What is Tinderbox?
Tinderbox is a personal content management application designed for organizing notes, ideas, plans, and other textual information. It goes beyond a traditional note taking or outlining program by allowing users to visualize connections and relationships between concepts.
Some key features of Tinderbox include:
- Visual outliner for seeing relationships between notes and concepts
- Flexible note linking and mapping
- Tags and ad-hoc groupings to categorize and find notes
- Agents that can automate organization and linking
- Export options to create websites, documents, and presentations
Tinderbox excels at helping knowledge workers, researchers, and planners capture ideas and thoughts, explore connections in their content, and leverage their notes to produce finished work products. Its visual approach distinguishes it from traditional note taking or outlining software.
While powerful, Tinderbox has a steep learning curve. It is best suited for users who have significant content to organize and who are willing to invest time mastering Tinderbox's extensive feature set in order to leverage its visualization capabilities and flexibility.
CherryTree, Milanote, TheBrain, TagSpaces, Freeplane, Memento, Zettlr, Dendron, myBase, BasKet Note Pads, wikidPad, MyTetra, Luminotes are some alternatives to Tinderbox.