Hallon
May 31st, 2007 by jennsbl
Rating: 4/5
I happened upon Hallon while doing a search for applications that could handle bookmarks. Hallon, however is a completely different tool than the apps meant to manage ever burgeoning browser bookmarks. It more accurately falls into a slim version of GTD (Get Things Done) app as it allows you to bookmark things in apps that you normally wouldn’t be able to tag this way and then allows you to set due dates for for given bookmarked items.
I’m finding this is a really useful utility ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù and I’m getting to really like having that red raspberry icon in my menu bar. From the developer’s web: ?¢‚Ǩ?ìThe name? I think Hallon is a nice word (and it makes it easier to come up with an icon as it is the Swedish word for raspberry).?¢‚Ǩ¬ù (-;
I do volunteer work and though I’m using MailTags, which I’ll review soon, Hallon is becoming useful to me for bookmarking things other than email that I need to act on. The basic applications directly supported by Hallon are Address Book, iPhoto 5, iTunes, Mail, Safari and Terminal in the default install. However, you can bookmark from other apps but they will labeled as ?¢‚Ǩ?ìGeneral?¢‚Ǩ¬ù in the application column of the Hallon organizer (organiser, as the developer spells it with British spelling).
As the developer chose to make this app available through SourceForge, additional applications are being added to extend the functionality for bookmarking. So far they include, Firefox, Entourage, Camino, BibDesk, Shiira, NetNewsWire & Path Finder. The developer is open to adding other applications but states that ?¢‚Ǩ?ìThe application for which you want to add support needs to have fairly good AppleScript support (it needs to be able to return a reference for the selected item and then be able to open that item by sending it the reference).?¢‚Ǩ¬ù
The only downsides I’ve encountered are, when it hits a snag ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù like I don’t actually have anything hightlighted/chosen when I tell it to add to the bookmark database ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù my MacBook Pro tends to rev like a jet engine for a few moments until I clear the error dialogue box and move on to a doable action. If you need to keep track of a variety of data that have deadlines, want to set reminders you might find this a useful organizational tool.
This app is by the same developer, Peter Borg, who did Smultron, a free text editor for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
Price: Donationware
