Yojimbo is a powerful way of keeping all of your data organized. It can securely store almost anything including text, bookmarks, PDF files, web archives, serial numbers, passwords, or images. Information can be added to your Yojimbo collection by dragging, copying, importing, or printing. Once inside Yojimbo your data can be organized using custom tags, labels, categories, or collections. You can find things by performing a Spotlight search, or using Yojimbo’s built-in smart groups. Yojimbo even allows you to sync your collection of data to an iPad over wifi, or to other Macs using MobileMe.

Synchronization has always been Yojimbo’s most powerful feature. By utilizing MobileMe’s record-level synchronization Yojimbo can successfully reconcile changes made on two or more different Macs. With Yojimbo and MobileMe you can have the same data collection across all of your computers, but Yojimbo does not yet work iCloud.

Until Bare Bones Software releases a version of Yojimbo that works with iCloud I am relying on my old data synchronization standby, Dropbox, to get the job done.

1. I start by syncing Yojimbo for the last time on MobileMe and then quitting the Yojimbo application.
2. I make a backup of my Yojimbo collection by copying the the Yojimbo Application Support folder from my personal Library onto my Desktop. cp -R ~/Library/Application\ Support/Yojimbo ~/Desktop/Yojimbo
3. I then move my existing Yojimbo Application Support directory from my Library to an Application Support folder I created in my Dropbox folder using this command. mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/Yojimbo ~/Dropbox/Application\ Support/Yojimbo
4. Creating a symbolic link between my new Dropbox enabled Yojimbo Application Support folder and its original location ensures that changes I make to my Yojimbo collection gets synced to the cloud. ln -s ~/Dropbox/Application\ Support/Yojimbo ~/Library/Application\ Support/Yojimbo
   1. On all of your remaining computers remove the existing Yojimbo data by entering this command rm -R ~/Library/Application\ Support/Yojimbo and then repeat step 4 to bring Yojimbo syncing to Dropbox.

My Dropbox syncing technique for Yojimbo isn’t perfect. In order to avoid data corruption it is important to quit Yojimbo on one Mac and let Dropbox fully sync before starting it on another. Unlike MobileMe synchronization this technique cannot reconcile changes made on two different computers, but it is twice as fast and creates a nice backup of your Yojimbo collection in the cloud.

Interested in trying Dropbox for yourself Use this link to get signed up and enjoy the dream of being in sync across all of your computers.