Software like this really need to have a built-in OCR engine, Yep! doesn't. It has been like this for a year or more now. Perhaps the biggest unresolved and obvious bug is that if you opt to buy directly from Ironic Software, Yep! does not have an autoupdate feature. There are, of course, many variations of this type of search. You click that and locate the article you had in mind. You can then use Quick View to see which articles might be useful. If you've tagged the articles well, you can search for the word "legibility" and in the tag viewer you see the tag "contemporary art," so you click it, instantly narrowing your search results. Say you are looking for an article on contemporary art that contains the word "legibility." You know that one article you want to find also discusses Marcel Duchamp. to sift through every day, Yep! offers some excellent search capabilities. If, like me, you have a lot of research papers, books, etc. I have around 5,000+ pdf files on my hard drive and about ⅔ of them are currently locatable thanks to Yep's tag management (the other ⅓ need to be tagged). Fortunately I have the bandwidth and storage space so backing up an extra 6000 PDFs isn't a problem, but I didn't expect that Yep could wreak such havoc on my file system so quickly, especially when I told it not to display the contents of the folders that contained these files. Even though I unchecked all the locations, so it shouldn't have been messing with anything. Now all of those files are detected as changed, even though I did nothing to them, by my Chronosync and Hazel rules, because Yep was copying all my OS X tags to its obsolete OpenMeta tagging system. Maybe it wanted to finish what it was doing before I unchecked the preferred locations.Īnd not only did it display them, it changed the Extended Attributes on all of them. It brought my Mac to a crawl.Īnd.even though I unchecked all the "preferred locations" to try to stop it slowing my system down, it still displayed a ton of files, seemingly picked at random from across my HD. Five years later, pretty much everything you can do in Yep, you can do in the Finder.īut.I made the mistake of installing Yep to see if it could do some rapid, keyboard based tagging of a directory of 600 or so PDFs. 2011), there was no tagging in OS X, and the developers of Yep were actively involved in developing a tagging standard called OpenMeta. Yes, it's a bit buggy, and some things just don't work as I expect them to, but I've managed to tame it for my needs, and I'm happy. Someday I'll spend the time to see if something has been added to YEP that will help me be more productive, but until then, it's doing the job I purchased it for. Having several different ways to locate documents makes it easier to find documents when I need them. When I want to find documents, I begin with Spotlight, if I can't find it, I use a spotlight based tool to dig deeper, and lastly I look in my directories to locate the document. I know YEP can do a lot more, but for this one task alone it's well worth the cost. When I get some time, I move the processed documents into their final resting place (folders organized by type of document, subtypes, and years) in the hope that when I need to locate it I can find it even if I forget the name and/or unique keywords. I often use it to combine documents, which may require me to find related documents in YEP. The next step requires YEP, I use YEP to view and then properly name each document. When they are first created I put them in a folder where they can then be OCR processed, or not, depending upon their source. I scan and manage a lot of PDF documents.
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