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Package managers
- Homebrew
brew install --cask tinderbox
About Tinderbox
Tinderbox is a workbench for notes and plans on the Mac. Notes can be laid out on map views, analyzed and exported, and documents can organize themselves as your material grows, an approach Eastgate calls information gardening.
It is used for writing projects, dissertations, course design, legal work and planning. Version 11.8 adds faster AI connections, faster exports and better map views. A community holds regular meetups to help new users. It can be downloaded to try before ordering.
Strengths
- Visual map views for arranging notes
- Documents can organize themselves with rules
- Active user community with regular meetups
Limitations
- Mac only
- Paid
- Takes time to learn
Details
- Pricing
- PaidPaid app that can be downloaded and tried before ordering.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Eastgate
- Platforms
- macOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Writers and researchers who want to map and analyze their notes
- Categories
- Note-taking
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Tinderbox
Compare allSoftware that can replace Tinderbox for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Heptabase
Visual note-taking app that organizes research as cards on whiteboards.
Heptabase is a paid visual note app that arranges research as cards on whiteboards, running on Windows, macOS and the web rather than Mac only.
Scrintal
A visual note-taking web app that places linked notes on boards for research and study.
Scrintal is a paid web app that places linked notes on visual boards, storing notes on its service and requiring an account.
TriliumNext Notes
A hierarchical note app where one note can live in several places at once, with a server you can host.
TriliumNext Notes is a free, open-source hierarchical note app with relation maps, canvases and a self-hostable server, running on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Obsidian
A notes app that works on a folder of plain Markdown files on your own disk, with links between them.
Obsidian keeps linked Markdown notes in a local folder with graph view and plugins on all major platforms, but lacks Tinderbox's rule-driven self-organizing documents.
Kinopio
A spatial note-taking canvas for collecting cards and connecting ideas, alone or with others.
Kinopio is a freemium spatial canvas in the browser for connecting idea cards, with collaboration, though its free tier is limited to 100 cards.
DEVONthink
A document and information manager for Mac and iOS that stores, organizes and searches files.
DEVONthink is a paid Mac and iOS document manager with automation through actions and triggers, focused on storing and searching large document collections.
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Scrivener
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The Archive
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