Mentat Service Available for Private Licensing

Effective immediately, the Mentat Service is available for private use by individuals and businesses.

Pricing will be $2000 for unlimited users and full server source code access. Businesses under 10 employees can license the server for $500. Prices are subject to, but also unlikely to, change in the future. Licensees will receive free […]

Mentat BlackBerry Update

We’ve also recently updated the Mentat BlackBerry client with a few fixes:
* You can now close delete tasks from the site and have that recognized by the BlackBerry client, and vice versa.
* We’ve made the default task sorting by priority, from highest to lowest (customizable by the Sort menu option for your own needs […]

Mentat OSX client making headway

The Mentat OSX client is shaping up to be pretty smooth so far. If you’re a Mac user and you enjoy the simple and direct access the Mentat BlackBerry client provides, you’ll be really happy with the interface on the OSX client.
You can run the Mentat OSX client in the background just like iChat or […]

Mentat Status and Announcements

Hey everybody, hope that your holidays are going well!
I wanted to take a moment and let people know where things are with Mentat and what’s ahead of us as well.
1. Site service
The website now offers most of the base line features we envisioned in the Mentat service, with the notable exception of […]

Mentat BlackBerry 1.0 Announced!

If you make it your New Years resolution to get organized, we’re here to help.
Just in time for the holidays we’ve got the Mentat BlackBerry client 1.0 ready to rock and and priced at $25 from our site. Naturally, the price of the Mentat site itself remains and will remain free.
New features are still […]

BlackBerry Mentat Upgraded to 0.84

We polished up the Mentat BlackBerry beta client a bit more this week and worked on some event handling and reassignment code to make for a smoother overall experience. There are also a few new features to enjoy:
Task Sorting
You can open up the menu with an alt click or the menu key from inside any […]

BlackBerry users reporting login issues

Hello, a few people have pointed out issues successfully logging onto Mentat with the BlackBerry.  About half of our team is out today with some virulent form of the plague, so I will be working to reproduce this issue myself today and come up with a fix.
Update: I have just posted an update (version […]

BlackBerry 0.82 Beta Available for download

We’ve just posted a new update to the the Mentat BlackBerry Beta (version 0.82) and the evaluation period has been extended to December 25th.
This new build includes the ability to create projects from the BlackBerry. It also presents tasks in order of priority. A sort command has been added that will sort tasks […]

Major Site Update

We have added the following features to the Mentat website

Custom categories
Repeating tasks
Renaming Projects
The ability to move tasks between projects
Fully draggable task elements
Public projects
Guest users

Custom Categories

You can rename the categories for a project or create new ones from a project’s administration page. You can not delete a category unless there are no tasks using it.

Repeating […]

BlackBerry Cool gives Mentat 4/5 Dune References

BlackBerry Cool posted a nice review of Mentat today! Simon Sage, the reviewer suggested a few additions, such as the ability to create a new task from an email message, and we immediately added them into our product roadmap.
My favorite quote:

Mentat’s layout is probably one of the more striking things about it. The creator’s Mac […]