Tinderbox (application software)

Tinderbox was developed for Mac OS and Mac OS X by Mark Bernstein,[https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/interesting-software-update-tinderbox-how-to-jerrys-brain/387181/ Interesting Software Update: Tinderbox How-To, Jerry’s Brain - James Fallows] The Atlantic, 9 March 2015 Chief Engineer of Eastgate Systems.[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-107525662.html Tinderbox 1.2: multipurpose app sparks, stores, and shares ideas.], MacWorld, September 1, 2003. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516191154/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-107525662.html |date=May 16, 2011 }}[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106632803395183400?mod=googlewsj Hurrah For Great Mac Software] by Jeremy Wagstaff, The Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2003.

Its functions include storing and organizing notes, plans, and ideas, and sharing ideas through blogs.[http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/ Eastgate Tinderbox product page, August 16, 2007] Novelist Giles Foden describes its hypertextual features as useful for pattern-making when planning a novel, as well as for organising research notes.{{Cite news |last=Foden |first=Giles |date=2003-10-16 |title=Method and the medium |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/oct/16/shopping.computingandthenet |access-date=2025-06-08 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

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 [http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/Flint/ Flint]
• Personal information management [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=900077 Mark Bernstein, "Composites, Construction, Hypertext", Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, ACM, New York, 2001. pp. 122-123.]
• Outlining and mind mappingSee the Tinderbox manual
• Concept mapping
• Note-taking[http://www.NotesAboutNotes.com/ Notes about Notes] and [http://notesaboutnotes.com/Notes/TinderboxPrototypes.html Tinderbox Prototypes]
• Plot and story construction and writing{{cite AV media |url-status = live |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/-djSAmKbMQY |archive-date = 2021-12-11| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-djSAmKbMQY |title = Plotting With Tinderbox |website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}
• Creating hypertexts

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• [http://www.sitepoint.com/article/review-Tinderbox Review by Nathan Matias], SitePoint, 2004 February 27.
• [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/oct/16/shopping.computingandthenet Giles Foden], The Guardian, 2003 October 16.
• [http://www.atpm.com/10.10/atpo.shtml Deep Tinderbox], About This Particular Outliner, Ted Goranson
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070708092537/http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=1475801 The Best IA Tool You Never Heard Of], Sean Carton, ClickZ, 2002 October 7.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070808174658/http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/innovation_extreme_makeover Innovation Extreme Makeover], Robert Ouellette, Boxes and Arrows, 2004 June 21.
• [http://radio.weblogs.com/0100524/stories/2002/04/07/TinderEngelRevist.html Tinderboxing Engelbart Revisited], Gordon Meyer, Wet Behind the Years, 2003 May 29.

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