicksilver-module - here? For me it works to select something in the Finder (file or folder) and the type command-Esc, which I think is a predefined trigger for command window with selection*. This pulls the current selection into quicksilver and gives me the ability to select add to yojimbo as the action. cmd+esc doesn't work when you have FrontRow enabled - just disabled it and it seems that cmd+esc is different to the QS-trigger Command window with selection. If I use cmd+esc I can use the yojimbo-triggers. Hello again, Just noticed: It's a real pity you can not drag non-text files or folders from Finder into the Yojimbo drop dock. It would be very convenient if you could add bookmarks to files or folders by dragging them into the drop dock. And since part of this functionality is already there it shouldn't be too hard to do. And how does Yojimbo decide wether a file dragged into the dock is actually containing text? Seems like it's looking at the extension, because I can not do this with .css files. Sebastian -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: yojimbo-module
…you don't need an additional Yojimbo license. All flavors of Yojimbo license we sell allow use on multiple machines. You'd never make it as a Used Car Salesman. ;o) T. -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: yojimbo-module
Good point, personally I never used .mac sync. This would require me to 1) buy a .mac account and 2) buy another yojimbo license. While the .Mac requirement is true, you don't need an additional Yojimbo license. All flavors of Yojimbo license we sell allow use on multiple machines. -- Steve Kalkwarf [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Folders/Tag-collections
Some of the comments in this thread have been along the lines of Well I can find what I'm looking for amongst my 200 Bajillion items in moments - and, look Ma, no collections, ain't I grand. Well, great for you, but there are other ways of reviewing data than knowing what you want and extracting it with aplomb from a big messy pile. There is a very good reason why this is useful and why organising these collections better would be even more useful� Browsing. The scene: A man storms angrily into a hardware store, carrying a hammer in one hand an a screw in the other. He stomps up to the customer service desk and proceeds to give the clerk a good tongue lashing. Man: This hammer you sold me isn't fully featured! It doesn't do what I want a hammer to do! Clerk: (looking perplexed) What doesn't it do? Man: It won't drive this (holds up philips head screw) into wood! Where do you get off selling me a hammer that doesn't do everything I want it to do! Clerk: (looking even more perplexed). Sir, hammers are for driving nails, not screws. We've got nails if you'd like to use your hammer, or we can sell you a screwdriver to use with your screws. There are plenty of options, but you can't drive a screw with a hammer. Man: Dammit, I don't want nails or a screwdriver! I want to drive these screws with this hammer! What's wrong with you people! How do you even keep customers? If a customer wants a hammer that will drive screws, then dammit, you give them a hammer that will drive screws! I don't care what the hammer was designed to do, I want it to do what I WANT IT TO DO! Clerk: (now afraid that he's talking to a bat-s**t crazy lunatic) Sir, the manager's office is right over that way... :) -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: yojimbo-module
On 25.05.2007, at 15:42, infrahile wrote: …you don't need an additional Yojimbo license. All flavors of Yojimbo license we sell allow use on multiple machines. You'd never make it as a Used Car Salesman. ;o) Given that I do not own a single Yojimbo license yet (I'm still in demo mode) he actually did his best to convince me of a purchase :) -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Folders/Tag-collections
All very amusing, but not a fair analogy in any way… This is not a request for a new or wildly unrelated feature, I already use YJ for browsing, it forms the majority of the way I use it and it does so pretty well. Features such as collections and tag- collections exist already and have nothing to do with searching, they're all about helping the user focus on a subsection of their data. This is just a request for a simple enhancement to make the use of an established feature more friendly and useful. If you check the YJ website promo blurb you'll find this listed as a highlight… Organize your information any way that suits your style, from “everything in one spot” to “organized to the extreme” …and elsewhere… Collections provide a rich and sophisticated method of organizing the information you store in Yojimbo. Whether you use the built-in Smart Collections or create your own, Yojimbo works with you. …to my mind any way that suits your style and Yojimbo works with you indicates that supporting more than one data management methodology is an implicit feature, there is nothing there to indicate that the sole purpose of YJ is to tag and search. Indeed, organised to the extreme would seem to suggest the opposite is equally supported. So to return to your analogy - that hammer was sold to me on the understanding that it supports driving screws into wood, I'm pretty happy with the way it does this but I have some suggestions to make it better. Is that so unreasonable? T. On 25 May 2007, at 15:15, Kenneth Kirksey wrote: Some of the comments in this thread have been along the lines of Well I can find what I'm looking for amongst my 200 Bajillion items in moments - and, look Ma, no collections, ain't I grand. Well, great for you, but there are other ways of reviewing data than knowing what you want and extracting it with aplomb from a big messy pile. There is a very good reason why this is useful and why organising these collections better would be even more useful� Browsing. The scene: A man storms angrily into a hardware store, carrying a hammer in one hand an a screw in the other. He stomps up to the customer service desk and proceeds to give the clerk a good tongue lashing. Man: This hammer you sold me isn't fully featured! It doesn't do what I want a hammer to do! Clerk: (looking perplexed) What doesn't it do? Man: It won't drive this (holds up philips head screw) into wood! Where do you get off selling me a hammer that doesn't do everything I want it to do! Clerk: (looking even more perplexed). Sir, hammers are for driving nails, not screws. We've got nails if you'd like to use your hammer, or we can sell you a screwdriver to use with your screws. There are plenty of options, but you can't drive a screw with a hammer. Man: Dammit, I don't want nails or a screwdriver! I want to drive these screws with this hammer! What's wrong with you people! How do you even keep customers? If a customer wants a hammer that will drive screws, then dammit, you give them a hammer that will drive screws! I don't care what the hammer was designed to do, I want it to do what I WANT IT TO DO! Clerk: (now afraid that he's talking to a bat-s**t crazy lunatic) Sir, the manager's office is right over that way... :) -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: yojimbo-module
…you don't need an additional Yojimbo license. All flavors of Yojimbo license we sell allow use on multiple machines. You'd never make it as a Used Car Salesman. ;o) Given that I do not own a single Yojimbo license yet (I'm still in demo mode) he actually did his best to convince me of a purchase :) -- Touché! ;o) -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Flag item
Another minor feature request… I've recently switched to using YJ in two-pane mode (no preview area) and opening items in new windows (allowing me to keep the Library on my MBP screen to one side of my main 20 where I view the items in individual windows, in case you're curious why!) I also use the Flag feature and the 'Flagged items' smart collection as a quick reference for currently important stuff. Which brings me to the request… it'd be great to add to the individual item window toolbar a 'Flag' button - via the 'Customise toolbar' feature. At the moment I can find no way to do this from anywhere other than the Library window and even the menu entry in 'Item' has 'Mark as Flagged' greyed out for individual item windows. Cheers, T. -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Folders/Tag-collections
On 5/25/07, Kenneth Kirksey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Man: This hammer you sold me isn't fully featured! It doesn't do what I want a hammer to do! Clerk: (looking perplexed) What doesn't it do? Man: It won't drive this (holds up philips head screw) into wood! Where do you get off selling me a hammer that doesn't do everything I want it to do! I have to admit, I find the allusion apt! I currently have 9 tag collections and 809 items in my library. I use Yojimbo to manage all sorts of loosely related odds and ends, but I use folders (in the Finder) to organize more structured projects. (Like a Rolodex and a filing cabinet, to belabor the traditional desktop metaphor.) I certainly recognize that people work in different ways, though. Jim -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PDF Display
Here's another request, I'm on a roll… PDF's: maybe I've missed a feature, but it seems there is no way currently to view the list of pages in a PDF document. Maybe the Acrobat 8 way of displaying page thumbnails down the side of the background area would work well - I'm not a developer so I have no idea how easy/hard this is, but I'm frequently frustrated with long PDF documents if I can't scan through a list of page thumbnails, adding this feature would be a positive boon! I'll pre-empt the inevitable; no, searching won't help - may of the documents I'm referring to are very visual, such as design guidelines documents, design concepts, etc. which are often image-only or largely image based. A quick visual reference would really improve the usefulness of PDF's in YJ, for this user at least. Cheers, T. -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
