Tinderbox stores and organizes your notes, plans, and ideas!

Tinderbox for Mac

Tinderbox for Mac

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Tinderbox for Mac is a personal content assistant that helps you visualize, analyze, and share your notes. Download and try it today. The app stores and organizes your notes, plans, and ideas. It can help you analyze and understand them. And the app is a powerful but personal content assistant that helps you share your notes through the cloud and on the Web.

Features and Highlights

FRESH
Tinderbox Six completely refreshes the tool technology. Every facet of Tinderbox has been rewritten, refined, and re-imagined. From its gorgeous new maps and outlines to the crisp layout of the app text, everything is fresh and new.

VISUAL
The app maps your notes as you make them. Build relationships by arranging notes, organizing them with shape and color, and linking them. The app lets you record ideas quickly and keeps them where you'll find them again when you need them.

TIMELY
The app’s timeline view creates wonderful, interactive diagrams to reconstruct events and plan projects.

SMART
The program gives you maps, timelines, charts, outlines and more – and you can have many views open at once. The tool notes can have prototypes, saving you time and keeping your work organized. A note is just like its prototype -- except when you've said it's different. Change the prototype, and the change is inherited instantly. Attribute browser tabs give you a cross-section of your work or of selected portions, broken down by the category of your choice.

ATTENTIVE
The app agents scan your notes continuously, searching for notes that meet your criteria. Agents can look for tasks that are overdue, or notes you need to complete, or topics that you find especially interesting. Tinderbox for macOS can automatically update notes from the internet.

SWIFT
The app handles thousands of notes with ease, and the app is fast. Want to make a note? Just type! Want to edit a note? Just click. Need to search? Tinder box starts looking for the answer as soon as you start typing, and often finds your answer before you finish.

STANDARD
With the app, your data is yours. The tool files are XML, and the program can create HTML, XML, RSS, OPML, and more. The tool shares notes with Simplenote for Web and iPhone access. The app export is unequalled in flexibility. Everything is stored on your own computer: you aren't dependent on a distant server. Write anytime: on airplanes, in cafés, at home or away.

ACTIVE
The app is a deep program with an active and friendly user community. The app Forum and Tinderbox Wiki host ongoing discussions and tutorials. The app weekends – held throughout the US and Europe – bring the app users together to share ideas and to explore the tool with the developers in person. Application notes and case studies explore the uses of the app from Forensic Psychiatry to writing musical comedy. The Public File Exchange hosts a range of templates, assistants, and samples. You can arrange private app training for you and your team.

PERSONAL
Tinder box is personal. It works the way you want and adapts gracefully as your needs change. It's small and agile, so you can get started right away, but it's got the power you'll need to handle all your notes. Your agents work constantly to keep things organized. A rich portfolio of views -- maps, charts, outlines and more -- keeps you in touch with your information. Work the way you want.

Note: You can only create a few notes in demo version. Requires 64-bit processor.

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What's new in this version:

Gaudi view:
- The Tinderbox map view is the most complete and most flexible hypertext map to date, the work of more than 20 years of research and refinement. Yet even map views have limits. Sometimes, there's just not enough room on the screen.
- The Tinderbox Gaudí View — the first novel hypertext view in years — tessellates the idea plane to keep more notes in sight. Tinderbox continuously adapts the shape and placement of each note to give each a fair share of the available space, while avoiding unwanted distraction. Gaudí view is especially good for brainstorming and conferences!
- You can even set up Gaudí view so that related notes attract each other, bringing new kinds of self-organizing structure to your knowledge work.

More badges:
- Notes in Gaudí View can have badges, just like they do in maps and outlines. Tinderbox now offers the entire gamut of SF Symbols as badges — literally thousands of new, coordinated icons for your notes.
- The new Tinderbox Badge Picker lets you search for badges using a clever semantic search. For example, if you search for “suitcase”, Tinderbox will also show badges for “briefcase” and “purse.” Search for “mail” and you’ll also find badges for “message.” Useful AI! Of course, it’s entirely on your machine and so completely private.

Richer text:
- Tinderbox’s text pane gives you stylish text with great typography and a variety of beautiful fonts. Now, you can insert live checkboxes into your text, too — and access those checkboxes from Tinderbox actions and agents.
- Better still, you can embed Tinderbox expressions in text and see their results. It’s as easy as choosing Edit ▸ Insert ▸ Expression. Want to switch between miles and kilometers depending on your locale? Want to build a text dashboard? Now you can!

More:
- Tinderbox 10 brings dozens of additional improvements, too. The Filter bar — which works with Gaudí View — has a better layout. Actions work better with emojis and East Asian languages. For the full list, see the release notes in Tinderbox Help.
- There’s lots more. And then there are dozens of changes that simply make Tinderbox faster and clearer to use.
- Tinderbox 10 runs on all recent Macintosh computers. It requires macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later.