The marquee addition to Yojimbo 2.2, the new Sidekick feature lets users export most types of data into a portable Web page format. Users can then take the data they've stored in Yojimbo and access it from an iPhone, iPad, or other mobile device.

"It's a very quick and lightweight way to get data off your desktop and into your pocket," Bare Bones founder and CEO Rich Siegel told .

Yojimbo is a desktop application that stores digital snippets of information--text, images, serial numbers, passwords, and any other piece of data you want to manage. "For quite a while, people wanted a way to get [data stored in] Yojimbo onto their iPhone or handheld device," Siegel said. "[Version 2.2] is a response to that."

Yojimbo 2.2's Sidekick feature provides a preference pane, where users can control which items they can export and in what folder that content gets placed. Users can export all of their Yojimbo data, though most users will want to use the application's tags feature to mark the items they want to access on the go.

Enable Sidekick, and Yojimbo creates Web pages for all designated items, adding them to a portable index page that can be easily searched. You can then access Yojimbo data via OS X's Web sharing capabilities or via a cloud-based file-sharing service. A number of devices can take advantage of the new Yojimbo feature, including the iPhone, iPad, Android-based smartphones, and netbooks.

(Image Caption: The Sidekick preference pane in Yojimbo 2.2)

There are some limitations to what you can export with Yojimbo 2.2's Sidekick feature. The application can't export Web archives due to technical constraints, and the say that putting an export on Dropbox and browsing through that service's Web interface won't work at this time.