Tinderbox (application software)
Note-keeping software
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Tinderbox is a personal content management system and personal knowledge base.
| Tinderbox | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Eastgate Systems |
| Initial release | 2002 |
| Stable release | 10.2.0
/ May 2025 |
| Operating system | Mac OS, Mac OS X |
| Type | Content management, outliner, personal information manager |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
It is a tool for storing, arranging, exploring, and publishing data.[1]
Developer
Tinderbox was developed for Mac OS and Mac OS X by Mark Bernstein,[2] Chief Engineer of Eastgate Systems.[3][4]
Features
Its functions include storing and organizing notes, plans, and ideas, and sharing ideas through blogs.[5] Novelist Giles Foden describes its hypertextual features as useful for pattern-making when planning a novel, as well as for organising research notes.[6]
It also offers functionality similar to that of outliner and spatial hypertext/mind mapping tools, in addition to knowledge management, database and agent (persistent search) tools.
Tinderbox is used for a wide variety of tasks:
- As a personal web publishing system, with good support for blog creation and management [7]
- Personal information management [8]
- Outlining and mind mapping[9]
- Concept mapping
- Note-taking[10]
- Plot and story construction and writing[11]
- Creating hypertexts
