When Yojimbo was introduced, it used MobileMe syncing to bring your data across your Macs. Unfortunately, that's also been a major thorn in its side lately.
One of the great things about Yojimbo was that it did syncing of a variety of different kinds of information. More than likely I waste time trying to decide where to save them, and I know I waste time trying to find them, if I even remember to look. Too often things go into one of those 'buckets' and I forget about it, mostly because there are too many of them. I have some articles that I saved to Pinboard and some PDFs that I saved to my "To Read" folder and some files on the Desktop, not to mention a few things I tossed into OmniFocus. I have some 'flagged' emails which I hope I will remember means I need to followup on them next time I see them. See if this sounds familiar: I have a text file with some quick notes that I've jotted down.
The reason I know that is because I have become aware of the fact that I don't have one now – which means that I have several. This is an important role which is easily underestimated. It's that digital 'inbox' where you can throw anything that you might need to sort through later without thinking too much about it now. Yojimbo is often referred to as a "digital junk drawer" but to me it's more like the stuff I keep piled on or around my desk but don't put away because I don't want to lose or forget about it. It's easy to get things into Yojimbo, it's easy to get them out again, and it's easy to search and categorize what you have there. It's meant to be that place which is always in reach where you can put something, anything, when you don't want to lose it but you can't (or don't want to) deal with it right now. It isn't meant to replace Google or the Finder or even Spotlight.
#Devonthink to go icloud pdf#
Yojimbo is not meant to hold your entire PDF collection, or all of your images, or all of your bookmarks. Yojimbo's mechanism for collecting, storing and finding information is so natural and effortless, it will change your life, without changing the way you work." It's so simple, there is no learning curve. I've been a Yojimbo user for years, but in case some of you don't know what it is, I'll start by quoting Bare Bones' own website which describes it this way: "Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible.
(Pause and wait for for chorus of 'hallelujahs' to subside.) Good news for Yojimbo fans: version 4 is now available, and it syncs across Macs.
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