Mori1.6.11Your notes, organized.

For Mac users with lots to do. Mori is a digital notebook that makes it easy to record and organize your thoughts. Unlike the alternatives, Mori doesn’t box you into one way of thinking. Instead Mori’s simple and flexible design puts you in charge of your information. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

A place to remember your notes and organize your ideas

Imagine a notepad that grows and grows. No matter how big it gets, you can search it in an instant, as if it’s all written on the back of your hand.

Mori is your notebook, project manager, research assistant, and more. In other words, Mori lets you decide how you want to keep your information. Notes, tasks, clippings, and writings: Mori does them all.

Rich Media Notes

Mori allows you to make notes in the way that’s most meaningful for you, with stylized text, images, audio and more.

Rich text formatting gives you the tools to easily present your message with style, wit, and emotion. Write in multiple languages as easily as using multiple fonts. Use hypertext to link to relevant documents on the web or your network. Embed PDFs or eye-catching lists and tables formatted to perfection. Sophisticated kerning and ligatures for superior typesetting control. Integrated checking of grammar (on Leopard) and spelling while you type. Dictionary-based word completion hints, and more.

If pictures can’t adequately capture the details, then incorporate audio files, or even movies, to better express your creative mind.

Mori’s power means you have choices: multiple fonts, styles, color, kerning, ligature, baseline, height, multilingual support; indentation, spacing, alignment, tabs and margins on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis; style, and attachments such as images, audio, video and even virtual reality.

Outlines

Mori follows your lead, letting you determine how your notes are laid-out so it’s easier for you to use them.

Mori doesn’t just collect notes in folders, creating huge lists for you to scroll through everytime you need something important. Your notes can be organized into outlines. You can group your notes into folders like some other note programs do if you like. But you can go further with Mori. Put folders in other folders. Nest notes into other notes and folders as deeply as you need them to be. And it doesn’t matter in which order you wrote them: you can rearrange and structure entries to suit your thoughts.

Or, if you want an entry or a branch of the outline to be present at several locations, create aliases to the entry in question and move them to where you’d like. Then, any time you change any entry within that branch, the change will be reflected everywhere else you have its alias. You can also copy a branch of the outline, again of any size, if you need to keep a record of it as it was at one time.

When you’re inspired to work on a new idea, write out your thoughts in the Source View just as they come to you. Whether you write out the complete outline first or only the big picture, Mori stays out of your way and tracks the entries for you. Your solution determines the structure of your notebook, and it remains pliant as your needs change or become clearer.

Mori even turns your notes into putty in your hands. And not just with drag and drop manipulation of text. Select a part of the note. “Extract Text Section…” Mori will create a child entry with that selection, and you can move it about the outline too. If you later decide you no longer need it as a separate section, just “Inline Text Section” and the sectioned note will be integrated back into its source. Changes and all!

Out of Your Way, or In Your Face, Mori is All About You

Adjust the sizing of the three main views of your notebook. Switch views from Standard to a Widescreen layout. Or hide the Source and/or Entries views to give yourself the headroom you need to focus on your thoughts. This is your notebook…let it reflect your personality.

Leave Mori's windows in its own "layer", or selectively "float" them so you can move info between your notebooks and other apps.

Customize the toolbar like you do in the Finder. Only in Mori, you can also add your favorite scripts to have them at your fingertips. Open another window on a note, and you can view two at the same time. Or many more. And note windows can customize their toolbars separately from notebooks, so you stay organized.

Organization Tools

In the Information Age, the biggest problem isn’t whether the information you need is available or not. The biggest problem is being able to find it. Mori not only lets you create or capture very large quantities of information, it lets you categorize and organize them in the way you need them.

Every entry in a Mori notebook has a set of attributes designed to let you organize, categorize and classify data just the way you want. Use Mori’s tagging system to define the categories that notes and entries go under. Use its checkbox field to mark off items on your todo or wedding registry lists or guests who’ve RSVP’d to your invitation. Rank items by their importance with the rating attribute. The flag column is a useful way to identify high-priority items. Use the due date column to serve as a reminder of when bills are due, or when you have to appear in traffic court. Even color-code entries with Mori’s Finder-like labels, so you can tell at a glance what category the items you’re reviewing fall under.

And if Mori doesn’t already know what’s important about the entries you keep in your digital notebook, let it know.

Search

Information Overload. It’s a common occurrence. People get so much data thrown at them, it’s easy to lose track of the info they need to keep track of. Finding it again isn’t the problem: what’s important is finding it when you need it.

Mori’s built-in indexed search will let you search a notebook for the entries you need. You can even match entries based on wildcards. And have them all sorted by relevancy. Save frequent search terms so the results are instantly accessible. Mori even supports Spotlight for the times when you don’t remember which notebook the details are in, or to search your notebooks from any app.

Now, you don’t need to worry you’ll lose track of some detail because it’s buried under too much information. Now, your work is thriving and you’re more productive than ever because you’ve got Mori…and all the information you need.

Customize Mori to Fit Your Work and Life

Sometimes, the columns already set up for you just don’t let you organize your notebook the way you want. If you’ve ever tried to shoehorn your thoughts into off-the-shelf software or pre-printed planner pages, you know how frustrating it can be. That’s why you’ll love Mori’s User Columns. Define the columns you want, to hold the data you want, and act the way you want; Mori will then generate a new notebook with those columns, using the same Core Data technology from Apple that it uses to quickly search through its records, so your own notebook data isn’t treated like a second-class citizen.
You’ll be able to display your columns right next to the ones previously defined by Mori, sort on them, and even use them to search for entries to include in Mori’s Smart Folders, something you can’t do in Finder.

How can Mori help you?

If you’ve got things to remember or ideas to organize Mori can help.

  • Food lovers - Keep all of your recipes in one easy to find place. Rate the success of each recipe and create a smart folder that will collect your favorites.
  • Students - Don’t forget another assignment. Keep your class notes, todo items, and projects all in one place. Need to find something fast? Just type in the search field for instant results.
  • Writers - Writing the next great novel? Grinding through a thesis? Use Mori to help structure your writing. Use aliases to gather all text related to a single character into one place. Use links to join your thoughts until they make sense.

Mori grows with you

If your needs are simple Mori stays simple. If your needs are more complex Mori can help.

Mori uses the familiar organizational notions of files and folders. But Mori doesn’t stop there. Mori gives you Smart Folders, so notes show up automatically when they match criteria you set up. Sort your data alphabetically, or by the date you created it. Or create an entirely new category: for example, keyword, due date, price, etc. Color-code your notes. Rate them. Mori doesn’t force you into anyone’s system; it grows with you.

Is Mori the best choice for you?

Buying a note manager can be a daunting process with many choices. On one hand you have great outlining programs. If your goal is lists and outlines, try OmniOutliner. On the other hand you have powerful and complex note databases. If your goal is to create reference database of "everything" try DevonThink. But if you need something in-between, give Mori a try. We think it’s the ideal place for your day to day notes, projects, and activities.

User-powered software

We deeply trust your instincts and opinions, and so we’ve developed a user-powered software development process. We invite you, as a user of Mori, to directly participate in its development process, by requesting features, reading other people’s requests, and voting on them so we can prioritize our time. We love this feedback; come and join the community, and make Mori even better.

Features

With a UI modeled on iTunes, iPhoto and Mail, you’ll quickly get up to speed on Mori.

Hit the ground running

Used iTunes, iPhoto, or Mail? Mori’s familiar interface lets you get to work fast.

Smart folders, tags, links and aliases are just some of the tools that are an organizer’s dream.

Organizer’s dream

Sort, Link, and Alias your notes until they match what you are thinking.

Whether you leave one notebook open or many, work the way you want to at any moment.

Match your own style

Use a single notebook or have many. Even open multiple windows viewing a single notebook.

Work smarter

Mori’s Smart Folders work for you behind the scenes, collecting the data you want 24/7.

Never lose another note

Search through your entire notebook in a flash. Or use Spotlight to search all notebooks at once.

Customize what information is tracked and how it’s displayed to your own delight.

Customize your experience

Add extra information to each note using columns. If the built in columns are not enough you can define your own.

Use AppleScript to automate Mori and integrate with other applications.

Automate with AppleScript

Use AppleScript to automate Mori and integrate with other applications.

Plugin support for extra flexibility.

Plugin support and more

If Mori can’t do it, write a plugin that can. We are serious about giving our users the power they need.

How many notes can I have?

Mori uses Apple’s CoreData technology, so Mori stays fast. In fact, one user has over 50,000 entries in a single notebook.

Universal

Stay compatible. Mori is a Universal application, which means it runs natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Mac computers.

Windows Alternative?

If you are a windows user check out NoteLens from our friends at Windsor Interfaces.

Mori is a trademark of Apokalypse Software Corp. Other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.