Tinderbox (application software)
| Developer(s) | Eastgate Systems |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2002 |
| Stable release | 8.0
/ April 15, 2019 |
| Operating system | Mac OS, Mac OS X |
| Type | Content management, outliner, personal information manager |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
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
- ^ Minifinders: Multimedia to Organization Software, MacWorld, May 18, 2004. Archived May 28, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Interesting Software Update: Tinderbox How-To, Jerry’s Brain - James Fallows The Atlantic, 9 March 2015
- ^ Tinderbox 1.2: multipurpose app sparks, stores, and shares ideas., MacWorld, September 1, 2003. Archived May 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Hurrah For Great Mac Software by Jeremy Wagstaff, The Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2003.
- ^ Eastgate Tinderbox product page, August 16, 2007
- ^ Flint
- ^ Mark Bernstein, "Composites, Construction, Hypertext", Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, ACM, New York, 2001. pp. 122-123.
- ^ See the Tinderbox manual
- ^ Notes about Notes and Tinderbox Prototypes
- ^ Plotting With Tinderbox. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11.
Further reading
- Review by Nathan Matias, SitePoint, 2004 February 27.
- Giles Foden, The Guardian, 2003 October 16.
- Deep Tinderbox, About This Particular Outliner, Ted Goranson
- The Best IA Tool You Never Heard Of, Sean Carton, ClickZ, 2002 October 7.
- Innovation Extreme Makeover, Robert Ouellette, Boxes and Arrows, 2004 June 21.
- Tinderboxing Engelbart Revisited, Gordon Meyer, Wet Behind the Years, 2003 May 29.
External links
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