Tinderbox is a *personal* content management *assistant* -- a
knowledge-management and content-management system scaled to the needs
of individual professionals who neet to analyze, integrate, and
interpret notes and ideas.

One way to think of all this is that Tinderbox *is* a scratchpad -- but
a scratchpad that can, if you wish, be very smart about your work.
Agents, for example, can set up a self-organizing category system that
adapts to your needs and expands whenever you want.

Bottom line: If your notes are complex and valuable, improving them
even slightly will repay a lot more than $145 in time and opportunity.
Of course, if you are already satisfied with your current system for
making and analyzing notes, then you don't need anything more!