Yojimbo

Oh for God's sake - it's a silly name, or isn't - who cares. I know this though, I'd like to bitch-slap the whiner that complained it was culturally insensitive. On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog, but we know that most of you are pathetic humorless automatons. Now get back to boycotting South Park you weenie.

I tried the app and like it quite allot. I tried sticky brain when I was writing my thesis but it always seemed unwieldily, buggy, and inelegant. Lately I have been simply using text files to gather notes and ideas throughout the day with Quicksilver as the interface. But what usually happens is I have a window of unopened and unsaved text files.

Using spotlight? You are joking right?

Anyway I think it is a simple tool with just the right feature set and is worth giving a try (the drop dock is particularly useful).

One more comment on the name - as a big fan of the Kurosawa/Mifune film, I agree that it is a silly name, but it was the name itself that made me click over and check out the application. I've no interest in this sort of program, and still don't after checking it out, but I would never have even gone to look at the program at all were it not for the name.

I was hoping for a program as cool as the movie, as cool as Mifune (and, much as I like Eastwood, ol' Clint was at best a pale shadow of Toshiro) and as cool as the incredible score for Yojimbo.

looks to me that you could use stickybrain, or, better yet, VoodooPad (http://flyingmeat.com). Not only would it be better, imo, you would be helping out a real developer and not a company, one that is horrible.

I haven't tried the app, but from what I've read this really seems like how I envisioned Apple utilizing Spotlight technology in OS X. I really hope that Finder adapts an interface similar to this. Since the modified file system in Tiger allows abitrary metadata to be associated with any file, I think it would be fairly easy for Apple to develop an upgrade to Finder that would allow for this type of organization. Also, I think the standard Open/Save dialogue should be updated to something much like Yojimbo

I give up on the URLs.

Corrected URLs (sorry) --

http://www.mac360.com/index.php/mac360/comments/first_look_yojimbo_tackles_info_on_your_mac/

http://usagiyojimbo.com/index.html

And Jason; yeah, I know what you mean about product naming. I remember a lot of people scratching their head over iPod.

If this thing would sync to FTP instead of just .mac I think it would be pretty useful.

I don't see how this could possibly be useful. If you're this organized in the first place--that you would drag in bookmarks, notes, PDFs, etc--you could accomplish the same thing by keeping your filesystem itself organized, and using OS X's search to find anything. This app accomplishes what, exactly?

And, wow, that logo sure looks familiar:

http://usagiyojimbo.com/other/wallpaper/usagirisingsun.gif