Tinderbox (application software)

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

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

Developer

Tinderbox was developed for Mac OS and Mac OS X by Mark Bernstein, Chief Engineer of Eastgate Systems.

Features

Its functions include storing and organizing notes, plans, and ideas, and sharing ideas through blogs. Novelist Giles Foden describes its hypertextual features as useful for pattern-making when planning a novel, as well as for organising research notes.

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
• Personal information management
• Outlining and mind mapping
• Concept mapping
• Note-taking
• Plot and story construction and writing
• Creating hypertexts

References

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.

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