Tinderbox 5 is out

Posted by Chris Thompson
Dec 11, 2009 at 01:09 AM

Just a heads-up that Tinderbox 5 was released today:
http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/updates/Tinderbox5.html

It finally supports multi-column outlines (it’s always had significant support for attributes, but could not display them easily in outline views). Lots of other long-awaited changes as well: RTF-everywhere, Unicode everywhere, integration with Snow Leopard text services, in-place editing of most views, significant usability improvements.

I’ve been harsh on this software on the past in terms of its usability, but this new release fixes most of what bugged me about it. The learning curve is still high, but that’s the case with most niche, powerful tools.

(Incidentally, InfoQube also recently got a visual map view. These two tools cover a lot of shared ground, e.g. support for true aliasing, hoisting, and attributes, but go about it in very different ways.)

—Chris