More on TinderBox

So I took a day to try and learn more about TinderBox. I still don’t grok it, but it’s still work­ing bet­ter for me now. When mak­ing notes, I still turn to iOr­ga­nize, which I’ve been using for many years, but I really want to be able to link notes, not just group them the way iOr­ga­nize does.

There are a num­ber of (in the­ory) small changes that would make it far more use­able, and I wish I knew how to dis­cuss it ratio­nally with the author (whom I know). But oh well. I guess I’m stuck with what I’ve got.

Part of today's agenda

Trying to learn TinderBox which “is a per­sonal con­tent assis­tant that helps you visu­al­ize, ana­lyze, and share your notes.” It’s very pow­er­ful, but intim­i­dat­ing as all get out. And I’m some­one who almost never gets intim­i­dated new soft­ware, at least on the Mac. Blender made my eyes glaze over, for exam­ple, although maybe if I had been doing 3D ani­ma­tion for years it would have felt comfortable.

Mark Bernstein, the author of TinderBox, is a casual friend and, while like­able, is  not some­one one can offer sug­ges­tions to, much less crit­i­cize in any way. Which is a shame, because I’m sure I could offer some con­struc­tive criticism.

At any rate, I need a bet­ter way to orga­nize my volu­mi­nous notes which are cur­rently mostly stored in iOr­ga­nize, which I highly rec­om­mend unless you wind up with Too Many Notes That Are Not Organized. iOr­ga­nize is a prod­uct I might well have writ­ten, and I wish I had it on my iPhone, since I absolutely hate the Notepad there. So, alas, Tinderbox it is.

Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny.”