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Posted by Hugh
Jun 4, 2010 at 01:32 PM
Eastgate has just released Version 1.0 of a new notes application called Twig: http://www.eastgate.com/Twig/. “Twig is a powerful yet lightweight tool for capturing and cultivating your ideas.”
I’ve downloaded it, but not yet tried it out in any serious way .At first impression it appears to be Tinderbox with a shallower learning curve. Like Tinderbox, it has outliner, map and chart views. I expect that some will call it Tinderbox-lite, except that it appears to be designed to work alongside Tinderbox, rather than in place of it, and export through it.
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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 4, 2010 at 10:44 PM
Hugh, thanks for the heads up about Twig.
What a strange application. It’s like Notational Velocity and Tinderbox had a love child! Feels like there are still some kinks to work out, and there isn’t any help documentation yet. But it will be interesting to see how this works alongside TB.
Thanks, again.
Steve
Posted by Chris Thompson
Jun 5, 2010 at 06:55 PM
It’s essentially a much cheaper, single-window version of the Tinderbox engine with a slightly restricted set of views (e.g. no Explorer view). Seems to me to be a really good idea.
—Chris
Posted by Bob Kemp
Jun 10, 2010 at 09:56 AM
I’ve just started using the demo. It’s exactly what I wanted. I could never justify two copies of Tinderbox because of the price but now I have Twig on my laptop, perfectly adequate for making notes on my travels, and I can transfer to my main Tinderbox later. I haven’t tried opening a Tinderbox document in Twig yet - that could be interesting: which features will be disabled? But then I’m not sure that I’ll need to that often. The interface takes a bit of getting used to after years of using Tinderbox too, but that’s OK.
- Bob
Posted by Charles Nelson
Jun 10, 2010 at 09:36 PM
On two copies of Tinderbox, I asked Mark Bernstein about that quite a few years ago, and he replied that it was okay to keep one copy on a laptop and another on a desktop.