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Tinderbox - 4.7.0

Personal content management assistant.

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	4.7.0
Release Date:	2009-06-25
License:	Update
Downloads (this version):	246
Downloads (all versions):	28,261
Price:	$229.00

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Product Description:

Tinderbox stores your notes, ideas, plans. It can help you organize, analyze, and understand them. And Tinderbox helps you share your ideas through weblogs and Web journals. It's a PERSONAL content management assistant.

What's new in this version:

Fill Materials: Tinderbox notes have a new Fill attribute. Built-in fill materials include wood, steel, water, sandstone, and linen -- and you can add your own fills. Fills aren't just chart junk or management eye candy. The note Color and Pattern continue to work together with the fill, gently tinting the note to suggest connection and communicate linkage. Fills can be inherited from prototypes, and can be set by agents, actions, and rules. Also: new color variants let you construct richer color families.
Smart Adornments: Smart adornments help your Tinderbox maps organize themselves, scanning constantly for notes that meet their criteria. Automatically gather, sort, and arrange urgent notes, or notes that mention key tags and topics. Smart adornment actions can then modify the note -- extracting information, setting or removing tags, or even twittering! Just as agents are smart containers, smart adornment are lightweight agents. They search only within the confines of their map, leaving you free to experiment with new structures and to try fresh ideas while exploring your data. Also: sharp new Chart view, better handling of link labels...
Dashboard Support: Map layout refinements provide better support for dashboards, timelines, and other informative displays built right into your Tinderbox documents. Notes can display text or important attributes in their title, or beneath the note title. Badges flag crucial notes, while plots and bargraphs provide convenient sparkline summaries while giving you ready access to your data.
Terrific Performance: Agents and actions get a speed bump in Tinderbox 4.7 -- a terrific boost for large and complex documents. Mark Bernstein's weblog used to take 45sec to update; now the agent update time is just 17sec. Plus: new Cleanup options, conditional DisplayExpressions, and dozens of small improvements.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

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Extremely versatile ... but doesn't support Unicode - Version: 4.5.3, 4/1/2009 02:36PM PST

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StoneGroper

This software is as much a power-user toolkit as it is an end-user application. It can be very simple and elegant to use as an outliner and mind mapper. But it is also suited for highly complex tasks. It has many unique and obscure features that delight faithful power users populating the developer's "geeky" discussion forums. Though responses are prompt and helpful, non-programmers may feel intimidated about asking "obvious" questions. Unfortunately, despite the software's appeal, as of v. 4.5.3 and v. 4.6.1 it still is not universal binary, resulting occasionally in strange glitches running under Rosetta on a late-model Intel MacBook Pro. Even more unfortunate, Tinderbox does not fully support Unicode, which means it's virtually useless for working with Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew and dozens of other languages.

Great upgrade: much improved speed, flexibility - Version: 4.6.1, 3/18/2009 04:09PM PST

foaf

If you've held off on updating for a while, this version gives you several good reasons to take the plunge, including much improved speed and some fine-tuning in the agent and rule syntax. And given the current macroeconomic situation, this is a great opportunity to help your friendly neighborhood artisanal software designer weather the storm!

The docs haven't been updated - Version: 4.6, 3/13/2009 08:57AM PST

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Pygmalion

Great new version with extended capabilities. Unfortunately the only thing that was updated in the manual was the version number on the cover. Bravo for trying to make Tinderbox easier and more consistent. But without complete, unified documentation, Eastgate is just making the learning curve even steeper.

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The docs haven't been updated