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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $39.00 to buy
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.6/10.5 PPC/Intel
- Date added: November 10, 2009
- Total Downloads: 679
- Downloads last week: 10
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 3 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Paul Hughes on October 21, 2009
Yojimbo provides a fast, intuitive way to collect and store all kinds of information--from text and images to bookmarks, software serial numbers, passwords, and complete Web page archives you can read offline. Yojimbo makes it extremely easy to add new bits of info: You can drag and drop almost anything onto Yojimbo's DropDock (a tab that sits at the edge of your screen and holds all your "Collections"), or you can hit F8 to add the current contents of your clipboard through Yojimbo's smart Quick Input Panel, which also lets you quickly add comments, tags, and labels. You can also print PDFs directly into Yojimbo (perfect for sales receipts), and the app comes with optional encryption for certain items, which is ideal for saving passwords, credit card numbers, and other confidential data.
Yojimbo also gives you a flexible tagging system and a Tag Explorer, which can help you sort and search through all those disparate pieces of data later--although note that Yojimbo doesn't support nested folders inside its Collections, so you're almost required to use tags if you hope to navigate any sizable set of data. Overall, Yojimbo excels at helping you input items very quickly and by supporting so many different kinds of data, but it hasn't had an update in over a year (and hasn't had a major update in even longer). Users have many choices now for information-management apps, all at various price points, so be sure to look at all your choices before buying.
Publisher's description
From Bare Bones Software :Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible. It's so simple, there is no learning curve. Yojimbo's mechanism for collecting, storing and finding information is so natural and effortless, it will change your life, without changing the way you work. There are as many uses for Yojimbo as there are users of it. It accepts almost anything -- text, bookmarks, PDF files, web archives, serial numbers, passwords, or images -- by dragging, copying, importing or even printing. You can get anything out of Yojimbo you put into it, too, in its original form. There's no lock-in, export any time.
What's new in this version:
Adds Speech and Transforms commands to the edit menu and text view contextual menus for text-based notes. This version also supports the new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopardā?¢ text system features, including automatic spelling correction, text substitution and data detectors. In addition, the Expose 'Show Desktop' view now exposes the Yojimbo Drop Dock. Yojimbo 2.1 now supports .vncloc clipping files. Enhancements to scripting support allow opening the Quick Input Panel via AppleScript and accessin... see all new features
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Version: Yojimbo 2.1
"Very good place to store and organize your mscl. data."
Pros: Very easy to use, stable and fast. It consolidates all the mscl. stuff I had scattered all over my computers into one nice interface. Combine with Webjimbo and you have your own personal "cloud" solution. Love it.
Cons: How to back up your stuff is not very clear. I use Time Machine so it's covered, but there should be some sort of backup protocol outlined somewhere.
Summary: I've been looking for a solution like this for a long time to keep text snippets, pdfs, and other sorts of files in one place that could be indexed and searched. Also I wanted to access this data remotely in a secure fashion. With Yojimbo and Webjim... read more >>
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