Yojimbo Rating System

Friday the 13 of July, 2007 Filed in: Technology
Yojimbo 1.4 icon
If you use a Macintosh, and value organizational bliss, then you need to get Yojimbo. It will make you happy. Then, you need to get these AppleScripts that I wrote to rate your stuff in Yojimbo.

I wanted to rate my Yojimbo items just like I do my iTunes tracks. So, I wrote the following AppleScript to do the trick. It works by setting a special tag for the selected items. I personally like the bullet character (option–8), but you can edit the scripts to use any character you choose. If an item already has a rating tag then it is removed and the new tag is added.

Here is the script for giving the selected Yojimbo items a 5–star rating: 


doScript()

on doScript()

    tell application "Yojimbo"

        set theSelection to selection

    end tell

if (theSelection is missing value) then return

if ((count of theSelection) > 0) then

        my removeYojimboTags(theSelection, {"•", "••", "•••", "••••", "••••"})

        my addYojimboTags(theSelection, {"•••••"})

    end if

end doScript

on addYojimboTags(theItems, theTags)

    tell application "Yojimbo"

        repeat with thisItem in theItems

            add tags theTags to thisItem

        end repeat

    end tell

end addYojimboTags

on removeYojimboTags(theItems, theTags)

    tell application "Yojimbo"

        repeat with thisItem in theItems

            remove tags theTags from thisItem

        end repeat

    end tell

end removeYojimboTags



Mac OS X Script Menu Screen Shot
After downloading the scripts, put them in your ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Yojimbo/ folder. Then, when using Yojimbo, you should see these scripts appear in your script menu similar to this screen shot. All you have to do is select the items you want to rate, run the appropriate script, and from that point forward you can find items by their star rating. For easy access to your top-rated items make a smart-tag collection that searches by the 5-star tag.

Yojimbo rating smart-collection screen shot


Download the AppleScripts here.