Please keep at it...

Mori is a great bit of software that is simple to use and does what it's designed to do elegantly and efficiently... I use it every day to collect, sort and sift information, it's fantastic. Keep up the great work....!

LC

I would agree with everything Lewis Carnelian says about Mori (especially ver. 6.2., the last viable and dependable version I'm acquainted with), with the exception of the last five words. I'm sorry, but I can't see any "great work" going on. The last time I checked into these forums, two months ago, Our Programmer was announcing that he was just on the verge of releasing the ultimate =working= version of Mori 6.11 (every version up from something like 6.4 having been a disaster to one degree or another). Since then, I've seen mutterings about an alpha or beta "just about" to go public, and since then pretty much ignored.
You do realize, don't you folks, that in the months and months since the last rock-solid version of Mori any given number of other Mac apps have gone through several improved versions that =work=? In my experience as a humble but prolific user of third-party Mac software, this is a unique record of non-achievement.

It's not that I'm waiting breathlessly for 7.1. Most of the announced features [ie, "LinkBack, customized labels, font settings for source & entry views, better keyboard navigation, outlining improvements, self-downloading updates, and now encryption"] have either been tried to some degree in the failed versions, or are of marginal usefulness. (self-downloading updates, encryption? puh-leeeze.... After a wait like this, if past experience serves, we'll be lucky to get something that works out of the box, doncha think?

I appreciate everyone's input, whether on the forums, Twitter, emails, or what-have-you. Positive or negative, it lets me know how you feel and the progress I'm making.

Mori 1.6.11 was released on July 13, 2008, a little over two (2) months ago. How is it not working for you?

None of the announced features for 1.7 have been part of any earlier version of Mori that I've released, nor are they of marginal usefulness to the other members of the community.

In fact, community members filed ten (10) separate user requests for password protection, accumulating around 30 votes in total. Encrypt/ing/ion had two (2) requests.

But perhaps your hostility is reflective of what Mori's users are looking for in the update. Perhaps the bulk of Mori's community don't have as pressing a need for encryption as other specific markets (e.g., the Yojimbo & Evernote user). Perhaps Mori's users tend to be those who prefer more powerful and flexible organizational and analytical ability than those whose note-taking requirements are more casual. It's why I planned to release the Pro model: for sophisticated, PKM-like capabilities in info management, and why I'll be offering a lite-edition of Mori.

If you look at the top fifty (50) issues for Mori, you'd see at least twenty-eight (28) which involve changes to what data is displayed and how. That's more than 50% of the requests on just the first page! I decided the way data is displayed needed to be revamped, but I made a system that's too complex to be changed over wholesale. Combined with the various 1.6.X releases for bugfixes and Leopard compatibility, and a year later I'm kicking myself for the delays. So after I acquired bitShifter I realized that trying to get the new view system perfect was just delaying everything else that needed to be in users' hands. That's when I decided to get the other features out, and add the capabilities from the view system piece-meal to Mori, as each further feature requested was added incrementally.

That's how I came to the decision I did, and as the developer I now think it's a mistake to continue to prolong the delayed release of 1.7 just to get the new view system in. If the user community agrees with you that I should continue to work on the original plan I had set for Mori, I'll go along with you because it definitely will be better in the long run. (You haven't said that you're looking for any other requested feature, so that would seem to be what you're waiting for.) You just have to keep in mind there are other non-view specific features that can continue to be added if the view system is upgraded gradually.

So members who want encryption capability in Mori 1.7 (or just present in general), please vote (http://apokalypsesoftware.com/products/node/519) for it.

To vote on whether Mori should be delayed to get the improved view system, go to please vote (http://apokalypsesoftware.com/products/node/2674) five (5) stars to vote FOR the delay, and vote one (1) star to vote AGAINST the delay.

And again, I have appreciated the feedback and the support from the user community. I will continue working and developing Mori into the information management product I envision regardless of negativity, but I do thank those of you who have been encouraging.

Alfonso