Re: Thanks for pointers to OmniFocus, Eagle Filer
On May 7, 2008, at 3:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The killer feature for me at this point would be to be able to access and edit my text notes on my iPhone. If While it's not as ideal as a native solution from BareBones, you might want to look at Webjimbo: http://flyingmac.com/webjimbo/ Cheers, Rhet Sounds like you need OmniFocus. Thanks for the suggestion. I'm surprised I didn't know about it, as I have and love some of their other programs. I've downloaded it and will take a look. One thing I saw in the description that was attractive to me is that you can email a note to yourself and have it added to OmniFocus automatically. Very cool. Now that I've swapped my old Palm for an iPhone, I find myself emailing notes to myself a lot and then processing them when I get back to my laptop, because it's the easiest way to get them into my system. On the other hand, I also want to find a way to get my lists from my laptop onto my iPhone easily (and hopefully not stashed in the notes box of a dummy contact, which is the only way I know to do it at present -- so it takes a slightly annoying number of taps to access information that ought to be closer at hand, and it really sucks aesthetically). Doesn't say on the website if OmniFocus can export current lists as text files; it would be a plus for me if it does. I'm a bit leery of buying specialized software for something that is essentially list-making and that I'm not really feeling any problem with how I'm handling now; but maybe if it makes some of the bookkeeping element of it easier, might be worth it. I'll take a look when I have a little time. Thanks also to whoever mentioned Eagle Filer, which I hadn't heard of before either. I'm kind of tired of spending money on more note- organizing programs, though, so unless it has a very clear advantage to me over Yojimbo I can't see myself switching yet again. Already gone through iOrganize (liked its simplicity, but absolutely no response to repeated email messages about a license I'd paid for not working, so that left a very bad taste), SOHO Notes (runs slow when it gets full, and I've lost important notes twice now through its bugginess), Circus Ponies NoteBook (which I love and still use for a few particular applications), maybe some others too that I'm not thinking of just now. Nested folders isn't enough of a make-or-break issue for me to go through the process of transferring all my notes yet again to a new system, nor do I want to lose .Mac syncking, which *is* halfway to being a make-or-break issue for me these days. What I'm leaning toward right now is going back to what I was doing for a while, exporting my notes for completed projects as text files and keeping them organized that way. Not ideal, but keeping my list of collections and the drop dock more manageable seems more important than the few seconds it'll take me to re-import the files if I need them again. The killer feature for me at this point would be to be able to access and edit my text notes on my iPhone. If Yojimbo doesn't develop a way to do that, and a similar program does, I'll be tempted to switch. Add in .Mac syncking and I'll be *very* tempted. Scott Marley -- -- 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 workingcorrectly? 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: Almost happy with Yojimbo the way it is
There is another software package, can't recall the name of it right now, which will manage multiple prefs/databases/whatever for programs that are rooSwitch http://roobasoft.com/rooSwitch/ --Rhet On 5/1/08, Charlie Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon, On 1/5/08 at 12:04 AM -0400, Jerry Weldon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, I want to be able to have multiple self-contained library databases. This would not add any complexity whatsoever for those who like Yojimbo the way it is--they can simply continue using one monolithic library--but it would add an order of magnitude of usefulness for me, and I suspect for others as well. There is another software package, can't recall the name of it right now, which will manage multiple prefs/databases/whatever for programs that are not designed around 'documents'. You should be able to use that to have multiple databases for Yojimbo. Charlie -- Charlie Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 141, Windsor, NSW 2756, Australia O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt -- -- 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: Almost happy with Yojimbo the way it is
In other words, I want to be able to have multiple self-contained library databases. You might want to try Eagle Filer: http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/ It is similar to Yojimbo but supports multiple libraries and nested folders. It also stores its data as regular files in the filesystem so you could easily copy all the files you want and give to a friend per the use case you outlined or browse your data with the Finder. Now, some comments on the recent discussions on this list... First, I'm not a Yojimbo-hater -- I've used Yojimbo since it was released and have a library with thousands of records. However, I've gotten very tired of the lack of nested folders (makes the drop dock too big), lack of true Smart Collections, lack of a read only flag, and the monolithic database as well as lack of Time Machine support. At the time that I bought Yojimbo, I extensively evaluated every digital junk drawer application for the Mac and settled on Yojimbo because of ease of use, exportability, Applescriptability, and most importantly, .Mac syncing. The only reason I've stuck with Yojimbo so far is .Mac syncing. I want my data available on multiple computers and none of Yojimbo's competitors support seamless .Mac syncing the way Yojimbo does. However, if the next paid upgrade from Yojimbo doesn't address some of those issues I mentioned (and have been mentioned by many others on this list), then I'll buy one of the competing products, most likely Eagle Filer and work around the lack of .Mac syncing (Eagle Filer can store it's library on iDisk for example). Since I use Yojimbo more than any other app on my Mac, that's not idle talk -- switching would be a big investment of time. I've got a lot of data in Yojimbo and a lot of time invested in scripts to make Yojimbo fit into my workflow. Contrary to some of the other posts on this list in the last few days, I do think Yojimbo needs some improvement and I think this list is a good place to discuss it. It's rather disheartening to see the Yojimbo fans shoot down any feature request because I like Yojimbo the way it is -- there's always room for improvement and honest dialogue by Yojimbo power-users (probably the majority of people on this list) is a good way for the developers to get feedback on what their *paying* users want. Unfortunately, what usually happens on this list is that a Yojimbo fan will tell the feature-requester to go away because Yojimbo is great the way it is and the developer won't say anything. If someone from BareBones does pipe in, it's usually to say We're never going to add that feature. See previous post... This compares poorly to several other indie-Mac software lists I'm on (such as the forum for Leap and Yep, both excellent applications: http://www.ironicsoftware.com/) where the developer is happy to get feedback on what users actually want and participates in the dialogue. Of course, not every feature can or should be added -- as someone who's written a lot of software, I hate feature bloat as much as the next guy. But I'd rather give my money to a company that listens to its users and tries to provide a product the users want instead of what the developer thinks the users *should* want. Several of my friends and colleagues use Yojimbo based on my recommendation. I think it's a useful application and a great value but I'm not sure I can continue to recommend it, for the reasons given above. I really like the application and it's simplified my life but I still find that I'm doing too much bending of my workflow to suit Yojimbo. Software is a tool that should work for me, not the other way around. Cheers, Rhet On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:04 PM, Jerry Weldon wrote: I'm glad there are people who like Yojimbo the way it is. I want people to buy it, because I think Bare Bones is a good company and I want it to continue to exist. However, Yojimbo is not quite adequate for my needs. I tried Yojimbo for the 30-day trial period last summer, using it to collect information for a vacation. I found it to be very useful, and a pleasure to use. It was handy to be able to store PDFs and web archives of information I wanted to come back to easily, as well as my own notes. Yojimbo was my first experience with tagging, and I found that to be useful as well. When the trial period was over, however, I did not purchase the program. Why not? Our vacation was over. I no longer needed the information immediately at hand, but neither did I want to delete it. What I really wanted was to set that library aside and start a new one for the next project or trip. I'd like to use Yojimbo to collect everything related to a particular project, and be able to store that collection with other project materials, be it on a CD in a box with other items or on a computer at a different location. Perhaps a friend would like to
Re: Where to put script for Mail.app
1. Put it in /Users/your_user_name/Library/Scripts/Applications/Mail If that folder doesn't exist, then create it. 2. To access the script in Mail, you need to set the Scripts menu to be visible in the menubar. Run /Applications/AppleScript/AppleScript Utility.app Select the setting Show Scripts Menu in menu bar Now in Mail, select the scripts menu icon from the menu bar and select your Mail to Yojimbo script. I believe that if you do step 2 first then while in Mail, select Open Scripts Folder | Open Mail Scripts Folder it will create the folder for you if it doesn't exist. These instructions are for Tiger and assume that you have a script you want to run manually while in Mail.app. Not sure if Applescript Utility is the same in Leopard. I have two scripts I run in Mail.app: one sends a selected email to Yojimbo. The other runs as a rule action so that any email with yj: on the subject line gets sent to Yojimbo automatically. In the second case, it doesn't matter where you put the script. You create the rule using Mail | Preferences | Rules. Set the action to Run Applescript then select the script. Also, you might want to look at FastScripts (http://www.red- sweater.com/fastscripts/) which lets you assign keyboard shortcuts to scripts. That's how I use my Archive email to Yojimbo script. If you use FastScripts, you don't need to step 2 above. Cheers, Rhet On Apr 18, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Krzysztof Maj wrote: Hello, I have a script called Mail to Yojimbo.scpt, but I don't know where to put it to have access to it from the Mail.app menu? Does anybody can help me? Thanks for a tip Krzysztof M. -- -- 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 workingcorrectly? 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: Where to put script for Mail.app
Thank you very much. But I wish Yojimbo to have all this scripts built in by default in the next release. It would be nice if Yojimbo optionally offered to install some best of scripts. For example, the archive email to Yojimbo functionality is something a lot of people probably would use. But users who don't frequent this mailing list won't even know about it. Another one I find useful is save selection to Yojimbo in Safari. On Apr 18, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Krzysztof Maj wrote: Thank you very much. But I wish Yojimbo to have all this scripts built in by default in the next release. On 2008-04-18, at 23:41, Rhet Turnbull wrote: 1. Put it in /Users/your_user_name/Library/Scripts/Applications/Mail If that folder doesn't exist, then create it. 2. To access the script in Mail, you need to set the Scripts menu to be visible in the menubar. Run /Applications/AppleScript/AppleScript Utility.app Select the setting Show Scripts Menu in menu bar Now in Mail, select the scripts menu icon from the menu bar and select your Mail to Yojimbo script. I believe that if you do step 2 first then while in Mail, select Open Scripts Folder | Open Mail Scripts Folder it will create the folder for you if it doesn't exist. These instructions are for Tiger and assume that you have a script you want to run manually while in Mail.app. Not sure if Applescript Utility is the same in Leopard. I have two scripts I run in Mail.app: one sends a selected email to Yojimbo. The other runs as a rule action so that any email with yj: on the subject line gets sent to Yojimbo automatically. In the second case, it doesn't matter where you put the script. You create the rule using Mail | Preferences | Rules. Set the action to Run Applescript then select the script. Also, you might want to look at FastScripts (http://www.red- sweater.com/fastscripts/) which lets you assign keyboard shortcuts to scripts. That's how I use my Archive email to Yojimbo script. If you use FastScripts, you don't need to step 2 above. Cheers, Rhet On Apr 18, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Krzysztof Maj wrote: Hello, I have a script called Mail to Yojimbo.scpt, but I don't know where to put it to have access to it from the Mail.app menu? Does anybody can help me? Thanks for a tip Krzysztof M. -- -- 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 workingcorrectly? 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 workingcorrectly? 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 workingcorrectly? 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: Easy annotate and save PDF in Yojimbo
As others have suggested, I recommend Yep for PDFs. I would not store PDFs in Yojimbo. Yep stores the PDFs in the filesystem so your changes would get saved to back to the original file. It functions much like iPhoto does but for PDFs. For more general file management, you might look at Leap from the same developers. Leap leaves your files in the filesystem--it does not use a database like Yojimbo does. Leap is really a Finder from a different perspective that happens to manage tags. It is not suitable for storing quick notes, passwords, etc. like Yojimbo. Both Yep and Leap do use a database for storing metadata such as tags but not the original files: http://www.yepthat.com/ You might also consider EagleFiler. It uses the filesystem to store your files so you could open the PDF in Preview or Skim and changes would get saved. EagleFiler does support quick text notes too. Unlike Yojimbo, it supports hierarchical folders and multiple libraries. But unlike Yojimbo, you can't encrypt individual items in a library...but you can encrypt an entire library. It also doesn't support true .Mac syncing but it can store it's library on an iDisk or other shared disk. EagleFiler also works with TimeMachine and Yojimbo does not. http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/ I have been using Yojimbo for a long time and evaluated all existing options at the time before settling on Yojimbo. At the time, .Mac syncing was the selling point since I absolutely need access to my data on multiple computers and don't want to bother with manual syncing. However, I'm seriously considering a switch to EagleFiler or some other system because of Yojimbo's lack of support for TimeMachine (and the developer's attitude that it's Apple's problem) as well as the lack of hierarchical folders. After giving tagging a good faith effort, I still prefer folders or a combination of the two -- especially since Yojimbo's Smart Collections are not very smart at all. Based on traffic on this list, Yojimbo seems unlikely to support either better Smart Collections or hierarchical folders any time soon. Regards --Rhet On Apr 14, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Krzysztof Maj wrote: Hi everybody, just a simple question. I have PDF file inside the Yojimbo. I would like to annotate/rotate it and save it once again into Yojimbo database. How to do it? Now I have to open this file in Preview, do all my changes, save the file to the hard disk and import this file once again into Yojimbo. Now I have duplicate and I need to delete the old one file from the Yojimbo database. Even if I use Print- Save as PDF in Yojimbo option from the Preview I will get duplicate inside the Yojimbo database. I think it's irritating process just a bit and take a long time. Maybe someone can suggest something to make it easier? Thanks a lot in advance, All the best, -- Krzysztof Maj, JNCIP-M/T I'm a [EMAIL PROTECTED], are you still a PC? -- -- 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: Feature suggestion
Seems to me it would be easier if double-clicking an encrypted item brought up the password dialogue immediately I agree with Lofty--good suggestion. Cheers, Rhet On 4/4/08, Lofty Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm showing the main Yojimbo list window, I frequenlty double-click on an item to view it in a separate window. If the item is encrypted, I have to go through more clicks: first, a new window opens with the item, of course, still hidden. I have to click the view button to see it. Then the password dialog comes up. Seems to me it would be easier if double-clicking an encrypted item brought up the password dialogue immediately. -Lofty -- -- 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 workingcorrectly? 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: Applescript to Organize by Date?
I'd like to apple the same technique to my catch all folder in Yojimbo I too would really like to see true Smart Folders in Yojimbo and have mentioned it to the developers before. I'd also like to be able to use criteria such as Encrypted/Not Encrypted, etc. for sorting into the Smart Folders. Cheers, Rhet On 4/4/08, cj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the Smart folders in Apple Mail to sort my mail according to it's age. I have a smart folder for 30 days, 60 days, and 90 days old. I'd like to apple the same technique to my catch all folder in Yojimbo I dump a lot of stuff into this folder daily and the ability to sort oldest from newest would be helpful. I'm not a very good applescript writer, but it looks like there isn't anything in the Yojimbo dictionary that lets you query a note for it's creation date. regards chris -- -- 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 workingcorrectly? 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: Feature clarification - capture URL
Yes, both scenarios are do-able. If you drag a URL to Yojimbo and have the preferences set to create WebArchive when handling a URL then the URL of the page will be stored in the comments field of the Yojimbo record (accessible through the Inspector). The second scenario (select some text and create a new note) can be accomplished the AppleScript. The following post provides a good starting point for a script to do that: http://www.listsearch.com/Yojimbo/Message/index.lasso?2659 Cheers, Rhet On Mar 8, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Wayne Hardy wrote: I am likely converting from EagleFiler to Yojimbo, but I need to confirm that I can do the following somehow. I need to capture the source URL of a website when I copy it, whether highlighting some text on a page or capturing a web archive. (I need to copy quite a bit of data from the Internet, then be able to document the source months later.) I searched the archives and found that it might be possible through a script. But, the poster asked for clarification, then the thread stopped. Could anyone give me a clear answer to this, as well as an idea how to do it if its through scripting. I have not yet done anything with scripts. Thanks, whardy -- -- 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]
Yojimbo on the iPhone?
Now that the iPhone SDK has been announced how soon until we see Yojimbo on the iPhone? It looks like the SDK has everything that's needed including sqlite. It sure would be sweet to have my Yojimbo data no matter where I am! I don't have an iPhone yet but Yojimbo would be the killer app I need to push me over the edge. Of course, syncing would have to be better than the .Mac syncing that plagues Yj today. Cheers, --Rhet -- -- 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]
feature request: show collections that an item belongs to
In Yojimbo I can see what collections an item is in with the inspector (but this doesn't work for smart collections or built-in collections). It would be nice if Yojimbo implemented the behavior (or something similar) that Address Book uses for collections: pressing the option key will highlight the collections that the selected item is in. This works for smart collections as well as when multiple items are selected and I find it very useful. Cheers, Rhet -- -- 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: On Yojimbo and Time Machine
This is getting offtopic for Yojimbo so I won't continue past this email. I appreciate your comments Jan and I do understand the issue of data of data consistency. The only way to completely avoid that is to take the system completely down for backup and either run the backup in single user mode or better yet, run the backup in target disk mode without even the OS running. But I won't do that because of convenience nor will most other users. I don't ever close applications or log off my machine unless a software update forces me to and I suspect there are many more like me. Most people don't backup because it's inconvenient which is one of the main things that Apple was trying to address with Time Machine. Time Machine also has the added advantage of provided checkpoints throughout the day that you can roll-back to (at least for specific files). I'd much rather take the very small chance of data inconsistency than accept the inconvenience of offline backups. Now to get it back to Yojimbo so we're not completely off topic ;-) If Yojimbo stored records as separate files and kept metadata and/or index data in smaller DBs then the backup regime would only have to backup those files that had changed instead of the entire xxxMB sqllite file that Yojimbo uses now. I believe that would decrease the risk of inconsistency as opposed to the case now, where Yojimbo could write the the large database file while the backup is trying to copy it. And finally, once users get used to the power of Time Machine's rollback capability, they'll demand it. There are several times I wish I could have rolled back a Yojimbo record (this is exacerbated by Yojimbo's lack of read-only records which has allowed me to accidentally edit Yojimbo data that I didn't intend to). Cheers, Rhet On 2/15/08, Jan Erik Moström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rhet Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-02-14 15.58 I would never use a backup solution that didn't run on live data. Thankfully the days of they system is down for backup are long gone. Whether I use Time Machine or I use Super Duper or Chronosync or something else, I'm certainly not about to take my machine offline or logout to do the backup. Your misunderstanding me, if you run a backup on a programs data file (without the applications talking to each other) you always run the risk of inconsistent data (unless you have a filesystem that does some fancy stuff). For example, if you have an application with several files that in some way depend on each other - for example a database that store data as individual files and then have an index file to keep track of them - there is always the chance that the backup is done between the modification of the individual files which would make the data in the backup inconsistent. So while I'm running TM for my whole disk, I'm also running a second program for applications that is constantly running like my email program. jem -- Jan Erik Moström, www.mostrom.pp.se -- -- 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: On Yojimbo and Time Machine
I was unaware of the restriction regarding Yojimbo and Time Machine. Fortunately I haven't upgraded to Leopard yet (but had planned to do so now that the 10.5.2 update is out and in fact have the Leopard box sitting on my shelf). Time Machine was one of the driving reasons for me to upgrade to Leopard but Yj is an app I use everyday so this is an unacceptable situation. It is very regrettable that Apple would adopt a standard like CoreData only to make it incompatible with one of their flagship features. Then again, Yojimbo's habit of storing everything in a monolithic database has been one of my (few) critiques since Yojimbo was released. I hope that BareBones and/or Apple gets this fixed soon. Requiring the user to have two separate backup plans is unacceptable. Cheers, Rhet On 2/14/08, Patrick Woolsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Niels Kobschaetzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] sez: On Oct 31, 2007 5:03 PM, Steve Kalkwarf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before things get too far out of control, I want to clarify some facts about how Time Machine and Yojimbo. Yojimbo is built on CoreData, the same underlying technology as Aperture, and several other products. Because of issues related to how Time Machine and CoreData manage files on disk, Apple recommends excluding Aperture data from Time Machine backups, and managing Aperture backups independently: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306853 For the moment, we are recommending the same thing. The document states now that the problems are fixed with 10.5.2 for Aperture -- does this apply to Yojimbo as well? The cited change in 10.5.2 only resolves this issue for Aperture; I regret it does not affect other applications which use CoreData nor our prior guidance related to Yojimbo. Regards, Patrick Woolsey == Bare Bones Software, Inc.http://www.barebones.com P.O. Box 1048, Bedford, MA 01730-1048 -- -- 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: On Yojimbo and Time Machine
Curious, why is this bad? 1. Backup...the entire DB file (mine is hundreds of MB) needs to be backed up. I backup everyday, both to external drive and offsite. That means the large Yojimbo file needs to be backed up every day, taking up unnecessary bandwidth and disk space. 2. Data integrity...if the database file gets corrupted, you could lose all your data instead of only 1 item. The Yojimbo competitor Together (http://reinventedsoftware.com/together/) does it this way, storing each record in a separate file. 3. Time Machine...this breaks things like time machine which offers roll-back capability. Contrast the way that Microsoft Outlook (not sure about Entourage) and Mail.app store mail messages. Outlook puts everything in a single database file. Mail.app stores each message in a separate file (but utilizes a database file for indexing). I have 3GB of email which means that Outlook would require backing up a 3GB file wheres for Mail.app, I only need to backup the new message files and the small index file. Hmmm, I would always be skeptical of a backup solution that runs on live data. I would never use a backup solution that didn't run on live data. Thankfully the days of they system is down for backup are long gone. Whether I use Time Machine or I use Super Duper or Chronosync or something else, I'm certainly not about to take my machine offline or logout to do the backup. Cheers, Rhet On 2/14/08, Jan Erik Moström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rhet Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-02-14 15.09 Then again, Yojimbo's habit of storing everything in a monolithic database has been one of my (few) critiques since Yojimbo was released. Curious, why is this bad? I hope that BareBones and/or Apple gets this fixed soon. Requiring the user to have two separate backup plans is unacceptable. Hmmm, I would always be skeptical of a backup solution that runs on live data. jem -- Jan Erik Moström, www.mostrom.pp.se -- -- 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: Function to decode the passwords in the database
my problem is, that I have a Windos box, too. It's no big deal to install sqlite Yikes! You'd have to re-create a lot of the Yojimbo functionality and reverse-engineer their schema among other things for this work properly. Why not just use Webjimbo? http://www.webjimbo.com/ --Rhet On 1/30/08, Arvid Warnecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Steve, Steve Kalkwarf wrote: No. What are you trying to do? You can use AppleScript to get at them, assuming your permissions are set to allow it. my problem is, that I have a Windos box, too. It's no big deal to install sqlite there and sync the databases between the both. But my notes and passwords are encrypted, so I need some hint on what algorithm is used to decode them. Cheers, Arvid -- -- 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: Attach a file?
I store my serial numbers (and everything else except web archives) in text notes because I find Yojimbo's force-fed record types too constricting as this case highlights. I also store passwords in encrypted text notes even though this adds a layer of annoyance because Yojimbo doesn't encrypt the comments section of a password record and these days passwords often have other sensitive data associated with them. For example, I find that the annoying secret question password retrieval hints need to be recorded because I can't remember the answers to the silly questions. So I store those in Yojimbo but I don't want them stored unencrypted in the comments section. So I store everything in a text note and use collections to organize them. --Rhet On 1/26/08, Jeff Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 26, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Rhet Turnbull wrote: This is do-able with a text note in Yj however Unfortunately, dropping the file into the notes section of a Serial Number record results in copying the file path, not a copy of the file. I'll have to give some thought as to whether or not I want any software license info stored as a text file--it's something that I'd have to keep my head wrapped around. Thank you for the suggestion though! jeff -- -- 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: enter key opens list view item name for editing - Aha!
The Enter key on my iMac does the same thing. Yojimbo exhibits the same behavior as iTunes in this regard. Hitting Return opens the item (or plays it in iTunes) while Enter allows you to rename the item. However, even Apple isn't consistent on this. In iPhoto selecting an album and hitting Enter does nothing while hitting Return renames it. Cheers, Rhet On 8/16/07, Martin Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you all knew this, but I was delighted to stumble on it ... I often want to edit the name of a new Yojimbo item; I've been frustrated for months that I could not use the same method (return key) that I use to open a finder file name for change. Instead, I've had to mouse over to the name and click, cursing the while... but on my iBook the 'enter' key _will_ open a Yojimbo name for editing. Hot damn. Martin -- -- 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: Group in Spotlight?
This doesn't directly answer your question but for searching Yojimbo via Spotlight, I use MoRU which is an excellent shareware interface to Spotlight. Searching Yj via MoRU/Spotlight is wickedly fast--much faster than using Yj. I set up a smartgroup for Yojimbo items in MoRU and assign a hotkey to it. I can then search within that smartgroup very easily. http://www.windstormsoftware.com/wssw/moru/index.html Cheers, Rhet On 5/15/07, Jacob Lyles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to show Yojimbo items as a separate group in Spotlight? I.e. Spotlight separates PDFs, images, e-mails, etc. Can Yojimbo items be broken out into their own list? Thanks, Jacob -- -- 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: Search Stopped Working?
This seems obvious but make sure that Library is selected in the Collections pane on the left of the Yojimbo window. Otherwise Yojimbo searches only the selected collection which may not contain what you're looking for. On 3/26/07, Vik Rubenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Yojimbo installation seems to have gotten disconnected from its search index. If I enter something in the search box, nothing is found, even if the word I'm searching for is contained in the title of a post. How can I get search working again? -Vik -- -- 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]
