Chronos released an update to its SOHO Notes Information Manager (formerly StickyBrain) over the weekend.

The new version features improvements to the app’s blogging and clipboard features as well as a raft of bugfixes, including a fix for handling URLs from Firefox.

Users will benefit most from the new clipboard functions in the DockNote.

Clippings can now be opened, edited and deleted from the clipboard recorder.

A clipping can be saved into Notes as a new note or be replaced with a selection from the current application.

In addition, when the clipboard recorder is turned off, it now stays off.

This means the the DockNote now contains a viable clipboard recorder, which could potentially replace apps like JumpCut or CuteClips.

Other improvements include the option to specify which folder the “Print to PDF” service will save to, better remembering of column width and position between launches (still a problem for me), better explanation of the SOHO sync service, and imrpvoements to Sync’s tolerance of sync faults.

Blogging features have also been improved. A bug preventing notes from being published to TypePad accounts has been fixed.

The app’s Preferences now include a new pane for its blogging features.

It can handle multiple blogging accounts and authentications:

SOHO Notes is shareware (USD 39.99) and is available from the Chronos web site .StickyBrain, productivity, SOHO Notes, information manager, clipboard, blogging, PIM, not Apple Mail

Chronos announced in an email today to registered users that StickyBrain has been discontinued and will be replaced by another of the company’s information management apps, SOHO Notes.

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.

As a result of today’s change, Chronos now offers an information manager at almost the same price as Yojimbo, but with stronger multi-user and network features. yojimbo, stickybrain, information management, productivity, PIM, notes, snippets

The developer of StickyBrain is either feeling the heat from Bare Bones’ competing product, Yojimbo, or is just inspired by it.

A new StickyBrain beta (4.1b3) released today introduces at least three new features found in Yojimbo and offers a number of other significant new functions including a full-screen view, a post to blog option and new “Daily Notes” and “Journal” formats.

You can find screenshots and more after the jump…

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I’ve been a happy user of StickyBrain , an information manager, as long as I have used a Mac.

When Bare Bones Software launched their new information manager, Yojimbo, last week I decided to give it a go.

I’ve been using it a lot and I like it.

If you are interested in information managers and organising yourself (“productivity”), you can read the full review after the jump.

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Service Scrubber is a utility for managing your Services menu, making it easier to use Services in Mail.app (and elsewhere).

Peter Maurer has released an updated version.

The new version is smarter at detecting duplicated Services entries, works with StickyBrain‘s unusual way of specifiying its Services (hooray!), and fixes a visual glitch under 10.3.9.

Service Scrubber is donation-ware and available from Peter’s web site.

Everyone these days needs some way to organise their information. Solutions range from Juggernauts like DevonThink to the invigorating textual asceticism of Merlin Mann’s plain text filing system.

StickyBrain, my organiser of choice, has just been updated to 4.0. There’s a swagload of new features and a new look for the app’s interface.

The Rise and Rise of the Mail-like look continues among note and information organisers. First, iOrganize got it. Now StickyBrain gets the Mail-like makeover:

Users of 3.x will also notice that the Panther-like folder drawer is gone, replaced by Mail.app‘s Baby Blue integrated Folder Drawer on the left.

The new version features many improvements to existing features, and new things like Spotlight support, new PDF, Movie, Bookmark, Audio, Web Archive and File notes, a 300-1000% speed improvements through the software (very welcome, I must admit) and a much smarter FlashNote menubar utility.

StickyBrain costs money (USD 39.99 — or 25 for the upgrade from 3.x) and is available from the developer’s web site.