"The tag team Carbon combination from hell"

gregh — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:53:31 -0600

I just pulled this because the proposed names made me chuckle. I vote for Tinderjimbo.

"The tag team Carbon combination from hell" - O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog:

Exciting indeed. Some Tinderjimbo / Yojimderbox users have already started making notes on the official Tinderbox wiki. The right kind of scripting is surely not far away%u2026

I've now paid for a Tinderbox upgrade, downloaded 3.6 (and 3.6.1) and installed Yojimbo. Fine. I certainly don't disagree with Mark Bernstein's point in the interview on the above link that Tinderbox needed some help in the import process. I suppose I'm glad to have a tool to do this. Except now I have to learn a new tool: Yojimbo. After a little more than a year, I only really feel like I'm getting into Tinderbox, and I still don't use it the way or as pervasively as I'd like.

My biggest gripe is, I'd been learning DEVONthink for the Yojimbo job. Not only does DT do all of the importing pretty well, it has really, really good searching and auto-categorization and classification technology. It doesn't fill the Tinderbox need, because it doesn't really excel in the "important" organization tasks. And it completely sucks when it comes to the random note-taking for which I make regular use of Tinderbox.

There's no reason I have to stop using DT, of course. However, using Tinderbox the way other Tinderbox users use Tinderbox has its benefits. And if smarter people than I come up with better ways to integrate with Yojimbo, and I get Yojimbo as part of Tinderbox, then I might as well use Yojimbo. It just means another tool to learn.

(Via Mark Bernstein.)

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"The tag team Carbon combination from hell"