Yojimbo 2.0 Released With Spiffy New Icon And More
2:40 pm, September 1st, 2009, Giles Turnbull
Yojimbo's lovely new icon
In what’s turning out to be a busy few weeks for the team at Bare Bones, their information manager app Yojimbo has just been bumped up to 2.0. The new version is a 20 dollar upgrade for owners of older versions, is Snow Leopard compatible, and has this spectacular new icon.
There’s a bunch of new features too. The Quick Input Panel, Yojimbo’s smart panel for, well, quickly inputting things, now lets you add metadata to things as they’re added. Click the Info button in the panel to add labels, comments, or set a flag.
Better yet, there’s a new Tag Explorer feature which makes browsing through tags a great deal easier. If you use them, that is – as much as I love Yojimbo, I’ve never really got into the habit of adding tags to things I store inside it, and just depend on search to find what I want. Works for me. But maybe the presence of the Tag Explorer might make me change that.
One thing that doesn’t appear in Yojimbo 2.0 is nested folders, something that a small subset of users have been asking for ever since 1.0. My suspicion is that they can ask all they want, but Yojimbo won’t ever support that sort of information hierarchy. That’s not how it was designed.
One other note: when you first run Yojimbo 2.0, you’ll see a warning dialog that your database has to be upgraded, and that the new upgraded version won’t subsequently work with older versions of the app. If that matters to you, better ensure you have a good backup of your database before upgrading.
Posted by Giles Turnbull in News, Reviews, Software | Comment on this article
The update is fine… fairly lackluster, but ok. Only they didn’t fix the most significant problem that YJ has had: the syncing. MobileMe has been trying to sync my YJ DB for at least 3-4 hours now (on SL). Really pathetic that they weren’t able to figure this out. I’ve been troubleshooting the sync issue since January of 2007, over 2 and a half years ago. I gave up trying more than a year ago. This release does nothing for syncing. There were notes about troubleshooting the sync process in 2.0… Don’t waste your money on this software if you’re starting from scratch… just go with Evernote or the myriad other products if you’re interested in flawless syncing.
JP, on September 1st, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Good god, that is the ugliest icon I’ve ever seen rendered in 512×512.
Ismael, on September 1st, 2009 at 10:37 pm
The icon is a masterpiece – I love it.
barstep, on September 5th, 2009 at 12:59 am