My Yojimbo trial expired today, so I bought a license.
I've tried several “stuff organizers” for the Mac in the last couple of weeks. Yojimbo comes closest to what I need – close enough to buy a license, although it's not quite there.
These would make Yojimbo perfect for me:
- Finer grained search, e.g. tag:iphone or image:lolcat.
- Proper smart collections instead of tag collections. At the very least I'd like the option to match any of the specified tags.
- Nested collections.
- When I drag a webpage from Safari to Yojimbo, save what's already loaded in Safari. Reason: not all webpages have a "for print" version, and I'd like to be able to use Aardvark to delete banners, Flash and other annoying crap.
- Remember zoom level I set for PDFs and images.
- Better control over default note formatting. More specifically I'd like to be able to set linespacing and page width. Writeroom does this nicely (in Preferences), and so does VoodooPad (with a NewPageTemplate page).
- Easier way to link to other items from notes.
- Let me remove default collections from the sidebar. (I don't use Bookmarks.)
I'll wrap up with something positive. Yojimbo is impressively fast. Start up, importing, searching, the whole lot – on this old Powerbook G4 with a library of over 200 web archives and PDFs. Nice.
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