EagleFiler Press
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August 2008 - EagleFiler is among Susan’s Favorite Mac Software:
It’s really nice to have a place to put old e-mail (you can archive your Mac inbox in Eaglefiler), store Web pages and PDFs, and accumulate research materials.
July 2008 - Clay’s Digital Classroom likes EagleFiler for note management.
May 2008 - NoodleMac does a short review of EagleFiler:
Remarkably useful and elegant personal information manager. Stores and retrieves almost anything; email, snippets, URLs, photos, images, documents, files, whatever. Simple design, highly flexible organization.
May 2008 - Web Worker Daily writes:
After six months with it, I’m still loving my $430 Fujitsu ScanSnap. Coupled with a copy of EagleFiler and a cheap shredder, it gets me as close to the paperless office as I ever expect to get.
April 2008 - EagleFiler tops Dana Kashubeck’s list of apps she uses.
January 2008 - InformationWeek reviews EagleFiler:
EagleFiler provides a simple way to keep track of documents, images, e-mails, and Web pages. Unlike other outliners, it uses the standard Mac filesystem and applications to help futureproof your data.
September 2007 - David Sparks reviews EagleFiler in episode 125 of the MacReviewCast (audio starting at 10:28) and at MacSparky:
I like the user interface. It is clean and doesn’t get in my way. Unlike some of the other data management programs, EagleFiler seeks to organize all of your data. You can drop just about anything into it, including mail, Web pages, PDF files, word processing documents, and images.
August 2007 - Circle Six Design:
C-Command, the makers of the excellent Spam filtering software, SpamSieve, have released an app called EagleFiler. This app seems to have existed under the radar for a little while now, but I thought it was time to give it a try. I’m now a die-hard user. Here’s why…
August 2007 - EagleFiler is one of Angela Booth’s Best Mac programs for writers found in 2007:
Press F1 and it’s saved. Fantastically useful, especially since it saves all Web pages, PDFs etc in on your hard drive, not in a proprietary format. I use it to keep track of Comments I make on blogs and forums, and email messages I write to my writing students.
June 2007 - Leo Laporte features EagleFiler as his software pick of the week on MacBreak Weekly 45 (audio starting at 56:30).
March 2007 - Melodie Neal’s Deep Litter “Litter Sorters: A Personal Evaluation of Mac Organizer Software” looks at EagleFiler:
Eaglefiler stores files individually, in dedicated folders, and uses an SQL database to manage files and their contents. This meets my criteria for separate storage, and ensures that I can get files out of the application in the same format that they went in, because Eaglefiler does not alter the formats.
She ends up choosing EagleFiler, in part because:
I can drag an item from the Eaglefiler “Records List” window straight into the Curio “Idea Space,” and because Curio uses links to files in the underlying file system (unless you specifically tell it to import its own copy of a file), Curio references the same physical instance of the item as EagleFiler. This gives me EagleFiler as the “filing cabinet full of folders of stuff,” and Curio as the work space for aggregating bits and pieces into a greater whole. It also gives me simple data exchange between the two applications, without keeping duplicate copies of documents, and wasting disk space.
March 2007 - IT-Enquirer writes:
EagleFiler gets five cubes for archiving e-mail from me.
November 2006 - SurfBits reviews EagleFiler 1.0.2:
Obviously Eaglefiler isn’t the first product of its kind in this category but after using it for awhile, a few things become clear. The developer has done an excellent job of integrating it with the rest of the operating system. He’s also looked at the real world needs of people and how they interact with their information and then built a product around those needs.…It is a very mature 1.0 release and as long as he continues to listen to his users, Eaglefiler has a bright future ahead of it.
November 2006 - Ted Goranson writes about EagleFiler in About This Particular Outliner:
Suppose we added yet more item types to the hierarchy, and we made them active, and we allowed them to have drags to assign or change behavior. I claim to have invented this and have explored all sorts of different behavior. It’s nice to see EagleFiler use it in a simple, elegant way. One sort of metadata that EagleFiler manages is the notion of a “tag.” The user can create these and they appear in a Tags folder. If you drag a file in EagleFiler to one of the tags (which exists in the same source list as other folders) the file gets assigned that tag. Tags are user-defined and have an icon or badge associated with them. It’s a clever UI for assigning metadata, and is generalizable to any outliner.
October 2006 - Tim Gaden of Hawk Wings reviews EagleFiler 1.0.2:
I was very impressed. It is more flexible than Yojimbo. Its open format makes it more attractive than SOHO Notes. EagleFiler doesn’t have the full range of extra features—syncing, blogging support, full-screen option, alarms, etc—that SOHO Notes provides. That’s a pleasing lack of feature bloat for me.
October 2006 - Daniel Jalkut reviews EagleFiler 1.0.2:
[The open library] is a dream feature for timid, uncertain users. And it’s what makes the application more of a true “filer” than some of the other solutions. While other apps do a great job of storing your information, you are not so free to dump the contents out on the floor and go rummaging through them. With EagleFiler, you can empty the filing cabinet before you burn it. Other applications tend to offer similar abilities, but only through explicit “export” commands, where the sanity of the resulting data is in the hands of the application. EagleFiler makes it easy to jump on board, because it’s just as easy to jump back off.