![]() Use it to collect information from a variety of sources. Browse different types of files using a standard three-pane interface. Organize them into folders and annotate them with tags and notes. Optionally: encrypt the files, add tags, notes, color-coded labels, and other metadata.īrowse by folder or by tag, or use the live search or smart folders to find the information you need (faster than Spotlight). On the other hand, I had a crash in the first 10 minutes of use.View, edit, or create documents directly in EagleFiler’s streamlined interface, or double-click to edit using another application.Ĭompatibility: OS X 10. If I had to say one thing, the library management seems very robust and reliable, so folks concerned about the integrity of their data could like it. Some of these little touches are nice (mail importing is especially polished and great for archiving), but all in all I’m not sure what EagleFiler brings to the already full landscape of information managers on mac. Labels are synchronized with the Finder’s. EagleFiler can also import from Mail on a mailbox basis, retaining attachments, reply/forward status (nice!) and tags created with MailTags! Only relevant to a few people, but it will make them very, very happy. ![]() Unsure if that’s useful in real life, but comforting. There’s also the fact that the document Library is actually browsable in the Finder – you can move around PDFs or notes and EagleFinder will reflect it in its interface. You get hierarchical folders AND smart folders, and if you select many their combined content is displayed. When you enter a new tag, a smart folder containing all the posts thusly tagged is automatically created. On the bright side, the tags management is interesting – tags are not free-form, like in or journler, but you have to select them from a user-modifiable list. You can insert RTF notes in the database, but not edit them right in EagleFiler – double-cliking opens them in TextEdit. It won’t let me (and you) import unusual file formats. The error window is too obstrusive for my tastes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Closing the window closes the database (which is understandable since the app is document-based, Mori does the same thing. Minor gripes: the app is very slow to start up and not very fast after. The app also does not open the last opened library on startup (you have to hunt for it in File/Opened recent)… None of this is configurable, AFAICT. Note there’s no controls for the PDF view! You can go through pages with keyboard shortcuts, but still surprising. Since that, contrary to what I said earlier, I’m not completeley sold on SOHO Notes yet (I just realized there are NO SMART FOLDERS, which are very useful in organizing automatically your stuff), I’m going to try and use this one for a while.įirst impression is not so good: the app opens a rather useless “Drop Box” window (when dropping on the app window itself is just as convenient), dropping a folder full of PDFs on EagleFiler just confused it on the first try – on the second it was fine (?)… And watching PDFs directly in the app will involve a lot of zooming in, as by default all the page is displayed, which is not so convenient for some uses (see the screenshot). Wars are not over in Information Managers land: Michael Tsai has released EagleFiler (via John Gruber) which, at first glance, looks really really REALLY similar to Yojimbo or SOHO Notes or what-have-you. ![]()
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