Yojimbo, the new(ish) Information manager from Bare Bones has a mailing list . It’s not very active. I’ve only seen two emails from it in two weeks.

One of those emails was the kind of tip that you never think of yourself, but which seems so obvious when someone else describes it.

At the end of an iChat session, if you select the Print dialog in iChat and choose, “Save PDF in Yojimbo” you will get a nice PDF of the chat in Yojimbo, the texts of which is fully searchable. Nifty!

[Nice tip, Ted.]yojimbo, ichat, transcripts, chats, pdf, productivity, tips

Gmail has announced that it is integrating its IM facility, Talk, into Gmail’s web-based interface.

Users can now see when their Talk buddies are online, save transcripts of their chats as if they were emails and initiate chats with one click, all from the browser interface.

The transition will occur “over the next few weeks” and according to MacWorld will be limited to users of the US English language interface.

Gmail has released an annotated screenshot of the new interface for those who are still waiting:

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Of course, Mail.app users already enjoy integration with iChat and the ability to email themselves transcripts of their chats automatically using Chatalog, but many are welcoming this as “the next logical step in web-based mail” (so the Radioactive Yak ).Gmail, Talk, chat, ichat, web interface, Chatalog, Web 2.0, transcripts, IM, contacts