Re: [ba-ohs-talk] Tinderbox: tool for visual concept structuring
Some notes on Tinderbox, after trying it out to a limited extent (the
demo version limits the number of notes that can be created). (01)
- the main entities in Tinderbox are "notes", which can contain text and
images, and have attributes;
- notes live in "views";
- views include:
o map (this allows for visible links between notes)
o chart (left to right fanout),
o outline,
o treemap (show hierarchies viewed as boxes within boxes)
o html,
o Nakakoji (text output). (02)
-Attributes are of three types: System read-only, System but writable by
user, User;
-Links can be established between notes;
-Links can have types (names), and so could be used to implement
IBIS-like systems (but not multi-user IBIS);
-You can publish individual notes as web pages (via HTML templates),
-You can also publish multiple notes as one page, in weblog fashion;
-Notes can fetch URLs, displaying in-situ or in-browser (so notes can
subscribe to pages or RSS feeds);
-Agents gather notes satisfying search criteria, and can also set
attribute values. Aliases to the found notes are kept as children of the
agent. (03)
It's a proprietary tool, but available for MacOS now, MacOS X in the
next 8 weeks, and then Windows. I figured out (with help from the web)
how to make it use my default browser running in OS X rather than IE
under Classic. (04)
It's XML based and savvy, so plays with the open world of information. (05)
Check Gordon Meyer's WebLog: http://radio.weblogs.com/0100524/ , for
more. He's been using Tinderbox to organize notes from a lecture by
Douglas Englebart. (06)
- Mark
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Mark Szpakowski
WebLog: http://radio.weblogs.com/0103362/ (07)