http://www.barebones.com/support/yojimbo/current_notes.shtml

All good stuff.

Now all I want is a native tag viewer so I can look at what existing tags I have used…time to learn Xcode and Cocoa?

Nobody can be bothered to manually tag EVERY file on the system…!

Keywords, tagging, ratings, colour-coding, some filing options, and convenient quick-entry methods for different data types (passwords, serial numbers, notes) are keeping these apps alive now, but how long will Apple ignore these guys? 10.6 will give us all these things and more I suspect.

For the moment Yojimbo has value for me, definitely, despite moaning. Tagging is useful but I am very reluctant to invest serious time in it without knowing some kind of system-level standard is going to evolve.

Spotlight works, but is so slow you may as well have a cup of tea while it does its thing. I am only on a lowly PowerBook but it was top of the range when Yojimbo came out so no excuses accepted! Plus I am not the only one to complain.

Just to clarify, this is CONTENT searching inside Yojimbo. Outside in the system Spotlight individual Yojimbo items can be found fine, and quickly. But the title string gobbledegook thing is a known issue too…

Leopard has made this better, but that is down to underlying improvements in Spotlight, nothing to do with BB.

I just can’t understand why what was billed as your digital junk drawer didn’t do multimedia out of the box.

On a different note, I think DevonThink allows for image/video import though. I haven’t used it in a long while, so I might be wrong.

See here:

“One data type whose support seems to be strangely lacking is images. If you try to drag an image Yojimbo, nothing happens. It’s not that you can’t add images to Yojimbo, but it takes a few more steps. You either need to create a new Note and drag the image to the note’s body, which allows you to add commentary to the picture, add it as Web Archive by opening the image in Safari, or add it as a PDF using OS X’s PDF Services. While effective, these workarounds seem out of place when compared to how seamless it is to add other data types to Yojimbo.”

Dragging photos to yojimbo works fine, also dragging videos works as well. Plays fine in Yojimbo (just tested the video/photo). Might be that your database is buggered up somehow. Don’t know.

What annoys me:

1. Webjimbo is a further $30 on top of an already expensive application. I will get an iPhone, and will want Webjimbo’s iPhone interface, but can’t help feeling like I am bending over on this one… $70 for the two.
2. Why can Yojimbo still not do other filetypes, particularly images?
3. Bare Bones’ web talk list thing bugs the living hell out of me. Use a forum just like everyone else.
4. Performance, especially with Spotlight content search, is seriously borked.
5. Spotlight often returns a long alphanumeric string instead of a proper name for library items.

From Bare Bones’ site:

“Store almost anything in Yojimbo—text, rich text, images, PDFs, even serial numbers and passwords”

Try dragging any image into Yojimbo. It will not accept it, so the above is a plain outright fib. You have to embed it into another filetype first and who wants to bother with that?

Unless Bare Bones come out with a Leopardised version doing Quicklook and supporting multiple media filetypes, it will be gone from my machine very soon.

I like the app but am unhappy with the pace of development and absent functionality.

My natural inclination is that the Mac stuff is good to a point, but that it doesn’t offer depth and hasn’t been built for the specific task – a good generalist rather than a good expert.

That said as the majority of users are probably generalists the Mac options are probably more than good enough for most people.

Would love to start a discussion here about WHY the new Finder with the above enhancements is not just as good as a 3rd party application (if you discount fancy-pants stuff like RSS feeds etc…).