Tinderbox is a personal content management system

Content management system

A content management system is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based...

 developed for Mac OS

Mac OS

Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface...

 and Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

 by Eastgate Systems

Eastgate Systems

Eastgate Systems is a publisher and software company headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, which publishes hypertexts by established authors with careers in print as well as by talented new authors...

. MacWorld described it as " a remarkable tool for storing, arranging, exploring, and publishing data."

Its functions as summarized on its product page include:

"...stores and organizes your notes, plans, and ideas. It can help you analyze and understand them. And Tinderbox helps you share ideas through Web journals and web logs."

It also offers much of the functionality of outliner and spatial hypertext/mindmapper 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
• Personal information management
• Outlining and Mindmapping
• Concept map
  Concept map
  For concept maps in generic programming, see Concept .A concept map is a diagram showing the relationships among concepts. It is a graphical tool for organizing and representing knowledge....
  
  ping
• Notetaking
• Plot and story construction and writing
• Creating hypertexts

Tinderbox is an example of a personal knowledge base

Personal knowledge base

A personal knowledge base is an electronic tool used to express, capture, and later retrieve the personal knowledgeof an individual. It differs from a traditionaldatabase in that it contains subjective material particular to the owner,...

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External links

• - Review by Nathan Matias, SitePoint
  SitePoint
  SitePoint Pty Ltd is a Melbourne, Australia-based publisher of books and websites. It is best known for its web developer books and online magazine.-History:SitePoint was founded by Matt Mickiewicz and Mark Harbottle in 1999...
  
  , 2004 February 27.
• - Giles Foden, The Guardian, 2003 October 16.
• - Deep Tinderbox, About This Particular Outliner, Ted Goranson
• - The Best IA Tool You Never Heard Of, Sean Carton, ClickZ, 2002 October 7.
• -Innovation Extreme Makeover, Robert Ouellette, Boxes and Arrows, 2004 June 21.
• -Tinderboxing Engelbart Revisited, Gordon Meyer, Wet Behind the Years, 2003 May 29.