Mori for Mac

User Reviews

• Stable, Useful, Creative

  rpphoto555October 3, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This is easily my favorite organizing-type app I've tried, and I own most of them. The changes are a direct response to user input, and the app just keeps getting more and more ingenious.

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• DWISOT:

  stam66July 6, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Does What It Says On the Tin

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• Excellent... for English people!

  mrmotteJuly 5, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I find this software really amazing. I wish I could use it everyday. But I found two bugs for people using other languages than English that prevent it (at least for me) to be usefull. First, some accentuated characters (like ê, ë, and ô) cannot be typed within Mori. Second, accentuated characters are lost when sending data into my iPod. Integration is importation to me, and for now, Mori does not play well with my other tools and with my language (French). I hope that will change in the future...

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• Mori gets it right.

  jticeMay 19, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I liked Hogbay Notebook and followed Mori through its initial stages. With the new release (1.2) Mori is ready for prime time. The intuitive interface and cohesive feature set allows you to manage projects, lists and text documents with grace. I've licensed a number of notebook apps, such as NoteTaker, that I thought had potential but which ultimately failed to hold up their end of the relationship. Based on a cute metaphor with features that sound exciting in a descriptive paragraph, ultimately the overhead created by a confusing interface is unacceptableâ??â??like driving tacks with a sledge hammer. In the tradition of old favorites such as More, Acta and In Control, Mori frees you up to manage ideas and information. Elegant, stable, does what it does very wellâ??â??five stars. One nice feature is delivered via applescriptâ??â??with a few keystrokes one can invoke Quicksilver, capture a thought, and send it directly to Mori. It takes about six seconds (the slowest part is typing the words), works from within any app and Mori never even comes to the front. Slick. That's just oneâ??â??try it.

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• Ugh

  Steven P. JobsJanuary 13, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I'm an owner and BIG fan of Hog Bay Notebook. But Mori is, at this point, a real mess. All of the simplicity and little touches that make HBN a pleasure to use are missing here. A few random items: - It insists on creating an extra metadata folder in the same directory as your file. Isn't this why Apple has a Caches folder? - It doesn't allow a horizontal split view like HBN. Combine this with a large fixed font size for the sidebar, and it becomes semi-unusable on smaller notebook screens. - Smart folders seem only partially implemented. I couldn't make a smart folder based on labels. I could go on. I'm being semi-generous with my star ratings, as I recognize the developer is starting from scratch with essentially a new product, and I hope it will improve. But for the moment, I certainly can't recommend it. Try Hog Bay Notebook until Mori matures.

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• Great app

  VersionTrackerUserOpinionDecember 29, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />First, the responsiveness of the developer to users is unparalleled in the business. Bugs are squashed quickly, and it looks like new features will be developed fairly quickly as well. Here I'm comparing the pros and cons of Mori with OmniOutliner Pro, I'm giving the nod to Mori, but each has advantages. -Mori has clones and links, OO is still missing these; if they don't show up in OO's next major update, you've got to wonder about their priorities as a "power outliner" -IMO, Mori gives you much more flexibility in organizing and navigating your outline, and this is what puts it over the top. A simple feature missing from OO (as far as I can tell) is sorting by date modified, important for me to have access to entries I am working on. In Mori, with clones, you can also drag files to the left pane for easy access. And then there are smart folders. Also the developer is planning to add del.icio.us-style tags (according to the forum), this will be another killer feature. In OO, I'm not sure how you can easily replicate any of this functionality -- you can tag something manually with columns and then sort, but that is not as convenient as some of Mori's options. You can drag files to the sections pane for easier access, but without clones, you've got to remove them from your outline structure. For large and complex outlines, it's just not as easy as it should be to work in OO. - In OO's favor, you have inline notes (i.e. notes directly below the entry, a great feature), text that wraps in the main entry area (a major strike against Mori -- please add this!), and export to Word. Obviously use of styles is where OO shines. As I'm more interested in data organization, I didn't appreciate this until I tried the app -- it can be very useful even if you're not exporting.

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