Re: cross-linking yojimbo items to objects in other apps
On 26-Nov-07, at 5:47 PM, David Duff wrote: ideally, i'd like to be able to link from other objects in my toolset (omnifocus tasks [...] etc.) bidirectionally to yojimbo, such that i could be looking at an item (like a yojimbo note) and could jump to for example a contact or vice versa. Regarding OmniFocus specifically, I find that the bidirectional links to Yojimbo work just fine. i) Dragging and OmniFocus item to the drop dock creates a new note item containing a functional link to OmniFocus. ii) 'Copy as link' from OmniFocus and 'Add Hyperlink...' in Yojimbo creates a functional link. iii) 'Copy item link' from Yojimbo and pasting into OmniFocus creates a functional link. iv) Dragging a Yojimbo note to OmniFocus creates a list of tasks with the text of the note - probably not the desired result (but possibly useful). Chris Confidentiality Statement - The contents of this e-mail, including its attachment, are intended for the exclusive use of the recipient and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from reading, using, disclosing, copying, or distributing this e-mail or any of its contents. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail immediately or the Privacy Office ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) and permanently delete this e-mail and its attachments, along with any copies thereof. Thank you. Avis de confidentialité Ce courriel, y compris ses pièces jointes, sadresse au destinataire uniquement et pourrait contenir des renseignements confidentiels. Si vous nêtes pas le bon destinataire, il est strictement interdit de lire, dutiliser, de divulguer, de copier ou de diffuser ce courriel ou son contenu, en partie ou en entier. Si vous avez reçu ce courriel par erreur, veuillez en informer immédiatement lexpéditeur ou le bureau de la Protection des renseignements personnels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), puis effacez le courriel ainsi que les pièces jointes et toute autre copie. Merci. -- -- 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]
cross-linking yojimbo items to objects in other apps
ideally, i'd like to be able to link from other objects in my toolset (omnifocus tasks, ical events, email messages, misc finder documents, address book contacts, etc.) bidirectionally to yojimbo, such that i could be looking at an item (like a yojimbo note) and could jump to for example a contact or vice versa. one step toward this ideal is hinted at by the presence of the copy item link feature in the edit menu of yojimbo. a current problem that i am trying to solve is to find some way of keeping track of a large body of contract-centric information - that is, lots of contacts, and for each contact, a set of semi- structured (date, text) notes which are linked to contacts which might comprise a history of interactions with an individual. it would be nice if i could use yojimbo as the notes component in a suite of apps that i use to attack this problem. using address book.app is a semi-requirement, since for various subsets of these contacts, i need to send email, create groups, communicate via IM, print envelopes, ...i also would like to keep the list of contacts sync'd with my pda.thus, using the central mac os store for contacts seems to make sense. i believe that this cross-linkage should be possible because i have seen versions of it done in other applications. for example, mailtags succeeds in cross-linking between email messages and ical events/tasks. i'd like for yojimbo to be able to do something similar. i'm not sure whether the linked objects should conceptually be considered part of the meta-data of the yojimbo item, i.e., along with dates, tags, comments, label, or part of the content of the yojimbo item, i.e. like a hyperlink or an image or other object that is embedded in the body. perhaps the links should simply be hyperlinks and nothing more - including special hyperlinks akin to x-yojimbo-item://32340234. the links could be created at object creation time (i.e. by a script such as create a new yojimbo note linked to this contact), via drag/drop type operations, or perhaps via a contact selector mechanism to be added to yojimbo (analagous to the address panel function in mail.app. what doesn't seem to work as it should: i should be able to copy a link from yojimbo and paste it into one of my contact's URL fields, then i could navigate from the contact to a yojimbo item containing a note or multiple notes about a contact. when i try to open a yojimbo link in address book, it doesn't work. address book seems to mis-interpret the text i use for the link and it thinks it needs to prepend http://; to the front of it.this issue seems to have been discussed on the yojimbo-talk list previously, but afaik the discussion did not lead to a solution to the problem. what's missing: ability for yojimbo to link to other objects such as contacts. the same would apply for linking to email messages, ical events, files in the filesystem, etc. example: drag an address book contact into a yojimbo note and some kind of link (?) gets added to the note that you can click on to navigate back to the original item. any thoughts or suggestions on tools or techniques? any chance yojimbo would grow to support this task at some point or would this be considered completely out of scope? -- -- 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: cross-linking yojimbo items to objects in other apps
On Nov 26, 2007, at 5:47 PM, David Duff wrote: any thoughts or suggestions on tools or techniques? With all due respect to Yojimbo--software that I live and die by--you might be better served by FileMaker's Bento (currently available as free beta test). Out of the box Bento incorporates Address Book and iCal data, ships with a number of templates that may suit (or be readily adapted to) your purpose, and uses the same SQLite backbone as Yojimbo. Bento feels more structured to me--and I've yet to see how I would use it. But it may be the better tool for your purposes. Best of luck! jab Guidance Counselor said your scores are anti-heroic. Computer recommends hard-drinking calypso poet. --Jimmy Buffett, If It All Falls Down (by Matt Betton) -- -- 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]
