Comments on: Together Review: Keep Your Files Together

By: Snanny

Snanny — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:54:21 +0000

I am using Together and I think it’s great. I am primarily using it to organize researh for something that I’m writing. One of the most useful features of Together is that it allows you to edit web archives. So you can save a web page as an archive within Together and then whittle it down to only the parts that you need. I also own Devonthink Personal and I found Together much more useful, specifically because of the web archive features.

By: Z

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:32:37 +0000

Strange that this app got only C+. In this category of info managers and note writers, Together comes on top with Journler. I’d give a slight advantage to Journler just because it has a better usage of the integrated web browser. Other than that Together is somewhere in the “B+ to A” range … means it’s really good.

By: rich

rich — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:24:53 +0000

I sync Together across multiple computers by accessing the same library via Dropbox. As long as you don’t have it running on more than 1 computer at a time, it works just fine.

I find the QuickLook feature both a blessing and a curse. It’s great to see the preview in a 3-pane layout, but as Sven mentioned, there’s also a short lag when displaying it.

Overall though, after evaluating the competition, I find Together meets my needs the best. And the developer is responsive and has a good support forum.

By: Fyre Vortex

Fyre Vortex — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:41:06 +0000

Good program for organization. Was looking for a program like this.

By: Sven Fechner

Sven Fechner — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:52:03 +0000

I have been using Together for quite a while now and just stop using it for a number of reasons. As you say it is pretty much advanced file management, but with some glitches really.

Together becomes kind of slow if really toss all your files into it. Especially larger Office documents such as PowerPoint make the “preview” think for ages which freezes the entire application. Obviously “Quick Look” is not used in all instances of Together and, really bad, you can’t disable the preview in order to use it as a flat finder replacement (sure you can expand the file list and “hide” the preview”, but this does not do the trick when it comes to performance).

Tagging was really the thing why I bought Together and the on-screen panel to drop files or search the file base was something I really liked. But tagging becomes very inefficient if you discover that you are mostly tagging files with keywords that are also part of the file name.

My bottom-line is: Use Together if you store a lot of PDFs, images, notes, text files and especially Web Pages (as Bookmarks, Web Archives or PDFs). It’ll come handy for this – if you look for something that manages your reference files (which can be quite a lot) Together might not be the right thing for you.

Next to the MobileMe syncing there are a few other “bugs”, which I would call rather strange behavior, e.g. if you try to open a file from the sidebar (drop area on the desktop) in its original application, it just won’t do – you can open it in a tab in Together or open Together and perform the request there…