Tinderbox (application software)

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

Tinderbox
Developer(s)Eastgate Systems
Initial release2002; 22 years ago (2002)
Stable release
8.0 / April 15, 2019; 5 years ago (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

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Tinderbox was developed for Mac OS and Mac OS X by Mark Bernstein,[2] Chief Engineer of Eastgate Systems.[3][4]

Features

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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:

References

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  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. ^ Plotting With Tinderbox. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11.

Further reading

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