Getting Started - (Warning: This paragraph is highly condensed for a more complete understanding, reread my Storyspace review.) In Tinderbox, the basic entity is the text snippet, which is called a note. It deserves a place alongside the utilities for storing, organizing, and retrieving information in interesting, powerful ways that I’ve described in the past. The reason is that I was misusing Storyspace Tinderbox turns out to be what I was after all along. I got lots of mileage out of Storyspace for hypertext renderings of Greek grammar, but the program also seemed as if it could be a snippet keeper when I tried treating it as one, I found the experience unsatisfactory. Tinderbox lacks those mechanisms and introduces new ones it is aimed at the single user, and is meant as a kind of lightweight database, a text snippet keeper, a note-taking utility, a way of organizing pieces of information and perhaps exporting them as HTML.įor me, this evolution is delightful, because it fills a need I had already felt. Storyspace is about hypertext narrative it presupposes an author and an audience, and uses mechanisms such as guard fields and the freeware Storyspace Reader program to guide the audience through a non-linear narrative. Tinderbox incorporates most of Storyspace’s fundamental metaphor and interface outwardly, the two programs are almost indistinguishable. Now Eastgate is back with a new offering, Tinderbox. Storyspace, the long-standing hypertext application from Eastgate Systems, was the first program I ever reviewed for TidBITS, and I described a new version of it last year.
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