Items in Yojimbo
You can store almost anything in Yojimbo: Text and Styled Text (Notes); Bookmarks and Web Archives (a web page and its images in a self-contained package); PDFs; Serial Numbers; and Passwords. Plus, encrypt sensitive items for extra security.
Some Items in Yojimbo
Only a few of the columns in the Item List are displayed by default. Here’s a complete list:
- Flag – The selected Note, a top-secret business plan, is flagged.
- Encrypted – It’s encrypted too.
- Name – This Note is named “Business Plan”.
- Date modified – Date that the most recent changes were made to the Note.
- Comments – Displays comments associated with that item (not shown in this picture).
- Date created – Original date that the item was created in Yojimbo (ditto).
- Kind – Type of item. It can be either Bookmark, Note, Password, PDF Archive, Web Archive, Image, or Serial Number. Each has a unique icon.
- Label – The Coconut Red Curry soup recipe has the label “To Do”.
The Note itself has been temporarily decrypted using “View”.
What’s in YOUR Yojimbo?
Yojimbo is so incredibly flexible, everyone will have different information in Yojimbo. Here are some of the things you can store:
- URLs for time-shifted browsing
- Text notes
- Server account passwords
- Email clippings from client communications
- Web links to staging servers and other online resources
- Receipts
- Ad-hoc documentation, hardware configuration notes, how-tos, anything you need
- Boiler-plate text
- Quotes, jokes, interesting but hard to classify snippets
- Home inventories
- Getting Things Done actions, etc.
- Kids’ and spouse’s social security numbers
- Credit card numbers, plus the security code — encrypted, of course
- Wish lists
- Books/Movies/Games/CDs you want
Inspecting Items
Use Yojimbo’s Inspector to see more details about a particular item. Like other Mac OS X inspectors, you can make changes in the Inspector as well.
Item Info
This Note has a custom Label and is Flagged (one of Yojimbo’s Smart Collections is “Flagged Items”).
Comments Inspector
Yojimbo also searches Items’ Comments, so you can put even more information in it to help you find your items or just provide more information.
This Password item should not be lost.
Collections Inspector
Custom Collections are simply a convenient way to create your own categories for filing things. You can put an item into as many collections as you like by dropping the item on a Collection or dropping a Collection into the Inspector (see below).
This Note is in the Collections “Pirates” and “Terrible Jokes” because it’s a terrible pirate joke. Arrrrr.