Re: Sync .Mac via AppleScript/command line?

lient /System/Library/CoreServices/dotmacsyncclient --help should tell you everything you need to know... -- Steve Kalkwarf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing l

Re: vacuuming Yojimbo?

nabled (or otherwise vacuum the database on occasion)? This is unlikely to visibly improve performance of Yojimbo. The search performance problems people are experiencing are well understood, and they are our #1 priority for the next Yojimbo release. No, I can't tell you when that will be

Re: How do You Decide What Goes in Yojimbo?

's how I use it. However, it appears to me that you come across more information in daily activities than I do. I've got roughly 1/10th of the data you have. -- Steve Kalkwarf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- -- This message

Re: [admin] sync advice

n happy to do so :) The issue is that "Automatically" doesn't work in certain, common circumstances. Whether or not Apple has fixed that particular bug, I can't say. I do know that hourly (or daily) will work fine for most people. -- St

Re: When are Notes Saved?

this by making a new note, quickly popping open the File menu, waiting a moment, and looking again. -- Steve Kalkwarf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .

Re: SBBOD when Yojimbo launches

. but after a minute or so, the SBB goes away, and i can work. Are you using .Mac syncing? Typically this happens as Yojimbo is catching up with syncs that occurred in the background. If not, write to me directly, and I have a couple questions that might help us narrow it down. -- Steve Kal

Re: SBBOD when Yojimbo launches

My SBBOD usually appears shortly after I launch, and start a search. In that case, I can assure you we're working on it. As a stopgap, if you can reduce the search to Name (or anything that isn't Contents) you'll see a huge improvement. -- Steve Kalkwarf &l

Re: More keyboard shortcuts, please!!

the only way to create 4 of the 5 types of documents is to either select it from a menubar menu or a button menu. please give us more options. :-) I type F8 to open the Quick Input panel, and then Command-(1-5) to select the correct entry type if our ESP module guesses incorrectly.

Re: Sente and Yojimbo

x-yojimbo-item://3D2206E9-8110-47F0-A113-51AA5E2C8597 Otherwise, your observation that Yojimbo copies its items into the database is correct, and they cannot be "seen" by other applications without a lot of trickery

Re: Triggering the save command

ing a new note, quickly popping open the File menu, waiting a moment, and looking again. To be specific, Yojimbo doesn't edit "documents" and as such, doesn't have any sort of notion of an unsaved document. -- Steve K

Re: Yojimbo workflow for access password protected websites.

end tell end handle_string Footnotes: You need to go to the Yojimbo Security preferences, and allow AppleScript access to password items. If you use Safari, make sure the location field of all your records starts with http:// or https://. Camino all

Re: Group in Spotlight?

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? No, unfortunately the groups are defined by Apple, and not accessible to us. -- Steve Kalkwarf <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Syncing, yet again

I'd like to say "will", but there are no guarantees in sync-land!) -- Steve Kalkwarf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, se

Re: Folders/Tag-collections

collections. I have 732 items. I spend roughly 0 minutes a day organizing my data, and get at what I need by searching. Yes, we're working on search performance, as I speak... -- Steve Kalkwarf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- -- This

Re: yojimbo-module

Good point, personally I never used .mac sync. This would require me to 1) buy a .mac account and 2) buy another yojimbo license. While the .Mac requirement is true, you don't need an additional Yojimbo license. All flavors of Yojimbo license we sell allow use on multiple machines. --

Re: 3 quick questions from a new user

an type Command-Shift-A (the same as in Safari) to Auto Fill the panel with the fresher content. -- Steve Kalkwarf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To

Save PDF to Yojimbo and file

set c to choose from list allCollections with prompt "Add PDF to which collection?" tell application "Yojimbo" set n to import theFile add n to folder collection named c end tell end open -- St

Re: Save PDF to Yojimbo and file

from list allCollections with prompt "Add PDF to which collection?" tell application "Yojimbo" set n to import theFile add n to folder collection named c end tell end open Umm. Save it as an application, then copy the script application to: ~/Library/PDF Services/Save PDF to

Re: Does Yojimbo Harm OS Permissions

I've been using Yojimbo now for a few months and it's quickly become an important part of my everyday workflow. I had a problem recently with some Adobe Illustrator files that were not saving correctly. I launched Disk Utility from my OS install disk and repaired damaged permissions to both my App

Re: Next update?

Is there any schedule when the next update will come? (hopefully with tags added to the mdimporter) Yes, but I can't share. :-) I'm mostly kidding. As a rule, we don't pre-announce our schedule, or feature intentions. This is partly for competitive reasons (how many features originated in Yoj

Re: Back up

> Simple question -- how do I back up Yojimbo data? Yojimbo stores your data in ~/Library/Application Support/Yojimbo/ Backing that up will preserve all of your items, tags, labels, etc. > PS: The Help file doesn't answer this question either. No, but the online FAQ does:

Deferred tagging

I use the drop dock for a lot of my bookmark and web archive creation. One obvious shortcoming is that I can't tag items while creating them that way. This morning, I whipped up this script: tell application "Yojimbo" set allTags to (name of every tag) set ri to builtin smart collectio

On Yojimbo and Time Machine

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, Appl

Re: Quick Input Panel

I would love it if the quick input dock also included tag entry. It would save me an extra step on literally every piece of textual information that I enter into Yojimbo. I understand that with things like Web archives and pdf's I would still have to do step two. The Quick Input panel (the

Re: Code Coloring & Indenting in YJ

I guess that's no then! Any suggestions on what to use as an alternative searchable place to store HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP code? There isn't much likelihood of us adding syntax coloring to Yojimbo: it's too specific of a problem. If you really want to stick with Yojimbo for storage, there a

Re: F8 Hot Key with Leopard on a Macbook

I have a new Macbook with Leopard. When I press the F8 key, I don't get the Quick Input Panel drop down the way I do on my Tiger iMac. I've gone into preferences and enabled the F8 key as the QIP hot key. By default the F8 key is used to initiate the Spaces features in Leopard. I've gone in

Re: Importing Passwords and Serial Numbers from Password Retriever?

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 t

Re: Leopard update feasible?

t's not been OK for me. Displaying of PDF files doesn't work most times in the viewing window -- when switching to a PDF file the viewing window will continue to contain the last non-PDF file that was showing. I've had to stop using Yojimbo until an update comes out. I have that problem t

Re: Leopard update feasible?

As this does not seem to be a consistent problem, and as Steve (Kalkwarf) brought up the question of having Acrobat installed, does this mean the PDF problem relates to an installed Acrobat software? Since we haven't seen the problem, I have no way of telling what causes it. Given so

Re: Yojimbo 1.5 - Images Questions

1. Should there be a menu item or button for "New . . . Image"? Not today. Since we aren't creating an image editor, it wasn't obvious what that command would do. (Enabling it based on whether there's an image on the clipboard seemed more likely to confuse than to help) 2. How do I get ima

Re: Quick Input Panel - Autofill

how is it that every time I select and copy some text and then use the "Quick Input Panel" via F8 that I always have a text appearing that says: Your previous information has been preserved. Click "Autofill" to import the new clipboard contents. Sebastian answered this a moment ago. I'd also

Re: formatting palette not showing

The according menu entry is "Format -> Ruler -> Show Ruler". I am not a native speaker, but for me a "ruler" is not very intuitive. The terminology comes from word processors. Originally, the "ruler" was used to set tab stops and margins. As time marched on, people started sticking things like

Re: newbie question

Here's my question about Yojiimbo. If I'm understanding right, there's essentially only one database for the Yojimbo application. Even if I want to use Yojimbo to "catalog" stuff for several very different things, they will all be together when I open Yojimbo. However, I can tag them separatel

Re: newbie question

However, I would still like it if you could have more than one YJ library at a time (and sync them all over a single dotmac account) so that my wife and I could have separate buckets. Given that individulal dotmac accounts are probably very often used by families of users, this seems a reasonable

Re: newbie question

You might be better served with a .Mac family license, allowing you and your wife to keep separate Libraries and sync states. Ah, but the problem (for us) with that is that we want to share calendars & contacts, so separate accounts are no good. What we do in our house is cross-publish calenda

Re: warning on delete collection

I'd like the option to have a warning when I attempt to delete a collection. It seems pretty easy to lose a lot of data with a keystroke when I am going really fast, and that might help. Deleting a Collection doesn't delete any items referenced within. In addition, you can always Undo the dele

Re: Applescript for opening Yojimbo Notes in BBEdit

Has anyone made an Applescript to open a Yojimbo note directly in BBEdit? If not, would the proper procedure be to export the note to disk, open it in BBEdit and then have the Finder delete it from disk? Getting the contents of the note to BBEdit (minus all formatting) is trivial, but any edi

Re: selecting focus panes

When I typically bring up Yojimbo using QuickSilver. Once it's up, I have to use my mouse to get to the search field. Is there a keyboard shortcut to search? Command-Option-F in the application, or you can set your own system-wide hotkey from within the Yojimbo preferences. -- -

Re: Applescript to get modified date of file selected in Yojimbo

I want an Applescript that will grab the modified date of a file selected in Yojimbo. Keep in mind that there aren't "files" in Yojimbo. If you want to get the modification date of an "item" in Yojimbo: tell application "Yojimbo" set selectedItem to selection set modDate to modificati

Re: Applescript to get modified date of file selected in Yojimbo

What I am trying to do is get the modified date of the item and be able to rename the item by appending the modified date to the end of the filename (but before the file extension). I was trying to do it using a TypeIt4Me abbreviation - .e.g so that every time I typed "ytag" the item's modified da

Re: Save PDF to Yojimbo oddity

For some time I have been saving web pages, primarily receipts, to Yojimbo from Firefox via the Print menu. Of late I've found that this does not yield a 'proper' pdf but rather the text only (and generally in very small font size too). I can however 'Save as PDF' from the Print menu and drag the

Re: Function to decode the passwords in the database

I have been wondering if there is a way to decode the passwords stored in the sqlite database directly. Is there any function I can pass the desired entry id and my master password?? No. What are you trying to do? You can use AppleScript to get at them, assuming your permissions are set to al

[OFFLIST} Re: [ANN] Yojimbo 1.5.1

Me neither, and I'm not behind a firewall… also, v1.5 (62) If you try to load in your browser, what happens? Steve -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to

Re: [OFFLIST} Re: [ANN] Yojimbo 1.5.1

Ha Ha. I need to stop sending mail when I'm under the weather... -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archives:

Re: Yojimbo and 10.5.2

I believe I have been unclear. I have seven items (both Serials and Passwords) which show up in their respective default collections for Serials and Passwords. These items also show up in the Unsorted folder, but are clearly sorted into the default collections for Serials and Passwords. All oth

Re: Yojimbo already running

I just wanted to fire up Yojimbo (have to retrieve a registration code I have stored in it) and I get the message that Yojimbo is already running. Only one copy can run at a time. The dialog box for this message just has a quit button. The problem is that Yojimbo is NOT running. Has anyone run

Re: Capturing URL for documentation

On the other hand, dragging the URL to Yojimbo automatically captures the title of the page (which you may or may not want). If you use the quick input you'll have to type it in yourself (or use a multi-clipboard program like Quicksilver which makes this a matter of a few keystrokes). FYI-- If

Re: [ANN] Yojimbo Tag Cleanup

Other than iterating through each database item using AppleScript and searching manually through it's list of tags to find abandoned tags, does anyone have any other AppleScript suggestions for how to find unused tags? Or any ideas why his Spotlight index wasn't up to date with Yojimbo's tags?

Re: Setting the External Editor

1. (How) Is it possible to change the default external editor? (I searched the preferences, the help and the online FAQ with no luck.) It's an external "Viewer", not "Editor". Any changes made outside of Yojimbo are not returned to Yojimbo. 2. Since there is no 'make plain text' option, can I

Re: Setting the External Editor

(I don't know what it's like for you but, I find I discover programs one menu item at a time; a year or so of having used it every day and I'm still finding things in BBEdit that amaze/delight me.) I have the advantage of having the source code for both of these programs, so I have a pretty g

Re: Qt about Time Machine

If Yojimbo is NOT running, will Time Machine backup the database correctly? Yes, it will. Steve -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Almost happy with Yojimbo the way it is

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 o

Re: Almost happy with Yojimbo the way it is

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. I agree. However, I don't think that applies to my request. (Doesn't everyone say that? :-)) That is, it would increase the complexity on

Re: Yet another mostly happy user

I agree completely with your mail. Sometimes I am afraid to forget some items because I don't remember all the tags' name. I really need tags and folders. I try Eaglefiler (nested folders AND tags) : it tastes like Yojimbo, but it is not Yojimbo - but looks fine too. I've seen several people m

Re: Any way to edit a tag?

But in that case I'd like to be able to add a prefix to a tag as soon as the project is completed, to drop it to the bottom of that list and keep only the active projects on top. Is there a way to edit a tag once you've created it so that it will be changed everywhere? Or would I have to type t