Archiving

2007-12-19 Thread bcathey

Hi,

Not new to Yojimbo, but to this list.

One of my issues has been the archiving of old collections, i.e.,  
what do I do with a collection I no longer readily need, but I just  
don't want to delete.


The only thing I can think of is creating a new folder somewhere on my  
hard drive and then dragging and dropping all the notes in that  
collection and THEN deleting the folder. Not real convenient.


I'd love to 1) be able to drag the entire collection to my desktop, or  
2) drag a collection drop into an other collection (called  
Archives), 3) have a real archive function.


I've writing to Barebones and they tell me none of these options are  
going to happen.


What am I missing?

-bcathey

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Re: Archiving

2007-12-19 Thread bcathey

Thanks Pete,

I liked your script and just tweaked it a bit. I do plan to add a  
remove option at some point. The solution is not as elegant as an  
actual feature in the software itself, but...


tell application Yojimbo
tell front browser window
set colls to selected collections
repeat with coll in colls
set everyi to every database item of coll
set destination to ((path to desktop folder) as text)
tell application Finder
make new folder at destination with properties 
{name:name of coll}
end tell
export everyi to destination  name of coll
(*remove everyi etc.*)
end repeat
end tell
end tell

On Dec 19, 2007, at 9:45 AM, pete boardman wrote:


On 19 Dec 2007, at 12:20, bcathey wrote:

I'd love to 1) be able to drag the entire collection to my desktop,  
or 2) drag a collection drop into an other collection (called  
Archives), 3) have a real archive function.


I've writing to Barebones and they tell me none of these options  
are going to happen.


What am I missing?


I'm new to Yojimbo so don't take too much notice of the  
following My understanding is that Yojimbo's primary focus is  
being really easy to use - dump stuff in, and search for it later.  
If every conceivable task were to have a button or menu for it, then  
you end up with Microsoft Word instead...:)


Obviously for 1) you can select everything inside a collection and  
drag it to a Finder folder, then delete the selection (if you're  
clever, you can do it without losing Yojimbo as the front  
application). Only a couple of gestures... Oh, and you'd have to  
delete the collection too.


I suspect this is scriptable...:)

I don't really see the point of 2) because that would require  
hierarchical collections And they're all still in the Library  
anyway.


If you want to hide a collection, you could always name it with a  
blank, and give it an icon of white space. It does look a bit  
stupid, though, with the trash underneath the empty lines, and if  
you have the counts showing too it's even stupiderI suppose having  
counts on a collection by collection basis, and a hideable trash,  
aren't going to happen either, though.


A real archive function sounds like a nice idea. Kind of Export and  
Delete. Another applescript.


tell application Yojimbo
tell front browser window
set colls to selected collections
repeat with coll in colls
set everyi to every database item of coll
			export everyi to ((path to desktop folder) as text)  untitled  
folder

end repeat
end tell
end tell

There's probably room for a 'delete' in there somewhere. (I don't  
like testing scripts with 'delete' in them...)





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Re: Removing an item from a collection

2007-12-28 Thread bcathey
When displaying the items in the Collection, select and click Delete.  
You will be given a choice to 'Remove from Collection' or 'Move to  
Trash.'
'Remove from Collection' will still maintain the note under Notes or  
Library. 'Move to Trash' will remove it from the Collection, Notes,  
and the Library and move it to Trash.


On Dec 28, 2007, at 7:26 AM, Mike Landon wrote:


Hi there,

How do you remove an item from a collection but not remove the item  
from the database? The item is in multiple collections and I wish to  
remove it from one of them only.


Regards,

Mike.

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