Yep: iPhoto For Your Documents

Posted by Nick Cotton on 02/11/07 in Applications, Home & Personal, Office

Yep Icon Yep is an application that has been dubbed by it’s creators as “iPhoto for your documents”. It is a tool for collecting, organising and viewing all the PDF files in your life. Yep boasts many features made popular by other apps like smart folders, tagging, .Mac syncing and Spotlight integration.

I have found myself using Yep more and more to keep up with managing all my Uni work and assignments, etc. I write most of my work in Pages, then export Word and PDF versions so I can open them and edit them almost wherever I go. Many of the PDFs are ending up in Yep, where I can organise them into folders based on subjects and then have Yep tag them automatically.

Yep has far too many of those cool little things that we all love, like when you mouse over a tag in the tag list, all of the documents tagged with that particular word have the word pop up in front of them, making them easily recognisable without having to dig too deeply. Yep can also scan in your physical documents so you can organise and preserve them digitally.

Where I believe Yep’s strengths really lie are in it’s organisational abilities. Yep is the perfect place to keep all of those eBooks and PDF cheat sheets that you’ve been meaning to read (I’ll master you one day Quicksilver!).

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No complaints from me here, except maybe the price is a bit of a stretch, especially for a student! The demo lets you play around with all the features and allows up to 50 documents to be imported. The full version costs $34 and is available here.

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alej744 said on

February 11th, 2007 at 5:56 pm

Yep is cool but that icon…. Boo!

William said on

February 11th, 2007 at 5:59 pm

I think I’ll try out the demo. I don’t want to pay $34, but I don’t need to manage more than 50 documents either.

alej744 said on

February 11th, 2007 at 7:13 pm

^^ Oh, wait, since when is this shareware?
I downloaded my copy back in the day when it was freeware. Maybe it’s really improved.

Indraneel said on

February 11th, 2007 at 7:38 pm

34 dollars? that’s crazy. i mean, it’s a great looking app and all, but that’s ridiculously overpriced.

Jeremy said on

February 11th, 2007 at 7:45 pm

way over priced, and its fairly easly to orgranze documents documents with folders.

Henry Hayes said on

February 11th, 2007 at 8:53 pm

Interesting, but I don’t have enough PDFs to use this. Not even worth opening when I can just use Preview. And $34 is insane.

fcodc said on

February 11th, 2007 at 9:22 pm

I personally like the free Punakea, which tags everything you want within Finder.

Rennervater said on

February 11th, 2007 at 10:55 pm

Too much software these days is over priced. ( I suppose im saying this because i am a linux person )

Sherb said on

February 12th, 2007 at 12:07 am

Looks great, but I can save $34 and put my documents into a folder.

Ben said on

February 12th, 2007 at 10:30 am

I used Yep for a few months (before it was Yep, it was Kip, and before that Pik…they’ve had some naming issues) and loved it initially. The best thing about it is the two developers, who are amazingly cordial and open to suggestions for future versions.

Ultimately it got really bogged down and slow when I had a lot of papers in there. I’ve recently switched to Papers, about which I absolutely cannot say enough good things. However, I’m a grad/medical student, and Papers is written primarily for scientists who use PubMed and read primarily scientific articles, so it’s not for everyone. But, for my purposes, it’s much better than Yep. Check it out. Only $25, but they’ve got a free public preview out for a bit longer.

Sherb said on

February 13th, 2007 at 1:46 am

@alej744: I agree, the logo is bad!

Arjun Muralidharan said on

February 17th, 2007 at 9:25 am

Well, the price is steep, but I think I’ll use it and if I ever cross 50 documents I’ll know if I need it or not.

Definitely might be helpful when I join university later this year. I love scanning up stuff intead of storing things. Need a good scanner though…

Stodgy said on

February 27th, 2007 at 12:41 am

Lovely app, except it has lousy scanner support and there is currently no way to rotate imported PDFs.