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Doug Miller

More options Dec 20 2004, 10:18 pm

From: "Doug Miller" <demil...@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:18:04 -0800

Local: Mon, Dec 20 2004 10:18 pm

Subject: Re: Tinderbox

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Michael Grant wrote:
> Call me cheap, but $145 seems like a lot of money to pay for a
> glorified scratchpad. Yet Tinderbox seems to keep getting favorable
> notices in discussions on organizing information. Would any present
or
> past Tinderbox users like to discuss whether and why it's worth the
> cost?

As someone who has used Tinderbox extensively for the past few years,
I've written quite a bit about it. You can find most of what I've
written on my blog, at http://www.doug-miller.net/blog/tinderbox.html.

While there are a lot of outliners and "scratchpad" type of
applications available today, Tinderbox really exists in a realm of
it's own. Tinderbox is an application that can act like an
outliner...but also a mind-mapper, a database, a weblog authoring
system, a content management system, and much, much more. I often
compare Tinderbox with Photoshop - where PS is the reigning champ of
professional image editing applications, Tinderbox is the same on the
personal KM front. Both are amazingly powerful, both have extensive
learning curves, and both do so much more than is immediately apparent
from a first glance at the software.

If you're serious about learning how to use Tinderbox, you might want
to attend an upcoming Tinderbox Weekend. These are intensive training
sessions over the course of a weekend that can really help both new and
experienced Tinderbox users get even more out of the software. The
next session is in Boston on 2/12/05-2/13/05. Details are available at
http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/TbxWeekend.html.

Tinderbox is one of those pieces of software that once you "get" it,
you tend to live in it. I *always* have at least two, if not more
Tinderbox documents open. This software is definitely worth not just
the investment of $145 to buy it, but the time and effort you'll invest
in learning how to make it really do tricks.

Doug

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