Bare Bones Software, authors of BBEdit and TextWrangler, has a wonderful application that helps you to organize your information called Yojimbo. It can archive complete web pages, create bookmarks, add notes, create PDFs from almost anything, create secure areas, is taggable, searchable, and is now accessible via the web. The web version, Webjimbo, allows you to access your computers Yojimbo database from anywhere you happen to be.

The setup wizard uses port 8888 as the default, but is changeable. After creating a password you are notified that you’ll be using https when accessing Webjimbo in order to create a secure connection. This can also be altered but is not recommended. After entering your computers IP address or vanity name (you can use localhost for testing) you are given instructions on setting up Yojimbo for access through your software firewall. You are instructed to setup the same port (8888) on your router, AirPort Base Station, or AirPort Express. An important tip is given at the end of the setup wizard. You are instructed to make sure your Mac isn’t setup to automatically go to sleep. Otherwise you won’t have access to your Yojimbo database. Once your finished setting up you can test your access to Yojimbo by opening a browser on your Mac and pointing it to http://localhost:8888.

The web version looks almost exactly like the application version:

Your computer needs to be accessible from the internet which can be done for free through services such as DynDNS or NoIP. Webjimbo comes with a free 30-day trial and costs $29.95.

And yes, an iPhone formatted version is coming soon.

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