Mori1.6.13j28

It was sad day when Hogbay notebook changed from a text organizer to an outliner. It was a sad day when notebook was discontinued and Mori was introduced with a different file format. It was a sad day when Mori was sold to another developer. It was a sad day Mori didn't get developed much. It was a sad day when Mori ceased to exist. It is a sad day that no other app comes close to what was Hogbay notebook version 2! Idiots!

Link to the developer's site is not working any more (Error 404!) Bought this a long time ago and loved it. RIP.

I really like Mori - it's as close to the Windows app "MyInfo" as I could find. I use(d) MyInfo for years to hold all my various info (many, many, many websites), when I switched to Mac, I needed a replacement - Mori was it. In fact, I think it was the first Mac app I bought (back when it was still Hog Bay's). But the new developer hasn't done squat other than announce that the upcoming (whenever that is) "Pro" version will be 200 freakin' dollars. Meanwhile there are all these great new to-do apps and calendar apps and so on and so forth. DevonThink rolled out a 2.0 version of their product. Mori remains stuck in the mud. Evernote covers a lot of the ground Mori did as well - I just don't want to put critical data out there on it. If the Apokalypse doesn't want to work on Mori - fine - but find someone who does and sell it to them at least. Mori is a great app ... but there is zero developer support or development on it now, and this has been the case for at least six months. Buyer Beware.

Be sure to keep a backup of your previous application (1.6.4 or prior) Using Mac OS 10.4.10 on a MacBook Pro, I'm unable to open any of my prior notebooks with version 1.6.5. Luckily I had a zipped copy of 1.6.3 that I could revert to.

Mori looks good but one thing that I don't like is the search. For example I have "brownies" in one of my text file. I type "brown" and I have no results, I type "brownies" and I get my result. Ok if I type "brown*" I will have my result, but I don't like this way of working.

So after a complete debacle where the developer destroys the development line of the best notebook application. He then starts again to make a complete mess of an app. He doesn't work on it for a year, then sells it ? Where are all the paid users in all this - *ucked is where.

The version number is still 1.2. Did you forget to update it in the app, or is the download link not up to date? (Or am I missing something...?)

I have tried quite a few info organizers and Mori beats them all. It doesn't lock you into one way of organizing, nor does it limit the types of info that you can organize with it. Also, unlike some other products I have tried, the developer is quite to respond to questions and participates in the user forums. Mori is fast and reliable and sells for a very reasonable price.

Mori gets confused ... its own database suddenly get mixed up with the result I'm searching for "Dog" and get an entry "Cat" which has nothing to do with "Dog". A Clone "Horse" I drag to a folder magically is turned to an entry named "Bird" (existing in another folder) ... and so on. Nothing I could rely on, though it has such a great potential. Not now. Needs work.

It's a bold move to discontinue a popular application like Hog Bay Notebook and start from scratch. Mori has a lot of potential, but in its current state, it is a downgrade from HBN and a preview of things to come rather than a useful program. Some changes are for the better, some are for the worse. Let's start with the good stuff: - Jesse Grosjean, the developer, is probably the most responsive shareware developer on the planet. He has always been exceptionally open to suggestions and requests, and with Mori, he took his genuine interest in interacting with his users one step further: He set up a voting system on his website where you can submit feature requests, rate the suggestions of other users and directly influence the development of Mori. This is a great idea, and certainly something other developers can learn from. - Mori's featue-set is extensible. You can write a plugin if you have the skills and share it with others. - Mori has smart folders and supports Spotlight - a huge improvement over HBN. Now for the bad stuff: - The interface has become less customizable - no vertical split view, no folders drawer, no bookmarks list - and the Mail 2 interface (which I don't like at all) makes complex projects more difficult to navigate. - There are so many features missing that I don't know where to start. There's no point listing all the details that make HBN a better program when Mori doesn't even have basic features like printing. You can't export the contents of a folder as a single continuous file, there are almost no preferences you can set, etc. Granted, these features will be added over the next few months (and years?), but it's impossible to use this program without them. In summary, Mori is not ready to replace HBN. It's a technology preview, nothing more. I still give it five stars in the Value category because your license is valid for both Mori and the last release of HBN. That's a great deal: For $28, you get the best notebook/organizer money can buy and a new software project with a lot of potential on top of it.

For the price this is a very good outliner. Would be perfect for me if I can get the todo/alarm/calendar ability into this software. I tried using HBN in meetings, and the speed, ease of use are very well done. I work in a production factory where we deal with small things that goes wrong from here and there. So it is important to be able to record down these 'little' issues and make sure a good solution is in place and monitor the execution. This is the part that a todo/alarm/calendar comes into play. For example, after typing a problem in the outline, I want to set this to be on a todo list, also set the alarm to remine myself to go check on this problem. A calendar will gather all these todos together for me in a complete view. Sounds like PIM? well, most PIM/todo (Entourage, Outlook, Life Balance, IMOnTime, etc) do well in their own field. At the moment I need to use 3 applications together to achieve what I want to do and very often it means re-typing the same issues in all 3 app. Very time consuming and problematic. I switch from Windows months ago, and there is only 1 application I found in Windows world that does this. "Info Select" from Micro Logic. Ugly looking app but did all the above nicely and quickly. I tried a dozen of outliner in the mac and Hog Bay Notebook seems to be the best one. I would recommend this to anyone who want a solid outliner software, and would be the replacement to Info Select for me; if it include the functions I mentioned above.

. I would really like to see an ability to save notes to an iPod and/or a Palm device.

I am so disappointed with Hog Bay 3. I loved version 2 for collecting, organizing and viewing my thousands of txt, rtf files. I don't want an outliner. I want the functions available in 2 with its clean, intuitive interface. I have Omni Outliner. I don't need another. If Hog Bay is going to go this route, then I second recommendations already made: split the product - Version 2 (Notebook) and Version 3 (Outliner with notebook functions).

Yikes! Version 3 is totally different from version 2. How can this be? A new version shouldn't take a totally new approach. It should add to the old. It should enhance the existing concept. It should present the old and add it with cool new functionality. What if each version of iPhoto or iMovie would be totally different? That's not any good either! While many would embrace the new outliner-style NoteBook, I'm afraid this new version will scare off many of the people who fell in love with the clean, simple and intuitive version 2. Version 2 was like a dream come true. It presented me what I wanted, with folders and documents in a drawer. This is how my brain actually works! Organizing the stories I write, I could add ratings and labels. How intuitive! Hog Bay NoteBook was the best in its kind! Now it presents me a split-window outline view? I went away from this concept in the first place switching from OmniOutliner to NoteBook. Now NoteBook presents me OmniOutliner with extra functionality. Why not call it Hog Bay Outliner? While many new to Hog Bay NoteBook may embrace the new style, and many existing NoteBook fans may learn to appreciate the new interface, I'm less than thrilled! Yes, version 3 may be the best in its class in what it does, but that's not the point. I thought I could count on NoteBook forever, and that with each new version I would be presented with cool new stuff added to the old clean and masterfully crafted interface. Now, I have to look elsewhere if the version 2.3 which I use breaks down with a future system update (or maybe Mac OS 10.4). Please developer; I beg you, don't move yourself from your valued customers! Don't say to us: Just stick with what we bring you! Please undo this mistake and incorporate the outlining feature within the old concept and I will be fine and you will keep a customer. You can combine the old with the new by presenting the user with different NoteBook styles. Heck, I'll even pay you money for each version. As long as you give me back the old, added with new functionality. To those happy with the new approach, I'm happy for you. And I hope you will enjoy the new NoteBook. For me, I have to think about using it. (Oh, it's also no good if a new version doesn't open the previous version documents and that you have to import them from within the app instead. That's not intuitive. This is not what I liked about Hog Bay Software.) Okay, I may sound too negative to some, but it's my right to complain, and it's your right to love the new NoteBook.

HBN has been the smartest and most elegant notepad app available on the Mac since version 2, and version 3 offers even more value - now you get a full-grown outliner/text processor/database with great new features for collecting, arranging, and exporting stuff. If you count the features, version 3 is most definitely an improvement. However, all these enhancements make the interface more complex and distracting than the previous version, and for the first time, I found myself thinking more about the program itself than about the work I was trying to get done with it. The old interface was efficient, simple, and so well designed that you forgot that it was there the very moment you started to use it. Now you have to fiddle around with crowded menus, outlining lingo like "hoist" and "unhoist" and unintuitive shortcuts. That's not to say that HBN 3 is a regression; on the contrary. More than ever, HBN is the king of the hill, it's just that the king's crown and scepter are in a more baroque shape now. Which means more glamor, but less pleasure for fans of the "form follows function" style. $20 is a very humble price for the wealth of features you get, and if you are looking for a notebook app, this is your lucky day (take my word for it; I tried literally every notebook-like Mac program, from free to expensive). But the best thing is that the serial number you buy is valid for both the new and the previous version, so you can decide for yourself which version you prefer to use.