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Yojimbo 1.2: Smarter integration

Tim Gaden — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:56:40 +0000

Barebones has released another update to Yojimbo, its information management app.

The new features focus on better integration, making it easier to get information in and out and to link items into other apps.

One-click bookmarking or archiving

Yojimbo 1.2 contains bookmarklets for Safari, Camino, Firebox and OmniWeb. When placed in a bookmark toolbar, they offer one-click bookmarking or archiving of URLs.

This is nifty, although keyboard shortcut fans may still prefer to use Fraser Speir’s applescript for archiving, which can be launched with a single keystroke through FastScripts or some similar app (although see Jade’s remarks in the comments).

Linking items

A new “Copy Item Link” option in the Edit menu allows you to insert an application-specific URL into Yojimbo notes or another app altogether.

For example, using this new feature you can paste a link to a particular Yojimbo item into an iCal reminder or event:

Clicking on the URL in the information pane, jumps you straight to the linked item in Yojimbo.

Smarter Importing and Exporting

Yojimbo now exports bookmarks and URL clipping files rather then text files and includes comment data with exported plain text items like serial numbers and passwords.

In addition, copying or dragging items places additional formatting information on the pasteboard that can be used by applications that support it.

Importing .webloc clippings now uses the .webloc’s filename as the item name rather than the URL.

Other features

New users are now treated to a QuickTime movie when they first launch the app (old users can see it too by accessing the “Quick Start Movie” option in the Help menu. A “Getting started” document also outlines some of the basic features.

Search terms are now highlighted in matching notes, PDFs and web archives.

It also fixes a number of bugs in earlier versions. You can read a detailed changelog of additions, fixes and changes on the Bare Bones site.

No sign of the feature I most hope for, the ability to email an item easily. This seems odd to me, as I can’t be the only person who uses email as my main way to share information.

Yojimbo is shareware (USD 39 for an individual user, USD 29 for students and faculty, USD 69 for a family pack, up to five users) and is available from Bare Bones . yojimbo, productivity, information manager, PIM, bookmarklets, not apple mail Similar Posts:

Distraction-free Gmail in Camino/Firefox

Tim Gaden — Mon, 15 May 2006 13:41:35 +0000

In a comment to the post on Michael McCracken’s “Distraction-free” Gmail WebKit browser, Justin Reid posts about how he does the same thing in Camino using javascript bookmarklets.

He uses this script to open his Gmail in a distraction-free Camino window:

And another for GCal (which I quickly hacked out of his Gmail script).

Nice! Just Command-click on the links above and select “Bookmark this link…” to install them.

They also work in Firefox, as one might expect.gmail, Google calendar, camino, firefox, javascript, bookmarklets, GTD, productivity, email, web 2.0 Similar Posts:

toread: Email yourself web pages

Tim Gaden — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:39:58 +0000

toread is a web service that allows you to “bookmark” or email yourself web pages with the single click of browser bookmarklet.

Of course, Safari users can do this manually by pressing Command-I, which sends the contents of a web page to a new Mail.app message, filling in their own email address and then sending the email.

This is much quicker and cleaner.

After registration, you are offered a bookmarklet to drag and drop into the Bookmarks Bar of your browser (I use Safari):

One click on this bookmarklet and the page you are looking at is emailed to your inbox:

There’s nothing else to do.

This may appeal especially to people who use Mail.app as an Information mananger, allowing for the quick and painless archiving of web pages.

The privacy policy of the service, which is run by the Japanese RSS management company Sidefeed looks OK to me:

About disclosing your personal information

We will not sell, rent or lease your personal information to any other third party.
We will disclose your personal information to outside third parties only when one or any of the following conditions are met.

When we have your consent to share the information.
To process and fulfill your order or notify you of order status.
When it’s necessary for us to observe the law.
When it’s necessary to protect and defend your rights or property.
When it’s based on the statistical purposes without any information that could be used to link that information to you.
We reserve the right to disclose any and all pertinent customer information to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate.

It is a clearly a Web 2.0 service, as it is in beta.email, bookmarks, bookmarklets, browser, archiving, web pagesSimilar Posts: