Software:Tinderbox (application software)

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Short description: Note-keeping software
Tinderbox
Developer(s)Eastgate Systems
Initial release2002; 22 years ago (2002)
Stable release
8.0 / April 15, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-04-15)
Operating systemMac OS, Mac OS X
TypeContent management, outliner, personal information manager
LicenseProprietary
Websitewww.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/

Tinderbox is a personal content management system and personal knowledge base.

It is a tool for storing, arranging, exploring, and publishing data.[1]

Developer

Tinderbox was developed for Mac OS and Mac OS X by Mark Bernstein,[2] Chief Engineer of Eastgate Systems.[3][4]

Features

Its functions include storing and organizing notes, plans, and ideas, and sharing ideas through blogs.[5]

It also offers functionality similar to that of outliner and spatial hypertext/mind mapping tools, in addition to knowledge management, database and agent (persistent search) tools.

Tinderbox is used for a wide variety of tasks:

  • As a personal web publishing system, with good support for blog creation and management [6]
  • Personal information management [7]
  • Outlining and mind mapping[8]
  • Concept mapping
  • Note-taking[9]
  • Plot and story construction and writing[10]
  • Creating hypertexts

References

  1. Minifinders: Multimedia to Organization Software, MacWorld, May 18, 2004.
  2. Interesting Software Update: Tinderbox How-To, Jerry’s Brain - James Fallows The Atlantic, 9 March 2015
  3. Tinderbox 1.2: multipurpose app sparks, stores, and shares ideas., MacWorld, September 1, 2003.
  4. Hurrah For Great Mac Software by Jeremy Wagstaff, The Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2003.
  5. Eastgate Tinderbox product page, August 16, 2007
  6. Flint
  7. Mark Bernstein, "Composites, Construction, Hypertext", Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, ACM, New York, 2001. pp. 122-123.
  8. See the Tinderbox manual
  9. Notes about Notes and Tinderbox Prototypes
  10. Plotting With Tinderbox. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11.

Further reading

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