Using Mail.app as a Yojimbo substitute
Rui Carmo at Tao of Mac has been thinking about Yojimbo 
.
First, he takes a peek under the hood, considers its underlying SQLite database and how the app fits into the current debate over open formats.
Secondly, he concludes that the things Yojimbo does well -
it’s pretty damn simple to use, lets you tag and encrypt items, and lets you find things pretty fast (as well as arbitrarily slicing and dicing your data in views of your own choosing).
- are exactly the kinds of things that Mail.app coupled with an IMAP account was born to do. “Why use another wheel?” he asks.
Hawk Wings has posted about people consciously using Mail.app as a Personal Information Manager before, but Rui takes the idea one step further.
As the ponders the various ways of getting his information into Mail.app, he covers Quicksilver actions, reading your RSS/Atom feeds as email, tagging and more.
An excellent read.
Tags: Apple Mail, Apple Mail Tips, imap, information manager, mail.app, open format, Productivity, yojimboRelated posts
July 2nd, 2006 at 4:16 am
The Tao of Mac article made me look for the “mail contents of page” feature for Firefox, but I had no luck finding anything substantial; no extensions, and not even much discussion of the idea. Do you know if there’s anything out there that would allow me to use Firefox this way, rather than Safari?
July 2nd, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Hi Carissa. The only one that I know of - Amazing Webapge Emailer
- appears to be some kind of promotional tool. It requires you to visit the developer’s web site.
There is another one, Send Page by Email
, but it is Windows-only :(
July 3rd, 2006 at 5:35 pm
Thanks Tim
Actually, I had seen Amazing Webpage Emailer before, but a while ago. I’d hoped someone had come up with something else in the meantime. Oh well.
Regards
Carissa
July 4th, 2006 at 1:42 am
SeaMonkey Suite, which is a not-for-profit version of Firefox, includes “Send page” on the File menu. This is one of the main reasons I use SeaMonkey Suite.
July 4th, 2006 at 7:08 am
Excellent find! Thanks, Nancy.
July 5th, 2006 at 4:35 am
Thanks Nancy. I’ll check it out.