Tinderbox (application software)

For other uses, see Tinderbox (disambiguation).

Tinderbox is a personal content management system and personal knowledge base.

Tinderbox

Developer(s)	Eastgate Systems
Initial release	2002; 23 years ago (2002)
Stable release	8.0 / April 15, 2019; 6 years ago (2019-04-15)
Operating system	Mac OS, Mac OS X
Type	Content management, outliner, personal information manager
License	Proprietary
Website	www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/

It is a tool for storing, arranging, exploring, and publishing data.^[1]

Developer

Tinderbox was developed for Mac OS and Mac OS X by Mark Bernstein,^[2] Chief Engineer of Eastgate Systems.^[3][4]

Features

Its functions include storing and organizing notes, plans, and ideas, and sharing ideas through blogs.^[5]

It also offers functionality similar to that of outliner and spatial hypertext/mind mapping tools, in addition to knowledge management, database and agent (persistent search) tools.

Tinderbox is used for a wide variety of tasks:

• As a personal web publishing system, with good support for blog creation and management ^[6]
• Personal information management ^[7]
• Outlining and mind mapping^[8]
• Concept mapping
• Note-taking^[9]
• Plot and story construction and writing^[10]
• Creating hypertexts