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Originally Posted by Russell
How are you using Yojimbo with your existing system of folders in Finder? ... Is Yojimbo for the important data, miscellaneous bits, or both?
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I'm using Yojimbo for both important data and miscellaneous bits -- basically any random notes that aren't tied to a specific project. My decision making process is not clear-cut though and certainly requires some discretion on a case-by-case basis.
One of the big determining factors is that I don't think Yojimbo is a good Finder replacement. So I've been trying not to dump
everything into it. Instead, I only use Yojimbo for
notes, which are usually text-based, but can occasionally be PDFs, web archives, bookmarks, or even images.
Regardless of the original file formats, though, I consider all of these items to be
generic notes. I do not use Yojimbo as a repository for all of my PDFs, images, web archives, etc. I use the filesystem and Finder for that.
This is contrary to a lot apps that are often labelled as Yojimbo-competitors (e.g. DevonThink, Together, EagleFiler, etc.). I think those apps are really trying to accomplish something different than Yojimbo. They serve more as a front-end to the filesystem, managing/organizing files, rather than being a traditional, free-form database like Yojimbo.
These file-managing "Yojimbo-competitors" seem like they might be better for storing and organizing
everything, if that's what you're looking for. Yojimbo, on the other hand, seems better-suited as a simple note collector.
-Dennis