kip - iPhoto for your documents (digital or otherwise)

This software seams cool but it isn't ready yet...I realy don't like the fact that all documents are showing all mixed together, there's n folder management....too bad...the taging is cool, the "automatic" taging is interesting but come on...the list of tags on the left part is clearly turning into a big mess after a few documents imported...one basic thing it should do is to be able to scan folder and at least use the name of the folder as a tag...

At first kip looked promising, but i found it inadequate for me. I have a mess of webarchives, docs and pdfs that need some effort to be organize, and this program just can't do it. So i looked around and found a program named Journler. The first time i used it i really hated, but then the version 2.0.2b fixed many of the issues i got before. Journler feels like an iTunes for my docs and is free. Grab it here:

http://journler.phildow.net/

#7: I (apparently) used the same tag line because the app's author wrote it on kip's site.

MacMinute, other blogs and even digg used the same line in their headline too.

Hmmm.... This article is very similar to that just posted on FreeMacWare.com, even with the tag line, "like iPhoto for your documents".

What's up with that?

Oh well... you know what they say about immitation and flattery.

Kip is a cool app, though it certainly has some maturation to go before it's truly useful.

the file tagging module for quicksilver is cool too.

Fair enough, personally I never use Acrobat to view PDFs, can't stand that software, so each to their own I guess.

I tried Kip a few weeks ago. I have 700+ pdfs and I've been looking for some way to manage them centrally and locate information quickly. Kip looks promissing but I don't think it's quite there yet. I noted the navigation issues, and it crashed repeatedly when I tried to import my pdfs. The 1.0.1 version has an import limit of around 50 files at a time. The developers seemed responsive to emails but they haven't come up with the next release that they said woudl fix the import problem yet.

I might try Kip again in the future. If only because I don't see any other apps out there that have the same focus on managing just pdfs. But right now it isn't robust enough for me.

I'm aware of that, but it's lacking options compared to Acrobat. For instance, it should have the option to automatically resize the PDF to the fit the width of the window and an option to automatically resize the PDF to fit the height of the window. These are pretty crucial features for a decent PDF viewer.

Brandon, ctrl/right click gives you zoom options and a couple of others things...

Kip has great potential however viewing PDFs in it is severely lacking. There arent any zoom buttons or page flippers. It's similar to viewing a PDF in Safari. They should use some navigation ideas from Acrobat.