Common features in Tinderbox and Twig

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Posted by Wes Perdue
Sep 12, 2010 at 07:12 AM

I just discovered, thanks to a tweet today from Mark Bernstein, Michael Bywater’s write-up of Tinderbox 4.5:

Tinderbox: from Michael Bywater
http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/updates/Tinderbox450/Bywater.html

It highlights some of the new features of Tinderbox 4.5, two of which are stand-out features of Twig to me: Similar Notes and Common Words. So if you are up-to-date on Tinderbox and like those Twig features, you may not need Twig after all.

I bought Twig anyway, as I don’t mind supporting good development houses like Eastgate. I’ve not yet found the Tinderbox equivalent to the Noter, Twig’s rapid-fire input and search view; it can be useful in a number of different situations. Twig is also a good alternative to Notational Velocity as an interface into Simplenote.

The most important feature to me in Tinderbox 4.5, which prompted me to renew my license, is a key combination for edit-in-place in outline view: cmd+shift+return. This lack of this keystroke in previous versions was the one thing keeping me from using Tinderbox as my brainstorming outliner, since simple edits were not quick as a keystroke. Thanks to this improvement, Tinderbox is beginning to take the place of OmniOutliner for me.

Posted by Wes Perdue
Sep 13, 2010 at 12:45 AM

I wrote:
> It highlights some of the new features of Tinderbox 4.5, two of which
> are stand-out features of Twig to me: Similar Notes and Common Words.

I just realized the current version of Tinderbox is 5.5.x; these features have been here for a long time, and I’ve only now discovered them, and because of another tool - Twig. Tinderbox is like that, and Michael Bywater says as much in his review:

> I’ll never know all of what Tinderbox can do, which is oddly comforting
> as long as it does what I want.

I wrote:
> The most important feature to me in Tinderbox 4.5, which prompted me to
> renew my license, is a key combination for edit-in-place in outline
> view: cmd+shift+return.

That would be the most important feature to me in Tinderbox 5.5. I apologize for any confusion.

- Wes

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