Tell Gus what you think, but remember- you are in his home. Be a good guest.

I just tried Yojimbo and I'll stick with VoodooPad too.
You still have one customer. ;)

Syncing would be welcome, though.
As I use VP for almost everything all the time, It's a real nightmare to keep the docs in sync between my desktop and laptop.

While waiting for your own super duper sync, a .mac plug-in could be a good first step (hint, hint ;).

Posted by FredB at January 23rd 2006 05:16 PM

Yojimbo looks very different than other BareBones apps. I think BB will updates all their apps to have more "aqua" look like Yojimbo.

Posted by cesar at January 23rd 2006 05:32 PM

I took the tour at the website. It looks like a nice enough app ... but aren't there already four or five very-similar apps for storing collections of Stuff? StickyBrain, DevonThink, etc.

The odd thing is that, if you look at the little-used built-in Keychain Access app, it's got a bunch of that stuff already. And I'd trust it more for securing data, because I know the security infrastructure in the OS does a lot of paranoid stuff -- like only storing sensitive data in wired memory so it will never get paged out to disk where something else could see it.

Posted by Jens Alfke at January 23rd 2006 09:34 PM

It's a nice implemaentation, but nothing like VoodooPad. Plus, it has no tags, which is kind of essential for this kind of thing, and no real smart folders: just predefined ones, which is essentially just sorting by filetype.
Cocoa goodness, though.

What we really need is an app that will tag files, like desktop del.icio.us. Then all these organisation apps will be pointless.
Obviously, really slick, focussed desktop wiki apps will thrive ;-)

I have some design ideas for this btw, but I'm no programmer...

Posted by mistercharlie at January 24th 2006 03:40 AM

I definitely think VP could do with syncing. I bounce between a laptop and desktop Mac machines and even have to go out to windows. Being able to sync b/w the macs and to a web-wiki would be incrediblely useful.

Posted by Andrew Turner at January 24th 2006 06:35 AM

I'll stick with VoodooPad too. I can't really see that Yojimbo(?!) offers anything really new ... as soon as I saw it I thought of DevonThink.

Flying Meat's premier product isn't in any danger ;)

Posted by jmgriff at January 25th 2006 03:01 AM

Yojimbo seems to be a dumber DevonTHINK, but with syncing. I'm currently evaluationg DT for some work, and Yojimbo feels very limiting by comparison. Of course, it's also cheaper, so there's that.

Posted by Chet at January 25th 2006 06:25 AM

So you're going to use encrypted sqlite databases eh? Let me know how that goes.

Posted by Jeremy Hinegardner at January 26th 2006 08:50 AM

Super Get Info is a Cocoa app, and it shipped in 2001. But I know what you mean: Yojimbo is a much bigger deal than Super Get Info.

Posted by John Gruber at January 26th 2006 01:02 PM

yes, even a .mac sync like yojimbo has for voodoopad would pretty much rule.

Posted by tobys at January 26th 2006 11:43 PM

The mysql database holding all my thoughts and notes on my mac crashed for the last time the other day and just as I was going to start migrating everything (by hand) to VoodooPad Yojimbo came out. I played with them both for quite a while and copied over a bunch of stuff into them both to see which I prefer. Yojimbo looked more bling and seemed to have more stuff involved in it. I loved the ability it had to store any sort of data you had in it. Printing receipts as PDF's direct to it was cool. However, I went with VoodooPad simply because I want a place to organise my thoughts and ideas, not just 'things'. I couldn't put down big clumps of notes and whatnot into Yojimbo the way I could with VoodooPad.

If I had the money, I'd be tempted to go with both and use VoodooPad for notes and Yojimbo as a collecting box, but even then if I name things well on my computer and save them to appropriate places then that's most of the work done. If they ever get round to fixing finder and adding functionality it'll limit Yojimbo's use even more.

Posted by Sparticus at January 31st 2006 08:39 AM