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By ANTHONY HA of VentureBeat
Published: July 6, 2009
Much to the despair of old-school librarians, web search has become the default first stop when most people do research. Tomorrow, Yahoo is releasing a new tool called Search Pad to make that research even easier.
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The idea behind Search Pad is to integrate your web searches with your notes. For example, Tom Chi, senior director of user experience at Yahoo Search, says that his refrigerator was acting up last week. As he searched for information what might be going wrong, he was able to save each of his results, as well as notes from each page, in a Search Pad. That eliminated the effort of copying-and-pasting information into a separate document (since Search Pad copies links automatically as you search), and it meant that he didn’t have to start from scratch every time he returned to the research. Chi says he was able to find the problem and fix it on his own, but if he wanted, he could also have shared his results with others via a social networking service like Facebook or Twitter, or by printing the Search pad.
Yahoo announced Search Pad earlier this year, but it’s not going live to the general public until tomorrow, July 7, at 9pm Pacific. Back in February, I wondered how this improved on the competiting services like offered Evernote and Microsoft’s Thumbtack, not to mention the Notebook feature that Google shut down earlier this year. Perhaps the key distinction, as Chi pointed out, is that Search Pad is integrated directly into Yahoo Search
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Lifehacker - Download of the Day 2: Yojimbo - Mac OS X
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Yojimbo isn't even remotely related to Quicksilver. QS' only real rival is Launchbar, but even that's a stretch given QS's expandability and flexibility. Yojimbo is most like a sort of retarded little brother to DevonTHINK. DT is more expensive, but has much better searching facilities, the ability to nest folders, etc. After testing with both, I found Yojimbo to be incredibly limiting.
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I use all three. They really are for different things. QS handles a lot of task oriented stuff, esp. of course, launching apps. Yojimbo (and it's a good name. Kurowsawa didn't invent it. It's simply a Japanese word that translates as something like a bodyguard. That is, something that shields you. I use it every day for short term storage of ideas, things I've seen on the web, serials, passwords. Devon Think is for large long term projects or trails of knowledge. More like a living reference work with extremely good cross referential search capabilities.
Mac360 - How Yojimbo Organizes You On Your Mac.
ncore Review: BareBone’ YoJimbo makes keeping track of information very easy. No learning curve. Mostly. Judge for yourself.
Are there easier ways to find, store, track those little pieces of information that seem to scatter all over our Macs? Yes. Yojimbo makes it more than easy.
YoJimbo is a Mac application that changes the way you keep and track those many tidbits of information that get stuck everywhere else. Even Spotlight takes awhile to find what you’re looking for. Yojimbo is easier.
So, what are you looking for? A little of everything that doesn’t seem to belong anywhere, and my Mac is full of it—despite trying the old StickyBrain and Circus Ponies ‘Notebook and half a dozen information “organizers.”
BareBones says Yojimbo will change the way I work. Right up front, I’ll tell you that changing the way I work is hard. I’d rather have an application that sort of follows me around, collects what I need, makes it easy for me to get it back when I need it.
So, what am I looking for? AddressBook does addresses and phone numbers and directions and labels. iCal does schedules and dates and appointments and birthdays and notifications. Safari does web page bookmarks.
Mail does email (and, automatically captures all the stuff I may need inside each message—I just don’t always know where it is).
I keep all my Word and Excel documents in Documents and Spotlight usually finds what I’m looking for about as fast as I can type what I’m looking for. Usually. It also gives me a big list I have to sort through.
What should I be saving that needs to be looked for that YoJimbo makes much easier? Passwords. I keep those on Stickies. Serial numbers. I’ve kept those on stickies, and in email, and in a spreadsheet. Somewhere.
Effortless is what I need, want, and deserve. BareBones promo pages say that YoJimbo is effortless. It’s easy, but not effortless. They also say I can copy what I want to store with a click of a key. That’s easy. Except I have to look on my list of Stickies to remember which key to use in Yojimbo.
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Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible. Its so simple, there is no learning curve. Yojimbo’s mechanism for collecting, storing and finding information is so natural and effortless, it will change your life, without changing the way you work.
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There are as many uses for Yojimbo as there are users of it. It accepts almost anything — text, bookmarks, PDF files, web archives, serial numbers, passwords, or images — by dragging, copying, importing or even printing. You can get anything out of Yojimbo you put into it, too, in its original form. There’s no lock-in, export any time.
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* Effortless to install, learn and use
* Reliable and secure, it’s built using core Mac OS X technologies
* Store almost anything in Yojimbo — text, rich text, images, PDFs, even serial numbers and passwords
* Location independent access — use MobileMe and enjoy the same Yojimbo satori at home and at the office
* Organize your information any way that suits your style, from “everything in one spot” to “organized to the extreme”
* Instant Spotlight search of all Yojimbo content
* Sync notes via The Missing Sync for Windows Mobile, Palm OS, or Blackberry
How do I get Yojimbo?
To purchase new or additional copies of Yojimbo, visit our web store. Yojimbo is only available as an electronic download.
How much does Yojimbo cost?
There are three licenses for Yojimbo:
License Price Multiple Users Multiple Computers
Individual US$39 No Yes
Family Pack US$69 Up to 5, single household Yes
Educational US$29 No Yes
* Individual license is for a single user on multiple computers.
* Family License is for up to five individual users in a single household.
* Educational license is for a single academic user on multiple machines. (Student, faculty, or staff of an accredited educational
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With the need to store so many bits of data that don’t easily make up individual files, a number of applications are designed manage such disparate forms of data. Bare Bones Software has released Yojimbo 1.1, an innovative program that lets you store and manage snippets, notes, and much more.
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Several innovative ways to add items; .Mac syncing; powerful searching; ability to create custom collections.
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No user-definable smart collections; quick input panel docked in screen corner; exports bookmarks as RTF files.
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Yojimbo is all about simplicity, and its interface has a view that will be familiar to users of OS X’s built-in Mail application. A left-hand column shows “collections”, or groupings of “items.” To the right, the top pane displays a list of items in the selected collection and the bottom pane shows the content of a selected item. (You can also double-click items to view them in separate windows.)
Yojimbo exports notes, passwords and serial numbers as RTF files, and Web archives and PDFs as those types of files. However, it doesn’t export bookmarks as .webloc files—double-clickable URLs that open automatically in your browser.
You can add items to Yojimbo’s database in many ways. Besides creating items from within the program or dragging selected text or files to Yojimbo’s window, you can drag data to the “drop dock,” a translucent tab that peeks out from the edge of your screen. You can also copy text or a URL to the clipboard, then
Zotero Goes 2.0 - Makes Doing Research in Groups Easier - NYTimes.com
Zotero Goes 2.0: Makes Doing Research in Groups Easier
By FREDERIC LARDINOIS, ReadWriteWeb
Zotero, the popular open-source research, bookmarking, and bibliography tool, just released version 2.0 of its Firefox plugin, which, among other things, adds support for sharing libraries with groups. With this new version, users can now easily collaborate in groups and create group libraries. While these new functions are obviously available in Zotero's Firefox plugin, the most interesting changes have happened on Zotero's website, where groups can now create private and public sites to share their collections.
Groups: Private and Public
Earlier this year, Zotero, which is based at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, opened up the online components to its service when it released the first beta of version 1.5 of its plugin, including the ability to access a backup of libraries online and sync between different computers, as well as some very rudimentary social networking features.
Today's update represents a major step forward from Zotero's first online offerings. Now, users who are working on collaborative projects can finally share their research in an easy, straightforward manner. If you are working on a research project in a group, for example, you can now easily create a new group and all the members of the group can just add the papers and books they found to this new group, including notes and other remarks they added to the new entry.
Sadly, though, Zotero doesn't offer a storage solution yet, so every group member still has to track down the actual documents (the team is looking into adding this function, though).
Groups Make Zotero a Great Tool for Users Outside of Academia as Well
This update will also make Zotero more interesting for users outside of academia. While the service's focus is obviously on making it easy for academic users to manage their research and to create bibliographies, Zotero can also function as a general bookmarking tool for any kind of purpose.
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Missed Talks at SXSW? Learn Visually With Sketchnotes - ReadWriteWeb
Mike Rohde was named the official "sketchnoter" of the South by Southwest Interactive conference this month in Austin and his sketches are the only form of note taking we've ever wanted to spend time going through after an event. Panel discussions at conferences are notoriously disappointing, but Rohde has done the dirty work and made it easy and fun for all of us to learn the lessons that speakers like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, web standards guru Jeffrey Zeldman and many others came to Austin to share.
We love this way of learning from sessions we didn't attend and can imagine any conference having people offer visually grounded summaries of talks. Who wants to read through pages and pages of plain text notes? Check out the highlights of SXSW, according to Mike Rohde's pen.
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It's really hard to create content while at a conference. Doing it in real time, artistically, is very impressive.
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Adieu, Google Notebook - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com
Adieu, Google Notebook
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The down-spiraling economy has disrupted the plans of the strategists at Google; profit has fallen, staff has been reduced around the world, and earlier this month, the search engine giant elected to slam the door on the Google Notebook, its cloud-computing site for saving data culled from the Web.
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