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Got one word for you: Evernote.

Yojimbo is a 3/5 at best. Each paid update provides very little and it's been way too long for mobile support. That's why I switched to 1Password. You can argue that they are different programs but when Yojimbo came out it was the best one to offer encrypted notes/passwords but unfortunately Barebones has been lacking creativity in the last few years so 3/5 would be more appropriate to challenge them to up their game.

mwreader, on 26 January 2011 - 07:28 AM, said:

Barebones does seem to be resting on their laurels at this point. It makes some sense given how long their primary products have been in development, but there does seem to be a lot they are leaving on the table. I haven't felt the need to upgrade Yojimbo past version 1 and the last few updates to the BBEdit haven't offered anything I found that useful. I use both daily and they work well for me, but unless there are some significant new features and refinements the updates just aren't worth it for me.

You said Yojimbo for iPad syncs with the Mac version... how is that not syncing with mobile devices?

Compared to DEVONthink Yojimbo is a toy program. To manage my documents I would never use Yojimbo again. Yojimbo did not (and I think still does not) handle PDFs etc well whereas DEVONthink can ever search over it.

To make things worse Yojimbo let me upgrade the program w/o letting me know that this is a paid upgrade and then tells me that I can only use it for 30 days. Now I need to go back and revert back manually to my old version.

Andreas, on 26 January 2011 - 08:11 AM, said:

For what it is worth, my copy of Yojimbo 1 handles PDFs just fine.

Please read this review of SlipBox (I'm not affiliated in any way with SlipBox except that if it hadn't been for SlipBox, I may have given up entirely on using any of these types of applications):

http://db.tidbits.com/article/8720

It boils down to what you will actually use. I have both Yojimbo and NoteBook. I started out with NoteBook several years back, and I usually found myself ending up a bit lost in it and frustrated by it. While I am still putting things into both, I find myself using and liking Yojimbo more and more because it has just the right (shallower) depth of organization for me. NoteBook will be the favorite of the more meticulous and those who really want or need the self-contained structure of the notebooks it creates. There is good reason for NoteBook's deeper levels of organization for some (students and teachers, especially), but, I think, not for me. Slamming a Readability PDF into a tag collection in Yojimbo or saving a software serial in its template is quite enough for my uses.