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Kip : for managing paper archives

http://www.thekip.com/Site/about%20kip.html

Sweet! My paper-archiving is still kind of half-assed. I think Kip may well prove useful as a full-assed solution.


TOPICS: Mac OS X

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alan's picture

Kip is pretty cool, and...

Kip is pretty cool, and I like the idea of using it to store all those things that aren't worth archiving in a more formal library, like receipts and stuff. It would be great if it could keep a bit more information -- I'd love to see it usable as a graphical way to browse my BibDesk library, for example.

Nik_Doof's picture

Installed it and lost interest...

Installed it and lost interest quickly...

  • No way to "select all" and "delete" all of the example stuff they add in
  • .Mac webdav based uploading, but no option for my own DAV server

While it may fill a gap for some people, my requests dont seem (that) unreasonable.

emory's picture

Installed it and lost interest...

Nik_Doof wrote:
Installed it and lost interest quickly...

  • No way to "select all" and "delete" all of the example stuff they add in
  • .Mac webdav based uploading, but no option for my own DAV server

While it may fill a gap for some people, my requests dont seem (that) unreasonable.

1) Command-A is Select-All as expected. Command-Delete isn't delete, though. You can drag selected items to the Trash or context/right-click and pick 'Delete' against all selected items.

2) Well, it isn't using DAV as much as just using a mounted filesystem and copying things to it. You could create a symlink for the directory it puts in ~/Documents onto any filesystem you want, DAV or no.

I think that continuing to throw things into DEVONthink is the way to go for most things, but I *really* like that little magnifier that lets you surf un-indexable documents such as handwritten notes!

I end up with a lot of things that I have to heavily tag in DEVONthink if they're not machine-indexable.

Though I guess I'm tagging things in Kip too, so I suppose ultimately I was just blinded by the nice rack on Kip. Now, the morning after, the stink of booze and cigarettes lingering in the air, I see that one day my ability to be easy impressed by glitzy things may well kill me.

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Emory lives in Providence, RI and works as an information security engineer and researcher, and also writes about mobile technology for fine publishers such as O’Reilly and O’Grady’s PowerPage.


His hobbies include Aikido, backgammon, motor scooters, chronic anxiety and World of Warcraft.

 
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