Comments on: Yojimbo: Bare Bones’ new information manager

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:13:58 +0000

I find that the shortcut key to bring up Yojimbo’s window with the cursor in the search field is as fast as the Flash Note feature in StickyBrain. No problems there.

By: Ahmet Oren

Ahmet Oren — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:22:54 +0000

Hi,
I am thinking to try Y, does it have anything like the Flash note of SB? I find it very useful.

By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Yojimbo 1.1: Martial your info with power and beauty

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:25:37 +0000

[...] Yojimbo, a great new information manager from the Bare Bones stable, has been updated. All the fine features that first lured me away from StickyBrain are still there, but now there is lost more to like about it. [...]

By: Darcy

Darcy — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:14:15 +0000

I’ve been using Yojimbo for a week, and have found it to be a great companion product. I’ll still use keychain for web browser convenience, but for making a list of PDFs that you can quickly scan through (viewing as you go) just using arrow keys? Y does it GREAT!

By: Fijai

Fijai — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:41:49 +0000

I’m with Darcy on using the keychain. It also sync using .mac.

By: Darcy

Darcy — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:46:31 +0000

Why doesn’t anybody use the keychain to manage encrypted notes and passwords? I’ve used it for years and it works great. Fast, searches very well, and builds itself just by using Safari. I gave it its own password separate from my login password, and can choose to lock it or unlock it. By default, the computer boots up with it locked.

By: Austin

Austin — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 06:56:10 +0000

I’m on a trial of Yojimbo now, and while I’d love to buy it, the limitations are just too great. Lacking the ability to import a picture as well as the ability to customize data types, etc, I can’t justify purchasing it.

Until the time comes when it’s more flexible with its contents, I’m going to have to skip it and continue using my old system of folders. :P

By: matt

matt — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:20:39 +0000

Getting data out of StickyBrain and into Yojimbo is easy: export from SB, import to Y.

Getting data out of Web Confidential is much harder. I have ~500 passwords and serial numbers. WC can export its entire database to a single comma-delimited text file, but I don’t see any way to get that into Yojimbo as individual encrypted password items.

I could write a script to parse that into 500 individual text files, but there does not appear to be a way to import Password items into Yojimbo — text files show up as normal notes, even when the text file follows the format of exported Password items. (Note: the password export from Yojimbo is whacked, too.)

I like Yojimbo and plan to buy it, but as a replacement for a password database it is not usable due to these import limitations.

By: Donald

Donald — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:54:29 +0000

I should have been more clear. You can not import StickyBrain bookmarks into YoJimbo. However, you can import StickyBrain web archives into YoJimbo. Unfortunately about one third of my StickyBrain items are bookmarks and therefore I can not import them. I am recreating the bookmarks as web archives so I can import them into YoJimbo but this is a time consuming and slow process.

Did you find another way to import the StickyBrain bookmarks into YoJimbo?

BTW: StickyBrain bookmarks are exported from StickyBrain with the webloc extension and the web archives have the webarchive extension. I did unsuccessfully try changing a bookmark to an webarchive by switching the extension.

My apologies for not being clear in regards to importing into YoJimbo.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:48:20 +0000

Hi Donald: What’s stopping you from exporting your notes out of SB and importing them into Yojimbo?

That’s what I did. Worked a charm.