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DESCRIPTION

Tinderbox is a personal content management assistant. It stores your notes, ideas, and plans. It can help you organize and understand them. And Tinderbox helps you share ideas through Web journals and web logs.

Tinderbox's agents automatically scan your notes, looking for patterns and building relationships. Agents help discover relationships and help make sure important things don't get lost. Agents are easy to make and easy to modify. They're flexible and powerful.

Tinderbox can even gather and update changing information and breaking news from the internet.

When it's time to share your notes, Tinderbox can assemble multiple notes into one page. Updates are a breeze -- even if you update several times a day. Private notes, timestamps, permanent links, archives: everything you want, just the way you want it.

WHAT'S NEW
Version 4.2.4 release notes.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Eastgate Systems, Inc.
Downloads:19,429
  - Version d/l:68
Business:Personal Info Managers
License:Demo
Date:28 Apr 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$198.00
Tinderbox User Reviews (42 posts)Write A Review
Feb 1 2008

F451  Here are some basic notes of the new features in v4.1:

Tinderbox 4.1 lets you

- display even more information in maps and outlines

- use agents and rules to move notes to new containers

- work with dates before 1904

- send email to a specific Tinderbox container, and take actions when it arrives  (Version 4.1)

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Nov 20 2006

LEV  There seems to be a huge amount of misunderstanding about what Tinderbox actually _is_, partly because, to go beyond the basics (which are themselves pretty powerful) does indeed involve a steep learning curve... as in "learning". Like you have to do with any tool.

And partly because Tinderbox is, in the end, more or less whatever you want it to be. Which is why it takes some learning.

Personally, I can't understand why anyone would spring for a CAD/CAM system or Adobe InDesign. Why? Because I don't need them or use them. I do need and use Tinderbox. Its web features -- handy customizable blogging, for example -- are wasted on me. So I don't use them. But the rest, I _do_ use. Since I first ran across Tinderbox I've used it for two full-length books (and currently on a third) and lord knows how many articles, lectures, papers and what-have-you.

The price question is economics 1.01. For the cost of Tinderbox, a commercial organization will buy approximately 20 minutes of my time. Given slack-time, prep. etc., TInderbox is probably representing a capital outlay of one hour of my time. It has saved me that hour time and again; most recently when I wanted to set up some reasonably complex bibliographic stuff. I could have spent an hour searching for off-the-peg software (though there isn't any); instead, I spent the hour in building it myself in Tinderbox. Job done, and fit for purpose.

In other words, YMMV. Perhaps if people thought of Tbx as an _environment_ rather than a standard app., it might clarify things a bit. I know that about 70% of people I show it to say "Oy gottenyu" or something similar; but 20% say "Hell's teeth, that's EXACTLY what I need."

(The other 10% say "Is that a Mac? There's no software for the Mac.")  (Version 3.5.4)

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Aug 20 2006

CA  The enigmatic release notes:

The legacy date elements ^today, ^created, and ^lastModified have been slightly revised.

^created and ^lastModified take two arguments. The first argument is mandatory, and designates which note's date of creation is to be exported. The optional second argument designates a format string.

^created(whichNote[,format string])

^today supports zero, one, or two arguments. It always exports the current date and time at the time of export; in the two-argument form, the note designator is ignored.

^today

^today(format string)

^today(which_note,format_string)  (Version 3.5.4)

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Jun 29 2006

YOXI  I'm sure this app isn't really $192 ??  (Version 3.5.0)

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