Re: Application reviews by Melodie Neal
My .02... I read the blog and immediately went into download and try a bunch of the apps he reviewed. I then started making my own checklist in my mind on why I would want to purchase app x with app y. I think it would be great to know of what is coming out in Yojimbo at some point in the future. Barebones should release a roadmap in a form they are comfortable with so folks like me can know whether or not I should go purchase some other app because it supports X which I really want and Yojimbo does not. I also would like to see more frequent updates on YoJimbo. The one nice thing about the shareware apps is the developers, often, do updates very frequently. Curtis On Apr 3, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Patrick Gilmour wrote: Hi, I just read Melodie Neal's conclusions on the best file-organiser- litter-sorter app's on the Mac. Seems EagleFiler pipped Yojimbo to the post because of the the flat file structure (instead of the SQLite db) and wait for it... (drum roll now...)... Nested Folders But that debate's closed, right? Link: http://melodien.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html Pat On Mar 11, 2007, at 22:09 PM, Melodie Neal wrote: People Some weeks ago I undertook to do a review of Yojimbo and applications of a similar ilk. At the time I expected to spend a few days looking at software and writing a page or two of assessment: this has proved to be an unreasonably optimistic estimate of the work involved. Since I have already written quite a screed, and I'm no where near done, I've decided to post the documents on my blog, starting at http://melodien.blogspot.com/2007/03/litter-sorters-personal- evaluation-of.html . This is merely part one, part two is in late draft and should go up in the next day or so; parts three, four and probably five will follow along in due course. You will see that emailing this stuff to the list would have been completely impractical. I hope my maunderings will be of practical use to someone. rgds Melodie -- Melodie Neal, CISSP, JP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/melodieneal -- -- 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 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: Application reviews by Melodie Neal
On Apr 4, 2007, at 4:04 AM, Alan Schmitt wrote: As far as I know, the database is used to store tags, labels, and the relation between files and notes (if they have one), as well as the index for fast searches. (Each note contains a link to the record it is attached to.) The documents themselves are not in the database. Right, although to be precise: EagleFiler labels are regular Mac file labels, so they are stored in the file system, and the indexes for content searching are stored in separate files, not in the database. -- Michael Tsai http://c-command.com -- -- 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]
[admin] Re: Application reviews by Melodie Neal
Before this already-skeletal equine is reduced to dust :-), may I recommend referring to the extensive discussions about nested folders in the list archives, perusal of which also won't fill up everyone else's mailbox... :-). Regards, Patrick Woolsey / Director of Technical Services == 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]
Re: Application reviews by Melodie Neal
On 4/4/07, Mehboob Alam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not entirely sure what the fuss about nested folders is. Going back to the original Macintosh Finder and the 400K diskettes, the filesystem was flat, and then the nested structure was introduced as an virtual structure. But the filestorage system is still flat. I'm missing something about this.. tagging seems more reasonable because items can be stored with multiple tags.. isnt that how the mind works, as opposed to how the real-world filing cabinet works? Tags are great, but so are nested folders. There's a reason nested folders accompanied that terrific technological advance, the 800k floppy. -- And those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others - Groucho Marx -- -- 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: Application reviews by Melodie Neal
Yes, I did the same, read all the entries of the blog, agree with some of the points, others not and checked out the apps mentioned which I didn't already either know or own. And I do know what my favorite all- rounder would be, a mix of : Yojimbo (passwords serials / selective encryption / network sync'ing / nice feel) +DevonThinkOffice (files easy accessible on finder level / mail backkup / quick search / stores everything / sheets with record entries / OCR /several databases possible) +Journler (interface / nested folders / smart within smart folders / tables etc. possible / mark as done) +VoodooPad (great little wiki) +Yep (great for PDF's, and version 1.5.2 greatly improved over the review) +Curios (sketching / various background / great sleuth integration / flow-charting) Haha, I know I know, but this would be quite perfect in an unperfect world :-) It really would be great to have a true all-in-one, but then the danger is the same as with DevonThink which had been for me in the past to through just about everything at it and (oh yes, this was fun) to loose a whole database because it had gone corrupt - many, many versions earlier than the current version (it handles databases completely different now and this could no longer happen). They used to have some sync between machines but if I remember correctly, that had been part of my problem then. All this said and because this IS the Yojimbo list : looking over all the features and what Yojimbo shines at for my personal use, there are only 2 things I would really like to see implemented : nested folders and some better image handling (i.e. when I drag a photo to it that it gets stored as it's own thing and not that I have to dragdrop into some new text file and the image then remains there just as some sort of picture clipping. ---marlyse former message(s) quotes: - My .02... I read the blog and immediately went into download and try a bunch of the apps he reviewed. I then started making my own checklist in my mind on why I would want to purchase app x with app y. I think it would be great to know of what is coming out in Yojimbo at some point in the future. Barebones should release a roadmap in a form they are comfortable with so folks like me can know whether or not I should go purchase some other app because it supports X which I really want and Yojimbo does not. I also would like to see more frequent updates on YoJimbo. The one nice thing about the shareware apps is the developers, often, do updates very frequently. Curtis -- -- 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]
