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How to open a notebook?

Submitted by gavagai on Thu, 2007-06-28 04:45. Tags ( )

Hi,
my question may sound funny but after over 1 year with Mori Notebook I still use it only occasionally because I always have problems using it.
A couple of days ago I added in my notebook "Notizen.mori" some topics.
When today I open this notebook via "Open Recent" or "Open ..." I only get a window with the entry I added last time. In this window I have the added text "Notizen - Herero-Aufstand". Also I have a few options (Fonts, Colors, Search). But I don't see any way to reach the main entries-list of my notebook. When I close that window (via the red button at the leftmost upper corner of the window) Mori closes the complete notebook.
Then I can open it again and get again only one single window with the afore mentioned text.
What do I have to do to open this notebook at the main entry level?
I have two other notebooks and there everything is OK, i.e. when I open them I get the three-parted window with the directory (or whatever you call it) in the left part and a "title"-part and a text-part.

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RE: How to open a notebook?

Submitted by huperniketes on Thu, 2007-06-28 09:08.

Greetings,

I'm sorry you're having difficulties using Mori productively. This is the key point to the upcoming v1.7 upgrade, to simplify it and improve its effectiveness as an information management tool.

If you're only seeing the most recent note entered into your notebook, perhaps the source view and entries view aren't visible. Or the note view is set to expanded. Please verify (and modify) the settings by going to the View > Layout sub-menu and selecting the appropriate view settings ("Show Source View" in this case).

If this isn't the cause of the problem, please add a bug to the project and attach a note. I'm fixing bugs and now would be a great time to squash this one as well.

Alfonso

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You can do this, but the

Submitted by Schlaefer on Thu, 2007-06-28 09:39.

You can do this, but the icon bar remains in the "edit document"-mode. Best workaround I found: make the sidebar visible again via "show source view" and drag and drop the whole content in a complete new mori notebook.

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Are you describing a bug?

Submitted by huperniketes on Thu, 2007-06-28 09:50.

I don't understand what you mean by icon bar, and by it being in "edit document" mode. If the notebook doesn't let you continue working normally when shrinking the Note View again then something is terribly wrong and it sounds like a bug. Especially if you have to work around it by creating a new notebook and copying the data over!

Please clarify what you meant by icon bar and "edit document" mode. If this is something you're having to work around it sounds like a bug to me. Please file a bug report against Mori for me so I can eliminate this inconvenience for you. I'm currently fixing bugs and I'd like this next update to save you from some aggravation like this.

Alfonso

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I'm guessing that he means

Submitted by BMEguy on Thu, 2007-06-28 09:57.

I'm guessing that he means that the toolbar stays in whatever the default for the note view is set for (i.e. "edit document" mode = note view).

I bet that it's not a bug, but it is a way of using windows that is powerful but unique to Mori and only one or two other programs (like the $200 Tinderbox). It might help to have some better explanation in the documentation.

As a side note, this paradigm of separate view types could be made much more powerful by having user-defined saved views. If this sounds like something you'd like to pursue, let me know, and I'll elaborate further.

Best,
Jeff

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Re: I don't understand what you mean by icon bar...

Submitted by Schlaefer on Thu, 2007-06-28 10:04.

See the excellent post of BMEguy below. It happened to me once before and I wasn't aware of the "New Viewer Window" menu option. Maybe a better place for it would be "View" or "Windows" instead of "File".

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Show Source View worked

Submitted by gavagai on Thu, 2007-06-28 16:12.

Hi Alfonso,
you wrote:
Please verify (and modify) the settings by going to the View > Layout sub-menu and selecting the appropriate view settings ("Show Source View" in this case).

Yes, thank you. Now I have the view again I'm used to. I swear I never changed the View-Layout before: but that doesn't mean so much as I'm an atheist ;-)
servus, tschau, bye
Herbert

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Viewers

Submitted by BMEguy on Thu, 2007-06-28 09:49.

Hi,

You can have many views (i.e. open windows) of the same notebook. There are two default views built in to Mori: standard notebook view and note view. The former is what you are used to seeing when looking at a notebook: sources, entries, and notes. The latter is what you see when you double click an entry (it will open the note in its own note view.)

Each view will have its own settings, such as the toolbar icons, and Mori will remember and restore all the views of a notebook between opening-closing or quitting-starting up.

I would guess that you had a notebook view open and double-clicked your newest entry to open it in its own note viewer. Then sometime after that you clicked the red button to close the original notebook view. Then when you closed the note window (or quit Mori) that was the last "state" that Mori remembers--a single note view open for that notebook.

So you can change your note view to show the sources and entries (like was suggested above), or you can choose "New Viewer Window" from the File menu.

I will often use this ability to have several views of the same notebook to have a whole-notebook view and then several "single note" views open around the screen like stickies for information that I want to reference while writing. If I want to close the notebook, I DON'T use the red buttons since that would leave me with only the last window next time I open the notebook. Instead, I choose "Close Notebook" from the File menu, so that all of my open views and window positions will be remembered and restored when I next open the notebook.

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This is great to know

Submitted by huperniketes on Thu, 2007-06-28 09:56.

I sure am glad to have old hands like BMEguy, Joe Wiz and other members of the community who have been so helpful to the rest of the users. They're particularly helpful to me as I learn how Mori and Clockwork are used in others' workflow and what's important to them (so I don't break something they depend on).

Thanks again guy(s) and gal(s), I can't ever do enough to repay you!

Alfonso

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Exactly

Submitted by gavagai on Thu, 2007-06-28 16:21.

Hi BMEguy,
you guessed (or better: knew) it right.
"... you had a notebook view open and double-clicked your newest entry to open it in its own note viewer."
That's what I did. I always have trouble to differentiate between the items Mori (and unfortunately myself) is working with: directory names, entry, folder, note and the hierarchy of these entities. So I am quite happy to be allowed to type in some new information into the place I like to have it. So I click here and doubleclick there ...

"Then sometime after that you clicked the red button to close the original notebook view. Then when you closed the note window (or quit Mori) that was the last "state" that Mori remembers--a single note view open for that notebook."
Exactly.
Thank you. It helped me to understand what I was doing and even let me know some of the techniques Mori is using and which are still mysteriously to me.
servus, tschau, bye
Herbert

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