While I do agree with the much repeated sentiment that a simple tool which does one thing well is a "good thing" and "the UNIX way", I do think that Yojimbo would benefit from a few changes that would address some very frequently requested features without sacrificing simplicity. From watching this list the past however many months (maybe years), it seems that over 80% of the requests could be addressed via three basic changes:
First, the true UNIX way is to embrace other tools and to allow them via piping. Yojimbo could be very easily extended just by allowing the data to be opened in an external application - automate the export, open in external application, and save back to Yojimbo process. Second, although I get the complexity of the hierarchical collections, allowing a simple one-level of grouping would address well over 80% of people's nested folders requests and most likely wouldn't require a dramatic change to the Core Data implementation. Finally, enhance the tagging implementation. There needs to be an easier way to browse files by tags, get a tag count, and manage tags (i.e. find and delete unused tags). One could imagine an iTunes-like "browse" function to easily filter by tags, type, and label. On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Scott J. Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Niels Kobschaetzki > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe they are doing it the Unix-way: one tool, does one task really > > good and just that > > I'm with you. Do one thing excellent rather than 100 things poorly. > I'd rather BareBones sticks with the, bare bones, and does it well. > Feature creep turns a small useful application into something coded by > a large company in Redmond. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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]>
