Getting Stuff Into Yojimbo
People will only use something if its easy, and Yojimbo is close to effortless.
Yojimbo’s Flexibility
- You can copy what you want to store and use a hot key (F8 is the one Yojimbo uses unless you change it) to open the Quick Input Panel.
- You can drag what you want to store (a bookmark, a PDF file or clipping) to the Mac OS X Dock, or to the Yojimbo window or to Yojimbo’s Drop Dock.
- If you’re using Custom Collections, you can drop what you’re dragging onto a Collection to assign it to that Collection.
- You can select something you want to store in Yojimbo and use Mac OS X services to import the selection or URL.
- Import many items at once using Yojimbo’s Import menu. This is one way you might move stuff from whatever you used before into Yojimbo.
- You can even print to Yojimbo!
Quick Input Panel
Anything you’ve copied can be stored in Yojimbo. The goal of the Quick Input Panel is to store items with the minimum effort on your part. Simply copy something, press F8, make any changes in the item’s name and type, and click Create.
Yojimbo recognizes URLs and will choose either Bookmark or Web Archive based on what you’ve chosen in Preferences. Of course, you can choose which you want when creating the item. Yojimbo uses the title of the page for the item name when creating a web archive.
Yojimbo has a special feature for those Bookmarks you only need to see once, and then want to throw away. Say a friend sends you a url to a wacky news story, but at the moment you have more important things to do. You know you’ll never find it in your browser’s bookmarks if you add it there. Instead, pop it into Yojimbo, check the “Move to trash after opening” box, and boom — time-shifted browsing.
Yojimbo’s Drop Dock
If you prefer drag-and-drop to a hot key, or you like to assign things to Collections right away, the Drop Dock is for you. Decide which side of your screen you want the Drop Dock to appear on, drag an item to it, and drop it onto Yojimbo’s Drop Dock.
When you drop a url (aka “webloc”) on the Drop Dock, Yojimbo uses the title of the web page as the Bookmark name.
Print to Yojimbo
Whenever you purchase something on the web, pay a bill, book a flight, or reserve a room, you’ll have a chance to print your receipt from your web browser. Store it in Yojimbo by choosing Print from your browser, and selecting “Save PDF to Yojimbo” from the PDF dropdown in the print dialog. Never wonder where that receipt is again! Yojimbo even indexes the full text of the PDF, making retrieval a snap.
