Comments on: Yojimbo vs Together vs Evernote: a review

By: Rachel Murphy

Rachel Murphy — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:22:58 +0000

@coopertino: Thanks for your kind words! I mostly rely on notebooks. Despite the fact I also tag everything I find I don’t use them that much. Search in Evernote works so well that I tend to find it quicker to type in part of a word than find the tag to click.

By: coopertino

coopertino — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:02:42 +0000

Hi Rachel, thanks very much for your reviews – really helpful. I think many people (yours truly is one have been heavily influenced by them. So, having tried Yojimbo, Together, DevonThink, EagleFiler and Evernote, I ended up liking Evernote the most. Feature list aside, it feels the most ‘current’ of these products, and once I experienced the first smooth sync between my iMac at home, MacBook Pro at work and iPhone, I went straight to the checkout area and got a yearly subscription.
I have a question for you though: in your experience with EN, is it better to structure your notes into many notebooks and a few tags, or the other way around. What worked for you.
Thanks, and keep the reviews coming, you’ve got followers out there !!!

By: Rachel Murphy

Rachel Murphy — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:37:20 +0000

@Tenakha @Christi: In the end I stopped using Together and switched over entirely to Evernote. It just became too awkward using 2 different applications. I’ve been trying out Yojimbo 2.0 since its release though. I’ve still got a couple of weeks to evaluate it on the free trial so I may write a blog post on it after that.

By: Christi Milligan

Christi Milligan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:10:16 +0000

Yes, I’d love to hear what you are using now too. I know Yojimbo just came out with 2.0 and I’m sure the others have advanced too. What do you think now?

By: Tenakha

Tenakha — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:04:48 +0000

Hey. Great review. I have started using Evernote a few days ago. Are you still using it? You must have been using it like for a year now. So tell me – do you still rate it as number one?

You must keep blogging. I found your reviews of other apps useful also – although I am primarilyu a pc user.

Regards
Tenakha.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:48:13 +0000

Will anyone ever make an app that is almost like MS OneNote for Mac? I currently use SOHO Notes, but it too looks like and acts like all the rest out there, PLEEEZE MS do a Mac version of OneNote.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:03:05 +0000

Just found out that Yojimbo causes serious keychain and other mobileme issues. Apple is advising that you not sync yojimbo through mobile me. Which defeats the utility for me. Also, the mono database thing makes yojimbo grow exponentially, so syncs take longer and cause more problems.

By: Rachel Murphy

Rachel Murphy — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:34:01 +0000

@Elliott: ShoveBox is certainly easy to use and I like the way you can assign keyboard shortcuts. It strikes me as being best suited to collecting web clippings and bookmarks. It’s not so good at storing PDFs.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:03:28 +0000

Have you looked into Shovebox yet?
http://www.wonderwarp.com/shovebox/

It sounds like the app meets three of your four needs. The only thing missing is iPhone support, which is on the way (the iPhone app is in closed beta right now).

Best yet, Macheist is giving away Shovebox as loot right now.
http://www.macheist.com/

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