Hi, I thought some of you may be interested in my recent experience
with Yojimbo.
I'm moving off Keychain for storing my passwords, instead I'm using
Yojimbo. At a basic level, this is a great little application for
passwords. It is easier to get to than Keychain, and has strong
encryption. And passwords stay encrypted across the .mac sync (unlike
syncing Keychain items across .mac).
But beyond passwords, Yojimbo is a really great app for getting
organised. For example, you can quickly capture things like online
receipts, user registration details, fragments of web pages, useful
PDFs, important emails, todo reminders etc and store them in
Yojimbo. Confidential documents can be encrypted. Once things are
in Yojimbo:
- easier to find important things later on (its much easier than
trawling your hdd for some reason, even with Spotlight)
- you can sync multiple Macs over .mac, and therefore have access to
the same info on home & business machines
- syncing via .mac also means if you Yojimbo a document, its backed
up offsite (useful if your hdd crashes)
- items are still spotlight searchable
- they are easy to get out again - you can export one file or everything
If you are a student or academic, its very useful for web based
research. Sticky Brain and Moro do similar things, but for me the
security in Yojimbo makes it a stand out (wouldn't put passwords in
the others). This is subjective, but for me Yojimbo also has the
advantage of simplicity, but no lack of depth. You have to get used
to the flat storage model (drop things into Yojimbo, and search to
fish them out again) - takes getting used to, but simple and
effective in practice.
Its available for free trial from www.barebones.com/products/yojimbo/
index.shtml - it costs $US39 (the free 30 day trial is an easy way to
try it out).
I saw Yojimbo referred to by Guy Kawasaki (http://
blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/04/goodies.html) and reviewed on
mac360.com. http://www.mac360.com/index.php/mac360/comments/
first_look_yojimbo_tackles_info_on_your_mac/
I've got no links with them (other than now being a user).
This is a program that really grows on you, hope you enjoy.
Glenn.
