Tinderbox (application software)

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

This article is about the note tool. For the technology company, see TinderBox Inc. For other uses, see Tinderbox (disambiguation).
Tinderbox
Developer(s)Eastgate Systems
Initial release2002 (2002)
Stable release
8.0 / April 15, 2019 (2019-04-15)
Operating systemMac OS, Mac OS X
TypeContent Management, Outliner, Personal information manager
LicenseProprietary
Websitewww.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/

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. Archived May 28, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  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. Archived May 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-djSAmKbMQY

Further reading


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.