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YojimboSoftware

by Bare Bones Software

Who uses, recommends or left Yojimbo, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

3 people

Steven Frank
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld.
loved

And for storing passwords, serial numbers, and notes, so far Yojimbo is the best for me, thanks to its support for MobileMe syncing.

His Uses This interview, on the three Macs and the small set of apps he kept installed.

2009-01-17·usesthis.com ↗

Glenn Fleishman
Journalist, editor and typesetter; wrote for TidBITS and the Economist and published The Magazine.
uses

Rounding out the Bare Bones-related triumvirate is Yojimbo, a sort of junk-drawer program that lets me drop in notes, serial numbers, Web pages, images, and PDFs, and optionally encrypt individual items.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: the writing, editing and publishing stack behind The Magazine.

2013-09-17·usesthis.com ↗

John Gruber
Writer and creator of Daring Fireball, a long-running blog about Apple and technology; co-created Markdown.
uses

Yojimbo for storing and tagging notes, bookmarks, passwords, and etc. – at this writing I have 4,675 items in my Yojimbo library.

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

What they also use

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.