Tinderbox (application software)
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For other uses, see Tinderbox (disambiguation).
| Developer(s) | Eastgate Systems |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 5.9.3 / 2011-08-08 |
| Operating system | Mac OS, Mac OS X |
| Type | Content Management, Outliner, Personal information manager |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.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]
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Developer [edit]
Developed for Mac OS and Mac OS X by Eastgate Systems.[2][3]
Features [edit]
Its functions include storing and organizing notes, plans, and ideas, and sharing ideas through blogs.[4]
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 [5]
- Personal information management [6]
- Outlining and mind mapping [7]
- Concept mapping
- Note-taking [8]
- Plot and story construction and writing[9]
- Creating hypertexts
References [edit]
- ^ Minifinders: Multimedia to Organization Software, MacWorld, May 18, 2004.
- ^ Tinderbox 1.2: multipurpose app sparks, stores, and shares ideas., MacWorld, September 1, 2003.
- ^ 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
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-djSAmKbMQY
Further reading [edit]
- 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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