It has now been more than a year since I first bought Yojimbo. Initially, I was very happy with it. In spite of its limitations and minor issues it was kind-of doing the job I wanted it to do.
When I bumped into limitations or annoyances, I reported them duly to this list as suggestions. They were *ALL* ignored. Now, I can understand that developers have a certain vision for the program, and things like hierarchical folders do not fit into that vision. I'm fine with that. But some of the things I reported were obviously bugs or omissions and can't possibly make any sense! Take for example:
-- click in the "Collections" column, press the cursor up and down keys. Watch how you can nicely navigate. Now, how do you get to the list of items? Cursor right? Wrong. TAB? Wrong. Enter? Wrong. You can't.
-- do a search: type something in the search box and press ENTER. Where is the focus? What can you do with your keyboard?
I don't want to re-elaborate on all these things, I reported many more in a couple of e-mails to this list. My point is that over the course of about 16 months these were *all* duly ignored.
I also reported a serious bug in Yojimbo: sometimes Spotlight stops indexing my Yojimbo notes, reason unknown. The result is that I can't find my Yojimbo stuff using spotlight. Workaround: delete the Yojimbo caches by hand. This was reported over half a year ago, and was not fixed since, in spite of my asking about it every once in a while. Interest shown by Bare Bones people in fixing this was minor at best.
Yojimbo has seen almost no development in the 16 months that I've owned it. I've watched other programs appear and bloom in the same time period (Yep and Leap come to mind). Yojimbo is completely stagnant. That in itself wouldn't be such a bad thing, but it is really missing out both on usability and on features. As simple examples, Yep's (and Leap's) tag support with cloud display is way, way better than that in Yojimbo. Evernote not only puts your stuff on the web, but also OCRs the text in your images and extracts their geotagging information. There is more -- I don't necessarily mean "features", but rather usability improvements. When buying Yojimbo I expected it to be developed like pretty much every Mac application, not remain stagnant.
So, why am I writing this?
Because I care. I want to let people at Bare Bones software know that something is wrong. Initially I was very happy with Yojimbo and expected development. Right now I am at a point where I'm preparing migration scripts and waiting for Evernote to become just slightly better -- then I'll move all my stuff out and forget Yojimbo. Unless something happens at Bare Bones and Yojimbo starts improving.
Another thing that prompted me to write is remembering Rich Siegel's appearance on MacBreak Weekly 74 and his opinion on the MacHeist/MacUpdate bundles. He argued that in order to maintain the real value of the software and provide good support, one needs to charge the full price. Well guess what -- the kind folks behind Yep have been selling Yep as part of bundles, and they still manage to provide excellent support and very good development speed, both way better than what I've seen with Yojimbo. They develop their software, fix their bugs, respond to bug reports and actually investigate them. So, Rich -- I don't agree with your arguments. They might be valid, but from my point of view Bare Bones should not be using them.
The response I'm really hoping for is: "hey, yes, we know, sorry, we've been developing this new version for a while now, it will be much better".
--J.
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