Comments on: Yojimbo tip: Searchable iChat transcripts

By: sjk

sjk — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:39:01 +0000

The two features that most convinced me to install Chax are tabbed message windows and custom fonts in the contacts list. In the next version (still beta) I might enable Growl notifications and disable growliChat (which I like, but has more features than I’ll ever use).

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:47:54 +0000

SJK, Thanks for this tips and pointers. I’ll be hunting them up.

By: sjk

sjk — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:10:55 +0000

I preferred ChatMaster over Logorrhea until it stopped working with newer versions of iChat AV. Since then I've been satisfied collecting iChat transcripts in a DEVONthink Pro group using a synchronize script that scans ~/Documents/iChats whenever the DTP group is accessed. Otherwise, I might have paid $10 for Unsanity's iChat Transcript Manager. Analogous to the Yojimbo tip, it's possible to save iChat transcripts as PDFs in DEVONthink (Pro) using its "Save to DEVONthink (Pro)" PDF service from the Print dialog. Kent Sutherland's excellent Chax iChat plug-in (InputManager) has a simple built-in log viewer.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:36:36 +0000

Sure. But if all your information is in Yojimbo, then it is good to have important chats in there too.

Yojimbo’s search is a lot faster than Spotlight. For me anyway.

By: CM Harrington

CM Harrington — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:31:19 +0000

Of course, if you choose the option to save chat transcripts, Spotlight searches them easily.

I used to use a (still very good) tool called Logorrhea in the pre-Spotlight days.