Titled “You are your inbox”, it claims that the makeup of your inbox reveals important insights about your inner life and character:

“If you keep your inbox full rather than empty, it may mean you keep your life cluttered in other ways,” says psychologist Dave Greenfield, who founded the Center for Internet Behavior in West Hartford, Conn. “Do you cling to the past? Do you have a lot of unfinished business in your life?”

On the other hand, if you obsessively clean your inbox every 10 minutes, you may be so quick to move on that you miss opportunities and ignore nuances. Or your compulsion for order may be sapping your energy from other endeavors, such as your family.

You then get a highly unethical but effective tip from Scott Stratten, some advice on being ruthless from Merlin Mann and a warning from Nancy Flynn (executive director of the ePolicy Institute and generous Hawk Wings supporter):

When you’re quick to respond with offers of help, “people use email to turn their crisis into your emergency,” she says.

Your inbox is an important source of self-knowledge, according to one expert:

Because “inboxes are metaphors for our lives,” Dr. Greenfield says, there’s no cure-all solution to inbox management. We’re all too different. But he believes an awareness of our inbox behavior can help us better understand other areas of our lives.

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SOHO Notes is built from the same code base as StickyBrain but features three additional functions:

• SOHO Notes can synchronize notes between multiple computers using a .Mac account.
• SOHO Notes can access multiple note databases simultaneously.
• SOHO Notes is multi-user capable which means users can share notes with others over a network using the product’s client/server technology.

The two apps cost the same (USD 39.99) and Chronos is offering free transition to existing StickyBrain users.

According to the Vice President of Sales at Chronos, Jerry Halls, the move streamlines the company’s software catalogue:

SOHO Notes is like a big brother to StickyBrain—it does everything StickyBrain does plus more. In order to simplify our product line and bring more focus to our SOHO Series of products, we feel that now is a good time to move our users from StickyBrain to the more powerful SOHO Notes.

Earlier this year Hawk Wings was very impressed with Yojimbo, Bare Bones’ new information manager, and switched from StickyBrain.

It then watched with interest as Chronos appeared to incorporate many of Yojimbo’s features in a subsequent release of StickyBrain.

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Screenshots and more on kip’s features after the jump.

After you import your PDFs, kip’s main interface presents a list of tags in a window on the left, sized by frequency, a main window containing iPhoto-like thumbnails of your documents and a Details window on the right:

Click on image for a larger view

One nice feature is provided by a “zooming” mouse pointer. kip displays a zoom window with a list of current tags wherever you hold your mouse over the PDF’s thumbnail:

The app’s Preferences pane allows you to list a series of tags that kip will search for automatically when importing, to sync your PDFs on your iDisk and to manage how tags are added:

Selecting an individual PDF produces a pane on the right that lists information and tags for that document.

The tags here—which I haven’t edited—demonstrate how kip will match Proper nouns but doesn’t always pick up the title of PDFs in its tagging.

Any MailTags user will be instantly at home here. Keywords can be added, deleted or edited. You can open an information Inspector for the document or open it with Preview. It also keeps an eye on your iDisk usage.

A scanning feature allows documents to be saved straight into the app. It also inserts an “Add to kip” to the PDF services in the Print menu of your apps, making it easy (if you remember) to add a copy of new documents to kip’s database.

It’s clever and innovative and slick, no question. I haven’t decided yet whether it adds enough to my productivity to replace the list of PDFs that a Spotlight search spits out. Time will tell.

The current version of kip (1.0.1) is free, although the developers warn that they will be charging for future versions of the app. You can get it from their web site .

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