What is Tinderbox? Interesting summary

Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 20, 2015 at 02:50 PM

Maybe a small industry?

Tinderbox is sui generis—there’s not much out there that supports unconstrained making of metadata for each note. The only thing close in OS X computerland I can think of is a DBMS like FileMaker—which is certainly *not* something I’d recommend for note taking.

OTOH—a handwritten notebook is all about metadata: pictures, marginalia, pointers to other notes, etc. As much as I enjoy Tinderbox, many times when I’m working and getting frustrated with fiddling with attributes and rules, I’ll just turn off the computer, grab a ledger sheet (11x17 in the U.S.) and start writing and drawing. I get a lot farther a lot faster working out ideas with pencil and paper than Tinderbox—or any software—can take me. And, when I’m done I just scan it and keep the notes.

Prion wrote
>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.