It's difficult to understand from the site if everything gets moved or copied into a central database. Seems useful, but I don't think I would want to have my files in a special place for them to be "in" Yojimbo.

The "education" version should be called LE or something, since it's crippled and not just a discount. Teachers can't have two computers?

Why is .Mac always necessary for syncing? Can't someone come up with a shareware app that syncs bookmarks across a network without a $100/yr fee? Please someone tell me if there is something out there.

To answer your questions:

- Yojimbo copies your data; nothing needs to be in a "special place" to be "in" Yojimbo

- there is no "education version" - it's simply a question of pricing and licensing. The product is in no way crippled.

- .Mac is necessary for synchronization because it's the only service that the OS's synchronization UI talks to. It's unfortunately not something that we can control.

Hope this helps,

Rich Siegel
Bare Bones Software, Inc.

but it still seems very unfinished - I can drag an image from a web site, and it'll give me a copy of the URL, but doesn't show the image when I click on its entry...I have to open it in the default browser to do that.
Yet, I can't drag an image off my desktop or from iPhoto, it just snaps back as "refused"

I can drag individual files, but not folders containing the same files

I can't drag in pages or keynote documents, presumably because of their package-type nature, but most of my notes are in pages documents and a lot of interesting stuff is in keynote documents I have from others.

My menu offers to open text or text files in textedit, but I can't option click to open then in a different text editor (even though I have BBEdit installed!!!)

Oh, and Doc files can be dragged in, but not excel files.

It all seems quite unintuitive and not very mac like yet. I'm sure it will do one day, but - sorry - I'm not paying for it until then.

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It all seems quite unintuitive and not very mac like yet. I'm sure it will do one day, but - sorry - I'm not paying for it until then.

Maybe it's because Yojimboo is an information organiser (to store notes, bookmarks, copies of web pages) and not a file organiser as you seem to expect it to be.

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Maybe it's because Yojimboo is an information organiser (to store notes, bookmarks, copies of web pages) and not a file organiser as you seem to expect it to be.

No, I expect it to be what it says it is...therefore, it would be good to be able to drag a photo from iphoto in there, and at least have a reference to it, if not a thumbnail - or to drag a "note" in pages format in, and at least have a link to it if not a thumbnail, or to drag an image from the desktop (or another application, maybe) in and have it treated the same as an image from the interweb. I can't import a contact from my address book, an item from my calendar, a song from itunes or an email. All of these are information I tried to associate with other information - i.e. create a project folder in Yojimbo and dump all my info about that project in there. Dunno, maybe you're right and I'm trying to do stuff beyond the original idea of "keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible"

True, I can get the info in there by dragging bits of text from the inside of them when opened in an app, but then I loose context and a link to the original.

Most information on computers (personal ones at least) is held in files, though I did not concentrate on files as I understand this is not the finder).

On a Mac, one hopes for consistency in handlingsimilar bits of information regardless of its source (an image is an image is an image). I think this will come, as I said, but it's not there yet. This is a *very* early version with a niche audience (not a bad thing, by the way, just not for me).

Oh, and I was going to go and say this at the BB site, but couldn't see any obvious way to do so - if I missed some way to do this, I'd appreciate a pointer to it.

like del.icio.us -- it lets you access your bookmarks from anywhere and there are some nice plugins to browsers for easy access (especially firefox).

http://del.icio.us