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Re: Recommendation for 'everything bucket'

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Steve Hodgson <hamrun@gmail.com> wrote:

> Despite using it faithfully for a number of years I've recently lost
> faith with Yojimbo as it doesn't fully meet my needs and, although it's
> being actively developed, I suspect it never will. I find these
> so-called 'everything buckets' that archive files that may be needed in
> the future and take them away from the daily operating system
> environment to be quite valuable.
> 
> I use DEVONthink to organise material for research purposes, where it
> excels, but I don't think simple archiving of files is where it shines.
> The features I'm looking for are:
> 
> 1. The ability to easily archive files, primarily PDFs and images, into
> a 'database' that hides them from spotlight and the OS. That excludes
> Eaglefiler.
> 
> 2. The ability to easily extract file from that archive in their
> original form. From all I've heard this means Evernote isn't an option.
> 
> 3. Multiple databases for different areas. This excludes the present
> version of Yojimbo.
> 
> 4. The ability to search within files and to tag/keyword them.
> 
> 5. Actively developed - not necessarily new features, just support for
> the evolving OS.
> 
> Any thoughts?

NoteTaker is worth a look.

-- 
Thanks and regards, Shane.
"A closed mouth gathers no feet!"
Email: Beware the invalid word! shane at wonk dot demon dot co dot uk
Website: http://www.wonk.demon.co.uk/

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Recommendation for 'everything bucket' Steve Hodgson <hamrun@gmail.com> - 2014-08-01 17:46 +0100
  Re: Recommendation for 'everything bucket' Paul Förster <paul.foerster@gmx.net> - 2014-08-01 19:29 +0200
  Re: Recommendation for 'everything bucket' Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> - 2014-08-02 01:19 +0100
    Re: Recommendation for 'everything bucket' Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> - 2014-08-02 11:08 +0100
  Re: Recommendation for 'everything bucket' buggeroff@outlook.com (Ray) - 2014-08-02 11:24 +0100
  Re: Recommendation for 'everything bucket' shane@invalid.demon.co.uk (Shane Badham) - 2014-08-02 17:42 +0100
  Re: Recommendation for 'everything bucket' gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-08-02 10:11 -0700
    Re: Recommendation for 'everything bucket' Steve Hodgson <hamrun@gmail.com> - 2014-08-03 08:54 +0000
      Re: Recommendation for 'everything bucket' gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-08-03 12:46 -0700

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