Yojimbo for Mac

User Reviews

• The best I have tried

  mail841March 17, 2011

  Pros

  Easy to earn Easy to use Flexible Stable Now has a list of tags for consistency Easy to add selected content from any application without leaving that application

  Cons

  A bit expensive, but I'd buy it again.

  Summary

  The best application I have tried for storing and finding all sorts of information. I was so frustrated with Circus ponies, that I dumped it after 1 day with Yojimbo.

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• Not really necessary

  sicntiredOctober 27, 2010

  Pros

  I didn't find the products features useful for my purposes.

  Cons

  Just another way of taking money from people for a service that is easily covered by freeware.

  Summary

  I took one look at the features and saw that it offered nothing that I wanted to pay additional money for a convenience I would probably never use.

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• The BEST Application for Archiving!

  ctshopOctober 6, 2010

  Pros

  It is elegant and simple to use. Very stable and reliable. Well thought out. I used it for ALL my archives. The best is the search function, it returns results as I typed on a library of couple of thousand of documents.

  Cons

  I just hope the developer will produce more frequent updates to the program. For a program of such quality, it is a bit underdeveloped.

  Summary

  I have being using this everyday for a few years With 6 GB of datas, the app is still very snappy! Never crashed on me. I have tested many archiving applications, this is the best!

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• Forget it...

  tersonodesignJuly 6, 2010

  Pros

  Cons

  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />DevonThink leaves this for dead. I bought version 1 but this upgrade is feeble in the extreme.

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• Very good place to store and organize your mscl. data.

  jimcobberDecember 2, 2009

  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 Webjimbo I am a very happy guy.

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• Excellent start to a difficult challenge

  Michael StringerJuly 12, 2009

  Pros

  Intuitive tool through following patterns of other Mac OS X applications. Well-designed functionality for input of information.

  Cons

  Missing an easy list of tag words to aid consistent tagging. Could do with some outlining and basic spreadsheet functionality.

  Summary

  All those with active digital lives find themselves with lots of bits of information that do not have an easy home. Bookmarks in web browsers are not easily catalogued; PDF files from receipts or statements can get lost in a mass of folders; some images just grate when put in iPhoto; it is hard to organise fragments of notes. What Yojimbo supports is the organising of these fragments of information that do not fit easily into a larger 'bucket' or 'project'. It does a good job of this. Its combination of folders, tags and Finder-like labels provides sufficient flexibility to organise information in ways that are easy to find. I have only few wishes: it could do with an easy to view list of tag words so that I can use them consistently; it could do with simple spreadsheet functionality so that I could add in small amounts of numerical information, such as a price list of items, or a simple analysis of some statistics. Being a heavy user of personal organiser tools and outliner functionality I was initially sceptical about the benefits of Yojimbo. However just a couple of weeks use I have committed to the product.

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• Very useful for disorganized people

  tfrohlJune 17, 2009

  Pros

  I am a loyal user for quite some time. I just "throw" all my miscellaneous stuff into Yojimbo to keep me organized. And the service is great. When I had sync problems, they were there quickly to offer solutions.

  Cons

  Sometimes confused as to when a web page shows up or just a link to the page.

  Summary

  Worth every penny and then some - for organized people AND disorganized people.

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