Re: [ANN] moving Yojimbo-Talk to Google Groups!
RSS - http://groups.google.com/group/yojimbo-talk/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml Atom - http://groups.google.com/group/yojimbo-talk/feed/atom_v1_0_msgs.xml T. On 29 May 2008, at 18:29, Jim McCarty wrote: Kerri Hicks wrote: On 29 May 2008, at 1:17 PM, Jim McCarty wrote: Any solution for folks whose company blocks access to Google Groups? I believe all Google Groups have XML feeds (RSS/Atom)...would you be able to fetch them that way? Hmm, if someone were to send the feed URL, I'd give it a try. 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] -- -- 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: More about how I use Yojimbo
Sounds like you need OmniFocus. I find it works perfectly with YJ - any detailed notes, saved documents I have relating to a task in YJ can be linked to from OF by pasting the item link as a note for the task making the two work pretty seamlessly together. T. On 6 May 2008, at 13:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read and re-read your post. I find your system impressive but very confusing to me. Maybe I made things sound more complicated than they had to be by giving too many details. Basically, whether I'm doing a GTD review or I'm making plans for a particular project (which are two different things, though similar), I'm switching back and forth fairly rapidly among a lot of notes, maybe just three or four or five, maybe as many as a couple dozen, as I think of things to jot down. If you saw me working at this, you'd see me focused mostly on one note at a time, but frequently skipping to another note as I thought of a to-do item, or an idea to think about later, or an issue I need to be sure is cleared up by a certain time, or something I need to remember to speak with someone about. Then I skip back to whatever note I'm mostly focused on. The part I'm having trouble getting to work to my satisfaction is the archival part. I want to be able to put away my completed notes for a project, and yet be able to easily bring them up again as a group at some point in the future, maybe three months later, maybe two years later. But in the meantime I don't need to have them on the top level of my collections. I want to get them out of sight, without making them hard to bring up again. If I could put those folders into a superfolder, I could bring up a set of old project notes with two clicks, one on the Completed projects superfolder and one on the specific subfolder. And filing away a set of notes once a project is completed would be as easy as dragging the folder into the superfolder. I can't think of anything I can do with tags that isn't *more* work than this, not less. Somebody wrote that they didn't need hierarchy so much as just one higher level of collection in order to gather collections and tag collections into groups. That's my case exactly. I just want ONE folder that I can gather my less needed collections into so that my list stays short. (The reason David Allen recommends a simple A-to-Z filing system as part of the GTD method, it seems to me, is less about ease of retrieval and more about ease of filing. If you're in the middle of a productively heated bout of planning and you have to give every item even twenty or thirty seconds of thought and preparation before you can file it, you'll start putting things in a To be filed pile, so as not to break your flow of thought, instead of filing each item immediately. The point isn't to put thought into your filing system so that you can find things again easily; the point is to make the filing effortless so you'll do it for each item right away the very moment you generate it, and if that means that when you're retrieving it you have to look in a couple of wrong places first because you can't remember whether you filed something under Banana cream pie or Desserts or Recipes, big deal, it's nowhere near as big a drain on your system as it is to let a To be filed stack pile up. The fact is, whether you use tags liberally or not, the fear that you're going to lose a file forever is 99% illusion. The only way you're really likely to lose a file forever is if there's a software glitch or a hardware failure that destroys the file; if you stay backed up, the worst that's likely to happen is that it may take you three or four tries to find your file instead of one.) S -- -- 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: Tag Collections not treated the same as 'regular' Collections (was: The Real Issue With Nested Folders and Multiple Databases.)
On 5 May 2008, at 16:45, Bill Rowe wrote: What would happen if the tag collection had several tags associated with it? Would you assign all of the available tags to an item dragged to that collection? That's exactly what I'd expect it to do, I don't see what the problem is. For example, I have a number of web archives currently tagged with 'article' 'to read' and 'projectname' - when I've read one I'll delete it's 'to read' tag and when 'projectname' is over I'll delete that tag too leaving me with 'article' and whatever other descriptives I've given it. Being able to add those first three tags in one shot would be a nice little timesaver. 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: Almost happy with Yojimbo the way it is
Thanks for your response Steve, great to have some direct answers from the guy who kicked it all off :o) Now, naturally, I want more! :o) In the past I've drawn a distinction between 'nested folders' and a means to group collections in the sidebar. I see these as distinct things and I've copied the original post below where I go into more detail on the issue. My question is, do you see these as one and the same or would you consider the latter as a different feature request. To me nested folders means hierarchical organisation and I'd be the first to agree this is not necessary, I'd be interested in your view on the matter. I appreciate there's more than one way to skin a cat and to my mind a different approach to tag navigation could obviate the need for this, but as an interface designer myself I'm keeping my cards close to my chest on that one as I have a particular solution in mind for a project of my own! ;o) Regards, T. Extract from that previous post… Tag collection grouping OK, hopefully no one thinks I'm trying to pull a fast one and change the name of the game from 'nested folders' but on reviewing the previous threads again I think the debate gets sidetracked into one of hierarchy vs. tagging - a fine debate in it's own right but not really what I'm after as a feature request. I'm really very happy with tag search approach for many things, but for quick reference and ad-hoc corralling of tagged information I use tag collections extensively. I have a lot of them, too many to be easily reviewable in one long multi-page scrolling list - not (I'll pre-empt the inevitable response) in some vain attempt to re-impose an old fashioned hierarchy, but simply to take advantage of the benefits of tagging for the purposes of browsing (as opposed to searching). It is a pain to only be able to sort these tag collections alphabetically (even with alpha-numeric prefixes) in one long list. The long and short of it is that, for whatever reason, i have a lot of tag collections, all I really need is a more control over how they are organised and presented, a single level of grouping would do just fine. I can see how this could cause ambiguity leading to an impression of support for deep hierarchy but i doubt this is insurmountable - perhaps some judicious use of naming to conceptually divorce 'tag collections' from 'collections' and a visually distinct icon to further distinguish the concepts might overcome this problem? Or maybe separating smart collections, collections, and tag collections with sub-titles in the sidebar as iTunes does would do the trick? On 1 May 2008, at 14:20, Steve Kalkwarf wrote: I'm not singling out Rhet, but there are several ideas embodied in this paragraph that bear comment: 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. Let me start off by saying no matter what I, or another Bare Bones representative says, a large number of people will be unhappy. For years we said Thanks for the feedback, and we'll consider adding this functionality. Then, email every time we shipped an update we'd get a reminder email, asking why the feature wasn't in that version. Other people waited and waited for the feature to arrive, but it wasn't going to. I thought that was unfair. Now, if a feature request has a known disposition, we generally share that answer. Nested folders? No. If you _have_ to have that feature, you will be better off elsewhere. Does this compare poorly with other companies? I don't know. I prefer the honest answer, whether it makes people happy or not. Another assumption (again, not picking on Rhet) is that implementing every feature request is a good idea. If you take a step back and look at the types of requests people make, with rare exception (nested folders, smart collections, better tag management) they are particular to the requester's existing workflow. The one feature I have to have is not the one feature you have to have, or Charlie has to have, or probably more than a couple people have to have. The implied assumption that tends to go along with almost any request is that adding feature X doesn't increase the complexity of Yojimbo. That is untrue. In a past life, I spent countless hours helping novice Mac users find the files they had lost, because they had no idea where they were saving, or because they saved all their files in the Word folder, and when they updated Word, lost everything. The average computer user is overwhelmed by choices, and as simple as this sounds,
Re: The Real Issue With Nested Folders and Multiple Databases.
Personally, along as it's civil, I think a bit of heated debate is all good fun - livens things up a bit! :o) T. On 2 May 2008, at 23:19, Scott J. Lopez wrote: No one said Yojimbo is a GTD tool, but apparently people use it for that given the number of posts that reference it. There are several Mac programs specifically for GTD actually, should anyone want them (search versiontracker.com). As for someone being pompous isn't it a little pompous for all the people saying that Yojimbo _has to have_ XXX feature or the program is worthless/useless/they won't buy it. As I've pointed out in a previous post, there is a trial period (thank you Bare Bones) with using Yojimbo. If it doesn't fit your needs, move on, but whining on this list I won't buy it because it doesn't have XXX is pretty bad. I can understand why BB won't respond to feature request emails any more with an attitude like that. Yojimbo obviously has all the features Bare Bone wanted to put into it, if someone wants something different they could write it up themselves. Now I didn't mean to turn this into a flame war, but I'm pretty tired of hearing people complain Yojimbo won't make coffee, clean up after the dog, and turn down their beds at night. This is supposed to be a support list, a place to share with each other how we use Yojimbo, tips and tricks, etc. On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Keith Ledbetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis, we're all really, really happy that Yojimbo is perfect for your way of gathering information. But it's quite pompous of you to think that everyone else is wrong because we like to sometimes organize our data in physical divisions. And, repeat after me, YOJIMBO IS NOT A GTD TOOL. It is a digital junk drawer; a tool that you have just been lucky enough to be able to fit into the GTD principles. Keith -- -- 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: Transferring info from Yojimbo onto ipod touch
Sounds like Webjimbo is what you need - http://flyingmac.com/ webjimbo/ - $30 third party app, not tried it myself but it seems to get good reports and has recently added an iPhone optimised interface. Cheers, T. On 29 Apr 2008, at 00:20, Alexander van Nievelt wrote: Sorry if I am repeating a thread, but is there any way to sync info from Yojimbo onto an iPhone or iPod Touch. For instance, I store all of my passwords and lock combinations in Yojimbo and it would be great to be able to access them on my iPod Touch. Any plans to add such a feature? Any way to do this with an existing app? Thank you. Alex van Nievelt -- -- 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: Cycle through Search criteria
Would anyone else find this useful? Yes, me. Although there may be a slight UI issue as when the search field has focus the preview text indicating what is being searched is removed, so as you cycle with the arrow keys there would (currently) be no indication of what type of search you'd be conducting unless you tab out of the field to check… 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: Feature clarification - capture URL
Related feature request - I've long thought that the web archive source URL that appears in the status bar should be a live link. It's a minor thing when the contextual menu offers the same functionality, but it just seems simpler and more natural to click the link to go to the URL in question? Cheers, T. On 8 Mar 2008, at 20:43, Jim Correia wrote: On Mar 8, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Jim DeVona wrote: When you create a web archive with Yojimbo, the URL is saved as the item comment. The source URL is also saved as an attribute on the web archive, which can be accessed through the scripting interface or the Copy Web Archive URL command on the contextual menu. 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 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: [ANN] Yojimbo 1.5.1
Me neither, and I'm not behind a firewall… also, v1.5 (62) T. On 6 Feb 2008, at 16:27, Daryl Spitzer wrote: Nothing happens when I select Check for Updates from the application menu. Could it be because I'm behind a firewall? (I'm running Authoxy: http://www.hrsoftworks.net/Products.html) -- -- 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]
Curiosity
Here's a weird little curiosity - I opened an Adobe Illustrator document just now (by double-clicking on it's icon in the Finder), for the first time since installing the recent 1.5 update, and rather than opening Illustrator my Mac decided that Yojimbo was a better choice and created a new Image entry with the file name as the title, although it seemed unable to read the file contents. Easily fixed with the Finder's 'Get Info', but odd none the less. I've not experienced this with any other file types, any idea what the cause might be…? 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: ANN: Webjimbo web interface
Great to see the very highest journalistic standards are being maintained by both MacNN and MacUser (UK) who both report this as being a Bare Bones product… T. On 24 Jul 2007, at 12:32, Adrian Ross wrote: Hi all, Following on from my post a month or so back, I'm pleased to announce Webjimbo's release today. Webjimbo is a web interface for Yojimbo. It lets you view and edit your Yojimbo data from any computer with an internet connection and a web browser, as long as your Mac running Yojimbo is visible on the internet. Once again, no big sales pitch here, just a link to www.webjimbo.com where you can get more information and download the trial version. Changes since the private beta include the ability to view passwords and encrypted notes. Cheers, Adrian -- -- 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: iPhone sync
Maybe Leopard Mail's 'Notes' feature would provide a workable conduit for getting basic notes to and from an iPhone via an ITunes sync…? Sounds iCludgy just thinking about it though! T. On 11 Jul 2007, at 18:40, David Nedrow wrote: On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Steve Drach wrote: This feature is high on my wishlist too--be sure to ping Apple with your request because until they open up third party development... Just out of curiosity, what iPhone application will be used to view the synced Yojimbo data? I think that was the point Jeff was making. Unless and until Apple decides to allow actual app development for the iPhone, it's going to be near impossible for something like Yojimbo to be used with it (either fully or just data view) without some type of online web component. I suppose one way to do it would be to sync to .Mac (or another web server) and then have an Ajax frontend posted as well. Then you could use Safari to at least get a static view of most Yojimbo items. -David -- -- 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: 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: 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]
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]
Re: Dates created and modified
On 6 May 2007, at 14:51, tedd wrote: No offense meant to the Yojimbo programmers, but this is an example of how a programmer thinks that s/he knows what the user needs as compared to what the user actually wants. Well, not necessarily, there are all sorts of more likely explanations than arrogant programmers. Also, when you say 'what the user actually wants' you really mean 'what I and a few others here actually want' - I'm perfectly happy with the creation date as it is because it allows me to see when the entry was created in Yojimbo - in that sense, the creation date refers not to the source document, but to the new Yojimbo item. I do see your point, but this strikes me as overly harsh criticism. 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: Dates created and modified
On 6 May 2007, at 15:21, tedd wrote: But from experience, programmers think about the data and not necessarily how user will use it -- that's why GUI is like a new (anything that is less than 20 years old is new to me) science to programming. First, solve the problem and then make it easy for the user. Sometimes there's a disconnect between how the user is going to use the data and how the programmer expects the data to be used -- that's a fact -- I've been there too many times myself to claim any different. All fair enough, although I'd argue that these sort of issues should be thrashed out in the initial design process by Information Architects and Interface Designers in consultation with Programmers (and by reference to appropriate user research) - of course there is overlap in these roles but just to point out that this is not something that should be an issue for a programmers alone in a well resourced software house. This is why a good design process is so important, programmers in my experience rarely make great user interface designers (and I include in this the overall feature set and interaction principles, not just the GUI look and feel), of course there are exceptions like the Dave Watanabes of the world, but as a general rule you get the point! Anyway, I feel we're drifting off-topic… ;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]
3/2-pane toggle
Quick little feature request folks… I typically use the three-pane standard view when using Yojimbo, however when I want to review a long list of notes, archives, etc. I will double-click on the divider between the notes list and note preview panes (i don't know the 'official' terminology here, but basically - the top and bottom bit on the right!) to quickly switch to a two-pane view; the sidebar and list of notes. This divider line is quite a small target area to hit, so it'd be great if one of the options in the 'customise toolbar' feature was a button to add to the toolbar that toggled the preview pane on and off. That's it. And I didn't mention tags or nesting once. ;o) 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: auto Welcome post...
2- Item structure: It seems to me that many items (mainly S/N and passwords) could have a slightly more complete and harmonized field structure. As examples, I somehow miss an e-mail field (and even an owner field) in the password class, and a location field in the S/N class. I may understand that some additions could be at expense of simplicity (for quick imports for example), but a simple compromise could be found (at least it seems to me). Here again I do not think big changes are needed. I'd like to see some additional options for passwords too, it's not uncommon to be asked for all sorts of information as part of a registration process for a web site or service. As my memory for who holds what info can be poor and it's useful stuff to have on record I currently screenshot each stage of any registration process that goes beyond the basics and put it in an encrypted note. I'd rather see passwords have, below the existing fields (and Yvan's suggestions - email would be great as I use several for different sorts of sites), a standard note area for this purpose with the usual encrypt option so I don't end up with records in two areas, or some passwords in a standard note and others in a password note. Not a really big deal as tags allow me to find both with equal ease, it'd just be neater. And I like neat. 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: Feature Request: Drag-n-Drop images
Not sure if this has been covered in past discussions, but I'd love to cast a vote for the ability to drag images from a Web browser directly into either the drop-dock or the Yojimbo application without having to create a note to contain it. I agree, this would be very useful… As a designer I'm constantly collecting ideas/inspiration in the form of images from the web. It's nice to have these stored off- line instead of a URL because I can arrange and sort things visually if need be. Currently I just have a big directory of files, but I'd love to have them in jimbo. …but not for this. I'm also a designer and keep a similar reference, however I like a visual catalogue of all the images - Yojimbo is just going to give me a text list of files when what I need is a thumbnail graphic type arrangement for quick visual scanning. I'd recommend iView media pro for this task (although this has been bought by M$ now and given their track record with perfectly good mac software… well, we'll see… http://www.iview-multimedia.com/ ) iView is great for this sort of visual catalogue and it's keywords feature can be used effectively as tags for your images. You can also set up an iView catalogue to auto-update from one or many folders, so whenever you open it it'll always be up to date with your latest additions. I use it in conjunction with Hazel ( http:// www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.html ) for an automated scrapbook building tool - a folder on my desktop acts as a general inbox, any image files dumped in there is moved by Hazel to a scrapbook inbox (movies go to another, PDF's another, etc.) and the next time I open my iView scrapbook catalogue for inspiration I know that it'll scan my pictures inbox and bring it bang up to date for me, I can then add keywords (or use nested folders… ;o) to organise. Works a treat - i guess iPhoto might do the same although i don't use it. That said, for those images that are useful to keep in a Yojimbo note, a drag drop note-from-image feature would be a very handy timesaver (although, if you drag 'n drop multiple images does this make a bunch of individual notes, or a single one with all the images… hmmm) 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]
