How Yojimbo Organizes You On Your Mac.

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YoJimbo Encore Review: BareBone’ YoJimbo makes keeping track of information very easy. No learning curve. Mostly. Judge for yourself.

Are there easier ways to find, store, track those little pieces of information that seem to scatter all over our Macs? Yes. Yojimbo makes it more than easy.

YoJimbo is a Mac application that changes the way you keep and track those many tidbits of information that get stuck everywhere else. Even Spotlight takes awhile to find what you’re.... (excerpted).

4 Reader Comments

Michael Schneider said:

I am glad that bought Yojimbo in spite of the previous comments. It is nifty and enables a fast working. I do not need a note/ document sampler with a complex 10-level down catalog.
... to be honest, I hate such confusing things.
Yojimbo helps to organize my academic and daily life. The offered organization tools and cross-linkages are more than sufficient!

Dave Goldstein said:

Yojimbo is not a good program. It uses sql lite which cannot be fixed easily if you have some corruption is one of your databases. They have good support but if you use a program that uses sql lite you are on your own. Use Together instead. It uses a better sql database and keeps the actual data separate from the database index.

Allan J. O'Connor said:

Though hard to decsribe, these programs are very useful.

But…. Yojimbo is very limited. Its catalog only has one level. Although you can organize things in folders, you cannot have nested folders. This is a huge shortcoming and a common complaint among users. It becomes an issue after you have learned the program and started to accumulate information in the program—which is what it is for! The developer has indicated they are not going to change this. It is very limiting.

Journler is far better. It does everything Yojimbo does plus allows nested folders. It has other features as well. Check it out.

Bonobo said:

A very long article, with lots of notes about what the author does, but I still don’t have an outline or physical concept of the workings of Yojimbo in my brain.

“Yojimbo lets me collect information quickly…” is the start of one paragraph and is the best I can remember of the article.

Pure text is great, but somewhere in pure text has to be a flow chart or outline of the steps of how it actually works. I have no clue yet. I see a need to include specific information about the “User Interface”, because lots of programs “collect information” that I put into them, and I don’t know what is different.

I trust BareBones, using BBEdit, but haven’t tried to use YoJimBo yet, and can’t wrap a concept up in my head about what is going on with it.

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