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Webjimbo: access Yojimbo over the Internet
My Mac life now firmly resides in Yojimbo, the excellent snippet/information manager from Bare Bones. The only problem with this arises when I'm away from my home computer. Of course Yojimbo does offer .mac syncing, but that doesn't always work that well and sometimes I'd like access to my information from a public or friend's computer. Developer Adrian Ross must have been been in such a situation as he is now working on a way to access Yojimbo notes from across the Internet. His Webjimbo software basically turns your Mac into a specialized web server that allows you to access your Yojimbo notes in a browser from any Internet connected computer.
When you point your browser to port 8888 you'll actually get something that looks a lot like Yojimbo right in your browser (as you can see above). You can see your folders, search for notes, create new notes, etc. Unfortunately, there are some limitations. "Note editing is plain text only. You can view formatted notes (including attachments), but if you edit them formatting and attachments will be lost." Further, encrypted notes are not be accessible.
How useful you find this will of course depend on your willingness to keep your Mac on all the time. It's also necessary to point out that anytime you run a server you open yourself to potential security concerns. Nonetheless, Webjimbo looks like an impressive project. As of right now it's in closed beta, but Adrian is inviting testers to contact him for an invitation. Webjimbo will be shareware when it ships, but no pricing has yet been announced.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Taylor said 11:26AM on 6-19-2007
I have a mac mini server with macminicolo.net and I've been wanting to use Yojimbo on it and make it reachable from the web. This will work perfect.
Thanks to the developer!
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Marco F. said 11:29AM on 6-19-2007
Since Yojimbo stores my info on dotmac as well, why not use that one as the backend, instead of the yojimbo db on my iMac? I leave my computer on all the time (okay, dormant), but am hesitant to open up my firewall etc for remote access.
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artifex said 2:06PM on 6-19-2007
The Yojimbo link goes to a local tag, not to where actually to find the software :( This breaks my flow like that commercial where everyone uses credit cards except the one woman who wants to write a check.
Maybe I'm the last person in the (Mac) world (but not Mac World, because I've never gone) to not know about the software? If not, ok, it's here: http://www.barebones.com/products/yojimbo/
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JimD said 9:03AM on 6-20-2007
Now that is cool!
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abhik said 4:40PM on 6-20-2007
I worked on a similar project for creating a web interface for Journler (app similar to yojimbo). I have a screencast of it at http://ano.malo.us/archives/journlerweb-teaser-screencast
This project is currently on hold but I plan to revive it as soon as I get some free time :)
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Steve said 8:09AM on 7-24-2007
Dear TUAW:
Please either stop this annoying practice of self-linking within articles, or visually mark external links, ala Wikipedia.
Best,
Everyone.
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Panamajack said 6:08PM on 7-24-2007
Would there be any reason for running this if you ran remote desktop ?
The price point also seems slighty high for what is a software add-on (either that, or Yojimbo is a great deal).
Regardless, I'm a laptop man, so I'll have limited use for this.
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