Tinderbox (application software)

Tinderbox
Tinderbox
Developer(s)	Eastgate Systems
Initial release	2002; 23 years ago
Stable release	10.2.0 / May 2025; 4 months ago
Operating system	Mac OS, Mac OS X
Type	Content management, outliner, personal information manager
License	Proprietary
Website	www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/

Tinderbox is a personal content management system and personal knowledge base.

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

References

^ Minifinders: Multimedia to Organization Software, MacWorld, May 18, 2004. Archived May 28, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
^ Interesting Software Update: Tinderbox How-To, Jerry’s Brain - James Fallows The Atlantic, 9 March 2015
^ Tinderbox 1.2: multipurpose app sparks, stores, and shares ideas., MacWorld, September 1, 2003. Archived May 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ Hurrah For Great Mac Software by Jeremy Wagstaff, The Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2003.
^ Eastgate Tinderbox product page, August 16, 2007
^ Foden, Giles (2003-10-16). "Method and the medium". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-06-08.
^ Flint
^ Mark Bernstein, "Composites, Construction, Hypertext", Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, ACM, New York, 2001. pp. 122-123.
^ See the Tinderbox manual
^ Notes about Notes and Tinderbox Prototypes
^ Plotting With Tinderbox. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11.

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[1] Minifinders: Multimedia to Organization Software, MacWorld, May 18, 2004. Archived May 28, 2005, at the Wayback Machine

[2] Interesting Software Update: Tinderbox How-To, Jerry’s Brain - James Fallows The Atlantic, 9 March 2015

[3] Tinderbox 1.2: multipurpose app sparks, stores, and shares ideas., MacWorld, September 1, 2003. Archived May 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

[4] Hurrah For Great Mac Software by Jeremy Wagstaff, The Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2003.

[5] Eastgate Tinderbox product page, August 16, 2007

[6] Foden, Giles (2003-10-16). "Method and the medium". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-06-08.

[7] Flint

[8] Mark Bernstein, "Composites, Construction, Hypertext", Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, ACM, New York, 2001. pp. 122-123.

[9] See the Tinderbox manual

[10] Notes about Notes and Tinderbox Prototypes

[11] Plotting With Tinderbox. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11.

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