![]() You can make links, usually by simply dragging, among notes and text blocks. it is a typed link hypertext environment.Attributes provide a deep, consistent and easy way to work with outlines. Most of these are changeable by the user or automated agents. Each note is cleverly designed to have an open set of attributes and everything is an attribute: note location in the hierarchy, fonts, colors badges and so on. It is a particularly rich outliner compared to others, with aliases and special tools. it is an outliner in the ordinary sense with tree structure.It is a sort of Ruskin-like approach to software. To my mind, this includes an active involvement with the user and research communities and a personal quest to discover new ways of doing things elegantly. Mark brings a philosophy of Victorian Programming to his product, playing up the hand crafted qualities. MELLEL ON IPAD MACI find this aspect of Tinderbox experimental and thrilling, very much along the lines of an original user interface concept for the Mac where the position of multiple windows on a screen, and spatially arranged icons in a window carried meaning. Tinderbox has superior support for this metalevel with the ‘spatial’ view being essentially a living research program in visually working with this structure. Generally, the metalevel of the links is structured so a machine can assist with organization. Rich hypertext is a matter of working with concepts (in text) that are related by concepts (as links). Hypertext in this context predates the web, where a web hyperlink is merely a ‘go to’ relation. Tinderbox’s architect, Mark Bernstein, also uses the term spatial hypertext, when describing its unique category. I do not have a junk drawer use case for the application and manage all that elsewhere. In my case, I start with significant structure in mind. Described this way, the application is designed for precisely what outlining was originally conceived to support: working in the small and zooming out to the large to work with evolved structure. Tinderbox’s power is in allowing you to make or discover emergent structure among those situated concepts. The general idea behind the ‘Tinderbox way‘ is that one should make a short note of anything, ideally in an initial context, before the insight is lost. The application is tailored for user-generated text, and is not great for images or snippet input. The creator of Tinderbox describes it as a tool for notes and has written a book with a general philosophy of capturing and relating thoughts. Mellel with Bookends for structured print documents.Ī parallel note on iOS tools is here.Tinderbox for the heavy structuring and publishing to the web.BBEdit for most text editing/authoring. ![]() I'll copy it here and expand it over time. Over on the Sirius-Beta site, before getting this blog up and running, I wrote a little piece on tools that I use. MELLEL ON IPAD UPDATEThis is both a personal blog and an ongoing update on his projects. ![]()
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