What is Tinderbox? Interesting summary

Posted by Prion
Jan 20, 2015 at 06:44 AM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:

>As a note-taker, I think Tinderbox is excellent for specific instances.
>What I mean by this is that if you are taking notes in a meeting or a
>workshop or a class, it is outstanding. But I don’t believe Tinderbox is
>a good choice for storing ALL your notes, and that is because Tbx works
>best when you make a new document for every project, and there’s no
>interconnectivity between documents. Also, Tbx is about your own input.
>It isn’t made for doing a lot of clipping from the web or other digital
>sources. So Tbx isn’t a replacement for an app like Evernote or
>Devonthink. I think if you get it thinking you can put all your notes
>into one document, you’ll be overwhelmed… not to mention that I’m not
>convinced huge files work well in Tbx.

These are my thoughts exactly about the strengths and weaknesses of Tbx, well put. Weaknesses might be the wrong word but Tinderbox just like any program does not work particularly well when being asked to do the wrong thing. The few largish Tbx files that I keep are rather sluggish but I keep adding to them because the topic does not lend itself to being split into several subtopics with one smaller Tbx file each.
The question remains: What *IS* the best home for all the notes then if the programs with excellent metadata and visualization capabilities do not scale well and those that do are rather poor in terms of making use of metadata?
This never-ending quest seems to keep an entire software industry alive.
Prion