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- Price: Free to try $145.00 to buy
- Operating system: Mac OS Classic
- Date added: June 01, 2004
- Total Downloads: 1,866
- Downloads last week: 7
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jason Parker on July 14, 2009
Tinderbox is a professional-grade information-management tool for creating, organizing, using, and sharing notes--especially large or complex sets of data, whether you're composing a novel, drafting a presentation, or performing academic research. Tinderbox has a very visual interface that provides a lot of flexibility, giving you multiple options for viewing notes (in map, outline, chart, treemap, or explorer windows), which you can drag and drop into hierarchical "containers" along with various contextual properties and links. A powerful, open-ended system of "agents"--basically, persistent searches--scans your notes continuously, identifying patterns or attributes and then executing macro-like actions. Tinderbox also includes rich tools for searching and exporting notes in sophisticated ways.
What separates Tinderbox from less involved--and less expensive--organizational apps is its deep and elegant feature set and an almost kung-fu-like guiding philosophy. ("The Tinderbox Way" is available in hardback from the developer for $50.) Fortunately, new users will find that Tinderbox includes good basic documentation, and its devoted user base maintains an active forum and wiki. Unfortunately, the trial version of Tinderbox only lets users create 30 notes, arguably not enough to really get a feel for such a complex (and pricey) app.
Publisher's description
From Eastgate Systems :Tinderbox is a personal-content-management assistant. It stores your notes, ideas, and plans, and can help you organize and understand them. Tinderbox also helps you share ideas through Web journals and logs.
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Version: Tinderbox 2.2
"An excellent mind mapping tools"
Pros: Loads of features to include your data
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Version: Tinderbox 2.2
"Tinderbox 2.3.4 is more than an Outliner"
Summary: Now at Version 2.3.4, Tinderbox can be an outliner, but it can also be so many other things as well: weblog tool and database come to mind among other uses. However, like others, I initially didnÂ?t Â?get itÂ? about Tinderbox. This persisted as long... read more >>
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