Tinderbox is a personal
content management system
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and
personal knowledge base
A personal knowledge base (PKB) is an electronic tool used to express, capture, and later retrieve the personal knowledge of an individual. It differs from a traditional database in that it contains subjective material particular to the owner, th ...
.
It is a tool for storing, arranging, exploring, and publishing data.
Developer
Tinderbox was developed for
Mac OS
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and
Mac OS X
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Eastgate Systems
Eastgate Systems is a publisher and software company headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, which publishes hypertext.
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.
Features
Its functions include storing and organizing notes, plans, and ideas, and sharing ideas through blogs.
It also offers functionality similar to that of outliner and spatial hypertext/
mind mapping
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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
* Personal information management
* Outlining and
mind mapping
A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information into a hierarchy, showing relationships among pieces of the whole. It is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank page, to which associated r ...
*
Concept map
A concept map or conceptual diagram is a diagram that depicts suggested relationships between concepts. Concept maps may be used by instructional designers, engineers, technical writers, and others to organize and structure knowledge.
A conce ...
ping
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Note-taking
Note-taking (sometimes written as notetaking or note taking) is the practice of recording information from different sources and platforms. By taking notes, the writer records the essence of the information, freeing their mind from having to reca ...
* Plot and story construction and writing
* Creating hypertexts
References
Further reading
Review by Nathan Matias SitePoint
SitePoint is a Melbourne-based website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers.
History
SitePoint was founded by Matt Mickiewicz and Mark Harbottle in 1999. The company had its origins in Webmaster-Resources.com, an in ...
, 2004 February 27.
Giles Foden The Guardian, 2003 October 16.
Deep Tinderbox About This Particular Outliner, Ted Goranson
Sean Carton, ClickZ, 2002 October 7.
Innovation Extreme Makeover Robert Ouellette, Boxes and Arrows, 2004 June 21.
Gordon Meyer, Wet Behind the Years, 2003 May 29.
External links
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Content management systems
Personal information managers
Outliners
Note-taking software
Hypertext
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