![]() ![]() ![]() There are other ways to accomplish these actions my point is just that you can start to work effectively right away. Making hyperlinks is just as easy: select a note or some text in a note, type Option-Command-L, click on the link’s destination. Once you have a few notes, you can rearrange them the easiest way is in outline view, where you can just drag or use keyboard shortcuts. If you’re willing to learn just a few shortcuts, you can start brainstorming immediately, creating and entering successive notes without the mouse: Return creates a new note, Spacebar opens its text window, Command-W closes it, Enter renames it. Getting started with Tinderbox is extremely easy. Following a link from where it emanates opens the text window of the note it leads to. But notes can also relate to one another through hyperlinks a link can emanate from a note as a whole or from a particular stretch of text within a note, and leads to another note. There is thus an outline-like hierarchy of notes you can view this hierarchy in various ways, called outline view, chart view, treemap view, and map view. A note can be placed "inside" another note, creating a hierarchical relationship among notes sub-notes of the same note also have an order amongst themselves, which you can rearrange. A note has two parts: its name, and its actual content, if any, which can be styled and can include pictures, and is edited in the note’s text window. Getting Started - (Warning: This paragraph is highly condensed for a more complete understanding, reread my Storyspace review.) In Tinderbox, the basic entity is the text snippet, which is called a note. It deserves a place alongside the utilities for storing, organizing, and retrieving information in interesting, powerful ways that I’ve described in the past. ![]() ![]() The reason is that I was misusing Storyspace Tinderbox turns out to be what I was after all along. I got lots of mileage out of Storyspace for hypertext renderings of Greek grammar, but the program also seemed as if it could be a snippet keeper when I tried treating it as one, I found the experience unsatisfactory. Tinderbox lacks those mechanisms and introduces new ones it is aimed at the single user, and is meant as a kind of lightweight database, a text snippet keeper, a note-taking utility, a way of organizing pieces of information and perhaps exporting them as HTML.įor me, this evolution is delightful, because it fills a need I had already felt. Storyspace is about hypertext narrative it presupposes an author and an audience, and uses mechanisms such as guard fields and the freeware Storyspace Reader program to guide the audience through a non-linear narrative. Tinderbox incorporates most of Storyspace’s fundamental metaphor and interface outwardly, the two programs are almost indistinguishable. Now Eastgate is back with a new offering, Tinderbox. Storyspace, the long-standing hypertext application from Eastgate Systems, was the first program I ever reviewed for TidBITS, and I described a new version of it last year. #1645: AirPlay iPhone to Mac for remote video, Siri learns to restart iPhones, Apple's Q1 2023 financials.1646: Security-focused OS updates, Photos Workbench review, Mastodon client wishlist, Apple-related conferences.1647: Focus-caused notification issues, site-specific browser examples, virtualizing Windows on M-series Macs.#1648: iPhone passcode thefts, Center Cam improves webcam eye contact, APFS Uncertainty Principle.#1649: More LastPass breach details and 1Password switch, macOS screen saver problem, tvOS 16.3.3 fixes Siri Remote bug. ![]()
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