[ba-ohs-talk] Tinderbox: tool for visual concept structuring

[Simon Buckingham Shum <S.Buckingham.Shum@open.ac.uk>]

Title: Tinderbox: tool for visual concept structuring

Eastgate have just released a product based on years of research in the hypertext community into spatial hypertext/idea structuring tools:

   http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/

This is Mac only, not open source. However, all files are in XML, so could be a cool visual interface you graft onto other systems, and it claims comprehensive web export.

Free demo available to download and run in Classic (OS X coming).

Simon

TINDERBOX

The PERSONAL content management assistant

Tinderbox is a personal content management assistant. It stores your notes, ideas, and plans. It can help you organize and understand them. And Tinderbox helps you share ideas through Web journals and web logs.
VISUAL


click for full-size
Tinderbox maps your notes as you make them. Build relationships by arranging notes, organizing them with shape and color, linking them. Tinderbox lets you record ideas quickly and keep them where you'll find them again when you need them.
SMART

Tinderbox's agents automatically scan your notes, looking for patterns and building relationships. Agents help discover relationships and help make sure important things don't get lost. Agents are easy to make and easy to modify. They're flexible and powerful.

Tinderbox can even gather and update changing information and breaking news from the internet.

When it's time to share your notes, Tinderbox can assemble multiple notes into one page. Updates are a breeze -- even if you update several times a day. Private notes, timestamps, permanent links, archives: everything you want, just the way you want it.