Re: Happy with Yojimbo the way it is!
On May 1, 2008, at 4:28 PM, david wrote: Even now I'm not convinced that tabs are the logical replacement for nested folders. A useful tool, yes - but a replacement? I'm not convinced yet. When Yojimbo first came out I thought the lack of nested folders was a limitation. It took me a while, but I'm fully converted to the tag it and dump it all in one place method of organizing, and Yojimbo is primarily responsible for helping me see the advantages. Nested folders were once the best solution to organizing files on a computer, but now that we have very fast computers that can find things very quickly, the need for nested folders is going away. In fact, since we have such large hard drives that can store so many files, nested folders have begun to become a hindrance rather than a help in finding documents. Here's an example of the now what folder did I put that in problem. In Mail I have _one_ folder in which I store the current year's sent and received messages. When I want to find a message, I can just search, usually by subject, sender, or recipient and find the message I want in a couple of seconds. I save tons of time over when I used to have bunches of folders in which I could store emails. My father still uses the bunches of folders method, and half the time when he goes to find an email he can't find it because he can't remember which folder he put it in. Another thing I do to help me find files easily is giving them very descriptive file names, both in Yojimbo and in the Finder. For instance, a receipt from LL Bean might be named: LL Bean - 2008.04.21 - Shirts for Spring and tagged receipts. Or an article I downloaded from New Scientist might be named: Do we read too much into our need for sleep? - being-human - 15 March 2008 - New Scientist and tagged appropriately. I'd say 80% of the time I search on a file name to find what I'm looking for. As you noted, I think inertia keeps most people thinking they have to keep their file names under 32 characters. My goal is to name files so that not only I know what's in them, but so that anyone that looked at a file on my computer would know what's in it based on the name. I believe that if people gave their files good descriptive names, the fuss about tagging vs. nested folders would nearly be a non-issue. All IMHO of course. -- -- 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: Happy with Yojimbo the way it is!
On Apr 30, 2008, at 7:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I even refrained from testing other apps because I have absolutely no idea how I get all my data with meta-data (tags, urls) from yojimbo into other apps. How would you solve it when you would decide to move? When I got Leap http://www.ironicsoftware.com/leap/index.html and decide to move some large PDF documents out of Yojimbo and into the Finder I used the Export with Comment Tags Applescript: http://anoved.net/2007/08/yojimbo-export-with-comment-tags.html You could probably create an Applescript to export the Yojimbo items with whatever metadata items you wanted. -- -- 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
On Apr 14, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Krzysztof Maj wrote: 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? I ran into the same issue, and I came up with a very simple solution: don't use Yojimbo to store PDFs that you want edit or annotate. That's not what Yojimbo was designed for. I've been using Leap http://www.ironicsoftware.com/leap/index.html for storing PDFs I want to edit and have been very happy with it. As a bonus, Leap also acts like Yojimbo for all my files that won't or shouldn't go into Yojimbo. Leap is expensive ($59) but worth it in my book. If you don't want to spend that much money, look at Yep ($39): http://www.ironicsoftware.com/yep/index.html It just works with PDFs. Hope that helps. -- -- 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
On Apr 14, 2008, at 3:10 PM, Krzysztof Maj wrote: Does Skim integrates somehow with Yojimbo? Yes, in the sense that there's an Applescript that will allow you to open a PDF from Yojimbo in Skim. Like the View with Preview command in Yojimbo, it creates a temporary copy of the file, so any changes you make will not be saved in Yojimbo. -- -- 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
On Feb 14, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Rhet Turnbull wrote: I hope that BareBones and/or Apple gets this fixed soon. Requiring the user to have two separate backup plans is unacceptable. For me it hasn't been that big of a deal. 1) I excluded my Yojimbo DB from my time machine backups 2) I set up a folder form my Yojimbo backups on the same drive as my Time Machine backup. 3) I have ChronoSync http://tinyurl.com/36yy9 backup my Yojimbo DB daily, and save the most recent 5 backups. -- -- 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: Script to Create Tag Collection Based on Tags
On Jan 24, 2008, at 11:48 PM, Sean Chou wrote: I thought I'd pull together this simple script which creates a Tag Collection for each tag that is being used. Great script! I've been wanting a tag browser for a while, and this is the perfect way to do it. Many thanks! -- -- 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: restoring the drop tab
On Jan 12, 2008, at 2:41 PM, doug rogers wrote: There is no Drop tab, and there is no function key functionality. The drop tab pane accepts the clicks and all the buttons are there, yet the drop tab doesn't show up. The Function keys do not show up in the preferences pane of Yojimbo. Does quitting Yojimbo and opening it again fix the problem? I ask because I ran into a similar problem: Yojimbo came up with no drop dock and the hotkey prefs were empty. In my case it was because I had Yojimbo set up as a login item, along with a large number of other items. Apparently there was some contention for resources, and Yojimbo was not able to complete its startup process, which includes launching the drop dock and setting the hotkeys. Quitting Yojimbo and restarting it fixed the problem for me. BTW, the developers know about this issue. In my case it was caused by Yojimbo not being able to check in with sync services at startup (likely because of all the other applications I was trying to open simultaneously). -- -- 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: Getting printer-friendly version of web page for archive
On Jan 10, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Rich Siegel wrote: Aren't webarchives more flexible/editable than PDF files? Not in any way that I'm aware. :-) One big difference is that web archives preserve links, while printing to PDF doesn't. Also, depending on your web browser, printing to PDF can really bork the page layout. Firefox seems to be a little better than Safari on getting the layout right. Web archives are also more flexible in the sense that if you have a web archive, you can create a pdf or text representation of the page. You can't go from a PDF or text to a web archive though. Just my $0.02. -- -- 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: Getting printer-friendly version of web page for archive
On Jan 10, 2008, at 9:46 AM, TjL wrote: Is there a way (OTHER than using Print To Yojimbo) to get a WebArchive of a webpage to use the Print CSS file? The new Macworld.com design (which I loathe) took away the easy printer-friendly URLs. If you actually print them (even to PDF) you get a so-called printer-friendly version, but how I like the store web pages is to make a web archive of them instead. The solution I settled on is to use the Scrapbook extension in Firefox to caputure the parts of the page I want to save. I then save the page I captured in scrapbook to Yojimbo. It's an extra step, but you can automate it using a macro utility (e.g. Quickeys or iKey). I posted instructions on how to do that to the list a couple of weeks ago. -- -- 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: Getting printer-friendly version of web page for archive
On Jan 10, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Rich Siegel wrote: One big difference is that web archives preserve links, while printing to PDF doesn't. This may not be universal, but I have a number of PDFs printed from web pages in which the web links actually work. It's possible that this is a feature of the 3.0 WebKit that is in 10.4.11 and later. Learn something new every day! It does work ... in Safari. Doesn't work in Firefox, which is my default browser. Oh well... -- -- 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]
Save Ad Free Web Pages to Yojimbo Highlight and Markup Pages to Save to Yojimbo
- WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT? - A little Christmas present for the Yojimbo community. Read on if you want to learn how to: 1) Save ad free web pages to a Yojimbo web archive 2) Be able to mark up (highlight, notes, etc.) web pages before you save them to Yojimbo. 3) Be able to save a selected part of a web page to a Yojimbo web archive. 4) Save static web pages to Yojimbo, web archives that don't try to connect to the Internet to load ads, images, or other content. - WHY GO TO ALL THIS TROUBLE? - 1) I want Ad Free Web Pages! I've used Adblock on Firefox for years, so I'm used to seeing web pages without ads. I want the web pages I save in Yojimbo to be ad free as well. 2) I want to be able to mark up web pages. I like highlighting and making notes on many of the articles I read on the web. This method allows me to mark up the web page using Scrapbook on Firefox, then save the marked up page to Yojimbo. 3) I want to be able to save just a part of a web page. Using the Firefox Scrapbook extension's capture selection feature, I can save just the part of the page I want to save to Yojimbo. 4) I want to be able to save static web pages to Yojimbo. Yojimbo uses OS X's Web Archive format. While Web Archive has its advantages, it has some downsides as well, the major one for me being that it doesn't save a completely static page. Web Archive files save dynamic elements, most often ads. When you open a web archive file, it's not just pulling data off your computer; it often has to connect to the net to fetch images or ads. This slows down the loading of web archive files. In some cases the slowdown is dramatic, e.g. when you're connected to a wireless network but not the Internet. Any application opening a web archive will waste a lot of time trying to make an Internet connection that doesn't exist. - WHAT DO I NEED TO MAKE ALL THIS WORK? - Yojimbo Firefox http://www.getfirefox.com Firefox Scrapbook Plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427 Firefox AdblockPlus Extension http://adblockplus.org/en/installation (I recommend subscribing to Rick's EasyList and Rick's EasyElement lists for optimal ad blockage. http://easylist.adblockplus.org/) QuicKeys or iKey http://www.cesoft.com/products/quickeys.html http://www.scriptsoftware.com/ikey/ - SO HOW DOES THIS WORK? - Here's the Reader's Digest condensed version. I use the macro utility (QuicKeys in my case) to automate the following procedure: 1) Save a web page (or selection from a web page) using the Firefox Scrapbook extension. This saves a complete copy of the page to the hard drive. 2) Open the Scrapbook sidebar and choose the page I just saved. 3) Copy the file URL of the saved page to the clipboard. 4) Invoke the Yojimbo quick entry panel with the file url of the saved web page. 5) Delete the saved web page from the Firefox Scrapbook. 6) Tell Firefox to go back to the original web page. 7) Copy the URL of the original web page to the clipboard. 8) Save the URL of the original web page to the comments of the most recently created Yojimbo item. - SO HOW DO I SET ALL OF THIS UP? - 1) Install Yojimbo 2) Make sure Yojimbo's Recent Items smart collection is visible. 3) In the Yojimbo Hot Keys preferences, make sure that Show Quick Input panel is set to F8. That's what I've coded into the QuicKeys Macro. If you want to change the Hotkey, just make sure you change it in Yojimbo and QuicKeys (or iKey). 4) Install Firefox. 5) Install the Firefox Scrapbook extension. 6) Install the Firefox AdblockPlus extension. 7) Subscribe to Rick's EasyList and Rick's EasyElement in AdblockPlus. http://easylist.adblockplus.org/ 8) Install either iKey or QuicKeys. I use QuicKeys, and the macros I'm providing are QuicKeys macros. I have not tried doing this with iKey, but I have been assured by experienced iKey users that iKey can do the same thing. 9) Download the Firefox to Yojimbo folder from my ftp site. http://webpages.charter.net/kkirksey/Firefox_to_Yojimbo_Stuff.zip This folder contains: - My QuicKeys macros for you to import into your QuicKeys. - PDFs that show the steps in the QuicKeys macros. If you're using iKey, you can use these as a
Re: Restricting Spotlight to search only Yojimbo items
On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Patrick Gilmour wrote: Now that Spotlight is so fast with Yojimbo (especially on 10.5), I'll be using it a lot. But if I want to do a search of Yojimbo items only is this possible? append kind:yojimbo item (without the quotes) to your spotlight Search. FYI, you can search on Yojimbo tags by using the keyword specifier. e.g. keyword:mytag kind:yojimbo item -- -- 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: Restricting Spotlight to search only Yojimbo items
On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Patrick Gilmour wrote: Great. Thanks Kenneth. Now all i need to do is find a quick way to get that into the Spotlight search box!! I use LaunchBar: http://www.obdev.com/products/launchbar/index.html One of its many features is the ability to enter a Spotlight search completely before Spotlight starts searching. Quicksilver http://www.blacktree.com/ probably has a similar feature. (Quicksilver vs. LaunchBar is a matter of religion, comparable to Mac vs. Windows, Emacs vs. Vi, Xbox360 vs. PS3, etc. :) I've tried both, and _I_ find Launchbar easier to use. Try 'em both and see what works best for you.) -- -- 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: Restricting Spotlight to search only Yojimbo items
On Dec 5, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Robert DeLaurentis wrote: Now all i need to do is find a quick way to get that into the Spotlight search box!! I created a TextExpander snippet that inserts kind:yojimbo item by typing ys Great minds! I do the same thing using glossary expansions in SpellCatcher. -- -- 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: Export in one file
On Nov 30, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Claude wrote:
I want to export in one file all my passwords : actually when I try
to export them I have one text file for each password !
Is there a solution, an Apple script ?...
I wrote the following to do the same thing with serial numbers. You
should be able to modify it to do passwords. This isn't the most
efficient way to do it, given that I wrote it with the Applescript
knowledge I had at the time. I'd do it differnetly if I wrote it
again. :) Hope that helps!
(*=
-- Yojimbo Serials to Tab-Delimited
--
-- Takes a folder of serial number files exported from Yojimbo and
converts them to a tab-delimited file. The first line in the
-- tab delimited file contains the field names.
--
-- How to Use:
-- 1) Export your serial number records from Yojimbo to a
folder.
--
-- 2) Drag that folder on to the Yojimbo Serials to Tab-
Delimited Script
--
-- 2006.03.20 - Version 1
--
-- Author: Kenneth Kirksey
-- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
=
=
=
==*)
on open theFolder
tell application Finder
set serialsFiles to document files of (item 1 of theFolder)
set numberOfFiles to number of items in serialsFiles
set iteration to 1
-- Prompt the user for where they want to save the resulting
bookmarks file. Write the field names to the first
-- record in the file.
set outFileLocation to choose file name with prompt Save serials
file as default name serials.txt
set outFile to open for access outFileLocation with write
permission
write (Product Name tab Owner Name tab Email Address
tab Organization tab Serial Number return) to outFile
-- Step through each file to extract:
--Product Name
--Owner Name
--Email Address
--Organization
--Serial Number
repeat with theFile in serialsFiles
if iteration mod 5 = 0 then
display dialog Processing iteration of numberOfFiles
records. buttons {Cancel} giving up after 1
end if
set inFile to (open for access (theFile as alias))
---
-- Each line is delimted with a linefeed (Unix style). Read in a
line, trim off the trailing linefeed, and trim off
-- the field label at the beginning of the line.
---
set theProductName to (read inFile until ASCII
character 10)
set theProductName to (text items 15 through -2 of theProductName)
as string
if theProductName contains (ASCII character 10) then
set theProductName to
end if
set theOwnerName to (read inFile until ASCII character
10)
set theOwnerName to (text items 13 through -2 of theOwnerName) as
string
if theOwnerName contains (ASCII character 10) then
set theOwnerName to
end if
set theEmailAddress to (read inFile until ASCII
character 10)
set theEmailAddress to (text items 16 through -2 of
theEmailAddress) as string
if theEmailAddress contains (ASCII character 10) then
set theEmailAddress to
end if
set theOrganization to (read inFile until ASCII
character 10)
set theOrganization to (text items 15 through -2 of
theOrganization) as string
Re: Importing Passwords and Serial Numbers from Password Retriever?
On Nov 30, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Robert Snyder wrote:
Has anyone done this before? What is the best way to do it? Password
Retriever can export records as delimited data files, but when I try
to import it into Yojimbo, I run into field mapping issues. Before I
start migrating seven years of passwords, serial numbers, etc, from
Password Retriever to Yojimbo, I wanted to check and see if anyone
had any suggestions for making this a less painful task.
Jim DeVona posted the following script earlier this year. Worked for me.
-- Example script to import passwords or serial numbers from tab
delimited files into Yojimbo
-- Jim DeVona 8 March 2007
set _type to button returned of (display alert Select what kind of
data to import to Yojimbo: buttons {Cancel, Serial Numbers,
Passwords} cancel button 1)
if _type is Cancel or _type is then
return
end if
-- read the file
set _file to choose file with prompt Select a tab delimited file
containing _type
open for access _file
set _data to read _file using delimiter {(ASCII character 13), (ASCII
character 10)}
close access _file
-- import each line as a tab delimited record
-- per http://www.blankreb.com/studiosnips.php?ID=17
set _delim to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tab -- or {,}
repeat with _index from 1 to count of _data
try
set _line to the text items of item _index of _data
if _type is Passwords then
-- items are name, location, account, and password
MakePassword(item 1 of _line, item 2 of _line, item 3 of _line,
item 4 of _line)
else if _type is Serial Numbers then
-- items are product, owner, serial number, and comments
MakeSerial(item 1 of _line, item 2 of _line, item 3 of _line, item
4 of _line)
end if
end try
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to _delim
on MakePassword(_name, _location, _account, _password)
tell application Yojimbo
set _new to make new password item with properties {name:_name,
location:_location, account:_account, password:_password}
end tell
end MakePassword
on MakeSerial(_product, _owner, _number, _comments)
tell application Yojimbo
set _new to make new serial number item with properties
{name:_product, owner name:_owner, serial number:_number,
comments:_comments}
end tell
end MakeSerial
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Re: Time Machine?
You can change the Time Machine backup interval from 1 hour to whatever value you want by hacking the plist file. See the hint at: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200710291721156 For me, a backup every 12 or 24 hours will suffice. -- -- 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]
Accessing Most Recently Added Item Via Applescript
Subject kind of says it all. What's the easiest way to access via Applescript the item most recently added to Yojimbo? Thanks! -- -- 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: Save PDF to Yojimbo and file
On May 30, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Patrick Gilmour wrote: I was wondering if it would be possible to tweak the script so that if the Name field was left blank it would use the Yojimbo default name (web pages usually have the correct Title tag and it would be painful to have to retype this). Might need some help with this one. The name of theFile sent to the script is Print Job, not the name of the document being printed. I don't know where to grab the actual name of the document being printed. Anyone else know? -- -- 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 and workflows
On May 26, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Jason Davies wrote: I read academic articles in Acrobat (and mark them up with annotations). Have you looked at Skim? http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ I used to use Acrobat for annotations, but I've found Skim to be better. It's a much leaner application, more responsive, uses less memory, and to me is easier to use for annotating PDFs than Acrobat. In fact, that's exactly what it was designed for. I've switched from Preview to Skim for my default PDF viewer, and I've got a script in Yojimbo to open PDFs from Yojimbo in Skim. -- -- 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: Group in Spotlight?
On May 15, 2007, at 7:33 AM, Jacob Lyles 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? Not that I'm aware of, but you can limit your spotlight searches to Yojimbo items only by appending kind:yojimbo item to your search terms. -- -- 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 workflow for access password protected websites.
On May 15, 2007, at 6:30 AM, Matt Henderson wrote: Here the workflow I'd prefer to have: 1. command-space to invoke quicksilver 2. Type PayPal (it would soon learn I'm looking for my Yojimbo record), and hit return. 3. Type in my application password 4. I then find myself in safari at the paypal website with my password on the clipboard. Anyone know how this could be setup? (or whether it's even possible?) Thanks! Don't know about Quicksilver, as I'm a LaunchBar user myself, but I've automated the process of getting passwords from Yojimbo to a web page using QuicKeys. You could probably do it with another macro utility like iKey as well. -- -- 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 workflow for access password protected websites.
On May 15, 2007, at 10:20 AM, Steve Kalkwarf wrote: I don't use Quicksilver, but this script works in LaunchBar. I'm sure it can be modified for QS. Well that's a lot better than my QuicKeys solution. Thanks! -- -- 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: SBBOD when Yojimbo launches
On May 3, 2007, at 3:38 PM, Steven Fernandez wrote: Same here and my DB is really not very big. Very annoying when you are on the phone and somebody wants to give you some info you want to jot down quickly. If you have the unsorted items and untagged items smart collections active, you might try turning those off. They use pretty expensive queries. -- -- 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: Alternatives for massive PDF collection
On Apr 11, 2007, at 5:11 PM, Martin Wagner wrote: I just started using Yojimbo and organizing my PDFs is just one of the main reasons I bought the programm. Reading about the need to switch to another application for massive PDF collections, does not please me. My question is, what sizes are we talking about, that you consider a pdf collection as massive ??? My databse is just 55 MBs. To be honest, I'm not sure what the fuss over PDFs is all about. My Yojimbo library contains over 2000 PDFs, with sizes ranging from a few K to 25+ MB, and I don't have any problems. My whole Yojimbo library is 9063 items and right at 4 GB in size. -- -- 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]
