Getting Started

System Requirements

Mori requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to run.

Installing Mori

To install Mori, simply copy the application to your /Applications folder. When you first start Mori it will create your default notebook in ~/Library/Application Support/Mori.

Enter License

When you purchase Mori you will receive an email with a license file attached. If you lose your license you can get it resent to you by entering your email address on this page.

To install this license double-click it or drag and drop it onto Mori’s icon. Mori will then display a dialogue letting you know that the license is installed. Once your software is licensed you will see your name in Mori’s About box.

Visual QuickStart

1. Sources View Displays the top level entries in your notebook. The content of the selected folder in the sources view will be displayed in the entries view.
2. Entries View Displays the contents of the folder selected in the Sources View (1), or displays search results while a search is active. The Entry View can be configured to show columns for the different attributes associated with each entry.
3. Note Text View Displays the note attached to the selected entry.

Creating a Smart Folder

Smart Folders are folders that display the results of a search. Entries in a Smart Folder are “virtual” entries they don’t actually exist in the Smart Folder itself. When you select a Smart Folder, you see a list of entries stored in other locations that match the search criteria you’ve provided. Smart Folders automatically update the found list when entries are created, modified, and deleted.

1. Choose File > New Smart Folder.
2. Use the pop-up menus and text fields to define the search criteria for the folder.
3. Click the Add (+) button to expand the search criteria.

To change the search criteria of a Smart Folder, select the Smart Folder and choose the menu item Edit > Edit Smart Folder.

This is the interface you will see when you create and edit smart folders. Most options should be familiar to users of Mail.app, iTunes, or iPhoto.

But there are a few Mori specific tips and tricks that I’ll mention here.

• Rules For some rules you need to enter special values where you would expect to just edit a control or choose from a popup button. For instance for the “Kind” rule the options are:
  • “com.apple.rtfd” - matches standard text entries.
  • “public.folder” - matches folder entries.
  • “com.hogbaysoftware.mori.smartfolder” - matches smart folder entries
• Live updates of search results checkbox option. Check this if you want the search results to update as soon as you make a change to your entries. If this option isn’t checked the smart folder will be updated next time the notebook is saved, or next time you select the smart folder.
• Performance If you have a really big notebook (thousands of entries) smart folder searches can start to run slowly. You will notice this when you select the smart folder and the interface takes a moment to update. To make them run faster try to include the most limiting rules first… those rules that will eliminate the most entries. Also if you are searching for text the “Contains” option is relatively slow, so if you can avoid that option it should make the search run faster. Also if you uncheck “Sort results by” and check “Limit to” your searches will run faster.

To find an entry’s original location in your notebook select the entry and choose the menu item View > Reveal Location.

Creating a Tag Folder

Mori’s tag folders are in some ways similar to Smart Folders, in that they also collect entries based on search criteria. The difference is that you can also drag and drop entries onto a tag folder, and the tag folder’s search criteria will be applied to the dropped entries. Tag folders are a good way to quickly create related collection of entries outside of the folder/file hierarchy. For example let’s say that you wanted to be able to tag entries as “work” and also apply a “red” label to them at the same time. Here’s how you could create a tag folder to do this:

1. First choose the menu item File > New Tag Folder…
2. In the Tag folder sheet add a search criteria for “Tags contains all work” and for “Label is red”.
3. Click OK to finish creating the folder. Now try dragging and dropping one of your existing entries onto the new tag folder. The dropped entry’s label will become “red” and the tag “work” will be added to the entry. (You can see an entries tags by showing the inspector window, or by showing the Note Header View.

To change the search criteria of a Tag Folder, select the Tag Folder and choose the menu item Edit > Edit Tag Folder.

To find an entry’s original location in your notebook select the entry and choose the menu item View > Reveal Location.

Creating and editing columns

Your notebook can have multiple columns that will display values such as title, and creation date that are associated with your entries. Mori comes with a set of build in columns, and you can also create your own.

By default only a few columns are visible, to make more columns visible:

1. Choose Edit > Columns and check (by selecting the menu item with the same name as the column) the columns that you want shown.
2. Once a column is showing you can change its order by dragging the column’s header to a different location in the entry view.
3. Click in a column header to sort the entries by the contents of a column. Click again to reverse the sorting. And click a third time to clear the sorting and view your entries in their natural order.

Here’s the entries view showing the build in columns Flagged, Title, Words count, and Creation date.

You can also create your own columns, and once you’ve created them you can define new rules in your smart folders that access those columns. To create and edit your own columns:

1. Choose Edit > Columns > Edit Columns to open the column editing sheet.

For now the interface that you need to use to create your own columns is powerful, but not very friendly. I hope to fix that in the future, but for now here’s a walk through of your options when creating a new column. First here’s what the interface looks like.

The “Edit User Columns” sheet is divided into two parts. First there is a list of columns that you have already defined (Mori’s built in columns are not listed here), and next are a bunch of values associated with the select column in that list. These are the steps that you should take when creating a column.

1. Click the “Add Column” button to add a new column to the list of columns.
2. Select that column in the list, and then give the column a “Name” in the name text field. The name will only be used internally by Mori and shouldn’t contain any spaces, only letters. You won’t see this name in Mori’s user interface. Here are the names that some of Mori’s built in columns use. ‘title’, ‘flagged’, ‘dueDate’, ‘creationDate’.
3. Give the column a label. This is the name that you’ll see in Mori’s user interface. The name can include spaces. Shorter names are generally better because they don’t take up so much space when the column is being shown in the entries view.

That’s the basics of creating a new column. But there are some more options for experts.

• By default new columns can contain plain text. But if you change the ‘type’ setting you can change them to store dates, yes/no values, or different kinds of numbers. Here are what some of type types mean.
  • NSStringAttributeType, this type stores plain text.
  • NSDateAttributeType, this types stores dates.
  • NSInteger32Attribute, this type stores integer numbers like 1, 2, 42.
  • NSFloatAttributeType, this type stores floating point numbers like 1.3, 10.0, 0.27.
• Each column can also have a summary rule. When a summary rule is set entries that have children will display a summary of the values of their children. Entries that don’t have children will display their actual value. The different summary rules are.
  • None. This is the default, and means their is no summary rule.
  • Total. This summary rule displays a total of the children values. This rule is available for number typed columns.
  • Minimum. This summary rule displays the minimum of the children values. This rule is available for number typed columns.
  • Maximum. This summary rule displays the maximum of the children values. This rule is available for number typed columns.
  • Average. This summary rule displays the average of the children values. This rule is available for number typed columns.
  • Hidden. This summary rule hides the column value for entries that have children.
• The last set of options are the notebook settings.
  • Include in entry view columns list This is checked by default, if it’s not checked then the column will now show up in the list of columns that can be shown in the entries view. Unless you are creating a hidden column for a plugin you shouldn’t uncheck this option.
  • Value is editable when displayed in column This is checked by default, if it’s not checked then you won’t be able to edit the column values when they are displayed in the entries view. Again you should leave this checked unless you are writing a plugin that will manage the values in this column on its own.
  • Include in smart folder rules This is checked by default, if it isn’t checked then you won’t be able to use the column when you define rules for smart folders.
  • Include in text search index This is checked by default, when checked your searches in the toolbar search field will be able to match text that you’ve entered into the column.

Creating and using aliases

Aliases are powerful way to create multiple views of the contents of your notebook. Mori aliases are a re-implementation of MORE’s and Leo’s clones command. Any change to an aliased entry, including changes to its children, will be reflected to all other aliases of that entry. To make an alias of an existing entry.

1. Select an entry and choose Edit > Make Alias.
2. Or select an entry and choose Reorganize > Move Alias To and select a parent for the aliased entry.
3. Or begin dragging an entry and then hold down the Control key while dropping.

Entries that have aliases display a small arrow badge over the entries icon. Use the menu item View > Go To > Next Alias to reveal and select the next alias of the selected entry in your notebook.

One way to use aliases is to gather a bunch of existing entries together into a common location in your notebook. For example lets say that you are using your notebook to organize and write a book. Your might organize the text into chapters, and then sections within those chapters. But then lets say that you want to gather together all of the text related to a particular character in the book. You can use aliases to do this. Here’s a demonstration notebook that does this.

The text is organized into Chapters and sections. And then there is a folder for the character “Jesse” that contains aliases to all sections where Jesse appears.

Creating and using links

You can create links between entries in your notebook, or from entries in your notebook to email addresses, pages on the web, and more.

To create a link between entries:

1. Select some text in the text view where the link will be created.
2. Choose Text > Make Link To and then select the destination entry.
3. Or choose Text > Make Link To > New Entry to create a new child entry and link to it.

To create a link to a file on your computer:

1. Select some text in the text view where the link will be created.
2. Choose Text > Make Link To > File…
3. In the file sheet choose the file that you wish to link to.

To create a link to a URL on the web:

1. Make sure that “Show URLs as clickable links” is checked in the “Text Editing” preferences and then just type a URL or email address in the note text view.

Or

1. Select some text in the text view where the link will be created.
2. Choose Text > Make Link… to open the link editor sheet.
3. In the link editor sheet enter the full URL to link to. For example to create a link to Hog Bay Software enter ‘http://www.hogbaysoftware.com’.

This screenshot shows me creating a link from text in the note text view to another entry in the notebook. In this screen shot I’m using the note text views popup menu to create the link. I could also use the main menu item Text > Make Link To.

Creating and using sections

Sections and section links make it possible to quickly tease the structure out of a large piece of text and into an outline form. To extract a section from an entries note:

1. Select the text that you wish to extract in the entries note text view.
2. Choose Text > Extract Text Section… and give the section a name in the sheet this is displayed.
3. The selected text will be replaced with a section link to another entry that will now contain the se- lected text.

To reverse this process use the inline section command. To inline a text section:

1. Select the section link (link is colored red in the original note text view).
2. Choose Text > Inline Text Section.
3. The section link will be replaced with the section text and the child entry that contained the section text is deleted.

Creating and using tags

You can apply del.icio.us-style tags (see http://del.icio.us/) to your entries. This gives you another way to categorize entries outside of the folder/file entry hierarchy. For instance, if you are using a Getting Things Done system, then you could categorize task entries by the context that they should be done in, such as “office”, “home”, or “shopping”. Tags are searchable using Mori’s full text search, and they also can be used to create smart folder and tag folder rules. To add a tag to an entry:

1. Select the entry and choose the menu item Window > Show Inspector Window. The “Entry” panel of the inspector window gives you a text area where you can see existing tags and type in new ones.
2. Alternatively, you can choose the menu View > Layout > Show Note Header View… and in that view you can enter tags right underneath the entry’s title.
3. Or, you can setup a tag folder and drag and drop entries onto it to have the folders tags applied to the dropped entry.

Formatting Text

Mori allows many of the advanced text formatting capabilities of TextEdit when editing an entries note. I haven't yet documented those capabilities here, but the vast majority of TextEdit's "formatting text" documentation applies. To view that document open TextEdit (in your application folder) and then open TextEdit's help book and search for "formatting text".

Importing content

Mori can import a number of different text document formats, and it can also import your old Hog Bay Notebook 3.5 documents. To import content into Mori.

1. Create or open a Mori notebook into which you’ll import the content.
2. Next choose the menu item File > Import… and select the files that you wish to import.
3. Press the “Import” button to start the import process. This can be instantaneous or take some time depending on how much content you are importing.

A shortcut to importing files is to drag them from the Finder and drop them into Mori’s “source” or “entries” view to start the import process. If you drop them into the “note text view” the files will be attached to the entry displayed in that view instead of imported as distinct entries into your Mori notebook.

The only Hog Bay Notebooks which Mori can import are formats from version 3.5. Or you can just export your entries as a hierarchy of text files and folders and then import that file folder hierarchy into Mori.

Mori Getting Things Done (mGTD) Screencast

Opening multiple windows

You can open multiple windows that all view the same notebook. These windows can be configured to just show the note text view, or they can show all of Mori’s views. Each windows size, selection, and configuration will be saved when you close your notebook, and restored next time you open your notebook.

To open a new note window choose the menu item File > New Note Window. Or double click on the icon of a file entry.

To open a new viewer window choose the menu item File > New Viewer Window. Or double click on the icon of a folder entry in the sources view.

Here’s a notebook with three different windows viewing it.

When you close your notebook all open windows will be saved and restored next time you open the notebook. Use the menu item File > Close Notebook to close your notebook without needing to close any of its windows.

Plugins & Scripts

Mori can be automated and customized with scripts and plugins. You can find Mori plugins and scripts here.

To install a plugin drag and drop the plugin onto Mori’s application icon.

To install a script, copy the script into Mori’s Script Folder. There are two ways to get to the Script Folder:

1. Open Mori. Find the Script menu (it’s between the Window and Help menus, marked by an icon that looks like a scroll) and select “Open Scripts Folder.” This will open the script folder. Copy your script into this folder.

2. Use the Finder to navigate to your home folder, then dig into: Library > Scripts > Mori Scripts. Or from the Finder, use the Go menu > Go to Folder, and type:

~/Library/Scripts/Mori Scripts/

Mori’s Script folder will appear. Copy your script into the folder.

Quicksilver to Mori

Here’s one way to use Quicksilver to enter information into Mori. This is all taken from Leo’s post, I’ve just added some screenshots to help people out.

• Get and install Quicksilver
• Install Text Manipulation Actions plugin by going into Quicksilver’s Plug-ins preferences panel and checking the Text Manipulation Actions plugin.

• Add the following Applescript program to ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions/ with the name “in.scpt” (you will probably need to create the Actions folder)

using terms from application "Quicksilver"
    on process text theText
        tell application "Mori"
            tell front document
                set inFolder to entry named "Inbox"
                make new entry at end of entries of inFolder with properties {name:theText}
            end tell
        end tell
    end process text
end using terms from

• Next restart Quicksilver so it can discover your changes.
• Now invoke Quicksilver by typing Control-Space. Type ‘in’ to find your script, hit Tab twice, enter your text, and hit the Return key when you are done. The text that you entered has now been added to Mori’s inbox.

• You can modify the above script to include the contents of the clipboard by adding these lines.

set clipboardText to the clipboard as text
make new entry at end of entries of inFolder with properties {name:theText, note:clipboardText}

Searching your notebook

You can search for specific text in an open entry, in a selected folder, in all folders in a notebook, or in all of your notebooks.

You can search in the entire entry or in the entry’s title only.

• To search in an open entry, choose Edit > Find > Find. Enter the text you want to find and click Next.
• To search in a single Folder, select the folder. Click in the Search field at the top of the viewer window (or press Command-Option-F). Type the text you want to find. In the header above the results, click the button that says Selected Folder. Choose Entire Contents or Title to specify what part of each entry to search.
• To search entries in all folders, click in the Search field at the top of the entry viewer window (or press Command-Option-F). Type the text you want to find. In the header above the results, click the All Folders button. Choose Entire Contents or Title to specify what part of each entry to search.
• To search entries in all of your notebooks use Spotlight. For help on using Spotlight, go to the Finder, choose Help > Mac Help, enter “spotlight” in the search field, and press return.

You can also search for entries that are similar to other entries.

• To search for similar entries first select some entries in the source or entry views. Then select the menu item Edit > Find > Find Similar. Entries that are similar to the selected entries will be displayed in the search results listed in order of similarity.

Mori finds entries containing words that match the search terms you entered in the Search field. The words can be in any order. This is an index based search and it will not find words that appear only inside other words unless you use wildcard search terms. For example, if you enter “book” in the Search field, your search won’t find the word “notebook”, but if you entry “*book” your search will find “notebook”.

Use the words “and,” “or,” “not,” and parentheses to refine your search:

“cat and dog” finds entries containing both “cat” and “dog”

“cat or dog” finds entries containing either “cat” or “dog”

“cat not dog” finds entries containing “cat” but not “dog”

“cat and (dog or newt)” finds entries containing both “cat” and “dog” and entries containing both “cat” and “newt”

Use wildcards “*” to expand your search terms.

“note*” finds entries containing words that start with “note” including “note”, “notes”, and “notebook”

“*book” finds entries containing words that end with “book” including “book” and “notebook”

“*a*” finds entries that contain the letter “a”.

The search syntax also supports boolean and logical queries as defined by this table:

Syncing Notebooks on Different Macs

Mori doesn't yet have built-in support for syncing notebooks. I'm rushing to complete version 1.7 so I can begin implementing the 3 different ways I have in mind for Mori to keep data synced across notebooks.

Until then, some users have been using services like Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com) to copy notebooks across Macs and they report it works well for them. The only caveat I've seen from them is the need to close the notebook on one machine, and wait a little bit of time before opening on the other, particularly for large files. (Up to half an hour for about 50 megabytes at 30KB/sec.) Dropbox even puts a checkbox on the notebook's icon (as seen in the Finder) when it's finished syncing the two.

Note:

If you happen to accidentally leave a notebook open on another machine, and someone isn't available to close it for you:
1) copy the notebook in question from the Dropbox folder to the machine you're working on
2) give it a new name
3) close the notebook when you're finished with it on that machine
4) copy it back to the Dropbox folder
5) when you get back to the other machine–if there are any changes to the notebook on that machine you want to keep–you can copy the changed entries from that notebook and paste them into the new one (or vice-versa).
6) once you have a notebook with all the desired changes intact, delete the older, out-of-date, notebooks so you don't risk losing the changes you made.

View Layout

You can configure the view layout for Mori windows. You can hide views for a simpler layout, or add views to see more information at once. You can also change the layout orientation to better fit widescreen computers.

To change the view layut.

1. Choose the menu item View > Layout and then select among the different layout options.

Here’s a simplified view layout that only shows the sources and note text views.

Here’s a more complex view layout. Widescreen layout is being used, and the note text view footer and header views are also visible.

Release Notes

Upgrades are free for registered users, but I ask for donations when you find the new features useful. If you see a new feature that you find useful please let me know by donating. Thanks.

Keyboard Shortcuts

This page lists the Mori specific keyboard shortcuts.

Look in Mori’s menus to find the standard OS X shortcuts that are supported but not listed on this page. Also note that you can customize the keyboard shortcuts for any application using the OS X system preferences. Apple - Pro - Tips - Create Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts

Outline Editing Keyboard Shortcuts

View Layout Shortcuts

Navigation Keyboard Shortcuts

Text Editing Keyboard Shortcuts

Menu Commands

Application Menu

About Mori Show information panel with Mori’s version information and license status.

Preferences Open Mori’s preferences panel.

Services Display the OS X services menu. Services are one way that OS X applications can share information. To user Mori’s serivice menu items select some text in some OS X application and then choose the Mori service menu item.

• Append to Entry Appends the selected text to the selected entry in Mori.
• Append to Entry Without Styles Appends the selected text to the selected entry in Mori, but without style information.
• Make New Entry Creates a new entry using the selected text.
• Make New Entry Without Styles Creates a new entry using the selected text, but without style information.

The OS X services menu can quickly become unwieldy as every application on your computer adds menu items and shortcuts to it. If you decide to make use of the services menu we highly recommend the donation-ware application Service Scrubber. That will let you take out services that you don’t use, and assign your own keyboard shortcuts to the items that you do use.

Hide Mori Hide all open Mori windows.

Hide Others Hide all open windows on your desktop except for those belonging to Mori.

Show All Restore and display all hidden windows.

Quit Mori Quit Mori. All changes in your notebooks are automatically saved.

File Menu

New Notebook Create a new notebook.

New Entry Create a new entry.

New Folder Create a new folder entry.

New Smart Folder Create a new smart folder entry.

New Viewer Window Create a new entry viewer window.

New Note Window Create a new note window. (Same as a viewer window, but the layout is configured to just show the entries note)

Open… Show a panel for browsing the file system and opening a notebook.

Open Recent Show a submenu with shortcuts to your most recently opened notebooks.

Close Notebook Close the front-most notebook and all associated windows. This will preserve the views so that next time you open your notebook those views will open again in the same locations. If you close a notebook by closing it’s windows one by one, only the last open window will be persevered.

Save Force a save of the front-most notebook. Your notebooks are also automatically saved after 5 seconds of inactivity so you should rarely need to use this command.

Import Open a panel for browsing the file system and choosing files to import into an existing notebook. The file types that Mori can import include:

• OPML (.opml)
• Text (.txt, .rtf, .rtfd, .doc)
• Web (.html, .webarchive)
• File and folder hiearchies
• Hog Bay Notebook (.hbnk35)

Export… Open a save panel where you choose the export location and file format for the selected entries. The file types that Mori can export include:

• OPML (.opml)
• Text (.txt, .rtf, .rtfd, .doc)
• Web (.html, .webarchive)
• File and folder hiearchies

Attach File… Opens a file dialogue for choosing a file that will be attached to the note in the note text view.

Empty Trash…” Remove all entries in the trash from your notebook. This operation is undoable, so your notebook’s size won’t get smaller until you close your notebook and the entries are permanently removed.

Page Setup… Open a standard Page Setup panel for setting basic print and page formatting options.

Print… Open a panel for selecting a printer and printing the text note of the selected entry.

Edit Menu

Undo Undo the last operation in the current notebook.

Redo Redo the last operation in the current notebook.

Cut Copy the current selection to the pasteboard and delete it from your notebook.

Copy Copy the current selection to the pasteboard.

Paste Paste the contents of the pasteboard into your notebook.

Paste and Match Style Paste text on the pasteboard using the current style of the text view where it will be inserted. Use this option to ignore the text attributes of the pasteboards text.

Make Alias Create an alias of the selected entry so that it may exist in more then one location in your notebook. Aliased entries have a alias badge over the entries icon.

Delete Delete the current selection.

Complete Auto complete words while typing.

Select All Expand the current selection to select all available items.

Edit Note…” Changes the view focus from the selected entry to its note. Or of the cursor is already in the note then the view focus is changed to the note’s entry in the sources or entries list. This is the command that you will use to quickly switch back and forth between editing an entries note, and editing the entries name of location.

Edit Smart Folder…” Open a sheet to edit the search criteria of the selected Smart Folder.

Edit Columns…” Open a sheet to edit columns defined in your notebook.

Columns Display menu with options for setting visible columns and for creating and editing user defined columns.

Find

• Notebook Search Move keyboard focus to the toolbar’s search field.
• Find Similar Finds entries that are similar to your currently selected entries in the sources or entry’s view.
• Find Open the find panel to search the text note of the selected entry.
• Find Next Search for the next occurrence of a text string based on the current search string.
• Find Previous Search for the previous occurrence of a text string based on the current search string.
• Use Selection for Find Make the current text selection into the current search string.
• Jump to Selection Scroll the text view to show the current selection.
• Jump to Next Highlight Scroll the text view to show the next section of highlighted text. This can be used to find matching terms in your search results and to find sections that you have manually highlighted.
• Jump to Previous Highlight Scroll the text view to show the previous section of highlighted text. This can be used to find matching terms in your search results and to find sections that you have manually highlighted.

Spelling

• Spelling… Open the spell check panel.
• Check Spelling Search and move to the next suspected spelling error from the insertion point forward.
• Check Spelling as You Type Check and underline suspected spelling errors while you type

Speech

• Start Speaking Start synthesized speech of the selected text, or of all text if nothing is selected.
• Stop Speaking Stop synthesized speech.

Special Characters… Open the character pallet window, where you can browse and insert special characters into your notebook.

View Menu

Back in History Move back to the previously displayed entry in the text view.

Forward in History Reverse the Back in History command, moving forward to the next entry displayed in the text view.

Go To Presents a list of all entries in your notebook and will make the entry that you choose the selected entry in your notebook.

Layout

• Widescreen Layout Changes the view layout so that the note text view is to the right of the entries view instead of below it.
• Hide Sources View Hides the sources view.
• Hide Entries View Hides the entries view. If you select a smart folder in the sources view, or do a text search the entries view will temporarily be shown again to show the results, but will hide again when you select another folder in the sources view.
• Expand Note View Expands the note view to fill the window, hiding both the sources and entries views at the same time.
• Show Note Header View Shows the note header view that displays history navigation buttons and the notes title.
• Show Note Footer View Shows the note footer view that displays the notes path location in your notebook.

Expand Expand selected entry, showing its children.

Collapse Collapse selected entry, hiding its children.

Expand Completely Expand selected entry and its descendants.

Collapse Completely Collapse selected entry and its descendants.

Reveal Location Reveal where the selected entry is located in your notebook. Use this command to show where an entry selected in search results is located in your notebook.

Hide / Show Toolbar Hide the current window’s toolbar.

Customize Toolbar… Display a sheet allowing you to choose which toolbar items to show and how to display them.

Entry Menu

Mark

• As Unread Marks selected entries as unread. Entries that have never had their notes viewed are marked unread. Most entries that you create yourself are never unread since they are displayed as soon as you create them, but if you add entries to your notebook from the OS X services menu then they will initially be marked as unread. To see the unread status of an entry make the “Read” column visible.
• As Flagged Marks selected entries as flagged. To see the flagged status of entries make the “Flagged” column visible.
• As Checked Marks selected entries as checked. To see the checked status of entries make the “Checkbox” column visible.
• As Locked Marks selected entries as locked. Locked entries have a lock badge over the entries icon.

Color Label Display options for assigning a color label to the selected entry. Color labels display behind the entry’s name in the sources and entry views.

Lock / Unlock Lock / Unlock the selected entry. Locked entries cannot be moved, edited, or deleted until they are unlocked.

Move Left Outdent selected entry one level to the left, moving it to the same level as its parent.

Move Right Indent selected entry one level to the right, making it a child of the preceding sibling entry.

Move Up Reorder selected entry to be ordered back in its parent’s list of entries.

Move Down Reorder selected entry to be ordered forward in its parent’s list of entries.

Move To Move selected entry to a new location in your notebook.

Move Copy To Move copy of the selected entry to a new location in your notebook.

Move Alias To Move alias of the selected entry to a new location in your notebook.

Promote Children Move the children of the selected entry up one level to become siblings of the selected entry.

Demote Siblings Move the siblings ordered after the selected entry down one level to become children of the selected entry.

Text Menu

Font

• Show / Hide Fonts Open the font panel where fonts and font attributes can be chosen. You can also choose the background color for the selected entry’s text note from this panel.

• Bold Make selected text bold.

• Italic Make selected text italicized.

• Underline Underline selected text.

• Strikethrough Strikethrough selected text with horizontal line.

• Highlight Color background of selected text with highlight color.

• Outline Add outline text attribute to selected text.

• Styles… Show styles sheet. Styles allow multiple text attributes to be grouped and named for later use.

• Bigger Increase the font size of selected text.

• Smaller Decrease the font size of selected text.

• Kern Options for adjusting the kern (space between characters) of selected text.

• Ligature Adjust ligature settings for selected text. Ligatures are characters created by combining two or more other characters.

• Baseline Adjust baseline (imaginary line upon which a line of text rests) for selected text.

• Character Shape Used to specify traditional shapes in Chinese and Japanese scripts.

• Show Colors Show color picker panel.

• Copy Style Copy style information for selected text to the pasteboard.

• Paste Style Apply current style on pasteboard to selected text.

Paragraph

• Align Left Make selected paragraph visually left aligned.

• Center Make selected paragraph visually center aligned.

• Justify Make selected paragraph justified (adjust spacing within paragraph so that lines end evenly at a straight margin).

• Align Right Make selected paragraph visually right aligned.

• Writing Direction Flip writing direction from left to right, to right to left.

• Show Ruler Show text ruler that is used to configure tab stops, text alignment, line spacing, and text styles.

• Copy Ruler Copy paragraph settings information for the selected paragraph to the pasteboard.

• Paste Ruler Applies current paragraph settings from the pasteboard to the selected paragraph.

• Spacing… Options for line height, inter-line, and paragraph spacing.

• Link… Display sheet for adding link attribute.

• List… Display sheet with formatting options for inserting a new list.

• Table… Display sheet with formatting options for inserting a new table.

Make Link… Open the link editor sheet where a URL link can be entered that will be attached to the selected text in the text view.

Make Link To Make a link from the selected text in the text view to:

• File… Display sheet for selecting a file to link to.

• New Entry Creates and then links to a new child entry.

• Other Entries Lists all other entries in notebook, select entry that you would like to link to.

Extract/Inline Text Section Moves the selected text into a new child note and creates a section link (color red) to that new child. Inline text section reverses the process, replacing a section link with the text of the linked to section entry.

Soft Wrap Text Change text wrapping so text only wraps on new line characters. If a text line is too long to fit, a horizontal scroll bar will be added to the text view.

Clear Formatting Remove all text formatting, including manually set links, from the selected text.

Window Menu

Zoom Toggle between maximizing the front-most window and restoring it to its original size.

Minimize Minimize the front-most window to an icon in the Dock.

Float Window Makes the front window float above all other windows. When a window is in floating mode the window will remain in the foreground even when Mori is not the active application.

Close Window Close the front-most window.

Bring All to Front Bring all application windows to the front.

Script Menu

Open Scripts Folder Open folder that contains the applescripts used to build scripts menu.

Update Scripts Menu Update script menu to reflect contents of the scripts folder.

Help Menu

User Guide Open the online user guide.

User Forums Open the online user forums.

Release Notes Open Mori online release notes.

Find Plugins & Scripts Browse plugins and scripts available for Mori.

Requests & Bugs Open website page where you can request a new features or report a bugs.

Check and Repair Notebook Runs a diagnostic looking for possible errors in your notebook. You should never need to run this command, but if you are having problems of some sort I might ask you to run it to help me find or fix the problem.