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Posted by apb123
Apr 14, 2019 at 09:36 AM
Tinderbox is too expensive. It looks useful and complex but it is too expensive for what it is.Devonthink as it correct with pricing. Annual pricing of nearly £100 is ridiculous.
Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 14, 2019 at 10:25 AM
Possible, but since perceived value depends on one’s personal utility curve and it is hard to judge that for complex software without hands on experience, I would personally reserve judgment about “ridiculous” until doing an in-depth trial. Also, the intersection between Tinderbox and DEVONthink is, I would guess, maybe 5% or less of the feature sets for those two apps. Just my opinion. Don’t shoot.
apb123 wrote:
Tinderbox is too expensive. It looks useful and complex but it is too
>expensive for what it is.Devonthink as it correct with pricing. Annual
>pricing of nearly £100 is ridiculous.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 14, 2019 at 10:58 AM
I would just add a reminder that the $98 per year isn’t a subscription or a requirement. Tinderbox keeps working for you just fine after the year is up. Many Tinderbox users don’t resubscribe until a feature in a new version comes along that they really want.
Paul Korm wrote:
Possible, but since perceived value depends on one’s personal utility
>curve and it is hard to judge that for complex software without hands on
>experience, I would personally reserve judgment about “ridiculous” until
>doing an in-depth trial. Also, the intersection between Tinderbox and
>DEVONthink is, I would guess, maybe 5% or less of the feature sets for
>those two apps. Just my opinion. Don’t shoot.
>
>apb123 wrote:
>Tinderbox is too expensive. It looks useful and complex but it is too
>>expensive for what it is.Devonthink as it correct with pricing. Annual
>>pricing of nearly £100 is ridiculous.
Posted by exatty95
Apr 14, 2019 at 01:41 PM
I was one of those who was a very basic user of Tinderbox, but whose pride in being able to figure out a couple of valuable uses outweighed (probably irrationally) the sinkhole of time it took to do so. The help of people like Mark Bernstein and Mark Anderson is amazing. I made the matter moot by switching to Windows, but I had become increasingly aware of potential legacy issues in becoming increasingly dependent upon highly bespoke artisan software produced by an individual or very small company—especially as I little confidence in being able to figure out exporting my data. I still felt a pang when I read about the new version—I would have enjoyed sinking even more time into playing with it.
Posted by Dellu
Apr 14, 2019 at 07:22 PM
Beck wrote:
> but I’m
>less likely to consider your point of view when it is communicated in a
>way that feels insulting.
I am sorry if my statement feels like that. I was trying to warn the people are thinking to jump to the app; was not thinking about you when made the comment.
I want to warn people because I genuinely regretted the time I spent tinkering with Tinderbox. As much as I want to learn from the mistakes of other people, I also want other people to learn from my mistakes. When I do the cost-benefit analysis (the time wasted and the time saved), I learned that I am losing big time with the use of TB.